To elaborate a bit more, social networks like Reddit are good for interacting with people you normally wouldn't interact (and give you a small soapbox), but I think it's good to do other things as well. I'd say if it's affecting you that much, it's a sign of being too reliant on that. Take the time freed up to do other things that interest you. Read a book, play a game, go do some exercise, pick up a new hobby, get in touch with some friends you haven't met for a while, etc.
Oh absolutely, Reddit's value was partially due to its years of user curated content. It'll take a while to build the alternatives up to a similar level.
One benefit at least is that this shift allows for changes to be made that Reddit never would have done.
I've been on reddit for more than 15 years at this point. I definitely feel like there's a big gap now. I think Kbin/Lemmy will be able to fill it eventually, though.
nah, it was the loud, entitled, and obnoxious protesters who chose to react to reddit's policy change by shutting everything down and throwing feces everywhere. none of them own reddit, but they were able to gatekeep an entire community and the public by shutting down access to subreddits.
i hate to break it to everyone, but reddit isn't owned by any of you. it has the right to change it's terms of use.
spez didn't even blink. all the protesters did was make the last 30 days miserable for everybody.
Yeah, I'm gonna miss the level of community engagement from my favorite subs. NCD, RoughRomanMemes, and Shermanposting. We likely won't get that level of activity here for a long time. Also gonna miss updates from r/Ukraine, though I get most of the big news from ISW, the human interest stories shone most on Reddit.
I still have my reddit account to keep track of a few niche communities that can't survive the move, but I haven't commented or doomscrolled since I left for Kbin.
I think it maybe important for us to all collectively shift our views on commenting on "old" posts. I'm going to give myself a 2 week window on commenting on threads. If everyone had this kinda attitude it may help with engagement short term til things start picking up long term.
I didn't have a problem with it, but in a large sub, anything more than a couple hours old that hasn't attracted much attention is not going to be seen by many or get much conversation, and anything 24 hours old is usually gone.
Small subs could have older posts see activity for much longer.
Also gonna miss updates from r/Ukraine, though I get most of the big news from ISW, the human interest stories shone most on Reddit.
!Ukraine and !Ukraine_UA are both relatively active, though I realize that that's still less-so than Reddit.
(As of this writing, the auto-hyperlinking of the above magazines is still broken, but using that format as I understand that it's supposed to be fixed in the next update).
NCD was like the first magazine I saw with actual activity that was clearly explicitly from Reddit. I mean, it doesn't have the volume yet, but it's definitely a thing already.
I feel it for sure. I’m kinda using it as an opportunity to take a break from socials for a bit to be honest. I’m excited about kbin and lemmy but I’m also happy to have the clunkiness of the sites be a reason for me to be outside more
Technically hybrid but have been full remote for the most of the year thanks to a neck injury. Commuting on the train wrecks me from my neck jostling around.
I've been remote over four different roles with my current organisation and have had zero reason to ever set foot in the office.
I'm still full remote.
On a very rare occasion, I might have to go into the office, but otherwise I'm working from home.
During covid I learned I really enjoyed working from home, so I talked about it with my employer.
At first I only got day or 2 at home per week, but eventually I was allowed to work fully from home.
Full time remote but management want us to be in 2 days a week. I work with a team from another country and will never meet them in person but the middle management wants to see me once a week. I check managers calender and choose one day unless I'm having lunch with some other college.
Totally worthless decision. 40min commute.
I've heard variations of this going back 30 years in the automotive repair business. I often paraphrase a version of it when cutting some corners or doing things in a weird way that saves time and energy, but maybe isn't the safest. Probably not the original intent but...
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