• dkc@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I still haven’t been able to give up reddit but I have always been a lurker there. Here I’m trying to make a conscious effort to participate in conversations. I’m trying to be positive, kind, and thoughtful because that’s what I want lemmy to be.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      I started to think of Reddit as just an occasional Google search result necessary evil and have successfully ignored it ever since. Log off DKC, there’s a better world out there.

      In all seriousness I think eventually conventional social media will start to feel very siloed like AOL did as more people join the fediverse. I can’t imagine using a site that I couldn’t look at everything from anymore, save for stupid ass Facebook which I do solely for sovcit material. Why would I want to look at crap ads and AI when I can be here?

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        5 months ago

        I started to think of Reddit as just an occasional Google search result necessary evil and have successfully ignored it ever since.

        This is my experience. I try to search elsewhere, but consistently still find good info there. Only when I exhaust other options I go crawling back.

        • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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          5 months ago

          Oh it’s no biggie if you use it to deshittify Google. It is there, after all. Just treat it like ghetto Wikipedia and don’t hang around. Haha.

    • rar@discuss.online
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      5 months ago

      Similar here. Reddit has become, for better or worse, just another Facebook. I include in my search queries when I need. I get in for specific communities and get out immediately afterwards.