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.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.world 5 points 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.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Thank you!

[–] rar@discuss.online 2 points 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.