The best way to protest against reddit is simply to not interact with Reddit

I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down.

The best way to make sure things go your way? Vote with your wallet, or in this case your voice. Don't speak on reddit. Devote more time helping out the alternatives grow and flourish. And as much as it is a meme, touching some grass can help your mental fortitude.

If you absolutely 100% need to interact with reddit, I suggest installing a redirector addon (such as privacy redirect or... redirector) that can link to a teddit or libreddit instance. Or archiving it with wayback/archive.is/ghostarchive.

minnieo,
minnieo avatar

The only thing we ever need to do on reddit is encourage migration to further drive down traffic: Dm mods of your fave subs and ask about migration, something as simple as "Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks." will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!

Elevator7008,

Thank you for writing that. I took that exact wording and sent it to some mods. Probably because it was easy and convenient, with the words given to me.

BravoVictor,
@BravoVictor@programming.dev avatar

This is a good idea. At the very least, it’ll put the idea in their brands a maybe bring them along. Worst case scenario, it might spur you to start a community…

Belgdore,

I agree. I changed my bio to tell people about alternatives and put the Lemmy and Kbin homepages a my social. A pinned post on your Reddit profile will also be a good way of redirecting.

arquebus_x,

I'm treating the blackout and the aftermath as a worker strike, and treating any mods replacing removed mods as scabs. But more to the point, it's a strike and I do not cross picket lines. I will not go even to the Reddit front page until the corporation reverses course, accedes to the demands of their unpaid labor and backs the fuck up.

Frog-Brawler,
Frog-Brawler avatar

At this point, even if Reddit decides to do a full 180, I’m not going back. The community here is smaller, but it’s better right now. There’s a strong sense of unity and I’ve yet to see anything toxic.

I’m also not planning on telling others about kbin/ Lemmy/ fediverse. I am really appreciating the current self selection bias.

EnderWi99in,

It reminds me of what Reddit felt like in the early days, except it feels more diverse and inclusive. It's kind of the perfect world of what I'd hoped Reddit could become.

Bandananaan,

Agreed, it reminds me of the discussion boards you used to get. I feel like there's an actual community developing here

hydra,
@hydra@lemmy.world avatar

It's inherently superior to Reddit: it's decentralized (federated), user friendly, light on resources, free and open source and has no shady obscure algorithms and bots tainting discourse.

aeternum,

Same. They've fucked users over one too many times. Even if they go back to free API usage, I'm still not going back.

jeebus,
jeebus avatar

I also feel replacement mods are scabs, but I've been enjoying all the free time I've had lately not browsing reddit. I'm actually getting shit done. I'm ashamed of how much I used that site. I will not go back.

NotTheOnlyGamer,
NotTheOnlyGamer avatar

I agree with your premise, but not all of the details. I believe that if you don't want to be on Reddit as it is, simply don't be on Reddit. Depart gracefully, don't burn bridges, don't troll or spam. It doesn't help anyone - your mental health included.

In many ways, I do believe that taking the high road is best when there's an issue like this. I don't mind being on Reddit, or kbin, or Lemmy, or Mastodon. The only social I'm never on is Twitter. I don't see a need to be there; so I'm not. For my own part, I didn't mind the 2-day blackout - I mind the spam, the NSFW from unexpected sources, etc. If the answer is that I need to stand up and start taking part in moderating communities to ensure that the content I want to see is what's there, I'll decide then whether I want to do so or not. I'm annoyed by the possibility of the app I prefer (RedReader) standing on shaky ground from now on with an "accessibility" label hung on it. I'm not a fan of ads, at the best of times, I block most advertising domains, and usually turn off ECMAScript on sites (or at least I'm picky about what is allowed to run). I'd prefer to turn it off altogether, but that's not an option at the moment with the way the web is going.

As I've said before, I do not believe there's a single active mod of a large community who doesn't know whether or not they want to lead a community on Reddit right now. If they want to lead a community, but not on Reddit, there's the various fediverse options, JCInk, Freeforums, NeoCities, or whatever - those people could even file an RFD and have it put up on Usenet. If they want to lead a community on Reddit, that means abiding by the rules, policies, and behaviors which have been set down. I have no problem with, say, r/piracy moving to their own Lemmy, and I'm honestly in favor of the wide adoption of alternate social media (though I worry what onerous monetization will be forced upon us when the costs get too high and each server can only afford customers, not paying users - we know ads won't work, because of so many of us using adblockers).

If you want to be part of a community specifically on Reddit now, then be a part of that community on Reddit. If you want to be part of a community, but you're ambivalent about Reddit, rejoin or rebuild it elsewhere. Don't make things worse for the people who make a different decision. That just makes them become reactionary and defensive, and likely they'll end up opposing you, and whatever it is you stand for (which in this cause could actively hurt fediverse participation).

lwgrs,

Thanks for this, I feel like there's a lot of black-and-white thinking going on here. It seems like the only options presented are "burn it down!" or "you're a scab".

shawnshitshow,

"take your protests and picket signs to that dark corner over there where you wont bother the normies"

zeusbottom,

I see it as deprecated, in programming or interface terms. If I happen to need some info from Reddit, I'll get it; otherwise I'll leave it alone. This is similar to what I do for Facebook and Twitter.

Reddit was never great in the 12 years I've used it, but it was the least worst social media platform. It's easier to leave now because the communities are disintegrating quickly, and all signs are pointing to lower engagement with the community. The company doesn't seem to care about it too much because they have a renewed (ham-handed) focus on revenue. That's their business decision to make, despite what me or anyone else thinks. Time to vote with my eyeballs and check out the alternatives, see if they are any better.

ArmokGoB,

IDK, I'm having fun running around and throwing fuel on the fire in communities that have been forced open.

GoofSchmoofer,
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world avatar

Good thing I got permanently suspended from Reddit for saying bullshit (I guess I never got a reason to why I was suspended)...

But I want to test Lemmy's tolerance of cuss words--- BULLSHIT Lets see what happens???

ulu_mulu,
@ulu_mulu@lemmy.world avatar

I stopped posting on reddit before the blackout, but seeing all the creative ways people are finding to protest is honestly hilarious.

Skellybones,

Reddit killed the trust I had for it not even porn will bring me back and I've avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google.

FIST_FILLET,
FIST_FILLET avatar

avoided reddit search answer like the plague on Google

i'm hoping that the "privacy redirect" browser add-on OP linked to will help make that easier! then, if it works properly, you should be able to click reddit links with peace of mind knowing that you'll be taken to a different unaffiliated domain instead, giving spez and his corpo hogs 0 traffic

Sir_Kevin,

On July 1st my reddit usage will be zero. Until then I take a peek once a day or two to post http://join-lemmy.org where appropriate.

phil299,

This is me , I logon once a day search api protest and add lemmy positive posts and maybe a lemmy post in one of my fav small subs. about 5% of my social media time. I expect to stop in july

AndreTelevise,
@AndreTelevise@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly. Been using this website for now as a replacement for Reddit, and not really using Mastodon much. On Mastodon you have to refollow a bunch of people, Twitter still works for me as a microblogging platform, despite being owned by someone I do not respect in any way.

ilickfrogs,
@ilickfrogs@lemmy.world avatar

I'm exclusively using Lemmy and it's taken the place of boost on my home screen. I also exclusively open reddit in Google web cache and archive.org when I need a ressource that's within the years of reddit content. Fuck reddit and fuck spez.

thedaveking, (edited )

This seems like good advice but as a former subscriber who deleted all my posts and comments already using Redact, I still have ~2.5k coins. I hope there's some good way to use those to help promote [edit: posts and comments about] migration without me having to go find them myself, since that would give them ad revenue.

For example, a script that would automatically award my coins to a list of the most helpful migration info posts and comments using their API, so I don't interact with ads in the process. Anyone know of something like that?

Steak,

haven't been on reddit in over a week now. feelsgoodman

DakRalter,
@DakRalter@thelemmy.club avatar

Reddit is dead for me once Rif stops working next month anyway, but I've stayed off since the 12th. I'll check in towards the end of the month to say my goodbyes to a small, private sub I'm in, explain why and where I'm going, and download/backup anything I'd like to save. Then that's it.

Screw spez. As long as he's in charge, I'm not going back.

HotDogFingies,
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Exactly my stance. Someone gave me reddit gold for changing all my comments, I sent them a message informing them about kbin. Everything I've been doing on Reddit has been cleaning house before I say my final goodbye once RIF closes its curtain.

thesanewriter,

Honestly, we're a minority of users and if we just left the only thing Reddit would notice is that posts were lower quality, and it's possible they wouldn't notice that at all. Going out loudly draws publicity to Reddit alternatives, and I think that harms them more in the long term.

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