Pretty much this. As much as l love the fediverse, there's still way too many people on reddit giving it way too much activity, especially in gaming: two of the biggest communities I've frequented over the course of this year are still only active on reddit.

Other platforms, like lemmy or discord, either have little to none activity on certain topics like the former, or are poorly designed and lackkng to allow its users to search for stuff properly like the latter.

These days I'm much more diverse with my Internet activity, which is good, but man I wish more people just dumped reddit, especially from the communities I needed to drop it the most.

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[–] spez@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

Fuck spez, man

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The best part is, the normies are probably going to stay on read it no matter what. Meeting we can have a picture of what the internet must have been like before the endless September, now that's a boomer ass reference if anyone ever heard one.

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[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (29 children)

Missing the whole point. Companies will not stop serving ads or selling data. Setup custom dns from somewhere like nextdns or a private pihole computer on your network. It works in windows, can get a micro pc from eBay or Amazon for <$150, then block ANYTHING you don't like.

I don't see ads at all anymore at home, in fact it's jarring when a page takes 2x time to load because of ads and shit.

Get these plugins at bare minimum: Ublock origin Sponsorblock Bitwarden or similar (not LastPass) for strong password management.

Stop crying about companies and take some steps to protect yourself.

[–] sour@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wheres the crying

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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not going to stop Reddit from tracking your interactions with their site if you use it. They will sell your activity to whoever wants it. Updoots, posts read, subscriptions, saves - all potentially valuable data about a potential customer's interests.

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

[–] cfx_4188@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

You're exaggerating a little bit. Reddit is more alive than alive.

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