Things i have stopped using- X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Lays, McDonalds, Burger King, Netflix, Walmart. Things where i have minimized consumption - Amazon, Best Buy, Steam, YouTube. Things where I am tied in and can’t make a difference- Android, Windows, AWS, Gmail, Intel/AMD, MS Office (official productivity tools). Actually i don’t mind going minimalistic to F over US companies.
If you're still on Reddit...
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takeiteasypolicy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
sunnytimes@lemmy.ca 21 minutes ago
i use gmail but i use thunderbird to check it . working on a new address. if your using Windows consider running something like OOshutup10+ to stop M$ spying. we use LibreOffice at work except the one office lady can’t use anything but excel . Good job on the stopping , i’m currently doing the same. F the US.
skitazd@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
switch to linux
RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Just build your own open source versions of all that and you’ll be fine
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
When Twitter-man did the salute, I deleted my old account (hadn’t used it in years anyway) When Facebook-man said “no more fact checking,” I deleted my old facebook (only kept it to keep in contact with, like, 2 people) When Tumblr-man banned the porn, I deleted my tumblr (you can guess why I had it) When Reddit-man said he wants to paywall the biggest subs, I deleted my reddit (also got banned but I prefer to say I did it for a better reason)
mke@programming.dev 55 minutes ago
I’ve seen news that tumblr has changed/is changing, and they’re even implementing some form of activitypub (Fediverse) integration. I don’t have stakes here, just curious: does that change your position any, as an ex-user now on fedi?
yagurlreese@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
yup I got shadow banned from that hell hole after saying something mean about the orange in chief it’s so pathetic, it wasn’t even super bad I commented ‘welcome to Trump’s america’ under a post about inflation skyrocketing I was on the site for 12 years no problem
it’s crazy to me I didn’t know they were so beholden to the right. it used to be the fascists got mad reddit was banning them. to.be banned over simply light jokes is so dystopian
not to mention… their ban detection system is fucking 1984 shit
Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
I was only on for 6 but it still sucks.
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I got perma-banned for saying that the US Military won’t give a shit about what is happening because they only care if it involves bombing muslims. The “reason” they gave was that I was promoting hate-speech somehow.
sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
After a decade there I also got permabanned. And then I got permabanned 3 more times with alt accounts for saying some pretty innocuous shit, but almost always political.
I finally got the message. Fuck you Reddit.
nadram@lemmy.world 1 day ago
X, Facebook, threads, Instagram, Whatsapp, Amazon Prime.
applemao@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I’ve showed lemmy to is terrified it’s a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 hour ago
To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What you’re describing is intentional. Keeping people dumb about the tech they’re using while maintaining messaging like “Facebook works day and night to keep you safe” was the point all along so that people don’t understand what they’re doing. Granted that extends far beyond social media, but still
nadram@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It is a very big ask… For chat i moved to Signal and convinced my closest relatives and friends to humor me and get the app, but they didn’t let go of Whatsapp. It’s lonely but i enjoy the quietness, and do not miss the endless groups!
helios@social.ggbox.fr 9 hours ago
I managed to make my mum use signal, which means literally anyone can use it.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 1 day ago
One of my phone browsers has warned me that one Lemmee instance is a scam, that doesn’t help if it is happening to others.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
That was the goal of big corporations and more simplification over time and less customization
GorGor@startrek.website 1 day ago
Amazon Prime is the only one that’s been hard for me to kick…
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 day ago
No ethical consumption under capitalism.
Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Could always pick up piracy. Hard to beat a 100% off coupon.
Simply pick up uBlock Origin and browse some community-vetted streaming sites on FMHY.
That’s just streaming, no downloading. Simply find streams of whatever shows you’re invested in and binge as usual!
I’ve even gone as far as taking old laptops of mine and having them full screen these sites on startup. Then, I simply hook the laptop up to my TV via HDMI, plug in a Bluetooth keyboard, and binge away!
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Really? I go out of my way to search on duckduckgo when looking for products and filtering out Amazon.
Its been easy for me. My hatred of that man makes it worth the effort.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That is the one that’s killing me too. I just received an email that my subscription date is coming up. I want to cancel, at least my soul really wants me to cancel. But my broken body, limited $$, and limited mobility makes me feel like it would be cutting of my nose. It is really difficult to get to, never mind around, local stores.
callyral@pawb.social 21 hours ago
Out of those, the only one I use is Whatsapp… kinda hard to get away from it where I live, literally everyone I know in real life uses it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
WhatsApp is kinda nice for international communication
danc4498@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Reddit isn’t as bad as Twitter. Though it’s heading that way. But there is an alternative that is 90% as good.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
What’s annoying is how stubborn they are about moving over to Lemmy. I know it’s not super straightforward, but it’s also not nearly as complicated as they make it sound.
Casteyes@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I actually enjoy the smaller community here, it feels like old reddit. Like the good ole days.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Most people use reddit on mobile. All you gotta do is tell them to use on of the many apps and sign up that way. It’s stupid easy to do.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
The lemmy community is a very specific subset of reddit’s. Reddit has a somewhat more diverse set of opinions and interests. Despite lemmy not having a specific algorithm, it ends up being an echo chamber nonetheless, a bit more than reddit imo.
That and of course the fact that if you remove political content and tech/linux, there is hardly anything left.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Well, aren’t we all stubborn when it comes to doing new things?
My guess is that it will be younger people who will go to Lemmy (like Reddit before had been).
saxoR@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
Relating to this trying to convince any of my friends to try a new platform or program lol. Yeah, using Voyager on my iPhone and it’s pretty straightforward
umbrella@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
id argue its better.
Psythik@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
What’s the alternative?
danc4498@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Lemmy of course
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I can talk all I want. It’s easy for me because I never had a Twitter Account.
Hope everyone who wants to leave has the strength to break the habit of using the app <3
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I only had an account explicitly to follow a small set of NSFW creators who only posted to Twitter and nowhere else, so yeah, pretty easy to let go of that.
SpaceCheeseWizard@lemm.ee 1 day ago
A lot of the niche content I like is still on reddit, however I like the people and experience over here on Lemmy more.
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Start posting your niche interest on lemmy too. Hopefully someone else will join.
match@pawb.social 1 day ago
yeah, the porn creators are still mostly there
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That lemmy front page thirsty af tho
SpaceCheeseWizard@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Exactly!
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I just logged in to check /r/audiobooks.
The sponsored thingies are intolerable. Fuck that.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This has been my experience. I still lurk certain communities there but I simply never log in or comment.
tacofox@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
I have to use libreddit and other front ends because they have started blocking my vpn last year.
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
If you’re still on Lemmy… Welcome! The more the merrier!
officermike@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“your’re”
Hmmm…
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
An impressive amount of incorrect.
Bonus@lemm.ee 1 day ago
That’s piratephobic!
Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
y’roue*
slaacaa@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
your right
FrChazzz@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
I actually said “bye Fash-licia” to Reddit last week. I thought about trying to get banned for something stupid, just for the story. But instead I just quietly deleted the account.
HeliumFalcon@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
I had five accounts between 15-18 years old and ranging from 10k - 3M karma (I shit posted a lot).
One of my main accounts was banned from r/politics for adding “are tarred together” as a reply to “birds of a feather” during the J6 inserrection attempt. Then r/news banned it for some odd reason I don’t recall.
Then I started getting random “Just to let you know your comment may violate the rules/TOS but we’re gonna give you a chance to change it” messages for comments that quoted GOP members.
Then one of my last one was banned with zero warning when I said “not like he needs it” after a thread talked about how shitty Greg Abbot was being and how he’d pulled the ladder up on other people.
And then out of the blue they site banned me for 7 days due to evading a mod ban (I hadn’t but I just fired up an account I hadn’t used in a while but stayed away from that sub).
So I decided to delete all my accounts with the same message of “Fuck Spez. Reddit is the new Digg and Spez is the new Kevin Rose just somehow dumber”.
Fuck reddit. When you have to walk on eggshells to vote or comment then you’ve lost the plot.
UristMcHolland@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I spent about a week working a few hours a day deleting all of my posts and comments. Couldn’t be bothered to spend the $20 for shreddit to do it for me so I did it myself.
THEN I deleted my account. I “deleted” my Facebook account like 8 years ago but then ended up making a “new” one last year to use the marketplace. Didn’t want to use my new email address so I used my old one because I treat it like a burner email nowadays. Old email address ended up being the same one I used when I originally created my Facebook account and lo and behold Facebook never deleted anything. So I don’t trust companies when they say they will delete everything.
I’m not even sure Reddit actually deleted all my posts and comments but I feel better about it.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
I tried ot login last week, was able to with the same email and password but it acted like I was a new user. So it created an entirely new account.
On a session I was still logged in I changed my email and password and I ended getting banned on that account.
Really weird and I gues it’s time to delete my main Reddit account
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They’re banning or shadowbanning people almost arbitrarily, they don’t want more human users than bots, they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment with a turn of a dial if they get enough bots who seem like convincing human users to all chime in about something.
You can really see the disonnence on a major post criticizing Elon Musk or on the topic of vandalizing Teslas. The posts are all highly voted, but the top comments are all crying and whining that Musk “doesn’t deserve the hate” or how “vandals should be put in jail, we obey the law in this country!” and a lot of other very obvious oligarch fellation machines.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment
That sounds almost conspiratorial. How many people know of Reddit, use it, then automatically follow the narrative? Like out of the total population?
Bloomcole@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
If you still were on Reddit a year before Trump while people with a minimum of consciense got banned for the mildest criticism of genocide and complain now you need to STFU.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
you are not supporting it. you ARE the problem. dont blame the tech or deranged illusionists like elon. it is the people. and while everyone is high horsing like mad at reddit/twitter etc. you still cant speak out that google, meta, apple and microsoft are exactly the same shit.
YOU are an insult on humanity if you use those. and everytime it takes ages for imbeciles to move. “nooo, eVeRyyBoo0dy uSes wHats App. i nEEd t0 be oN th3re.” no, you are a POS for using whatsapp, twitter, meta, reddit or an iPhone. …and the crying starts.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I use Twitter and reddit for porn, nothing else anymore. People/communities I follow are ghost towns elsewhere. Everytime I point this out, people get butthurt, yet none of them link to their porn profile.
Post the (adorable, lanky, femboy, who has glasses and a thick uncut cock) porn, and as the saying goes, ‘they will cum’.
stoi@lemm.ee 1 day ago
lowleekun@ani.social 9 hours ago
thanks. i thought i was alone in this struggle. it is also why i keep on calling it titter.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 day ago
Not judging but why those over dedicated sites?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s hard to find places dedicated to foreskin (the /c is just crickets), cbt, estim… tons more. Even harder to find ones that aren’t just shells for their onlyfans. I’ve been checking every few months for the 🐦 I follow to hop to bluesky or mastodon, and only around a quarter have done so thus far. For reddit, where else can I find a vast array of kink content that is getting fresh stuff daily? Like actually, where? I’ve been searching the internet for a long time, and besides FurAffinity, e621, reddit and occasionally twitter, it’s table scraps for any sort of quality kink content.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
uhhh, I’m 4/5, how important is being uncut? It’s not like I had much choice in the matter lol.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s a plus, but definitely not a requirement~ 🥺
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Hell, most porn boards are dead too outside of the main/most vanilla ones.
arotrios@lemmy.world 1 day ago
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 day ago
How are they gonna eat them through those helmets they never take off?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Up the butt.
Zaraki42@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I literally just got permabanned from Reddit after over 13 years and 200k karma! Lol
pyre@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
YRORURRE
DarthDax@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
I’m trying OK! 😭
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
xitter is like 100 times worse than reddit.
reddit has issues with administration and moderation (especially the aspect of censorship), but xitter also has the overwhelmingly bigoted users on top of the censorship
nuko147@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Twitter got abandoned 1 month after the fascist bought it. Account deleted 6 months ago.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
I didn’t even use Twitter before the nazi bought it
nectar45@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Look…I know we all hate reddit cause they kicked like half of us for no good reason but like…spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is
Then again…X is arguably still a better social media platform than reddit is…
Ok nevermind
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I just occasionally go back to shill for Lemmy. Pretty sure that hurts them more than helps. :D
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you’re still online…
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Well, I still wouldn’t consider using Reddit to be near as bad as using Shitter.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Lol, I was banned because i said, “If I was inclined, I wouldn’t get gender affirming operations, because at this point the medical technology is barely even cosmetically complete, let alone generally functional.” And that was enough, even though I’m not a transphobe and think people should be able to make any choice that doesnt directly or indirectly harm or deficet others.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
The same can also be said about Fiat currency and really supporting anything centralized as we need to balance power with some decentralization to keep it in check, but so few seem to care.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
well now that twitter belongs to xAI, maybe it’ll get better management… and start banning nazis again….
MITM0@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I bow down to your intelligence.