Sales have fallen 59% in a year… Musk took over 9 months ago… weird coincidence.

Walking away and not looking back is actually very powerful.

I was a baconreader person too but I deleted it and moved 100% to beehaw when things started getting weird at that other place

As someone in the advertising industry - I felt overwhelmed by ads and served content. I want a place where my content isn’t driven by a corporation trying to manipulate my spending habits, or monetize my existence… And I want a place where no one is trying to monetize my eyes and brain. That’s why I can’t support reddit. Yeah, I know, companies need money. But back in the olden days, people weren’t the product if that makes sense. Getting everyone on the same app/platform isn’t a mistake. Apps have all sorts of other purposes designed specifically to see what you’re up to, where you are, what else you do when you’re on your phone. Corporate apps watch you. Plain and simple. Getting people off of 3rd party apps and onto a reddit app, while increasing making their users the product, isn’t an accident or coincidence.

Hey there, I appreciate all the work you guys are all doing to keep this going. We see you and thank you.

m’lady, m’gold me too - just jokes though!!

I left Reddit because of it’s toxicity and general hivemind tone that seemed to take over there in the last year or so. I want to interact with kind people, not worry about exactly where I place every single comma in my comments for fear that someone will think I’m putting emphasis on the wrong syllable. I am 100% all in with the “let’s be nice” statement here, thank you for posting this.

so - as one of those people who really didn’t know much about the 3rd party apps or even what the protest/blackout was, I was wishing for an alternative for quite some time now. Reddit has become an echo chamber where you’re downvoted for having your own opinion, no matter how vanilla the “dissenting” opinion is. The trolliing and constant arguing gets old after awhile, and I don’t think the current state of reddit is what the original intent of the platform ever was. This, for me, was why I gravitated toward Beehaw specifically. I’m not going back to Reddit. It reminds me of a playground full of bullies, itching for an argument. This platform is so much more my speed. And I feel like there are a pretty decent amount of people here who are in the same mind… for us, the alternative is welcome and Spez can wait til he retires for us to return because it’s not happening.

hang on, what leaked internal email, do you know where I can find that?

This explanation helped, thanks!

Think of it like moving to a new house rather than picking up your house and moving it to a new neighborhood. The excitement comes from the differences even if you miss the other place.

Also first time, also don’t know what I’m doing! But I’m having fun and am not going back to the other place

Lemmons

I’m still learning how to do things right now. I’m trying to find a news feed (?) thread (?) community (?) and learning how to post. But I’m looking forward to contributing as soon as I can get my bearings. I totally agree with you though, good to see posts from other refugees but craving the content

Probably nothing now that I made the change. I really like the people here. I don’t see a bunch of the snark and hate over here and it suits me better. I imagine reddit is gonna go the way of Twitter and Facebook and I just don’t want to give any part of my life to that

Very dumb question on my part, but why would someone do this as opposed to just deleting account or simply never logging in again? Deleting my history never occurred to me and I have one super old account (inactive) and my current is about 8 years old