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I think it looks really good as the first thing you see when you click my profile, what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I love how spineless people just assume everyone else is as equally unprincipled

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly I'm not as principled as some people but I noticed that I drastically reduced my presence there and it's going down. I think a lot might have to do that RiF is missing (unrelated, but RIF's author made a client for tildes.net called weirdly Three Cheers) and I refuse to install their spammy app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much the same experience. I just gradually stopped using reddit in favor of Lemmy.world and when I realized I hadn't touched my reddit account in two weeks I simply... Deleted it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same, i also think that it somewhat improved my well being since I'm less focused on what ppl online think. And I do still kinda miss reddit, not the platform but the people and the communities rip apollo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, it's impressive that so many people still have trust in reddit, and also funny that the next comment was removed by Reddit, probably someone saying something about lemmy I would imagine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

pretty sure OP just commented [removed by reddit]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A job I used to work at a long time had an enlightening moment for me when I had put my 2 weeks in.

There were two camps of people: those that were happy for me - "wow, awesome, tell me about the new place" And those that were cynical - "you will end up back here anyway"

I found that the people who behaved cynically truly do end up filtering back in and the people willing to see that other options exist and can even be better end up moving on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if your attitude and outlook determine your actions.

Like, I get it. Some people were dealt a bad hand, and they have a shitty life through no fault of their own. But there's a huge difference between "Shit sucks" and "Shit sucks and cannot possibly ever change." If you believe that everybody who has a shitty job is doomed to be stuck with that shitty job for the rest of their life, then you're delusional. Your beliefs do not align with reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Projection is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I take it as similar to the "cya next week" comments RE RuneScape (or really any other thing on the internet)... they're kinda half serious half kidding acknowledgements of something's addictiveness. I wouldn't read too much into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They aren't that wrong, most normies on the internet have a gummy worm as spine...

Not us that are actually here obviously...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The smugness of that comment

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I got so many hate comments any time I would speak out towards the protests. Even in communities I was deeply ingrained in and people I have interacted with over years on the site. Shame that a website can cause people to become so divided.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

man what an age to be alive, the age of spin.

gone are the days that we saw true outrage or despair happen in the moment.

now we must properly primp and curate how we will be perceived candidly, which is just about the dumbest and pettiest shit i can think of.

“i want my profile to look like i was really sticking it to the man” is an admittedly silly look imo

that being said, go off and you be you because what matters is you got off the shithole of reddit.

what speaks louder than demonstrative curated comment history is lots of people leaving en masse and going to another service. the more people come over, the more others will adopt the new standard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Lol I got those same kind of comments every time I said something negative about reddit during the protest. Haven't been back since, go figure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

PSA: Please don't stick your dick in reddit, as it is fucked enough already.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't used Facebook for years. It bored me after 20 minutes, I wasn't sure what else to do there, I closed the tab, I went away. I never made a post about how I'm packing up my little hobo bags and leaving forever, you'll all be sorry!! I just went, quietly, and never came back.

I lie, every three months I poke my head in there, and then once I actually sold something on Marketplace, for $80, so FB is the only fucking social website that has ever made me money despite being the one I never use. One of these days I'll get on there and try to find out my brother's current address, but he doesn't respond to messages anymore, either.

LIkewise, I quit Twitter, shorty before the Elonpocalypse, because it just sucked. I didn't like being there, and wasn't having any fun. So I just stopped going there, quietly, telling nobody, I left. Now you have to login to even see it, and yeah, haven't logged in there in forever. I hear they changed the name.

That's how it looks when you actually quit a place. You just quietly disappear one day, like a fish slipping under the waves. Who knows, maybe you'll find a reason to come back, you know? And it would look stupid as hell if you made some big fucking scene about leaving and then had to crawl back in, WOULDN'T IT?

Maybe you want to sell an old drumset, or ask a question, you never know. So you slip quietly out the side door, you don't even slam it, and then you forget to show up again for months at a time, or never again. When was the last time you logged into MySpace?

You? You look like you're going to found a subreddit called r/ExRedditors. Move on, already. The future beckons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I hadn't read all that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah the energy to write that was not worth the payout

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My last comment on reddit is "Fuck /u/spez" too. I didn't do anything as radical as deleting my comments/posts, nor made any definitive statements but while I lurked a few times there, I never made a new comment since June 30. And by now I'm becoming confident that it will stay that way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk, I just deleted mine. Anything anyone has or will ever do on that platform will disappear if they fail so why bother. It's the equivalent of scrolling fuck on a bathroom stall before they demolish the building and if it stays up the same but with onlookers barely paying any mind as they take a massive dump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like they were almost right. Just off by three weeks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My last comment in reddit was something along the lines "good luck fellas, it's been a good ride"