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I realise nothing has changed yet but with the news of this a couple weeks ago I deleted the Apollo app. Nothing against it, great app, I just wanted to wean my

by corobo 3y ago

I realise nothing has changed yet but with the news of this a couple weeks ago I deleted the Apollo app. Nothing against it, great app, I just wanted to wean myself off Reddit ahead of the big switch off. I've actually found my mood to be much happier in general. I'm not saying Reddit is entirely a horrible place full of grouchy people but there is a lot of it. Maybe it's that, maybe it's getting rid of the doomscroll dopamine overload. Whatever it is, it's good times. I have no intention of replacing the Reddit in my life. Continuing to use "site:reddit.com" in some searches but I reckon I'm done with general use forums for the foreseeable. Thank you for doing a digg, Reddit! I might not have realised I don't need you without this :D

add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
> I have no intention of replacing the Reddit in my life. My belief/hope about Twitter is that it won't be replaced by any single competitor, it will be replaced by a combination of people being a bit less online and spreading out their traffic and attention to multiple sites rather than making any one their home. If Reddit spends the next 5 years slowly dying because it's too big to die quickly, that's the best we can realistically hope for.
- surgical_fire 3y ago
  I was going to say that if they kill RiF, I will most likely just never browse reddit, save from the odd web search that lands me in a thread. But the truth is that I seldom visit Reddit right now. It grew worse over time to the point of being nearly intolerable to me. I suspect that is the fate of any network that grows to the point of becoming ubiquitous. I don't think that Reddit will die, but I certainly won't be there to see what happened to it.
- corobo 3y ago
  Twitter is definitely being side eyed for sure. Currently keeping a check of how much I'm using it, but I do use that partially for marketing and keeping an eye on new tech HN also has a pass for now for the same new tech reason

by corobo 3y ago

add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

> I have no intention of replacing the Reddit in my life. My belief/hope about Twitter is that it won't be replaced by any single competitor, it will be replaced by a combination of people being a bit less online and spreading out their traffic and attention to multiple sites rather than making any one their home. If Reddit spends the next 5 years slowly dying because it's too big to die quickly, that's the best we can realistically hope for.

surgical_fire 3y ago
I was going to say that if they kill RiF, I will most likely just never browse reddit, save from the odd web search that lands me in a thread. But the truth is that I seldom visit Reddit right now. It grew worse over time to the point of being nearly intolerable to me. I suspect that is the fate of any network that grows to the point of becoming ubiquitous. I don't think that Reddit will die, but I certainly won't be there to see what happened to it.
corobo 3y ago
Twitter is definitely being side eyed for sure. Currently keeping a check of how much I'm using it, but I do use that partially for marketing and keeping an eye on new tech HN also has a pass for now for the same new tech reason