I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down.

The best way to make sure things go your way? Vote with your wallet, or in this case your voice. Don’t speak on reddit. Devote more time helping out the alternatives grow and flourish. And as much as it is a meme, touching some grass can help your mental fortitude.

If you absolutely 100% need to interact with reddit, I suggest installing a redirector addon (such as privacy redirect or… redirector) that can link to a teddit or libreddit instance. Or archiving it with wayback/archive.is/ghostarchive.

  • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, we’re a minority of users and if we just left the only thing Reddit would notice is that posts were lower quality, and it’s possible they wouldn’t notice that at all. Going out loudly draws publicity to Reddit alternatives, and I think that harms them more in the long term.