• nicgentile@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    Twitter/Reddit.

    I was all in. Quit Twitter around 2015 when it started getting ultra toxic. Quit Reddit when 3rd party apps were killed.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t regret my time on Reddit. I enjoyed it a lot, though it did kind of feel like I was in a bit of a backwater after development switched to the new interface and updates for the UI stopped coming in.

      I also expected Reddit to shift to their monetization phase at some point. I just hoped that whatever they did wasn’t going to be something that I didn’t like. As it happened, they killed the third-party apps, which is something that I wasn’t going to put up with if there was any reasonable alternative. I have never used the official app, and don’t intend to do so. But I don’t think that I “fell” for anything – I got use of a service that made me happy for a long time.

      • nicgentile@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 months ago

        I used to preach Reddit. Like the gospel. If you called me on the phone about an arbitrary subject, at some point I would have said, ‘Well, on Reddit…’

        I was so in, there was a sub of one of my favourite tv shows I was hot on and I ended up being mentioned in a newspaper in the UK.