I went on to Apollo to basically see/look at what Reddit looked like, because I am curious.
I have a lot of filtered out keywords/subs and so my front page kinda looked like what I had left a few weeks ago. However I hopped into the comments for stickied threads and I read some of the weirdest comments. Talking about how the 3PA devs are the problem, that Reddit needs to make money, and how they’re happy with Reddit’s decision
It felt like I was reading a bunch of comments from cult members. They were saying stuff like “I’m Team Reddit” when talking about the devs vs Reddit. And a lot of the subs I would have expected to be closed indefinitely are back to normal. I expected that reddits activity level would be relatively the same, and I’m extremely happy with having found Lemmy and other people who share the same values I do
I don’t know why I posted this, I think mostly due to getting my thoughts out there and talk to others about this. When the Apollo decision was announced, I kinda found myself “touching grass” more often. I stopped using reddit and started riding my bike outside or lifting more often. Lemmy and YT didn’t fill up the space that Reddit took up, but I think I’m happier now that I’m touching grass and I’m consuming longer form content
I’ve rambled on long enough, so I guess my question to you is, what is your favorite ice cream treat/dish/flavor? I’m more of a M&M vanilla ice cream cone kinda person
I was an every day redditor and an Apollo diehard, but after what reddit pulled on the 3rd party devs I didn’t want to support them at all. (Full disclosure, I probably wasn’t monetizeable to reddit since I was mainly a lurker, but I would have paid a subscription to keep Apollo around).
I worried that lemmy/kbin wouldn’t cut it, since the web ui feels kind of janky. But now I’m in the memmy beta and it’s amazing. I have zero desire to go back to reddit.
The future looks bright.
I think they’re astroturf bots.
Also I love a traditional hot fudge sundae. Vanilla, hot fudge, whipped cream, cherry on top. Nothing ever beats it.
Peanut m&m’s and chocolate ice cream in a bowl for me. I think the top brass at Reddit is really overstepping, not even just with the API stuff. Forcing communities to reopen, spez going full dictator. But I suppose that’s the downside to a centralized platform: Reddit has every right to do this (doesn’t make it right btw)
Ben & Jerry’s Americone Dream is pretty much the only ice cream I’ll eat, it’s sooooo ridiculously tasty.
I honestly don’t care what’s on reddit anymore — anyone left is likely not someone I’d want to be in a community with anyway, so it’s been easy to forget about it. (Had to go back today though to redelete my comments because they undeleted them, c’est la vie.)
Yo that is my favorite too!!
I’ve found my people
I am going to miss redreader. I know it got an accessibility pass but lets face it, how long until they revoke it. Redreader is one of the last 3rd party apps which means users are flooding to it. Reddit shut down the others to make money from users and users just went to redreader (for now). I overwrote my comments, posts, and deleted my accounts over their and will not return.
Ice cream and special brownies.
Maybe it’s just because i play with chatbots for fun, but the posts i was seeing already felt like fake engagement. As much as i was addicted, the content was so empty it wasn’t even able to hold me doom scrolling.
There’s something special about a real space with real people and reddit, especially the largest spaces, havent been that in a while. Half of amitheasshole is copied replies on fake stories. 😩
For ice creams: Peanut butter chocolate chip. Choco cookie dough. Coffee ice cream (but only some of them, there are also a lot of really bad ones). Also, weirdly, Tillamook peaches and cream? I’m not a huge fruity ice cream person but it has to be one of my all time faves.
And yeah, I haven’t nuked my account on Reddit yet and surprisingly was still logged in on my phone’s web browser (last used circa never?) which I just stumbled on today.
I spent a minute browsing and it reminded me of when I’d get back on Twitter or FB after being off for a while. It’s just so incredibly negative and hateful. I can’t believe I didn’t see it before, that same problem was why I ditched both FB and Twitter. I just don’t need that in my life.
what is your favorite ice cream treat/dish/flavor?
Well, it would be cookies & cream, however lactose intolerance prevents me from actually getting to enjoy it. Instead, my favorite treat is Pepperidge Farm’s “Chessmen” shortbread cookies! I never have enough of them…
If I want something on the sweeter side, lately I enjoy having a vanilla cupcake every once in a while.
Dunno where you are, but in the US at least, Ben & Jerry’s makes some excellent non-dairy flavors, including cookies n cream. I actually have a pint of their mint cookies n cream in my freezer right now (dairy allergy).
I’m a big fan of brownie sundaes. I’m allergic to dairy so going out for actual ice cream is only worth it sometimes (it’s the “itchy and annoying” type of allergy, not the “instant death” kind). For store-bought ice cream I like Ben & Jerry’s non-dairy mint cookies n cream, and SoDelicious bananas foster (which is cashew milk I think?).
The Ben & Jerry’s non milk ice creams are so good! I had to go dairy free while breastfeeding both my kids, and those ice creams were a sanity saver. Still got a taste of something delicious when all my usual go-tos got stripped away so quickly.
I’m very much a rocky road / cookie dough / moose tracks kinda fella!
Reddit ramble: I nuked my reddit history of 16 years (as of this upcoming July 10) without thinking to download it first. I was a bit saddened at first, because I realized that my reddit history was about as close to a diary as I had kept from the time I was a high school senior. Given digital footprint and whatnot, I’m sure it’s mostly for the best that it’s all in the ether now. The now bare profile is a decent if bittersweet deterrent keeping me from hopping right back onto that site. But! I did remember that I had another handle that I used as my primary for a handful of years (got locked out of it, so I went back to my original one), so I have those vignettes of myself to look back on.
Love myself some strawberry ice cream, my favourite.
And as much as I’d hoped that spez would back down from the API decision, It was never going to happen. If you read any of his recent interviews, it’s quite clear he feels really bitter that third party apps managed to succeed and be profitable, whilst Reddit itself does not (at least supposedly).
I get it. My own brother is one of those “team reddit” people. We actually argued a bit because he lashed out when I said I’d deleted my account. I’ve never told him my username, because he’s an asshole. So he started lording over me about his karma, not knowing that I had a lot more than he did and actually never gave a single fuck about it, which is why I like Lemmy and Beehaw specifically a lot better. I’m an adult, so I dropped it and moved onto other things even though he told me that people who felt the way I do are somehow “sheep”, lol. It’s actually the other way around but he can’t grasp that. It’s an argument he’d never let me win, so I’m better off just trying to stay away from that subject.
Edited to add: I’m a sucker for tropical flavour ice cream bars.
Carvel ice cream cakes are my jam.
I like So Delicious’ s’mores flavored non-dairy ice cream and chocolate cate with chocolate frosting (vegan btw lol)
Haagen Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter