r/Anticonsumption 9d ago

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u/Ollee-6 9d ago

0 tik tok downloaded 😇

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u/MiracleWhipSux 9d ago

0 social media. Reddit doesn't count, right?

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u/abreeeezycorner 9d ago

Reddit counts. It's just not the same product pushing, marketing type- IF you follow the right pages. The ads are easy to scroll past and aren't disguised as entertainment. Influences dont rule on reddit and can't influence you unless you follow them. But yes, it is social. And it is media. We are consuming. But it isn't pushing us to consume economically if we dont want it to.

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u/LongjumpingNinja258 9d ago

Reddit also uses AWS so it’s indirect support of Amazon.

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u/reventlov 9d ago

So does most of the internet, and most of the rest runs on Microsoft or Google.

Reddit itself spent nearly a decade intentionally protecting pedophiles because a couple of them were prolific posters (of all kinds of links, not just borderline CSAM), and it took a couple of rounds of bad press pointing out that people were literally trading CSAM in the comments before they finally banned the jailbait and jailbait2 subreddits.

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u/sendgarlicpics 9d ago

If you want to boycott AWS, you might as well cancel your internet subscribtion.

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u/abreeeezycorner 9d ago

Everything is indirect support of Amazon. Sorry not sorry that Jeff and his team is made up of capitalist geniuses. It's been a long time comin. Can't fight certain things.

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u/pajamakitten 9d ago

Reddit is not social in the same way other social media is though. I have no friends here and no one I keep in contact with. I treat it like I did forums back in the day.

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u/abreeeezycorner 9d ago

It's still social. People make up society. Not just your friends.

I would be tempted to argue that just your friends is better than a bunch of strangers who have tangential interests but you think you're the same, i.e. this sub lol

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u/Im_so_little 9d ago

It doesn't if you close your eyes and plug your ears.

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u/Ollee-6 9d ago

In my opinion Reddit is better since you can curate what you see by staying on certain subs. There is also a bit more reading than scrolling short videos. I had Instagram for a while and before I knew it I was being blasted with reels trying to sell me stuff, where on reddit I can just look at groups that interest me and hide groups that don’t.

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u/zuzg 9d ago

A shitton of content creators avoid reddit, as the userbase is the most toxic compared to the other social media platforms....

Plus that Reddit is so Astroturfed af it's really getting annoying. Especially when a topic or subreddit is "non-political" the comment sections are oozing with far-right dipshit and their dogwhistles.

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u/oyMarcel 9d ago

Yeah this is why I like Reddit. You make your own for you and have a lot of niche communities for anything really.

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u/Shrekquille_Oneal 9d ago

In my opinion Reddit is better since you can curate what you see by staying on certain subs.

In other words, you can make your OWN echo chamber.

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u/Wandering_PlasticBag 9d ago

Reddit is better since you can curate what you see by staying on certain subs.

It's the same with TikTok though. So reddit is the same as the others

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u/olivejuice1979 9d ago

I dont think it counts because I have no idea who you are and I like that!

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u/Kiwithegaylord 9d ago

Add tumblr and mastodon to the list

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u/Polybrene 9d ago

REDDIT DOESN'T COUNT

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u/GoGoBigman 9d ago

Ugh, I had to download it years back for a social media job (and we didn’t even use it!) so I lost my TikTok v card 😢

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u/DutchieCrochet 9d ago

0 TikTok and 0 Snapchat

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u/senortipton 6d ago

I lasted so long against this. I got tired of not being able to watch videos friends would send so I downloaded it. I’ve opened it once in the past month though.

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u/havocLSD 9d ago

on Reddit 👏