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Cake day: March 9th, 2025
  • Techromantik@discuss.tchncs.detoReddit@lemmy.world•People who still use both Reddit and Lemmy and are slowly leaving Reddit. How do you do it?English
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    4 days ago

    Expecting positive interactions with other humans, that is your problem right there ha

    Everyone romanticizes the “old” Reddit and the old internet quite a bit. There were always trolls, fake accounts, a holes and whiny jerks. The ads, bots, and all the more recent issues just tipped reddit over the edge.

    I felt bad leaving a 15 year old account but it wasn’t hard. I hadn’t enjoyed Reddit in a while. I uninstalled the client and installed mlem. It also helped me to temporarily switch browsers so I’m not getting Reddit threads as part of the search results. If I want Reddit in my search results then I will look for that intentionally.

  • Techromantik@discuss.tchncs.detoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What should I do about my family?English
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    21 days ago

    Sadly I grew up in a similar situation, my father was emotionally abusive to me and the rest of the family joined in with him to keep him from turning on them as well, I think. I was fat, stupid, lazy, untrustworthy liar and a bad person. When I was bullied at school, they told me it was my own fault. I didn’t go on to college because they had me so convinced I was too stupid to understand the classes.

    This was many years ago. Basically, I escaped them. I left home as soon as I could, like 17-18 and never went back. It wasn’t easy. There were brief periods where I was homeless. However those times helped show me that they were not only wrong, but that how they treated me was wrong (this was long before the internet existed).

    I earned my associates degree in a stem field when I was 48 and have a really good job now that I am proud of. I’ve gotten farther than I ever thought I would. And I can truly say that I did all of it, with zero help from anyone. I sometimes wonder what I could have been if I had a loving, supportive family.

    It damaged me emotionally in some ways ngl but overall it taught me the value of persistence and not to give up on myself.

    I have gone out of my way to make sure they can’t find me. Someone found me about 10 years ago. To ask me for money.