In my part 1 of My Great Social Media Purge of 2019 i outlined my objectives with assessing my use case of each social media platform I use. Part 2 covered Twitter. Part 3 covers Reddit. Yup i started reading some stuff on Reddit.
I started using Reddit in 2019. I broke down and signed up. I haven’t posted anything. I joined a few sub-Reddit’s. That in and of itself helps build a profile on me and what I like and read. I am not a fan of that. I do find following along in each community I find informative. It is targeted discussions and some of them have been useful. That value however comes at the price of Reddit knows I am interested in specific things. For now I am not really sure if my lurking there for some information is worth that model on what i am interested in. For now I am paying that price.
I may just cancel my account and have direct links to some sub-Reddit’s i want to read. Then i could try to use a TOR Browser on VPN to just read without having the linkage to me. That work around does require much more effort to do so not sure if the cost benifit is worth it.
In the end I think I “should” delete Redit. That being said the cost “i think” for keeping it is low compared to other providers so I am neutral on it, for now.