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I am pretty much done with reddit and Google. My use of those two platforms have dropped to about 5% of my total online time.
For me reddit is now for searching "xxxxx solution reddit"
I try not to even bother with this anymore, half the time the comments are deleted.
Even then the snippets you can find in the replies are more usefull than most forums ever were.
I don't use Google, maybe 3 times a year to see if the search results are better. I don't use YouTube too much directly, instead using alternatives to watch YouTube content, like FreeTube. However I regret having an old and important Googlemail account...
Leaving Reddit was a bit easier, but I miss some of the communities, it was rich and single account to handle everything. Since the day I snapped my fingers and logged off, I stayed logged off.
