I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down.
The best way to make sure things go your way? Vote with your wallet, or in this case your voice. Don’t speak on reddit. Devote more time helping out the alternatives grow and flourish. And as much as it is a meme, touching some grass can help your mental fortitude.
If you absolutely 100% need to interact with reddit, I suggest installing a redirector addon (such as privacy redirect or… redirector) that can link to a teddit or libreddit instance. Or archiving it with wayback/archive.is/ghostarchive.
I haven’t used Reddit since the protest began aside from dropping a pinned post on my profile linking to my profile on Kbin. I’ve seen this movie before and I know how it plays out. Reddit won’t go away any time soon, but it’s going to be slowly hollowed out while most of the active users migrate to Lemmy/Kbin. I have no doubt in my mind that this community has enough tailwind at this point to thrive.