Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
Banned on Reddit for literally no reason ): used to love posting my NSFW content there but couldn’t make a new account and couldn’t even use my old SFW account anymore
Reddit told me I wasn’t allowed to use a non-shitty application to read their content any more.
the 3rd party shutdown
When Reddit started charging for their API Key. Killed off Apollo, best Reddit app on iOS. Didn’t want to try the Reddit App. After Apollo officially shutdown, I stuck around reddit through old.reddit and it wasn’t the same. Deleted all my accounts and jumped over to Lemmy. Joined Lemm.ee then that shut down and moved over to lemdro.id
Typical angry reddit user. I didn’t like that they allowed r/conservative to be a sub full of racist shit. Then they banned one of my favorite sub reddits. They’re greedy and only allow you to use their shitty app.
Another vote for Rexodus.
I value freedom and love free / libre / open source software. After the US trade war against basically everyone I searched for non-US Reddit alternative. Lemmy is a great combination.
I left Reddit because I realized that the people running it were complete assholes who believed money was more important than community.
What made me interested in Lemmy was the decentralized nature. What made me stay is how it reminded me of Reddit a decade ago and of course the community.
When Reddit killed Apollo.
Me too. API death of reddit.
They thought disabling RIF would force me to use the Reddit Mobile App, but it just got me to break up with reddit finally after 10+ years.
Who nose, maybe this was all part of their plan to get rid of Reddit’s original users and make room for a younger culture who doesn’t care about privacy or ads or whatever.
It was Boost for Reddit for me. Note: I hate the ads in Boost for Lemmy, but I still havent jumped ship or started to pay for ad-free. When I go on contract at work (I hope) it’ll be more possible.
e: wait, it’s $5, one time? Ok, I’m killing the ads now.
I want to support the platforms that look at people for their interactions, not their marketability. APIs were going to be dead at Reddit and I wasn’t willing to stand over the body with a knife in hand.
You were replaced by 20 llm agent -> more ads revenue
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
Pleasantly surprised to see so many Boost users in this thread. Great app
I took a meandering path to get here, but that’s the same reason for me.
Reddit app wouldn’t let me block those dumb He Gets Us ads. Even after blocking the account, I still saw them. I swapped to Apollo to avoid it, then Reddit dropped Apollo, so I dropped Reddit.
I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.
I am brand spankin’ new and didn’t realize mods migrated too! That’s great! Only thing I wish there was, was the database wealth of information that reddit has but that takes time and humans make that possible.
I am too! If mods are leaving too I think that shows there’s definitely an issue. Hopefully enough people will migrate to Lemmy
Oh yeah, it’s impossible to mod effectively via reddit’s official mobile app. And admin was becoming increasingly inconsistent in its demands and communication.
Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.
They killed my favorite app “rif”, so I started using the web version. Then they made the web version almost unusable with the “open this in our app” banner on every page which was the last straw for me. Can’t use third party apps, and the web version is constantly nagging you to not use it? Stupid. Now I just use Lemmy on Firefox and have had 0 issues.
I was already “over” Reddit and fully invested in Lemmy by the time RIF went down, but RIF actually going from 100% working to not working…I actually watched it happen. That was surreal. I think that’s when it really hit me that I’m not considered economically viable anymore.
The death of third party Reddit apps.
What were the apps?
You know, I thought all but one became unusable but after just trying to figure out which app it was I discovered a lot of third party apps apparently became usable again at some point, including the one I used to use Sync.
I know for a fact that Sync stopped working because for a long time you’d open it and it’d just say it didn’t work and he was working on making it work with Lemmy. Which is what I’m using now. I guess he made Sync for Reddit at some point after that.
Might be a moot point now, but it was not the only reason I haven’t gone back. The leadership has proven they don’t care about the users all that much. They are much more focused on money.
I used Reddit for a long time, since the extremely early days of the site, back when most of the content was posted by Reddit staff and there was really just one page.
While I wasn’t enthralled with the move from old.reddit.com to the new reddit.com, the site was at least still accessible via the old interface, absent a minor quirk here and there in how Markdown was interpreted, and different ways of customizing subreddit appearance. That wasn’t enough to cause me to leave.
What did it for me was that I expected that when they moved from their growth phase to monetization phase that they’d make some changes that I wouldn’t like, but I didn’t expect them to end access for third-party clients, which was not okay with me.
Paywalling the API was the final straw for me. I saw they reduced the price to something “reasonable” for the top few 3rd party apps, but too little, too late. Leading up to that, I understood the ads, I was satisfied with using old.reddit, and I thought we were making progress with fighting management. Killing all the small time apps and turning Apollo et al into an income stream (or, really, stifling competition to their ad-infested 1st patty app) showed there was no way back to the reddit I knew
reddit killed 3rd party apps and i don’t wanna use their shitty app or websites on my phone so i just ditched it for lemmy
I might have worded it differently, but this is my answer as well.
Same same.
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