The main cause for why I wanted to leave reddit was the “hustle” for getting as many upvotes as possible. It just felt like the content was not genuine, but merely manufactured for clicks, meaning that you wouldn’t really get proper or meaningful conversations with other people. What triggered my switch to lemmy was reddit’s api changes and the censorship moderators and spez did.
Here, I can have an actually meaningful conversation without the toxicity and childishness of redditors on reddit. One thing I miss though is leaving the huge bank of information that accumulated on that platform from decades of people sharing information.
Got banned because I approve of people killing Nazis before the Nazis try to kill them. Why was I contributing even shitposts to a site run by far-right lunatics? It was always a struggle to get blatantly racist subreddits banned, but if someone suggests killing Nazis is a good idea they are on it.
removed by mod
I was bored, again
The API got me interested. Now I use both. Lemmy has no ads, better news, and better apps (currently on Arctic.) Reddit has a better desktop experience (well, new.reddit, I hate old.reddit and new new reddit) and better niche subs. I’d love it if Lemmy grew enough so that the niche experience reddit offers became viable.
Found a fellow Arctic user, awesome!
I like that Lemmy is independent and Im not providing free content for a giant corporation
Reddit admins perma-banned me for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza after calling me “antisemitic Nazi trash.”
Shutting down 3rd-party apps
Same. I miss Apollo.
Same. The closest thing I could find is !arctic@lemmy.world. On Android, I use !thunder_app@lemmy.world. (yes I always use 2 phones)
Yep this is what made me move. Boost has been a great replacement on lemmy though.
Reddit just banned me, a moderator, for fighting bigotry just because one of my responses to bigotry looks like bigotry itself in a vacuum. The rest of the mod team is appealing for me but this could be the last straw.
I do 5x more mod actions than the second place mod so the community right now is headed to the dump.
Ban-happy trash mods is what got me here! LOL!
r/mildlyinfuriating had a post about stores locking up their products. I said “thank the criminals”…that was it. PERMABANNED! I was confused and asked why. They said that “all of you racists are getting banned”…so I let them know that not only am I not racist, AND we likely have aligned ideologies, but it never occurred to me to read that sentence as racist! 3-day mute and told if I never contact them again they will report me for harassment.
Of the several complete BS bans I have received, ONE was legit. On r/blackpeopletwitter I was mocking something MAGA scum would say to the situation and got banned for racist content…I agreed it was definitely racist, because it was imitating racists…so I didn’t even argue about that one.
Their ban evasion prevention is a joke, so I just evade them and continue to post sometimes.
Yeah I used to mod Street fighter until yesterday. Niche communities still have good moderation teams but the generic bullshit subreddits are all going to be whack jobs.
I’d been fed up with reddit for a while, but the API bullshit was the final straw for me: As soon as discovered the fediverse I was sold.
Connect is a great mobile app btw.
Ha ha exactly the same here!
Connect & Voyager are both nice IMO. I’m just a very ordinary user though
Spez ama for 3rd party changes. Immediately deleted my account because it signaled that the era was over.
Since the blackout and realizing that someone on Spez’s team had read and understood The Prince by Machiavelli.
The entire thing from start to finish was planned and executed, there was no fall out, they didn’t lose mods, the entire bullshit from last year was a masterfully executed engagement that fulfilled its objectives and netted everyone involved pockets full of money. And yes, we all got played.
Please read The Prince before you start carving me up.
Going to preface by saying I still use Reddit occasionally alongside Lemmy AND Tildes sometimes as well. I just like talking to people with similar interests.
Most of us came over to Lemmy (in my case, originally kbin) because of the 3rd party app shutdown and API apocalypse. I still use Reddit since it has a lot more communities I’m interested in so I wouldn’t be an ex-redditor per say. I’m not nearly as active as I used to before 3rd party apps got shut down.
I was always indifferent towards Reddit as a platform since I mostly just felt connected to the communities there. I only use more niche subreddits related to my interests and was never active on any with over 400k besides from askreddit, so I avoided most of the stereotypical bad things about Reddit’s community and the whole “Reddit is becoming like Facebook” stuff. If Lemmy gained these communities I love, I’d stop using Reddit completely.
The community and content matters to me a lot more with link aggregator type platforms, the software less so than it does with microblogging platforms like Twitter and such. Spez sucks for what he did but I really don’t care enough to criticize the dude one year after the Reddit migration and the failure of the blackout. I like Reddit’s sheer amount of content available and don’t care for the software/anything paid on there, and I like the technology behind Lemmy but the community offerings less so.
TL;DR I halfway switched.
RIP Apollo
removed by mod
IMAGINE 💀
It was a client that let you browse Reddit on your phone, in a much nicer and more organised way than anything provided by Reddit itself.
All was fine until Reddit decided to monetise their API that Apollo - and many other apps - used. Now it would cost the app developer tens of thousands a month to maintain the connection, which is not something that they could sustain.
So for me, the day that Boost for Reddit stopped working, I stopped using Reddit.
Their IPO was my line in the sand.
IPO was it for me as well. Once something goes public, the enshitification begins in earnest. Reddit users better be ready for their user data to be sold by the board, there will be more ads than ever, and I’m predicting people will start getting doxxed in about 2-3 years. Never mind the fact that AI is already making the lion’s share of the posts to farm karma for reasons that I don’t even understand.
we all know why,.and we all know.why we hate .ml
They banned me but I was still able to see the subreddits on Reddit is Fun. When that died I came here. Reddit is gross and other than search results I haven’t used it since.