I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.
I joined Lemmy when Reddit made the API pricing changes and effectively killed off third party apps. I was a “RIF is fun” user. Formerly “Reddit is fun” and formerly just “Reddit.” I’d been using that app for so so long. It literally used to be called Reddit.
I gave the official app a try. It was shit. I’ve fiddled with it since and it’s marginally better now (some specific bugs are gone).
The big reason for me, and why I don’t* use Reddit now is because Spez (the CEO) lied about a conversation with the developer of (I think) Apollo, a different third party app. If you wanna look into it you can, others can share a link if they feel inclined. The dev recorded the conversation. Basically Spez misunderstood something that the dev said as a small joke to lighten the mood. The misunderstanding was quickly corrected. But Spez said it as if it was something real and a threat. Basically saying the dev was saying they could buy their app out if they wanted them to go away. Really twisted their words. Even in the recording you can tell it’s a joke, it’s said light heartedly and with different words that didn’t make it sound like a threat.
So fuck 'em.
*: I have used it, but like less than 1‰ what I did before. It’s a last resort, not a go-to. Plus, I avoid reddit.com links in search results now because so many subreddits you just can’t view from the mobile site without logging in or they reject incognito/VPNs… It’s insane.
Anybody on here with an account age of roughly 2yr 10m is probably here because of the API changes lol
Lol hi it’s me
Because reddit cutoff API access to third-party apps.
Though this account is only a few months old, I’ve been on Lemmy for a few years under various accounts.
I joined because of the API changes. Fuck Reddit and fuck spez
Got banned for expressing compassion for Palestinians. I suspect they’re using AI to moderate and it’s making mistakes, as it is everywhere else. Also they only want bots over there now. Humans just cause problems. I’m pleasantly surprised to find the average IQ over here to be significantly higher. You guys are better company.
Apollo for Reddit shut down, and Reddit’s app sucks. Voyager looks identical to Apollo, so I moved to it.
i never used Reddit, but came from 9gag here in the search for something where you can actually filter the content. being foss and decentralized (both of which I’m a huge fan) was an added bonus
The Reddit APIcolypse of 2023. I came crawling back to Reddit a few weeks ago though. Lemmy doesn’t have the size to support the kind of niches that Reddit has, and Reddit has a much broader user base as well, so conversations are more interesting because I can’t predict what 80% of the responses to any topic will be.
Suggesting on reddit worldnews that Gazan deserved basic human rights.
For me, it’s mainly due to the global enshittification of the social networks I was using.
Lemmy is my first try with a fediverse network and I have to admit I love it. After only a few days of use my feed is so good that I already deleted Reddit :')
And also, the fact that Lemmy is not controlled by a single authority makes it even more satisfying to use.
I got the warning for supporting Luigi Mangione. I immediately looked for an alternative.
I was banned from Reddit for posting NSFW pics of my own body in the right adult subs, and appealed and they still did not unban me, so here I am! I miss the friends I made there but I don’t miss the site… they are too ban happy over there and it was becoming buggy.
Sigh
*closes tab after seeing no Lemmy NSFW posts*
LOL yeah I’ve yet to find any NSFW Lemmy/Piefed communities. They must be somewhere out there though xD
I got banned on one for posting my above averaged hog…
ha mine is below average, didn’t stop them from banning me though. Someone probably thought it was too ugly to be real or something lmfaoo.
Yea if that sub was NSFW, that’s fucked up that they banned you.
Yeah, they are getting a little too comfortable with the ban hammer over there. I’ve been reading threads of others that had the same thing happen to them. Soo glad I’m not alone and so glad I found this place!
I got banned for accidentally using “far right extremist terminology” lol. I’m still not entirely sure what I did wrong
Yep! I’ve known people to get banned for using far left terminology and with nothing threatening either being said. It seems if you piss off one of the mods on there on one of their bad days, then it can easily be game over for your time in that sub, or even your account. it’s that easy to catch a ban that you probably have less chance of catching a cold lmfao. Reddit has given the mods far too much power. I’m so glad for the Fediverse!
The Reddit website began stopping me from browsing on mobile
I joined during the API blackouts, wanted to show some solidarity by not using Reddit during that time.
Then stuck around because I liked it. Though I’m still on Reddit too.
I’m not on Lemmy though, but I know you mean the threadiverse in general. I’m on Mbin.
Reddit exodus. Started on lemm.ee but it is not existing anymore, so here I am at /0.
