I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’d quit stop using Reddit quite some tine ago, mostly a philosophical thing. Saw on Mastodon mention about a Reddit (aka Usenet 2.0) like replacement on Lemmy so, here I am.

    I had been using Boost on Reddit, so I grabbed that as well as play with other apps like Jerboa, Raccoon.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Happy new year and welcome to Lemmy!

    TL:DR; Reddit sucked, I got bored when it was offline. Lemmy has similar moderation BUT a transparent modlog. Post grouping, more niche communities I’d like to see.

    I had first heard about Mastodon in early 2022, but since I wasn’t into Twitter-style posting I kind of forgot about it and moved on.

    The quality of discussions I was having on Reddit had noticeably declined over the years, and top posts were bots posting reposts, and the top comments under those posts started to become straight up copied from past top comments.

    Compact mode got turned off, and later the apps had an outage in March 2023, so it was actually out of boredom when I had stumbled across Lemmy for the first time. It was a tiny thing of around a few hundred active users across all sites then.

    API pricing scandal happened a few months later, my distaste for Reddit increased and simultaneously Lemmy’s popularity exploded. So for June I made it my transition period to convince others to join, and in July I made my farewell post, swearing never to post or comment on Reddit ever again. I peek into Reddit on occasion but Lemmy had fully replaced my Reddit habit by September.

    Conversations here have been far more lively, nuanced, mature. It doesn’t always happen, as there are immature clowns and trolls here like anywhere, but we have reasonable people who are able to have a productive conversation while having positions at odds with each other. This virtually never happened on Reddit.

    Tip for you, there are some types of comments allowed on some communities but banned or frowned upon on others. If you get a comment removed, check the modlog, filtering for your username as to why it may be. It may feel like censorship or power tripping, but at least it is more open and transparent. You can make an account on another server or post on different communities, if it’s simply a matter of differing philosophies with the controlling admins.

    I’d want to see grouping features of communities, and also there are a number of bounties on features that would be great to see. Development isn’t fast so I just have to be patient. More niche topics would be cool to have.

  • Zeusz@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    When they nuked third party apps. For a long time I used the official app, then I switched to 3rd party, nd I couldn’t go back

    • Bullybeard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It seems like most people joined Lemmy for the 3rd party apps. I admit I am not familiar with reddit 3rd party apps and what they do in terms of functionality, I’d love if someone explained them to me

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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        9 days ago

        They’re just apps not made by Reddit, but made by Reddit users, some of which were paid. And many which were significantly better and more reliable than Reddit’s.

        A quick example on Lemmy just with the web, these are all lemmy.world but different UIs:

        And that one too: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/

        And that’s just the web browser ones, there’s a bunch for iOS and Android too. Reddit had even more.

        A good app that matches your style of scrolling really makes a difference.

      • phcorcoran@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        The goal of 3rd party apps is to do what’s best for the user so they continue to use their app

        The goal of Reddit’s official app is to do what’s best for Reddit

        It’s possible to expand on the functionality but that’s the fundamental misalignment on priorities regarding users

      • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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        9 days ago

        The Official client was mid at best and hundred of thousands of people where on various third party apps.

        Then Spez wanted to sell API access to train AI so it became prohibitively expensive for most third party reddit clients to continue.

        So I didn’t want to use their app and on top of that it was to sell my data to AI businesses.

        I actually wanted to nuke all my comments to be sure they couldn’t use them but didn’t manage to do it reliably.

        But yeah the fact that they completely killed the reddit client I used just to sell my data for AI training was the last straw for me.

        Also reddit was getting quite toxic especially in some subreddits IMO.

        • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          They literally acquired the Alien Blue client, which at the time was the best Reddit client according to many people, and used it as the base for their official client. How on earth did they fuck it up this badly??

          I never used Apollo since I was stuck on Android. But I still wish I had the chance to use it while it was available.

          • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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            9 days ago

            There’s nothing left of AlienBlue with their redesign, it’s basically a glorified web wrapper like many other apps at this point.

  • Pr0v3n@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Apollo for Reddit died. Came here as it was supposedly a better experience. Used to be super active and use Reddit for hours a day for nearly a decade, now I barely use this platform at all as it’s insufferable and tiny tbh. The Linux Cultism here is off the charts and cringe as fuck, the communities are tiny and spammy and bloat the All page, so I block users and communities every day, and it’s been a pretty mediocre experience here for the year I’ve used it. Reddit is ofc a crapshoot now so it’s not worth going back, so I just use this platform for maybe 5-10m a day and that’s all my social media browsing for the day. So Reddit dying and not being replaced with a decent alternative actually cracked my addiction for endless scrolling which is super nice.

  • ByteMe@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I found out about Lemmy when the api thing happened but since Infinity was still working, I stayed. But because I like open source stuff and I wanna be part of the fediverse and support it, I joined Lemmy.

  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I finally lost patience with almost every interaction on Reddit becoming a knife fight. No other platform I use(d) is like that. I’d post something, reply to something, or whatever and invariably someone would be needlessly aggressive and hostile. Any attempts to engage on anything beyond a surface level were either mocked or misunderstood (“it’s not that deep bro” - get out of here with that attitude). In general it was socially exhausting and I was tired of it.

    I’ve not found that’s the case here, so this is what I use instead.

  • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Not to go too deep into politics but I’ve been banned from every social media platform (including Reddit!) for being vehemently anti fascist and anti capitalist.

    I have some uh… opinions… about how to initiate change and they don’t involve peaceful marching with signs in circles and going home. Because we’ve done that for decades now and things are only getting worse and the capitalists are only solidifying their power especially with how fast technology is moving. We’re running out of time to overthrow these bastards before they make it impossible…

    But anyways, those opinions aren’t allowed anywhere else and barely tolerated here (got banned from world after expressing my thoughts about Luigi). Too subversive and threatening I guess.

    Being an anarchist is tough, it feels like online everyone hates you and accuses you of playing for the other team at least in American politics. As an anarchist I hate both teams who have the same fucking owners.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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      9 days ago

      Bro you ain’t even got to radical… Any normal person asking common sense questions will be banned in reddit.

      You either engage as mods see fit, or you are removed.

      I have been banned for providing links to Wikipedia debunking bad posts or comments.

      With that being said, .world news and politics subs operate the same. There is a large group of Lemmy users who continue proepr discussions in meme subs because they are all banned from there lol

      Bootlickers and regime whores for ya

      • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        9 days ago

        The revolution will not be televised nor discussed in appropriate forums but will instead be memed!

        Fuckers!

        Btw I got banned from world by stating the fact that joe Lieberman (former US democratic senator from CT) single-handedly killed the single payer option that was originally part of obamacare because he was bribed (excuse me, political donations that are legal because corporations are people and that’s their free speech 🙄) to do so since most of the insurance companies at the time were based in his state. Linked to substantial evidence (his own fucking words!). Got banned. Libs fucking hate it when you call them out on their liberal bullshit.

  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Their official phone app was, and still is, garbage. So I used a 3rd party app.

    When Reddit killed API access, they did it in such a way that it killed that entire ecosystem abruptly. I’d have happily paid a small fee for API access to continue using the site, but no such option existed. Even at this point I’d still do it but that option still isn’t there in a way that’s useful.

    After that, I found out that the 3rd party app i liked the most, Sync (on Android), had a Lemmy version. So I downloaded it to try it out. And here I am.

  • Redwngsfan019@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Reddit is becoming WAY too nazi like. Say something that goes against they ideas and views? banned. fuck those fat fucks.