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?
When Reddit killed Apollo.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
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.
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.
You were replaced by 20 llm agent -> more ads revenue
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.
I wasn’t going to use Reddit at all, and neither would my producer. Since we won’t be using mainstream social slop (except YouTube), we use the Fediverse or Nostr instead.
I got banned by reddit by saying it wouldn’t be a shame if the idiots who ride motorbikes on pavements in towns and nearly hit people ended up being hit by a bus
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.
Age Verification is coming soon to reddit (and other major platforms)
And the mods are dicks that ban or delete content for no reason!
It’s not just political opinions they will ban for all sorts of reasons or no reason at all!
spez also wants to get rid of r/popular and make the feed more “curated”, i would assume mean more propaganda slop.
the reddit filters/admins seems to be more problematic than the mods now, because they are deleting comments and posts, banning people unilaterally and the mods are kinda annoyed that they are getting less engagement and more ai slop as a results. only the reddit bootlickers/brown nosers are ok with it.
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.
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.
Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit’s relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.
Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests
i think it was privacytools.io that got me here first, then reddit fucked up in 2023 and i actually got to use it more.
I used the Android app Boost for Reddit. One day I opened it as usual, browsed as usual, but something felt a bit odd. Turns out it was updated into being a Lemmy app instead. Fair enough then, I continued my scrolling.
Reddit is shit now. PCMR is just memes and weird Linux vs Windows rivalry, Piracy sub is just memes and moral grandstanding, most gaming subs are just bots posting “news” articles, AIO/AITAH are just karma farming for people selling accounts or fanfic quality fantasies, many Linux subs are either insufferably elitist, have a weird fetish for distro-hopping or are just circlejerks (looking at you r/linuxmint).
The only thing it’s still good for is niche interests which I doubt will remain the case for long.
That’s a bummer because the Linux communities here are super welcoming and helpful, and it seems like people expect the opposite. Probably because of reddit.
Yeah, totally different vibe here on Lemmy I’m happy to say. There are helpful people on Reddit too of course just few and far between depending on the sub.
AI/bots posting has become more “apparent” once they massively purged tons of actual users. it becomes lopsided now. if yuo ban someone using bots, it wont stop them, they will just fire up another 100+ after they figure how to evade your filters/moderation(carefully), and this not even propaganda bots. its the bots that reddit was targeting the most.
When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.
Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit
The data they had even proved it was useless to us. Something like 50% of the content came from the 10% on third party apps. They just couldn’t deal with only 90% of their users being served ads constantly though and had to kill off the third party apps.
From what I hear content got noticeably worse. Good
I kept getting banned, got tired of making accounts. this place has its issues, but reddit is worse
Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.
Because I love everything open source.
