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When Reddit killed Apollo.

I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.

Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.

The death of third party Reddit apps.

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

The loss of Reddit third party apps and the reasons they were giving for them doing it felt like it was going to be a slippery slope of shit. The Reddit app was also shit at the time and still is.

With Lemmy, I can just go looking for another app if there's something I don't like and even if I don't switch between them, they also seem to be way more configurable too.

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.

I left when it became clear they had no interest in dealing with nazi sympathisers, and when it became clear that transphobia was acceptable, as long as it was "civil". This was long before the Reddit API exodus

I found lemmy when looking for fediverse/federated Reddit like platforms, and spun up an instance to test it out. It was basically only me on the instance until the Reddit exodus happened, and then suddenly the instance and lemmy add a whole saw a huge growth in traffic.

And then we spun up a piefed instance when it became clear the lemmy devs also hold some shitty beliefs, so that users who wanted an alternative could have one.

I'm not going anywhere. Federated/decentralised social media is the future as far as I'm concerned. At the very least, it's the only future I'll consider.

When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.

Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit

No ads and killing off third party Reddit apps.

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 from Reddit for making jokes about eating rich people. They warned me and temp banned me twice before the permaban. It was over like 6 months too, which means I don’t learn lessons and have a tendency to make those jokes often.

No regrets.

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!

Banned for saying that I would murder Andrew Tate given the opportunity.

Reddit being reddit caused me to look around.

The nice beeple at beehaw drew me in.

Now I have a couple accounts (beehaw was the first) and I haven't really run into many rude people. I like it here.

Access to the content we create not being controlled by any corporation or any person. That's about it for me, even though there were other things I did not like about reddit.

Quit reddit 5 years ago. Had a 12 year old account then.

Thread asked for early examples of racism against a certain group, by my country. I dug up such examples and translated them into English. The examples included slurs. Got permabanned for using slurs, no appeal.

Apparently I should have included a racism trigger warning in a thread asking for examples of racism, although the mod admitted that that wouldn't have saved me either.

This is a site which was notorious for indulging in gore with videos of people being killed by the way. Bunch of weirdos.

That's not why I deleted my account though. The last straw was when CIA thinktanks made a hostile takeover of all Middle East and geopolitics subs, forcing a Washington agenda to manufactor consent for war. The Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq subs were riddled with ex-military Americans and the mods were literally paid thinktank gooners. They were quite open about it too.

Reddit told me I wasn't allowed to use a non-shitty application to read their content any more.

Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.

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 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.

Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests

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.

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

the 3rd party shutdown

EMPRESS brought me into lemmy, she quit later because she got banned off .ml, i stuck around, and eventually started my own instance.

Because I love everything open source.

Fled Reddit when the Exodus happened.

Since I am here for near 5 years, maybe I just like to replace greedy-shitholes with fediverse alternatives as soon as possible.

Accessibility options of different apps then reddit app.

I came looking for the conversations with all the beautiful people here.

Okay fine, it was separation from difect corporate control.

But I stay to read the opinions of all you beautiful people

I kept getting banned, got tired of making accounts. this place has its issues, but reddit is worse

Lol. Reddit hasn't been leftist in a long time if it ever really was. There were some leftist spaces, and I guess a lot of users were left-of-center, but the platform certainly wasn't.

I came over here when they blocked third party apps. I didn't join earlier because I thought it'd be similar to Voat, which was apparently horrible and an alt-right cesspool. I was pleasantly surprised. I like that people can have actual discussions here without things being flooded by thousands of comments.

Also, since you're new, I'd recommend against Lemmy.world. They're a little aggressive with moderation. They're the largest instance, which is another reason to go somewhere else. The fediverse works best when no one instance controls it.

I read about the Fediverse years ago and opened a couple accounts across a couple platforms. As I expected at the time, too low volume of people to really keep me engaged.

I stayed on reddit until same as everyone else here; they killed 3rd party apps and mod tools. I was a mod on a small, friendly little niche hobby sub. It started getting overrun by bots and MAGA types who wanted to make every post about guns and women staying home to serve their husbands. Good members started leaving the sub and I turned from having fun to loathing it very quickly. I created some fresh Fediverse accounts and made the move for real.

The only reddit clone owned by individual people.

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.