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Reddit killed the app I used.

Fuck Spez

Reddit was a death of 1000 cuts.

The strictness of communities. Shadowbans. Intercommunity drama. Overly critical usrers and doomers. Removing the ability to see upvotes/downvotes. Old reddit slowly going away. Api changes.

One day i just found i wasnt having fun on reddit anymore. It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media. I spent 12 years on that platform and l learned a lot. But now its mostly its just clickbait and drama to keep you on.

So i went on lemmy, contributed to the code for a bit. Found i liked piefed because of the better fediverse interop. Stayed here and contributed a tiny bit of code.

Was banned permanently from Reddit for correctly identifying a certain South African billionaire's political leanings.

I left reddit when they shut down the 3rd party readers. I don't like ads, and I wasn't willing to compromise and use their shitty app, so I came here and haven't looked back since!

Reddit killed third party apps with absurd API fees.

I'm a hipster and also anti-capitalist. Tired of dogshit corpo social media enshittification

wow, nobody mentioned the open source thing yet. I'm here because I really like the open source thing and the idea of federated servers run by hobbyists.

Left reddit as part of usa boycot. No regrets.

I left Reddit for Lemmy for the same reason I left Digg for Reddit: Enshittification, both technical and administrative.

I'd been using Reddit for quite some time. I wasn't willing to use it if they weren't going to allow third party clients.

I got sniped by a bot on Reddit, just two weeks shy of 15 years.

Didn't even ask for the account to be reinstated but got a denial reply nonetheless that claimed it was decided by a "human" (..who obviously could not understand, "..So long and thanks for all the fish.." was a goodbye, and not a "please reconsider.." "Human" responder my foot..).

They also won't let me delete the account.

Obviously its being run with AI now and the bots are doing the moderation and the refusal to delete accounts means they're also ginning the numbers for the investors.

It really went off the rails when the IPO dropped.

Also, they're deprecating the old reddit style and for people like myself with eyesight issues, the new layout is a visual mess.

I found old.lemmy.zip and fell into it and fell in love.

Haven't missed a beat and don't even thnk of Reddit anymore.

The API shenanigans

https://fortune.com/2024/03/19/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-unpaid-moderators/

Reddit is a Wall Street corporation that sells users to corporate advertisers

Lemmy is free and open source.

Every other post being "Promoted" bullshit, the slow-ass web UI, my former favorite app no longer working, and the bloated and track-y first party app. I was never a fan of "old reddit UI" , so that wasn't a crutch like it was for others.

The API thing. I was using RIF for a very long time at that point and had no intention of using the official Reddit app.

Democratic freedom and democracy in practice.

Because fuck corporate social networks.

the 3party killstreak. My app got some workarounds later but decided against reddit

Least fucked option.

Reddit: fucked. Twitter: fucked.. Meta: fucked since forever. Bluesky: signs of future fuckededness. Mastodon: not what I was after.

Lemmy: hey, these people seem to be my kind of insane.

Reddit gradually began to suck. Enshittification started to take its toll, but I was protected because I used Old Reddit with a lot of blockers, and I never used the app. Then the API crisis happened, and I thought "Why am I supporting a corporate big-tech platform?" So I left, because a bunch of other people were doing the same.

TLDR: ~~everyone else did~~ everyone who counts did.

Reddit has just been steadily declining in quality the past few years.

The bullshit with the api and 3rd party apps was the start of it for me. I use to love alien blue. Then came the censorship… I’ve gotten two warnings so far within maybe a year of each other about upvoting, not making a comment or a post that would be offensive, inappropriate, or alarming but a fucking up vote. Apparently it violates a Reddit rule. Best part… they won’t even fucking tell me what I upvoted that was so egregious.

That was the final straw for me.

The apicalypse.

I'd been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn't interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.

Well, I guess to be completely honest with you guys

I got banned from reddit after 13+ years and over half a million comment karma. Same username if you want to go take a trip.

There was a post in the game collecting sub and the guy, a European, had a MAGA hat in the background. People were going back and forth, as they do. One guy then says that a European having a MAGA hat as a novelty souvenir is fine. To which I responded, Nazis only belong 6 feet under. I was slightly worried that a simpleton may interpret it as a threat, but I figured there's no way someone with common sense and critical thinking skills would think that.

Well, of course this one hit a little close to home to the admins, big surprise, and I was permanently banned. 13 years and 500,000 points later, I get banned for saying nazis deserve to be dead.

Honestly, I'm not surprised given how the site was going. Posts being removed, comments being deleted. That used to happen back in the day but never to the degree that it is happening now.

My only chuckle on the way out is knowing I modified the reddit API to use third party apps long after they were shut down.

I do wish this place was a bit more active, but it's still pretty good. It's not like I don't have alts on reddit anyway. My only regret was not selling my account for a ton of money before it got banned. Oh well lol

Reddit was going downhill. Conversations are near impossible. You have to agree with the hive mind or you get down voted into oblivion. The monetization of the platform. The gamification of the platform. The AI bot problem.

There are too many to count. Lemmy is still small, and while it has its own problems, is not completely fucked yet.

Reddit killed my favorite app Joey so I, nuked my Reddit account by talking shit about a mod, came here, and never looked back.

Fuck Reddit.

Reddit basically banned 3rd party apps to fake a growth and show shareholders they can be profitable... so yeah, they can get fucked.

It's the same layout/format as Reddit, but with far less bullshit or total fuckheads. When it was announced that Reddit was shutting down 3rd party API access, Lemmy came to my attention and I've been here since (though a couple previous accounts were on instances that have since shut down).

I joined shortly after Reddit announced the death of their API.

Reddit got rid of my All button because they want to push people into echo chambers and controlled feeds. I only made an account to bitch about the Knicks, let me lurk.

When you browse by all, you see the patterns of subreddits turning political, same recycled posts being passed around, generalizations, things taken out of context, agendas.

By the way this place isn't as different as you'd like to think, just a lot more 'fuck the USA' posts so idk, I'm still searching

Freedom of free software.

I'm a refugee from Reddit & Twitter. I still lurk there without posting anything.

reddit's api drove people here to the point where conversation could happen. Was willing to go anywhere that didn't have mods that protect and coddle nazis.

I came here because I wanted to run some communities, but ultimately it was impossible on Reddit. All the names are taken, all the aging mod teams set in stone. You essentially have no meaningful opportunity to build anything new on there. In contrast, and especially with federation, the Fediverse is a completely different system. A fresh start - still after 2 years. And it has way better internal advertisement of communities than Reddit does.

And to be clear, on Reddit you can easily just shout into the wilderness at no-one. Big audience means you can get drowned out.

I got banned from Reddit for calling Daniel Smith a traitorous jabroni

I didn't want to install the official Reddit app on my phone.

Reddit killed my favourite apps with their obnoxious API access charges.

Because Reddit died with Aaron Swartz

I got banned from Reddit for quoting Worf from Star Trek.