or any other reason… im curious.
Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
This is/was the way. I mean, not that people are not welcome here now but still supporting reddit that long is like supporting Elon after he went mad or Trump after the first time around…
I never paid for any of their products but now that I’m banned I see how much the profit off of everyone’s knowledge. It’s really such a scam. Convince everyone to contribute tons of useful information that when the rest of the Internet does searches it leads directly to Reddit where they get ad revenue for every click. Pretty unscrupulous if you ask me.
Saaame.
I used the reddit app many many moons ago, but then discovered Boost. Once it quit working flawlessly, Lemmy became home. And Boost for Lemmy is wonderful :)
In hindsight, I’m really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it’s just not the same.
There are DOZENS of us!
Same. Reddit without Relay isn’t worth it
…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.
That’s a LOT of dozens!
Yep. Also left digg during their ad push fiasco to go to reddit.
Same here! My app stopped working (rip rif… You will be missed…!), I thought I give the official reddit app a try, it wouldn’t let me log in no matter what I tried and then I heard of lemmy via feddit. Only went back once to delete all my data and to close my account.
Me too
Same. I still miss bacon reader.
Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.
It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.
I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.
Same here. Lemmy at this stage feels a lot like Reddit did when I joined back in the early 2000s.
I’m glad I made the switch, because things are just generally nicer in a smaller community.
This is exactly what happened to be. I tried Mastodon for a bit but it was kinda boring? So now I’m here.
This is my exact answer. Thank you for writing it all for me.
I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there’s just too much useful info to ignore it. But I’m not going there directlyDitto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast
Is it just me, or does r/all seem like it’s getting more conservative?
A lot of it is literal chat bots and not even real people
How long do you think it’ll be before it’s a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.
I’m center-right and I was witch hunted off of reddit. I’m sure the fact that I approved of Luigi didn’t help.
TBF, I am critical of Luigi and find myself having to tread on thin ice with my opinons
oh they hate when you say that there lmao
What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.
Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years’ worth of content on my 250k karma account with “fuck spez” and left it all there to rot.
I left after yet another ban.
1st time because I criticized the US. Second time cause I said that trump needs the Mussolini treatment.
With everything that is said on reddit this was tame in comparison. Then I landed on Lemmy, and it feels like I am out of the land of bots.
I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.
Same here (I was never one of the cool kids, though).
Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven’t seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.
Me, arbitrary ass ban while using an alt trying to gain karma on the front page so I could post with it, my first comment insta banned all accounts permanently because I guess I was banned from that sub on my main/og account.
I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, “boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account”
im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.
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Banned twice. They don’t much like when I call for throwing bricks at cops.
They didn’t like it when I was calling for the same against Nazis. Personally I don’t want to be part of a community where its wrong to throw a brick at a Nazi…beating up on Nazis is as American as Apple Pie.
After my fourth or fifth perma , I decided Reddit was probably not for me .
I got banned too many times for telling people to punch Nazis. Eventually I was permad. Haven’t really tried to circumvent it much because why would I want to use a platform that vehemently protects Nazis?
Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
I can create a new accounts if I wanted to. I just gave up on Reddit. They banned me for posting about how a local Nazi. Tried to get a youth center burned down because it had a LGBTQ flag up for pride month. The guy is a captain at a county jail to.
