I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.
I joined Lemmy when Reddit made the API pricing changes and effectively killed off third party apps. I was a “RIF is fun” user. Formerly “Reddit is fun” and formerly just “Reddit.” I’d been using that app for so so long. It literally used to be called Reddit.
I gave the official app a try. It was shit. I’ve fiddled with it since and it’s marginally better now (some specific bugs are gone).
The big reason for me, and why I don’t* use Reddit now is because Spez (the CEO) lied about a conversation with the developer of (I think) Apollo, a different third party app. If you wanna look into it you can, others can share a link if they feel inclined. The dev recorded the conversation. Basically Spez misunderstood something that the dev said as a small joke to lighten the mood. The misunderstanding was quickly corrected. But Spez said it as if it was something real and a threat. Basically saying the dev was saying they could buy their app out if they wanted them to go away. Really twisted their words. Even in the recording you can tell it’s a joke, it’s said light heartedly and with different words that didn’t make it sound like a threat.
So fuck 'em.
*: I have used it, but like less than 1‰ what I did before. It’s a last resort, not a go-to. Plus, I avoid reddit.com links in search results now because so many subreddits you just can’t view from the mobile site without logging in or they reject incognito/VPNs… It’s insane.
The Reddit website began stopping me from browsing on mobile
Back in 2021 I fell really deep into the whole Privacy Rabbit hole. Switched to Linux, degoogeld my Phone. All the classics. I never had much social media, no insta, no tiktok. I only had Reddit. Then I searched for alternatives of Reddit and found the back then freshly created german server feddit.de (sadly not arround anymore)
So yea. Was not really active in the first two years, because it was reeaaallly dead here. Felt like one new interessting post a month. Not much more. Then in 2023 suddenly there came a huge wave from more Reddit users because of the API Situation. Since then there is finally enough action here, then I fully deleted my Reddit and was finally able to call this my new home :)
Still thanks for all of you coming around in 2023. Was really boring here before you guys.
Though this account is only a few months old, I’ve been on Lemmy for a few years under various accounts.
I joined because of the API changes. Fuck Reddit and fuck spez
Reddit exodus. Started on lemm.ee but it is not existing anymore, so here I am at /0.
Freedom to choose (servers). no corporate shilling.
I browsed as Anon some years ago, signed up to .world and have moved servers since, along with a backup on piefed.
i left Reddit long before i signed you on Lemmy. I came to Lemmy from Mastodon. I mostly don’t use that anymore but do have a gotosocial account
Anybody on here with an account age of roughly 2yr 10m is probably here because of the API changes lol
Lol hi it’s me
Suggesting on reddit worldnews that Gazan deserved basic human rights.
Got banned for expressing compassion for Palestinians. I suspect they’re using AI to moderate and it’s making mistakes, as it is everywhere else. Also they only want bots over there now. Humans just cause problems. I’m pleasantly surprised to find the average IQ over here to be significantly higher. You guys are better company.
I was banned from Reddit for posting NSFW pics of my own body in the right adult subs, and appealed and they still did not unban me, so here I am! I miss the friends I made there but I don’t miss the site… they are too ban happy over there and it was becoming buggy.
Sigh
*closes tab after seeing no Lemmy NSFW posts*
LOL yeah I’ve yet to find any NSFW Lemmy/Piefed communities. They must be somewhere out there though xD
I got banned on one for posting my above averaged hog…
ha mine is below average, didn’t stop them from banning me though. Someone probably thought it was too ugly to be real or something lmfaoo.
Yea if that sub was NSFW, that’s fucked up that they banned you.
Yeah, they are getting a little too comfortable with the ban hammer over there. I’ve been reading threads of others that had the same thing happen to them. Soo glad I’m not alone and so glad I found this place!
Bots, and because Reddit admins don’t do shit, and fuck Spez
Communists
I used to use a 3rd party reddit app, and refused to use the awful 1st party app when they made it mandatory. So I deleted my account, and came here instead!
Same, RIP to RedditIsFun
Apollo for Reddit shut down, and Reddit’s app sucks. Voyager looks identical to Apollo, so I moved to it.
Reddit api change and could not use a free app to access the place.
As for why .world specifically I don’t remember. I picked one from the list and it was probably not sorted alphabetically at least.
Same reason for me. RIP Reddit Is Fun.
Yeah I was on Apollo right up to the end, then came here. Made accounts on .world, .ca, and sh.itjust.works and stuck with the latter. I chose it because it’s based in east coast Canada and I’ve stuck with it because it’s been the most consistently reliable.
