I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
Ad allergy - when the API went I tried default and fled screaming into Lemmy pursued by 100 “hot singles” ads.
Because PieFed didn’t exist yet
I’d been using Reddit for some quite some time. I wasn’t willing to use it if they weren’t going to allow third party clients.
For the michmichs
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I got banned from Reddit for calling Daniel Smith a traitorous jabroni
API apocalypse, stuck around and rediscovered my enjoyment for linux and got into selfhosting. Also become even more anti-corporate lol. I get less content, but I probably was on reddit too much before anyway lol so it’s self moderating in a way.
I grew up on forums and 4chan
…are you me?
Was banned permanently from Reddit for correctly identifying a certain South African billionaire’s political leanings.
This is why I left. I saw post about people being banned from communities for things like that, or saying eat the rich, iD’ing Nazis, calling Palestine a genocide and calling for action. It was clear they had fascist corporate donors to appease and had chosen sides.
Left reddit as part of usa boycot. No regrets.
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 ofbthe better fediverse interop. Stayed here and contributed a tiny bit of code.
Don’t forget the view in app and the constant sign in notifications. Fuck off. You’re a glorified website that should keep ya nose out.
Lol im litterally using firefox on mobile right now.
Its ok to have an app, but wtf at least dont get rid of existing funtionality that works much worse…
oh god the intercommunity drama. I got banned for one group just for participating in another. Reminds me of middle school when I felt forced to pick between two fighting friends. 🙄
Right now, you cant say meshcore (like the word) in the meshtastic subreddit. You would never know until people started getting randomly banned. LOL sometimes its just want one mod decided for the others.
I just dropped in there to seeif my particular device is having issues and bam more drama.
Now we have inter I stance drama!
It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media.
I hate to tell you this, but you left New York and ended up in New Jersey.
NGL, there’s parts of Jersey that are lovely.
I really meant that they left one thing for something very close to what they left
Maybe its because im on piefed now, but my feed is VERY nice and healthy (mentally).
I did. Mostly because at my age and with my shit eyesight, I was looking for something I was familiar with layout wise.
Old lemmy to the rescue! It’s nice here, like Reddit was many, many years ago. Small, community-based and not rage-bot driven.
My word, as I look back on how Reddt pivoted in the last 5 years, I really can see it now.
This is really like the nice parts of Jersey. It’s lovely compared to the fiasco I left.
I’m glad we’re here together, brother.
Sister, actually… :)
I’m pleased to be here and glad you are too… Thank you for the kindness and you are most very welcome my friend!
Hah! Im gonna have to use this
Fuck Reddit.
Reddit killed the app I used.
Same. Used Reddit Is Fun for like 11 years or something. Haven’t looked back. The most I’ll do is search for an answer for something and check a reddit thread if it shows up in the results.
Rif was great!
I keep it intalled so every time I click a reddit link, the redirect gives me a 403: forbidden error.
I’m another ex-RiF user. In hindsight it was a good thing Reddit killed the third party apps. I honestly don’t think I would have joined Lemmy if I was still able to use Reddit Is Fun.
They burned down Boost for Reddit, and Boost for Lemmy rose from the ashes
I’m on Boost too, and all things considered switching to Lemmy was less of a transition than if I’d had to switch to their app.
This, but the app survived 😅 (I revived it with revanced).
Now I use both, Sync for Reddit and Summit for Lemmy… NGL if Summit was available for Reddit I would use it as well!
I use summit too, I like it a lot.
It is a pretty GOATED client, and the “competition” is strong, so that even makes it deserve more praises to be fair.
Yep, team API migrants here too. I spend less time on Lemmy than i used to spent on Reddit and that is a good thing i guess. Plus, Lemmy group pressured me into giving Linux a shot. Now i don’t have single device that is connected to one of the tech giants any more. Wouldn’t have happened without Lemmy nudging me in that direction,
RIP Baconreader
Try Boost, it’s pretty similar (might have to tweak a couple settings)
I switched to iOS along the way, but Boost is still my favorite Reddit, now Lemmy client. I wish they would make their way to iOS.
Fuck Spez
Former mod of r/jailbait
Never let him live that down. any time you mention Spez, mention that.
It is like “X formerly known as Twitter”
“Steve Huffman - also known as /u/Spez, former mod of /r/jailbait”
It started as fuck spez, but I’ve learned the value of opposing homogeneity online and I will never go back.
Didn’t appreciate Reddit’s hostility toward their userbase over the API concerns.
I used a third party mobile app once in a while, but was mostly desktop anyway. I’ve not been banned (AFAIK), and whenever I peek back it it things still seem fine. But the whole controversy and their poor handling was as good an excuse as any to start using a more open, decentralized platform.
Was also already curious about Lemmy anyway, had heard of it. Figured it would be dead, and the ‘choose a community’ thing was enough of an obstacle to keep me from getting into AP platforms for a while. When the mainstream closed platforms started heavy degradification though, both problems got solved(ish).
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.
