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).