In the same boat. I stayed because I can’t stand reddits god awful app showing you shit that your not subscribed to, that’s what r/all is for (miss you Apollo)
This is just one of Big Soda's lies. Everyone who had drank water and died, had also breathed air.
Oxygen is also toxic, so I think, that conclusion is obvious.
I'm using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.
The reddit community has been reduced to a mob of slobbering children and bots though, so I'm not on there nearly as much. I also avoid contributing because I want to see it slowly die out. Sadly it is still the only source for some information.
I'm using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.
I used to do this, effectively it confused my brain of which platform I was at at the moment lol.
Anyway not anymore since Sync for Lemmy is so busted to me in my instance (not even showing upvotes for example) and the dev has been absent for so long that I am already using another app (my personal favorites are Summit, Voyager and Boost).
I'm a bit less extreme about it than many here. But, in short, back when Reddit made sweeping API changes it immediately gave me 'the ick' and so I sought less centralised platforms. Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to people just hosting their own message boards like back in the early internet.
I'm a big fan of decentralized platforms and I love the concept of ActivityPub.
That said, I still use Reddit and have recently started to really enjoy BlueSky, so I'm not militantly against the corporate platforms or anything.
Finally, I just like the natural selection things like Lemmy and Mastodon have for those who are naturally more techy and nerdy.
I don't want to advertise Reddit, but I gotta say they do have an onion site.
Although... they fucked it up with rate limiting. Yes, IP-based rate-limiting on TOR network...
i had trouble with jeborah doing this thing where it would say my account isnt authenticated yet for a full day or so about once a week. using summit now and it works very well
Left reddit for the #FuckSpez incident.
Stayed because mostly everyone here is a lot nicer than reddit and there is almost no transphobic shit on here(at least on my instance) which is really awesome!
Just like everyone else: APIcalypse and enshittification of Reddit.
I think the real question is: Why a social news aggregation content rating forum instead of any other type of social media?
If I cared about people, I would be spending my time on Mastodon. Since I care more about specific topics, I’m here on Lemmy instead. IMO, the structure of conversations is also much nicer and more readable here on Lemmy.
I got on Reddit because it's pseudonymous, and the nesting of threads is good. I didn't appreciate it for a while, but upvote/downvote also provides a useful proxy for what body language does in real life.
Same! I was hoping for a while that there would be a fediverse version of reddit. And it's succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. Other than the misinformation, but I suppose that's a problem everywhere.
Once RiF announced it would shut down due to the API changes I made my account here. I only used Reddit on mobile so just staying on old.reddit wasn't an option. Tried a few different apps for Lemmy and landed on Sync since I can set it up as close to RiF as I could, but with improvements like sliding to up vote.
It's a much better place here, and I actually comment more here than I ever did on Reddit due to the toxicity and just getting buried by bot accounts. My account was 12 years old when I left, now I've been here over a year and don't plan on leaving any time soon. You're stuck with me now
The r/conservative mods got my main account global banned for using the “report misinformation” button too much. That sub used to have good quality textposts but when the trump cult took over, it changed to nonstop ragebait/lies/propaganda news articles. And on slow news days you’d see articles like “Throwback: Dont forget that Obama did X six years ago” to keep the people furious 7 days a week
Fuck no lmao, I guess I put that poorly. They banned me from commenting real quick because I was calling everyone on their bullshit. Then it was reporting me for reporting them too much 🙄
Non-ideologically: the culture is measurably better. Here's why.
The Lemmy Algorithm. This is a big flaw with Reddit -- people have the attention span for the first ten comments, and then subcomment upvotes halve (with decent std. dev -- we aren't Zipf's Law devotees there) until invisibility. I don't think my Reddit comments are even seen, let alone replied to. But here, new comments have a chance.
The sense of "mineness". A lot of people see this place as "their own", so there's responsibility to raise your communities right, and another to interact (hence, variably lower hostility). I don't post much but I respond a lot to the people who comment in them, because I feel that it'd be nice to contribute to do my part and keep this place up.
At risk of sounding self-absorbed/elitist, the entry level helps culture too. People are here because they were dissatisfied with the state of other sites, then made a jump; this is a sieve that to an extent increases the standard of sorting by new. (This has limitations of course -- we still have extremists for example -- and it isn't necessarily advocating for Lemmy to never be mainstream.)
e.g. that Draw a Duck post a while back is probably far beyond a lot of platforms' capabilities/proclivities.
(I admit: this is a paraphrased comment I made a few months ago)
i came here like most lemmy did; because reddit; and i hope to be here for a long time since all substantially financed social media platforms enshitify eventually like reddit or facebook did or enshitify immediately like bluesky did when they banned gazans.
As in, why here and not reddit? I drifted away from posting on reddit about 5 - 8 years ago. I was icky over their ads and tracking and it was just a time sink I didn't need back then, but I would still use alternate frontends (the current equivalent would be libreddit) to lurk while on the train trip to work and back.
I forget whether I found lemmy from /r/piracy exploring bunker options (raddle and lemmy) or if it was through FOSS, but I liked its potential and have been here posting here since 2022.
Well I was IP banned on reddit. Anybody on reddit that uses my ip address gets an automatic ban forever.
I don't know exactly what I said or do. I tried appealing no response till date.
Got tired of trying different vpn just for reddit and had to move.
No luck getting around the ban? I’ve tried vpn with emulated devices but still no luck. I’m certain they are teaming up with more companies because this is beyond the typical browser tracking
Honestly don't remember why I signed up. I like it though. Kind of similar vibe to when I used Reddit except much better. It's got some nice small-ish (but not too small) communities for FOSS stuff.
I want to talk to people online but reddit is too yucky. Lemmy has a better community than reddit and it's not for proffit open source decentralized and all the other things that I love.
I found it in the reddit kerfuffle and stayed because it reminded me of a combination of Usenet text forums and early Reddit. The pace here is manageable and it's mostly nice.
So I am here for whatever I was on Usenet then Reddit for, just to have a space to read people's opinions and maintain a niche community.
Reddit killed third party apps and their mobile site barely functions, so I wasn’t able to use reddit on mobile without installing spyware/adware.
Lemmy was the best alternative.
Much better community. I've posted on Reddit and gotten posts removed, downvoted, and no interaction. Communities are smaller here but if you post something, you will get interaction.
Edit: also, after you scroll through reddit for a sufficient amount of time. You realize everything on your algorithm is karma farm bots reposting stuff. Every now and then you will get decent posts and then you look through the comments and there are karma farming bots. Essentially, you have to sift through a pile of shit to find good content.
Grew up on enthusiast BBS, Lemmy is like a bunch of them are linked up.
Dislike for profit internet as it must inevitably lead to enshitification, just never had a term for that in the past :)
I don't have an issue with "toxicity" as i just ignore it, like a dog shit on the side walk. I prefer the "BBS/Usenet format" to Twitter like Mastodon though I am over on Masto and had been there for many years. I don't participate much though.
I'm here because Reddit got shitty. And I really wanted a decentralized platform, where one person couldn't screw things up for everybody else. It's a lot harder to "take over" a social media platform when it's spread out over 600 Instances in many different countries.
I tried Reddit but I had enough with all the rules and corporate cleanliness of it. I used this site called 'Saidit' for a bit but but no one ever posted there so I looked into Reddit alternatives and stumbled across Lemmy. The rest is history
Reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch Nazis, appeal silently declined within the hour. Didn't consider it worth pursuing further, had reddit-shaped hole.
Yet I'm no longer allowed to post on lemmygrad for saying that the US democrat party has been taken over by olifeminists and transsexualists, while the republican party is now occupied by olimachoists and zionists. They are no longer left and right, just right and right.
I like the ability to actually see everything from an API standpoint. Reddit is also overwhelmingly negative, and im looking for a place to discuss with people willing to actually do something other than complain.
just lemmy or the federation? im on mbin and I left with the big reddit migration and was pleasantly surprised to find something a bit closer to the old internet I knew. Im one of the few who don't see the need for it to get popular but its fine to me if it does.
I tried both when I was deciding and liked kbin at the time (I don't know what happened to earnest and really wish I did). this was due to the web interface though and I only use a laptop so I don't think the interface matters with smartphone users as much as they I believe have a variety of apps that can change it around.
I'm new here, but the straw that broke the camel's back was reddit getting rid of r/random. Also more reposts than new content. Also feels like there are more bots than people. Plenty of other anti-user stuff over the years.
Got banned from Reddit. Enjoying Lenny so far but there’s some subreddits that don’t have enough traffic so I still go back to peruse. Anyone got advice to get around the reddit ban?
Saw the whole fiasco of Reddit unraveling and then went to Lemmy. Seriously fuck Spez and how he treated the developer of Apollo.
Came because of the reddit API. Stayed, because I couldn't stand reddit users anymore.
In the same boat. I stayed because I can’t stand reddits god awful app showing you shit that your not subscribed to, that’s what r/all is for (miss you Apollo)
To spread the word about the ultimate beverage: WATER
but it's so dangerous; everyone who drinks it dies. lol
This is just one of Big Soda's lies. Everyone who had drank water and died, had also breathed air. Oxygen is also toxic, so I think, that conclusion is obvious.
you must only consume piss
No one whoever drank piss died because of it
dont fall for Big Phallus propaganda
Big water lobby in this thread rn. /s
Haha makes me think about the old HydroHomies subreddit and what it was originally called
Lol yup! That’s the one haha
so... what is it? is it really safe to try?
Because reddit shut down my favorite app.
I'm still using BaconReader thanks to reVanved.
I'm using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.
The reddit community has been reduced to a mob of slobbering children and bots though, so I'm not on there nearly as much. I also avoid contributing because I want to see it slowly die out. Sadly it is still the only source for some information.
I used to do this, effectively it confused my brain of which platform I was at at the moment lol.
Anyway not anymore since Sync for Lemmy is so busted to me in my instance (not even showing upvotes for example) and the dev has been absent for so long that I am already using another app (my personal favorites are Summit, Voyager and Boost).
For Lemmy, I'm using Boost.
Say what? Bacon reader still works?!
It does on Android with a personal Reddit API key and ReVanced. There are instructions posted over st r/baconreader.
Found out about it from Reddit, and it seemed better in several ways, so I tried it out.
More friendly, for one.
Reddit made me constantly angry, then the API thing forced me on their app which made me angrier.
Lemmy makes me feel good and the app I use fits my needs near perfectly.
This is a pretty decent group of weirdos we got here.
I'm a bit less extreme about it than many here. But, in short, back when Reddit made sweeping API changes it immediately gave me 'the ick' and so I sought less centralised platforms. Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to people just hosting their own message boards like back in the early internet.
I'm a big fan of decentralized platforms and I love the concept of ActivityPub.
That said, I still use Reddit and have recently started to really enjoy BlueSky, so I'm not militantly against the corporate platforms or anything.
Finally, I just like the natural selection things like Lemmy and Mastodon have for those who are naturally more techy and nerdy.
Reddit's API fuckery. That's it, that's the whole reason. Fuck spez.
I don't want to advertise Reddit, but I gotta say they do have an onion site.
Although... they fucked it up with rate limiting. Yes, IP-based rate-limiting on TOR network...
Oh, no, this isn't just about making an account. They won't even let you log in.
Reddit was reddit. I left when I was forced into using their stupid app and watch ads.
I've generally enjoyed Lemmy.
Edit: or to and
Same, used Apollo on Reddit, they made it so I couldn’t so I jumped ship then. Lemmy is where I went, along with mastodon
Yep, I went to Mastodon too.
It's very upsetting that the way most people know about federated platforms is Meta's Threads.
Because Reddit is a shit hole from which no intelligent life will ever escape.
But we escaped...
I'm afraid it means, that you are stupid.
all of us
No intelligent life.
Came in support of Apollo; I just couldn’t in good conscience continue to support Reddit (even after 19 years) with how they treated external clients.
Found it similar to Reddit so it scratched the same itch.
Was ready to jump ship from Reddit before the API changes were to come in full effect.
Joined Lemmy after I heard about it and saw Jeroba worked well on my phone.
Completely switched over once 'Reddit is Fun' stopped working.
i had trouble with jeborah doing this thing where it would say my account isnt authenticated yet for a full day or so about once a week. using summit now and it works very well
Left Reddit because of the API stuff. Still on Lemmy because it's not as addictive and has a much higher concentration of leftists.
Same.
Because fuck Spez, that's why.
Came here because of reddit API drama.
Stayed for the memes
It became large enough to sustain conversation. I hope it becomes large enough to sustain niche communities.
EDIT: also "civility" doesn't mean "don't sass the nazis" like it does on reddit.
Left reddit for the #FuckSpez incident. Stayed because mostly everyone here is a lot nicer than reddit and there is almost no transphobic shit on here(at least on my instance) which is really awesome!
It's an alternative to reddit.
The /s is useful for people who have stuff like autism or just suck at realising something is a joke (me)
I kind of need it though :( (even in real life)
Just like everyone else: APIcalypse and enshittification of Reddit.
I think the real question is: Why a social news aggregation content rating forum instead of any other type of social media?
If I cared about people, I would be spending my time on Mastodon. Since I care more about specific topics, I’m here on Lemmy instead. IMO, the structure of conversations is also much nicer and more readable here on Lemmy.
Reddit bad.
I got on Reddit because it's pseudonymous, and the nesting of threads is good. I didn't appreciate it for a while, but upvote/downvote also provides a useful proxy for what body language does in real life.
The UX barrier of entry is a good idiot filter, not perfect but better than reddit.
because I can't use my favourite reddit app anymore
I'm a rifugee.
Because I believe in the idea of the Fediverse and I want it to succeed.
Mostly for memes about beans.
Uh but for real because reddit quite literally sold out and went full corpo.
Because fuck u/spez
Because fuck Spez, that’s why.
You're right, I should go to bed.
I was here before the Reddit API kerfuffle, because I care about an open and decentralized internet.
Same! I was hoping for a while that there would be a fediverse version of reddit. And it's succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. Other than the misinformation, but I suppose that's a problem everywhere.
Got bored of Reddit's capitalism
I discovered the Fediverse through Mental Outlaw and then started using Lemmy after the Reddit API thing.
I've been posting on internet forums for almost 30 years now. It's just a thing I like doing.
I'm here now because it's the best place I know of at the moment.
Once RiF announced it would shut down due to the API changes I made my account here. I only used Reddit on mobile so just staying on old.reddit wasn't an option. Tried a few different apps for Lemmy and landed on Sync since I can set it up as close to RiF as I could, but with improvements like sliding to up vote.
It's a much better place here, and I actually comment more here than I ever did on Reddit due to the toxicity and just getting buried by bot accounts. My account was 12 years old when I left, now I've been here over a year and don't plan on leaving any time soon. You're stuck with me now
Lol, almost had the same happen to me but it was that stupid anti-vax sub.
So you were just a normal anti-vaxer before the crazies came in?
Fuck no lmao, I guess I put that poorly. They banned me from commenting real quick because I was calling everyone on their bullshit. Then it was reporting me for reporting them too much 🙄
Just want to support Fediverse 🙂
Reddit got redundant. I like arbitrary All and Popular feeds and boy did those suck after the nth made up feel good repost.
As for staying, I'm more inclined to comment here. I'm shy even by online standards but Lemmy feels like it needs more commenters.
Non-ideologically: the culture is measurably better. Here's why.
e.g. that Draw a Duck post a while back is probably far beyond a lot of platforms' capabilities/proclivities.
(I admit: this is a paraphrased comment I made a few months ago)
Fortune and glory.
i came here like most lemmy did; because reddit; and i hope to be here for a long time since all substantially financed social media platforms enshitify eventually like reddit or facebook did or enshitify immediately like bluesky did when they banned gazans.
Cause need to take the web back.
Because spez was being a dip shit. Other than that, yeah, idklol
For the snacks
Better engagement than Reddit at this point I'm starting to believe it's all bots for real.
As in, why here and not reddit? I drifted away from posting on reddit about 5 - 8 years ago. I was icky over their ads and tracking and it was just a time sink I didn't need back then, but I would still use alternate frontends (the current equivalent would be libreddit) to lurk while on the train trip to work and back.
I forget whether I found lemmy from /r/piracy exploring bunker options (raddle and lemmy) or if it was through FOSS, but I liked its potential and have been here posting here since 2022.
Reddit banned me. They hate anti capitalists and anti fascists
I ain't gots nowhere else to go.
Banned from Reddit?
Because I love sync
do you run it locally?
Which provider? That’s nice to have that freedom
Any tips for getting it running? I’m struggling
I got it somewhat running but I keep receiving errors from the postgres saying it was shut down. and when i try to login it says toastify is awesome.
i dont have anywhere else to go
Came because I liked open source software and hate corporations. Stayed because communism
It started with a distaste for how Reddit was treating developers and moderators, but now I genuinely believe in the future of the fediverse.
Well I was IP banned on reddit. Anybody on reddit that uses my ip address gets an automatic ban forever. I don't know exactly what I said or do. I tried appealing no response till date. Got tired of trying different vpn just for reddit and had to move.
No luck getting around the ban? I’ve tried vpn with emulated devices but still no luck. I’m certain they are teaming up with more companies because this is beyond the typical browser tracking
I was meant to be doing something but I got distracted
I have no idea what I was meant to be doing because I smoked the mystery joint
I think most of it was probably blue cheese
Corporate greed puts me off.
Lemmy tell you how...
sync for Android
API changes killing Apollo.
Honestly don't remember why I signed up. I like it though. Kind of similar vibe to when I used Reddit except much better. It's got some nice small-ish (but not too small) communities for FOSS stuff.
I just enjoy it here.
Quora's enshittification ~2018-2024 went too far, and I'm still looking for something good enough. Checking out Lemmy, Trust Café, and Kialo.
apology for poor english
when were you when Reddit dies?
i was sat at home eating smegma butter when pjotr ring
"Reddit is kill"
"no"
I want to talk to people online but reddit is too yucky. Lemmy has a better community than reddit and it's not for proffit open source decentralized and all the other things that I love.
Because Kbin isn’t around anymore
oh wow I quite liked kbin. what happened?
The person writing it had some personal and medical problems. I wish I could help him out because he brought me to the fediverse.
I heard he was having some issues with his health insurance. He said something about taking matters into his own hands, whatever that means.
Reddit's app is a pile of shit and I did not want to be forced to use it. I have donated to Boost a couple of times.
I left Twitter and Reddit and I found Lemmy and Mastadon. Lemmy is going much better than Mastadon.
I found it in the reddit kerfuffle and stayed because it reminded me of a combination of Usenet text forums and early Reddit. The pace here is manageable and it's mostly nice.
So I am here for whatever I was on Usenet then Reddit for, just to have a space to read people's opinions and maintain a niche community.
Reddit went ban happy and nuked my 13 year old account over attempting to appeal a mod power tripping over an innocent comment they didn't like.
Which was after the api think killed RiF
Reddit killed third party apps and their mobile site barely functions, so I wasn’t able to use reddit on mobile without installing spyware/adware.
Lemmy was the best alternative.
Much better community. I've posted on Reddit and gotten posts removed, downvoted, and no interaction. Communities are smaller here but if you post something, you will get interaction.
Edit: also, after you scroll through reddit for a sufficient amount of time. You realize everything on your algorithm is karma farm bots reposting stuff. Every now and then you will get decent posts and then you look through the comments and there are karma farming bots. Essentially, you have to sift through a pile of shit to find good content.
The lack of accountability of mods on reddit. Reddit doesn't want to lose their free labor.
For an actual community. I was tired of Discord and Reddit.
Cuz there are 3rd party apps on both Desktop & Android
Grew up on enthusiast BBS, Lemmy is like a bunch of them are linked up.
Dislike for profit internet as it must inevitably lead to enshitification, just never had a term for that in the past :)
I don't have an issue with "toxicity" as i just ignore it, like a dog shit on the side walk. I prefer the "BBS/Usenet format" to Twitter like Mastodon though I am over on Masto and had been there for many years. I don't participate much though.
Spite
I can't be on Reddit, but I like the branching comment format and thematic post grouping ideas I learned there.
I don't think all social media should be based in one country because that creates a risk of political censorship.
I'm here because Reddit got shitty. And I really wanted a decentralized platform, where one person couldn't screw things up for everybody else. It's a lot harder to "take over" a social media platform when it's spread out over 600 Instances in many different countries.
In the past, I always felt good about never being on Twitter, considering how much people complained about it on Mastodon.
And then I realized I instead visited Reddit daily. To maintain my perceived superiority, I had to quit that and ended up here.
To monetise it and extract wealth from lemmings.
just one more fedi account bro just one more
To give me something to do on my phone during work hours since there's no way I'm touching the official reddit client
I tried Reddit but I had enough with all the rules and corporate cleanliness of it. I used this site called 'Saidit' for a bit but but no one ever posted there so I looked into Reddit alternatives and stumbled across Lemmy. The rest is history
Reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch Nazis, appeal silently declined within the hour. Didn't consider it worth pursuing further, had reddit-shaped hole.
Initially because reddit permabanned me. Then I got comfy here
For BSD and Unix community
I have created different emails and using different ip address form different networks. The moment I use the account on my current ip, I get banned
Got banned on Lemmygrad for being hitler. Most of my family considers me Stalin.
Lemmygrad is Lemmy
Yet I'm no longer allowed to post on lemmygrad for saying that the US democrat party has been taken over by olifeminists and transsexualists, while the republican party is now occupied by olimachoists and zionists. They are no longer left and right, just right and right.
I'm still allowed to post here though.
I like the ability to actually see everything from an API standpoint. Reddit is also overwhelmingly negative, and im looking for a place to discuss with people willing to actually do something other than complain.
just lemmy or the federation? im on mbin and I left with the big reddit migration and was pleasantly surprised to find something a bit closer to the old internet I knew. Im one of the few who don't see the need for it to get popular but its fine to me if it does.
Mbin is better for some reason
I tried both when I was deciding and liked kbin at the time (I don't know what happened to earnest and really wish I did). this was due to the web interface though and I only use a laptop so I don't think the interface matters with smartphone users as much as they I believe have a variety of apps that can change it around.
waiting for a bus
Reddit mobile app support was the last straw.
I'm new here, but the straw that broke the camel's back was reddit getting rid of r/random. Also more reposts than new content. Also feels like there are more bots than people. Plenty of other anti-user stuff over the years.
API issue made me leave, AI scraping posts and forcing ads made me stay away.
AI is definitely already here. AI will be scraping anything public facing it can reach
Got banned from Reddit. Enjoying Lenny so far but there’s some subreddits that don’t have enough traffic so I still go back to peruse. Anyone got advice to get around the reddit ban?
The people inside the walls told me to. I no longer dare to defy them.
Where Boost goes, I go.
It's the spot!
less bootlicker trans community here than on reddit
Got banned from reddit too many times. It's just like reddit here, but also worse in every possible way.
Peak liberal echo chamber in here...
... wtf
I came because I was sick of Reddit.
I didn't realize how horrible a lot of users on Lemmy are.