When Reddit said they were gonna disable 3rd party apps, I left when we all said we were gonna leave. They never changed course, so I never changed course 🤷.
Same thing here for me now I use Eternity. Barely look at the Warframe sub sometimes but I don't post anything. Sometimes I have a problem and they have the solution or something.
I left for the same reasons. Their native app is shit. They got bought out and took private. I have a dental problem with authority - back me into a corner by taking away my choices and you get brick.
I used to reddit a lot in 2011-2013 but set it down then just lurked periodically. I found out where everyone else was going and here I am. A bit of a learning curve to get set up but now I'm happy and this place feels like reddit (but friendlier) before it started sucking
Reddit killed third party apps and I didn't wanna use their shitty official app, so I searched for alternatives and switched to Lemmy. I happen to like open-source software, and the idea of the Fediverse is interesting as well =w=
This is pretty much my exact same situation. I have no education in programming or software, but open-source became really interesting to me after learning what the fediverse is.
I have come to terms with knowing that I will never be so invested in software that I start building my own programs. And that's okay. It's been a blast exploring what amazing software other open source advocates have built. Just in this last year I built a PC, switched from windows to Linux on my laptop, started using libreoffice, prioritized F-Droid apps, learned terminal commands, built a software stack using Docker for a media library, bought a domain and networked a tunnel to access Jellyfin remotely, setup cloud sync with Immich to locally backup my photos.....and I'm sure there's much more I'm missing. If l'm ever looking for a new hobby, programming may eventually be something I look into, but for now I'll just continue to support developers that make the FOSS I have used so far.
I really wanted to stay at reddit. I liked the crypto nfts and cheered when the closed the api. Really enjoyed that the ceo casually edits peoples comments, too.
Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the constant feed of linux and star trek memes.
When reddit said they are disabling 3rd party apps was when I heard about it but was small and still on reddit, in the meantime I found mastodon and used reddit and I found about "buy european" so I started going on Lemmy. Now I am permabanned from reddit for posting on r/lies
They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy
The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn't give me an aneurism
I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.
Unfortunately, yeah. Re: point one - I'd be absolutely shocked if there isn't such an instance already, or if the activity isn't being scraped direct from ActivityPub via some other methods.
Re: point two ... idk man, I'm one of those idiots that still has Facebook at the moment, and I've seen some shit that makes me suspicious (though whether that's based on my lemmy activity or any one of a number of other leaky things is anyone's guess).
I simply don't know enough to state anything with confidence, but know your Lemmy activity (generally speaking) is very, very public. Anyone want to chime in and call me an idiot (re: this topic, otherwise I already know) with examples? It'd be deeply reassuring :)
Reddit makes profit in part from selling user generated content (posts/comments) to AI companies for training so you are absolutely right.
That was one reason to me, in addition that I got banned from many subreddits from just comments that goes against the narrative of the subreddit, it kills any interesting discussion when it just becomes silos where everyone has to basically agree
The killing off of third party apps was the thing for me. Weirdly enough, it was only after I stopped using Reddit that I began to see all the other shitty things they were beginning to do.
Like many others here, I moved during the API-calypse. I tried giving the official app a try but it won't let me log in event though on the website everything worked. When they even can't get the login right, what else will wait for me when I finally manage to log in? During the period, when RiF still worked I saw feddit, switched there and am still happy here years later.
I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit's that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.
I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.
Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit's CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).
Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole (which is apparently a euphemism for telling someone to kill themselves???) for defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was unacceptable.
They thought mutilating baby penises was fine but not baby vaginas. So I called out the hypocrisy and told them to "crawl back into [their] hole".
It's still one of the cultural norms I don't fully understand why it's lasted as a practice for so long. I would have thought that it would become a rare practice by 2020. Nope. That being said, I have noticed an uptick of 'people' online voicing their disapproval of any baby mutilation.
Recently my wife has been telling my kids to either clean their penises really well in the shower or she's going to take them to get circumcised. That totally triggers me. I love my foreskin. Its part of my body like wrinkly eyelids but for my penis. The penis is sensitive and without the foreskin I'd be hard for a week and cuming every fifteen minutes. That's no way to live. WTF. So if they don't was their armpits we're gonna chop off their arms? Circumcision is a fucked up religious thing. There are Catholics who don't do that whole retarded sitting, kneeling, standing up and handshaking. Why would anyone want to chop off their penis curtain. sure if you had the option to make it longer and girthier, that would be something I could get behind on or in front of.
reddit is authoritarian, and my ideology is anti-authoritarian and pro-decentralization and its just natural for me
Didn't really care for the 3rd party apps, I use brower anyways... but then again, Fediverse allows Tor and mobile browser UI is kinda great tbh, no annoying "dOwNlOaD oUr aPp" bullshit, fucking modern websites are so annoying, just let me use the browser, I don't want an app for everything lol
Same reason here. RiF was the perfect client for me - focused on the text and the comment chains rather than infinite scrolling the headline and photos.
Also realising that all the effort I put in to answering technical questions was just making other people rich, and the platform itself didn't give a shit about me as a contributor.
Same as everyone else, I came over with the API refugees. I still lurk on Reddit using Brave (that and YT are the only things I use Brave for) because some communities there are still good fountains of information. I don’t post or vote on anything there, though.
reddit's new interface speaks to a total disregard, almost a disdain, for people with accessibility needs. it's like the only guidance they gave was "put as much material design language into a non-google site as you can"
Funny, I got perma banned from a few subreddits when criticising the Palestine movement for pushing the narrative that the Bondi Beach attack was a false flag operation by Jews/Israel
Rightfully? Why should someone be forced to accept the narrative that Bondi Beach was a false flag operation?? Why should that not be allowed to be questioned as I’ve seen zero evidence for that
You got banned from subreddits not from the whole website.
ISIS is an Israeli proxy that much should be painfully clear seeing the ISIS offshoot Abu Shabab gang allying with Israel. And IS extremist turned Syrian president Jolani allying with Israel.
All the Wahabi based fringe cults are from Saudi/Israel/UAE sphere. Israel capitalizing as hard on the shooting as it does now so they can murder more Palestinians makes it obvious what the real motivation was. The shooting serves only Israeli interest. Coincidentally guess what ISIS never attacks.
Ah just as I thought. Not a single concrete evidence connected to the actual deed/attackers. If it was a court case and you came with these very loose allegations you’d be laughed at.
Ask yourself if you could be brainwashed if you are explaining away every attack on Jews with grand conspiracies. There is help out there
I don’t defend Israel, I defend the right of civilians, including Jews, far away from being part of any conflict to live in peace and not getting killed by terrorists.
To paint Jews as responsible for everything from 9/11 to this is old antisemitic nonsense that has been around for centuries. Especially since “Globalise the intifada” has become a slogan it is not surprising that these attacks happen. At least take responsibility for when it inevitably does happen.
Also recall when in Australia there were people shouting “Gas the Jews” just days after the Hamas attack, were those false flag agents as well?
After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.
same. Was excited about the mil+ sub but it sucked. I miss my knockoff watch sub and the esp32 community. But I find myself getting more shit done now.
I joined Reddit because it was an open and moderated collection of communities .. then after the blackout due to the API changes, moderators were sent packing and any sense of community that had been created was destroyed.
I joined both Mastodon and Lemmy and I'm glad I did.
The communities in both are nascent, but slowly growing, and that seems like a place I'd like to be.
After Twitter became Xitter, I also joined Bluesky but that feels much more like people ranting and venting, less about making communities.
Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I'v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.
Because they kept shadowbanning me only because I use a VPN and they never ever gave any replies to my appeals. Even after having appealed at least 50 times.
Because I said fuck it when Reddit screw over people with their API bs and the Fediverse was an ok alternative.
The first few months were like the honeymoon phase every website has. Users stunned by how friendly everyone is. But the petty squabbles and infighting have begun.
A bit before the API thing actually went into effect. I saw it mentioned somewhere on Reddit, got curious, and signed up. I mainly browsed Reddit through my web browser, so the lack of 3rd party clients wouldn't have really effected me, but seeing how Reddit was acting towards its users, there was no going back for me.
Even though I learned about Lemmy, Kbin / Mbin and co by the Reddit API drama, what got me here was that this is a decentralized open platform build with FOSS software and also kinda "by nerds for nerds".
I liked the funny stuff on ich_iel that I saw on reddit. But I don't want to register on disgusting proprietary services. Then I saw a comment mentioning feddit . de.
Also, I didn't even have to provide an email address, so it was easy pseudonymity.
I left when they banned 3rd party apps, like many others. I never actually used 3rd party apps btw, however I could sense Reddit was about to go downhill, and I had been meaning to leave for a while - the straw that broke the camel's back. And I guess my suspicions were bang on correct.
I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn't notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.
I jumped during the API fiasco, but in my case the story is a bit different I think.
One subreddit I used to spend a lot of time on was r/dndmemes. I was a relatively new DM at the time and loved hearing everyone’s stories and takes on things there. I even made a number of memes on the shenanigans that happened in my own campaign. Some of them took off way more than I could have ever imagined.
When the API fiasco started, that subreddit was one of the ones that participated in the blackout. When Reddit started sending threats to the mods to open it up, they asked what the community wanted. That’s when it went into what they called ‘goblin mode’. Basically everything had to be an NSFW meme since Reddit couldn’t advertise as much on those subreddits.
Reddit ended up removing just about all the mods and left the subreddit in a broken state. Practically nobody could post there. When they spun up attempt.network, I made the jump and haven’t looked back since
I was already sick of what reddit was turning into, then it went full Spez and ruined the place completely. Lemmy was the only thing close that I could find. So here I am.
I just wanted to talk to people and less bots. I'm sort of becoming discouraged though. A lot of stuff here that interests me involves reading articles and it feels like most people just go off the headlines. Then there are certain subs that just feel so angry, like the gamer ones.
I'm always toying with the idea of joining some forums but I never know which are still alive. If anyone knows solid game, book, or film ones please lmk.
Games? Books? Films??? What about politics? What's your take on US politics? And how about Linux, what distro are you running? And AI slop, it's pretty bad, huh? Repeat, repeat, repeat...
To seek the holy grail. ...wait. That's not right.
Oh right! To seek a better place online that was like Reddit, but better. (There's less toxicity, more of a feeling of community connection here, and a lot less BS to deal with on Lemmy than what I recall from Reddit back in the early 2010s. And supposedly, that was around the time that "went to shit on Reddit.")
I was banned from Reddit but the tides had already been shifting and dialog wasn't as pleasant or productive so I took it as a sign and bounced over here. 👍
API refugee. I went to Lemmy first, then jumped over to PieFed because of the awesome features and devs. I still use my Lemmy account for a particular community.
l was browsing around on r/kde sometimes, and there was a banner-thing Saying that KDE Supported open platforms like Lemmy. I took a look at Lemmy's Wikipedia, and browsed around a few days later. I liked the stuff on c/programmerhumour, So I joined.
Also my Reddit account got banned (i think, might be deactivated, idk) due to inactivity (I wasn't on for 2-3 years), and I didn't care to do anything about it.
Also, as a bit of context for the above, it did take a while from hearing about Lemmy and browsing and joining.
I disagree. They ban for trumped-up reasons and being banned from 2 seperate subs makes you susceptible to just having your account banned from all of reddit temporarily.
There is NO human to appeal to in the ban process and sometimes no explanation of why you got banned.
Reddit use outrageous tracking techniques to try and detect stuff like multiple account usage and manually upvoting the same stuff with 2 accounts.
They seem to have made it illegal to have more than one account, but haven't announced this anywhere. If they don't want people to accidentally break their rules they need to make account formation harder, perhaps tie it to a phone number or wait for approval.
They're also dishing out bans for being pro-Palestine now, which might be why some fediverse instances like PieFed have/had a Palestine flag in their logo.
I joined Reddit in 2005 and liked the format. I had been self-hosting Mastodon for a while before I joined Lemmy because it had long been evident that a centralized corporate internet is not exactly great for its users or the world at large. I had also experimented with Hubzilla and Akkoma.
I looked at Lemmy a couple times before the Reddit API fiasco and it was just a couple servers that were dominated by people who thought Stalin did nothing wrong and killing Uyghurs is just fine and/or not happening. I was not motivated to participate at that time. When lemmy.world launched, I joined it because I had the impression mastodon.world was well-run.
Even if I didn't join lemmy, I would've stopped using reddit. I still have an account so I can login and view posts when they would otherwise block me from viewing because of a VPN.
But why reddit is utter insidious and hostile garbage is another subject.
Lemmy and Mastodon are just in every way more how it's supposed to be. I can use a vpn. I can use whatever non-gmail email. I don't have to worry about one profit-oriented central authority becoming a target to shape discourse in favor of special interest groups, as I could just spin up my own instance, or go elsewhere. The communities are spread across different instances with different operators, owners and motivations. So it's much more organic.
This is by the way also a reason why it's quite important people don't all sign up to the same big instances.
This is a problem on mastodon, where even now joinmastodon.com, by default points to mastodon.social.
Mastodon.social hosts genocide-denying Zionists and is generally more pro-genocide than any of the decent larger instances. Regardless of their own motivations, being hosted in Germany and as THE entry to mastodon, they are a target for shaping public opinion.
Last wish before Christmas, I also wish people would alt-text more on lemmy. Maybe in the future there can be a bot that messages you when the image was posted without alt-text, like on Mastodon. It seemed to have helped people a lot who were new to this.
I don't think it really works directly presently, at least not for all instances. I'm just using the spoiler tag, or body for alt-text on lemmy at the moment. That probably needs to change before bots can be useful (if I'm not wrong about this).
EDIT: Meh, never mind me, I don't know enough about direct alt-text on lemmy.
The text isn’t supposed to show up. It’s alternative text for viewers that can’t see the image (or otherwise need it described).
The site was started by people who wanted to make a convenient image host for Reddit back when Reddit did not directly host any media, but it's a separate venture and Reddit later added their own image hosting capabilities.
Imgur was my passive, "only sort of social" social network of choice to find content. Then they were running ads for AfD and well... That was that for me. 😂
I should have moved when they killed 3rd party apps but i have finally decided to move now because reddit just feels garbage now. Posts and comments just feel more like facebook level content then it used to and people just seem to argue a lot just to argue.
Plus the ads have gotten really stealthy in their official app. I didnt even notice how bad its gotten until the a few days ago i saw a comment thread were mods had nuked every comment and all was left visible in the sea of [deleted] was 20 comment looking ads
don't worry. here we don't argue just to argue. we call eachother tankies, libs, and nazis not based on any analysis of the holistic politics of the person we're talking to, but just to discredit them puplicly
jk jk
but also not really. i've been called all 3 this year
Got permabanned on every account as well as IP and device banned, and this was literally only from commenting in the same community I was banned from on a different account which never touched the device I commented on, nor the email connected to the account I commented on.
I recently deleted all my us-based accounts (except SoundCloud and bandcamp) to migrate to European services. Soo reddit is gone and it feels like it's way better here
Cause they killed my favorite 3rd party app and then banned every account I had except one for "report abuse" (I reported too many ads disguised as posts as spam).
Every social media platform I've used in the past started out pretty similar then capitalists and advertisers shat all over it and refuse to moderate authoritarians like fascists and nazis because they have money while at the same time censoring violence against authoritarians and genocide footage requires a login to keep track of who is trying to educate themselves so I left.
If something similar happens here subsets of instances can stay federated with each other so hopefully it won't be a complete wash & require a new platform but we'll see. I'm still on the fence about a permanent history and not dumping out instance histories periodically or a rolling max archive say 5 years back, but anonymity I think pushes me further to the archive everything side.
I never had a Reddit account, because my adult son is active there. Obviously I don't know his username there but even so, I prefer to be here and created an account yesterday.
there's more. I'm pretty proud tbh. both Reddit and imgur I was banned because I told Nazis to kill themselves. and any time I get permabanned from a lemmy domain is usually because I pissed off some snowflake and they made some shit up to ban me.
Left Reddit years ago, it was getting too fucking Libertarian, and the AI feature was foisted on everyone too
Had a while without any Reddit-like, then literally only a few months back heard of Lemmy and it sounded like "what if Reddit was more leftist, and didn't have a corporate overlord?", so I joined
I left immediately after the api pricing thing happened.
Did not delete my account but poisoned it by replacing my posts with glibber. They are still up, I check from time to time.
Just did my share to fuck AI.
Perma-banned from Reddit after 12 years for 'ban evasion', basically using a throwaway account - which was common and widely regarded as normal behaviour for years. Guess I missed the memo. Worst part is the sub I was initially banned from (AskUK) kicked me out for using ChatGPT - which I only ever used to correct grammar.
The mods there are the worst stereotypes of power-crazed oddballs. That is their crime and, satisfyingly, also their punishment 🤣
I quit reddit once. I don't really participate in social media. It all pisses me off.
Came back probably like a year later. Reddit is my sole social media addiction- I cut out tiktok (I do get lost in youtube shorts by accident sometimes now), but then, some more shit pissing me off. Everything is seeming to get more hateful, more alt-right(which is why I quit Tiktok)- and at the same time, I think the particular thing that made me truly quit- the straw which broke the camel's back- was when they announced the idea of some content being locked behind paywalls. I can't remember for sure, but I think I heard about that and decided "fuck it. Time to find an alternative."
I was on r/piracy and someone had a link to a lemme post, and I was like "what's a lemmy" and did some research. I had already left meta/tiktok, so reddit was my last "social media"
Every few months I started new accounts to cycle through and let old ones die. In /r/privacy of all things, I got shadow banned, and the mods had no idea why. Turns out it was the new Contributor Quality Score - you can't just have karma. You need hot, fresh karma. It's an active social credit system to push their value ahead of the IPO and now stock price. You have to grind reddit to stay afloat now.
When Reddit said they were gonna disable 3rd party apps, I left when we all said we were gonna leave. They never changed course, so I never changed course 🤷.
Apollo on iPhone for me.
Same thing here for me now I use Eternity. Barely look at the Warframe sub sometimes but I don't post anything. Sometimes I have a problem and they have the solution or something.
I thought your UN looked familiar.
I left for the same reasons. Their native app is shit. They got bought out and took private. I have a dental problem with authority - back me into a corner by taking away my choices and you get brick.
I used to reddit a lot in 2011-2013 but set it down then just lurked periodically. I found out where everyone else was going and here I am. A bit of a learning curve to get set up but now I'm happy and this place feels like reddit (but friendlier) before it started sucking
Me too they didn’t need to ban me because I left.
Reddit killed third party apps and I didn't wanna use their shitty official app, so I searched for alternatives and switched to Lemmy. I happen to like open-source software, and the idea of the Fediverse is interesting as well =w=
This is pretty much my exact same situation. I have no education in programming or software, but open-source became really interesting to me after learning what the fediverse is.
Some of the very best programmers I've ever met were self taught, don't let your dreams be memes
I have come to terms with knowing that I will never be so invested in software that I start building my own programs. And that's okay. It's been a blast exploring what amazing software other open source advocates have built. Just in this last year I built a PC, switched from windows to Linux on my laptop, started using libreoffice, prioritized F-Droid apps, learned terminal commands, built a software stack using Docker for a media library, bought a domain and networked a tunnel to access Jellyfin remotely, setup cloud sync with Immich to locally backup my photos.....and I'm sure there's much more I'm missing. If l'm ever looking for a new hobby, programming may eventually be something I look into, but for now I'll just continue to support developers that make the FOSS I have used so far.
Reddit killed "rif is reddit is fun for reddit" or whatever it was called
This right fucking here. Never forget. o7
I wanted a place where I would be bombarded with constant mentions of Star Trek and Linux
I really wanted to stay at reddit. I liked the crypto nfts and cheered when the closed the api. Really enjoyed that the ceo casually edits peoples comments, too.
Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the constant feed of linux and star trek memes.
please .... tell me the enterprise ship board computers run on Linux
Don't forget American politics.
When reddit said they are disabling 3rd party apps was when I heard about it but was small and still on reddit, in the meantime I found mastodon and used reddit and I found about "buy european" so I started going on Lemmy. Now I am permabanned from reddit for posting on r/lies
As soon as the writing was on the wall about Reddits API proposals I made a Lemmy instance.
They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy
The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn't give me an aneurism
Reddit blocked 3rd party apps and I'm a principled man.
I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.
That was my same story
no worries, I'm sure lemmy will get there.
call me paranoid, but it'd be super easy for any big tech corp to spin up a federated instance for scraping data to train their AIs. ... 😥
at least they probably can't link your account to the rest of your internet traffic so at least there's some anonymity. right? right??
Unfortunately, yeah. Re: point one - I'd be absolutely shocked if there isn't such an instance already, or if the activity isn't being scraped direct from ActivityPub via some other methods.
Re: point two ... idk man, I'm one of those idiots that still has Facebook at the moment, and I've seen some shit that makes me suspicious (though whether that's based on my lemmy activity or any one of a number of other leaky things is anyone's guess).
I simply don't know enough to state anything with confidence, but know your Lemmy activity (generally speaking) is very, very public. Anyone want to chime in and call me an idiot (re: this topic, otherwise I already know) with examples? It'd be deeply reassuring :)
Facebook federates with Mastodon through Threads so they may be scraping Lemmy.
Reddit makes profit in part from selling user generated content (posts/comments) to AI companies for training so you are absolutely right.
That was one reason to me, in addition that I got banned from many subreddits from just comments that goes against the narrative of the subreddit, it kills any interesting discussion when it just becomes silos where everyone has to basically agree
When reddit announced API changes. Glad I left because it is a hellhole now
The killing off of third party apps was the thing for me. Weirdly enough, it was only after I stopped using Reddit that I began to see all the other shitty things they were beginning to do.
I don't miss it at all. It was fucking shite.
Like many others here, I moved during the API-calypse. I tried giving the official app a try but it won't let me log in event though on the website everything worked. When they even can't get the login right, what else will wait for me when I finally manage to log in? During the period, when RiF still worked I saw feddit, switched there and am still happy here years later.
I banned reddit
I love decentralization and I hate Reddit. The Venn diagram overlaps in Lemmy.
Also fuck u/spez
API
the api thing that happened 2 years ago
Same - don't miss it at all.
I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit's that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.
I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.
Reddit killed the RiF app so here I am
Oh man, I miss that app. I still haven't uninstalled it. What do you use for Lemmy? I'm using Sync.
Voyager has been working great for me
I paid the lifetime membership for Sync bc I wanted to support the dev and liked the app. Then I discovered the dev abandoned it 2 years ago.
I use Voyager now.
Boost has been the closest to RiF I feel, from a common user experience at least.
I haven't tried Boost, but I'll give it a try tonight! Thanks for the tip!
Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit's CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).
RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)
Jerboa is pretty close in vibe. I was sad to see the pick tildes over Lemmy too.
I used jerboa for a while back in 2023, but ultimately I've settled on Connect. Its slightly different but still pretty similar to rif
Jerboa has improved a lot since then. It used to be noticably buggy!
When I couldn't use reddit is fun anymore, reddit wasn't fun.
Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole (which is apparently a euphemism for telling someone to kill themselves???) for defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was unacceptable.
They thought mutilating baby penises was fine but not baby vaginas. So I called out the hypocrisy and told them to "crawl back into [their] hole".
Been here ever since.
It's still one of the cultural norms I don't fully understand why it's lasted as a practice for so long. I would have thought that it would become a rare practice by 2020. Nope. That being said, I have noticed an uptick of 'people' online voicing their disapproval of any baby mutilation.
Standing up for men seems to be a sore spot for the admins.
I got banned sitewide for reporting egregious misandry of the "kill all men" sort.
Recently my wife has been telling my kids to either clean their penises really well in the shower or she's going to take them to get circumcised. That totally triggers me. I love my foreskin. Its part of my body like wrinkly eyelids but for my penis. The penis is sensitive and without the foreskin I'd be hard for a week and cuming every fifteen minutes. That's no way to live. WTF. So if they don't was their armpits we're gonna chop off their arms? Circumcision is a fucked up religious thing. There are Catholics who don't do that whole retarded sitting, kneeling, standing up and handshaking. Why would anyone want to chop off their penis curtain. sure if you had the option to make it longer and girthier, that would be something I could get behind on or in front of.
Freedom.
reddit is authoritarian, and my ideology is anti-authoritarian and pro-decentralization and its just natural for me
Didn't really care for the 3rd party apps, I use brower anyways... but then again, Fediverse allows Tor and mobile browser UI is kinda great tbh, no annoying "dOwNlOaD oUr aPp" bullshit, fucking modern websites are so annoying, just let me use the browser, I don't want an app for everything lol
because federated social network is the way to go.
The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.
Same reason here. RiF was the perfect client for me - focused on the text and the comment chains rather than infinite scrolling the headline and photos.
Also realising that all the effort I put in to answering technical questions was just making other people rich, and the platform itself didn't give a shit about me as a contributor.
They killed baconreader.
Fuck spez
Same as everyone else, I came over with the API refugees. I still lurk on Reddit using Brave (that and YT are the only things I use Brave for) because some communities there are still good fountains of information. I don’t post or vote on anything there, though.
Still have Apollo on my phone though.
Leaving reddit (usa boycot was half the decission)
reddit went to shit, bots everywhere
The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.
I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.
reddit's new interface speaks to a total disregard, almost a disdain, for people with accessibility needs. it's like the only guidance they gave was "put as much material design language into a non-google site as you can"
I got permabanned from Reddit for criticizing Israel.
Funny, I got perma banned from a few subreddits when criticising the Palestine movement for pushing the narrative that the Bondi Beach attack was a false flag operation by Jews/Israel
Notice you got rightfully banned by subreddits whereas I got banned from the website.
Rightfully? Why should someone be forced to accept the narrative that Bondi Beach was a false flag operation?? Why should that not be allowed to be questioned as I’ve seen zero evidence for that
“free speech for me but not for thee”
You got banned from subreddits not from the whole website.
ISIS is an Israeli proxy that much should be painfully clear seeing the ISIS offshoot Abu Shabab gang allying with Israel. And IS extremist turned Syrian president Jolani allying with Israel.
All the Wahabi based fringe cults are from Saudi/Israel/UAE sphere. Israel capitalizing as hard on the shooting as it does now so they can murder more Palestinians makes it obvious what the real motivation was. The shooting serves only Israeli interest. Coincidentally guess what ISIS never attacks.
Ah just as I thought. Not a single concrete evidence connected to the actual deed/attackers. If it was a court case and you came with these very loose allegations you’d be laughed at.
Ask yourself if you could be brainwashed if you are explaining away every attack on Jews with grand conspiracies. There is help out there
Or just apply Occam’s razor…
Ah just as I thought. You have no argument and are here to defend Israel so you have to ignore all the facts I stated and resort to ad-hominems.
I don’t defend Israel, I defend the right of civilians, including Jews, far away from being part of any conflict to live in peace and not getting killed by terrorists.
To paint Jews as responsible for everything from 9/11 to this is old antisemitic nonsense that has been around for centuries. Especially since “Globalise the intifada” has become a slogan it is not surprising that these attacks happen. At least take responsibility for when it inevitably does happen.
Also recall when in Australia there were people shouting “Gas the Jews” just days after the Hamas attack, were those false flag agents as well?
After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.
I only miss the guitar and cat subs.
same. Was excited about the mil+ sub but it sucked. I miss my knockoff watch sub and the esp32 community. But I find myself getting more shit done now.
I joined Reddit because it was an open and moderated collection of communities .. then after the blackout due to the API changes, moderators were sent packing and any sense of community that had been created was destroyed.
I joined both Mastodon and Lemmy and I'm glad I did.
The communities in both are nascent, but slowly growing, and that seems like a place I'd like to be.
After Twitter became Xitter, I also joined Bluesky but that feels much more like people ranting and venting, less about making communities.
Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I'v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.
Because they kept shadowbanning me only because I use a VPN and they never ever gave any replies to my appeals. Even after having appealed at least 50 times.
What is that? :O
Because I said fuck it when Reddit screw over people with their API bs and the Fediverse was an ok alternative.
The first few months were like the honeymoon phase every website has. Users stunned by how friendly everyone is. But the petty squabbles and infighting have begun.
A bit before the API thing actually went into effect. I saw it mentioned somewhere on Reddit, got curious, and signed up. I mainly browsed Reddit through my web browser, so the lack of 3rd party clients wouldn't have really effected me, but seeing how Reddit was acting towards its users, there was no going back for me.
Social media NOT owned by money.
Even though I learned about Lemmy, Kbin / Mbin and co by the Reddit API drama, what got me here was that this is a decentralized open platform build with FOSS software and also kinda "by nerds for nerds".
Reddit closed their API, and that was my last straw
Because I want to be in a FOSS & decentralized version of reddit that provides excellent support for 3rd-party apps.
I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.
I liked the funny stuff on ich_iel that I saw on reddit. But I don't want to register on disgusting proprietary services. Then I saw a comment mentioning feddit . de. Also, I didn't even have to provide an email address, so it was easy pseudonymity.
They killed the app I used (Boost) with the API changes, then the developer of said app made one for Lemmy so I came here.
Settled originally on lemm.ee, now I'm here. RIP lemm.ee
I left when they banned 3rd party apps, like many others. I never actually used 3rd party apps btw, however I could sense Reddit was about to go downhill, and I had been meaning to leave for a while - the straw that broke the camel's back. And I guess my suspicions were bang on correct.
me too. i didn’t fully leave reddit until they started putting ads in between comments tho.
API reasons
I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn't notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.
I jumped during the API fiasco, but in my case the story is a bit different I think.
One subreddit I used to spend a lot of time on was r/dndmemes. I was a relatively new DM at the time and loved hearing everyone’s stories and takes on things there. I even made a number of memes on the shenanigans that happened in my own campaign. Some of them took off way more than I could have ever imagined.
When the API fiasco started, that subreddit was one of the ones that participated in the blackout. When Reddit started sending threats to the mods to open it up, they asked what the community wanted. That’s when it went into what they called ‘goblin mode’. Basically everything had to be an NSFW meme since Reddit couldn’t advertise as much on those subreddits.
Reddit ended up removing just about all the mods and left the subreddit in a broken state. Practically nobody could post there. When they spun up attempt.network, I made the jump and haven’t looked back since
I was already sick of what reddit was turning into, then it went full Spez and ruined the place completely. Lemmy was the only thing close that I could find. So here I am.
I don't like ads.
I just wanted to talk to people and less bots. I'm sort of becoming discouraged though. A lot of stuff here that interests me involves reading articles and it feels like most people just go off the headlines. Then there are certain subs that just feel so angry, like the gamer ones.
I'm always toying with the idea of joining some forums but I never know which are still alive. If anyone knows solid game, book, or film ones please lmk.
Games? Books? Films??? What about politics? What's your take on US politics? And how about Linux, what distro are you running? And AI slop, it's pretty bad, huh? Repeat, repeat, repeat...
To seek the holy grail. ...wait. That's not right.
Oh right! To seek a better place online that was like Reddit, but better. (There's less toxicity, more of a feeling of community connection here, and a lot less BS to deal with on Lemmy than what I recall from Reddit back in the early 2010s. And supposedly, that was around the time that "went to shit on Reddit.")
When they killed my boi Apollo
I was banned from Reddit but the tides had already been shifting and dialog wasn't as pleasant or productive so I took it as a sign and bounced over here. 👍
Humanity is shit in general, but there's a greater concentration of the few like minded people here so that's attractive.
It was open source, federated and written in Rust!
The Reddit API enshittification event was just what kept me here.
API refugee. I went to Lemmy first, then jumped over to PieFed because of the awesome features and devs. I still use my Lemmy account for a particular community.
l was browsing around on r/kde sometimes, and there was a banner-thing Saying that KDE Supported open platforms like Lemmy. I took a look at Lemmy's Wikipedia, and browsed around a few days later. I liked the stuff on c/programmerhumour, So I joined.
Also my Reddit account got banned (i think, might be deactivated, idk) due to inactivity (I wasn't on for 2-3 years), and I didn't care to do anything about it.
Also, as a bit of context for the above, it did take a while from hearing about Lemmy and browsing and joining.
To share my erotic fiction because the reddit mods banned it !!
They are such fascists over there. Seriously.
"Too hot for reddit" is a pretty good tagline though!
Reddit API changes.
Probably done here soon too.
is there an even more niche alternative?
Signed up when the Apollo app stopped working due to Reddit’s API restrictions.
If you got banned not from a sub of Reddit but all of Reddit then that’s on you.
If you got banned once, then it's probably Reddit being a moron.
If you got banned twice, then it's still probably Reddit being a moron.
But if you got banned thrice, then the problem is you.
Same idea as the "If everyone in the room is an asshole, then the asshole is probably you."
I disagree. They ban for trumped-up reasons and being banned from 2 seperate subs makes you susceptible to just having your account banned from all of reddit temporarily.
There is NO human to appeal to in the ban process and sometimes no explanation of why you got banned.
Reddit use outrageous tracking techniques to try and detect stuff like multiple account usage and manually upvoting the same stuff with 2 accounts.
They seem to have made it illegal to have more than one account, but haven't announced this anywhere. If they don't want people to accidentally break their rules they need to make account formation harder, perhaps tie it to a phone number or wait for approval.
They're also dishing out bans for being pro-Palestine now, which might be why some fediverse instances like PieFed have/had a Palestine flag in their logo.
I joined Reddit in 2005 and liked the format. I had been self-hosting Mastodon for a while before I joined Lemmy because it had long been evident that a centralized corporate internet is not exactly great for its users or the world at large. I had also experimented with Hubzilla and Akkoma.
I looked at Lemmy a couple times before the Reddit API fiasco and it was just a couple servers that were dominated by people who thought Stalin did nothing wrong and killing Uyghurs is just fine and/or not happening. I was not motivated to participate at that time. When lemmy.world launched, I joined it because I had the impression mastodon.world was well-run.
I like trying new platforms, i saw that they is less pro genonice and settler colonialisms and a yesr later was banned from reddit
Even if I didn't join lemmy, I would've stopped using reddit. I still have an account so I can login and view posts when they would otherwise block me from viewing because of a VPN.
But why reddit is utter insidious and hostile garbage is another subject.
Lemmy and Mastodon are just in every way more how it's supposed to be. I can use a vpn. I can use whatever non-gmail email. I don't have to worry about one profit-oriented central authority becoming a target to shape discourse in favor of special interest groups, as I could just spin up my own instance, or go elsewhere. The communities are spread across different instances with different operators, owners and motivations. So it's much more organic.
This is by the way also a reason why it's quite important people don't all sign up to the same big instances.
This is a problem on mastodon, where even now joinmastodon.com, by default points to mastodon.social.
Mastodon.social hosts genocide-denying Zionists and is generally more pro-genocide than any of the decent larger instances. Regardless of their own motivations, being hosted in Germany and as THE entry to mastodon, they are a target for shaping public opinion.
Last wish before Christmas, I also wish people would alt-text more on lemmy. Maybe in the future there can be a bot that messages you when the image was posted without alt-text, like on Mastodon. It seemed to have helped people a lot who were new to this.
Wait let me test to see if alt text works the way I think it does:
EDIT: I've always wondered what those chunky brackets were for when attaching images! Now I know
I don't think it really works directly presently, at least not for all instances. I'm just using the spoiler tag, or body for alt-text on lemmy at the moment. That probably needs to change before bots can be useful (if I'm not wrong about this).
EDIT: Meh, never mind me, I don't know enough about direct alt-text on lemmy.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/485977
Because imgur was running ads for AfD
I thought the Imgur thing on reddit was optional? like, you could upload directly. Do they use it as a backend or something? Am I missing something?
Imgur is its own platform, has its own app and its own community. Reddit, I believe, may use it for image hosting as well?
The site was started by people who wanted to make a convenient image host for Reddit back when Reddit did not directly host any media, but it's a separate venture and Reddit later added their own image hosting capabilities.
Ahhh. That clears some things up. Thank you! :)
Of course!
Imgur was my passive, "only sort of social" social network of choice to find content. Then they were running ads for AfD and well... That was that for me. 😂
I should have moved when they killed 3rd party apps but i have finally decided to move now because reddit just feels garbage now. Posts and comments just feel more like facebook level content then it used to and people just seem to argue a lot just to argue.
Plus the ads have gotten really stealthy in their official app. I didnt even notice how bad its gotten until the a few days ago i saw a comment thread were mods had nuked every comment and all was left visible in the sea of [deleted] was 20 comment looking ads
don't worry. here we don't argue just to argue. we call eachother tankies, libs, and nazis not based on any analysis of the holistic politics of the person we're talking to, but just to discredit them puplicly
jk jk
but also not really. i've been called all 3 this year
Got permabanned on every account as well as IP and device banned, and this was literally only from commenting in the same community I was banned from on a different account which never touched the device I commented on, nor the email connected to the account I commented on.
I recently deleted all my us-based accounts (except SoundCloud and bandcamp) to migrate to European services. Soo reddit is gone and it feels like it's way better here
SoundCloud isn't us-based, it's german.
Lol you are right 😀😀 Should have known that since I live in Berlin..
i just use Soulseek for my music, bands/musicians don't get shit from streamed music just buy their merch direct
I use those platforms to promote and sell my own music or buy music for my DJ Sets. But I agree conventional streaming is dogshit for artists!
Curiosity, mostly. I learned about the FOSS alternative, checked it out, and haven't been on Reddit for a couple months now.
because /c/196 moved here after the reddit blackout over the api crackdown and I thought it would like, stick, but
Cause they killed my favorite 3rd party app and then banned every account I had except one for "report abuse" (I reported too many ads disguised as posts as spam).
I use both, I just love more social media where people are actually fun to talk to
Fuck You SPEZ
Banned for talking about "violence" against Nazis and Kluxers.
Reddit banned me ,wrongfully
I got sick of the automated moderation system that the petty sub mods could exploit.
Same here
Every social media platform I've used in the past started out pretty similar then capitalists and advertisers shat all over it and refuse to moderate authoritarians like fascists and nazis because they have money while at the same time censoring violence against authoritarians and genocide footage requires a login to keep track of who is trying to educate themselves so I left.
If something similar happens here subsets of instances can stay federated with each other so hopefully it won't be a complete wash & require a new platform but we'll see. I'm still on the fence about a permanent history and not dumping out instance histories periodically or a rolling max archive say 5 years back, but anonymity I think pushes me further to the archive everything side.
Shadowbans, autoban, psycho-mods. Lemmy is a good alternative.
Reddit has been taken over by Ai bots and banned all humans
I never had a Reddit account, because my adult son is active there. Obviously I don't know his username there but even so, I prefer to be here and created an account yesterday.
When I found out some of the largest lemmy instances were blocked on libranet.de due to the large worker queue.
there's more. I'm pretty proud tbh. both Reddit and imgur I was banned because I told Nazis to kill themselves. and any time I get permabanned from a lemmy domain is usually because I pissed off some snowflake and they made some shit up to ban me.
Left Reddit years ago, it was getting too fucking Libertarian, and the AI feature was foisted on everyone too
Had a while without any Reddit-like, then literally only a few months back heard of Lemmy and it sounded like "what if Reddit was more leftist, and didn't have a corporate overlord?", so I joined
I moved when they broke Apollo. I hate the website and the official app. I use Voyager on iOS for lemmy because it’s so similar to Apollo.
I left immediately after the api pricing thing happened. Did not delete my account but poisoned it by replacing my posts with glibber. They are still up, I check from time to time. Just did my share to fuck AI.
Because it was there.
Perma-banned from Reddit after 12 years for 'ban evasion', basically using a throwaway account - which was common and widely regarded as normal behaviour for years. Guess I missed the memo. Worst part is the sub I was initially banned from (AskUK) kicked me out for using ChatGPT - which I only ever used to correct grammar.
The mods there are the worst stereotypes of power-crazed oddballs. That is their crime and, satisfyingly, also their punishment 🤣
Increasing censorship, upvote surveillance and ever increasing enshitification
The API changes killed Boost for reddit. When I learned about Boost for Lemmy, I made an account here.
I quit reddit once. I don't really participate in social media. It all pisses me off.
Came back probably like a year later. Reddit is my sole social media addiction- I cut out tiktok (I do get lost in youtube shorts by accident sometimes now), but then, some more shit pissing me off. Everything is seeming to get more hateful, more alt-right(which is why I quit Tiktok)- and at the same time, I think the particular thing that made me truly quit- the straw which broke the camel's back- was when they announced the idea of some content being locked behind paywalls. I can't remember for sure, but I think I heard about that and decided "fuck it. Time to find an alternative."
I was on r/piracy and someone had a link to a lemme post, and I was like "what's a lemmy" and did some research. I had already left meta/tiktok, so reddit was my last "social media"
I found something better - not using Reddit
Every few months I started new accounts to cycle through and let old ones die. In /r/privacy of all things, I got shadow banned, and the mods had no idea why. Turns out it was the new Contributor Quality Score - you can't just have karma. You need hot, fresh karma. It's an active social credit system to push their value ahead of the IPO and now stock price. You have to grind reddit to stay afloat now.
I grind for no one. Fuck reddit now and forever.
I was banned for saying rich people and their families should die. So I looked for Reddit alternatives.
Actually good reason for ban 👍