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.
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.
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.
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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.
They burned down Boost for Reddit, and Boost for Lemmy rose from the ashes
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,
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!
Fuck Spez
It started as fuck spez, but I’ve learned the value of opposing homogeneity online and I will never go back.
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.
I left reddit when they shut down the 3rd party readers. I don’t like ads, and I wasn’t willing to compromise and use their shitty app, so I came here and haven’t looked back since!
Same. Couldn’t be happier with the Fediverse as my main socials.
I’m a hipster and also anti-capitalist. Tired of dogshit corpo social media enshittification
Lemmy almost reminds me of the internet before it went to hell. A breath of fresh air.
Left reddit as part of usa boycot. No regrets.
wow, nobody mentioned the open source thing yet. I’m here because I really like the open source thing and the idea of federated servers run by hobbyists.
I’m very appreciative of this. I want the people in charge here, not billionaires and CEOs.
The API shenanigans
Yeah, same, when the apicalypse hit I was gone.
Why “apicalypse” and not “appocalypse”?
Two reasons:
- Because Reddit killed the API , which in turn killed the apps.
- It sounds funnier
Aaah I see. Yeah, yours is better.
API boatlift gang 🇨🇺🤞
The API thing. I was using RIF for a very long time at that point and had no intention of using the official Reddit app.
Saaame
the 3party killstreak. My app got some workarounds later but decided against reddit
Reddit has just been steadily declining in quality the past few years.
The bullshit with the api and 3rd party apps was the start of it for me. I use to love alien blue. Then came the censorship… I’ve gotten two warnings so far within maybe a year of each other about upvoting, not making a comment or a post that would be offensive, inappropriate, or alarming but a fucking up vote. Apparently it violates a Reddit rule. Best part… they won’t even fucking tell me what I upvoted that was so egregious.
That was the final straw for me.
I can help you spoof the API and get your favorite third party app going again, if you really want. I was using RIF up until a few weeks ago. Still works too, I just got banned and decided it wasn’t worth it to start over.
why a lot of people migrated here, right? By the way, I like you, I’ll follow you :D
I got sniped by a bot on Reddit, just two weeks shy of 15 years.
Didn’t even ask for the account to be reinstated but got a denial reply nonetheless that claimed it was decided by a “human” (…who obviously could not understand, “…So long and thanks for all the fish…” was a goodbye, and not a “please reconsider…” “Human” responder my foot…).
They also won’t let me delete the account.
Obviously its being run with AI now and the bots are doing the moderation and the refusal to delete accounts means they’re also ginning the numbers for the investors.
It really went off the rails when the IPO dropped.
Also, they’re deprecating the old reddit style and for people like myself with eyesight issues, the new layout is a visual mess.
I found old.lemmy.zip and fell into it and fell in love.
Haven’t missed a beat and don’t even thnk of Reddit anymore.
Least fucked option.
Reddit: fucked. Twitter: fucked… Meta: fucked since forever. Bluesky: signs of future fuckededness. Mastodon: not what I was after.
Lemmy: hey, these people seem to be my kind of insane.
Fuck Reddit.
Reddit gradually began to suck. Enshittification started to take its toll, but I was protected because I used Old Reddit with a lot of blockers, and I never used the app. Then the API crisis happened, and I thought “Why am I supporting a corporate big-tech platform?” So I left, because a bunch of other people were doing the same.
TLDR:
everyone else dideveryone who counts did.I wasn’t aware of that, but it’s a shame Reddit has become like that. But there are wonderful people out there creating these kinds of communities and websites :)
