Ask Lemmy

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."

Increasing censorship, upvote surveillance and ever increasing enshitification

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.

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 was banned for saying rich people and their families should die. So I looked for Reddit alternatives.

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.