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API apocalypse, stuck around and rediscovered my enjoyment for linux and got into selfhosting. Also become even more anti-corporate lol. I get less content, but I probably was on reddit too much before anyway lol so it's self moderating in a way.

I grew up on forums and 4chan

the API exodus finally drove enough traffic here to keep it lively

Less corporate, less centralized, open source tech. I don't quite fit in here, but I guess I'm weird enough to stick around anyway 🙂

Got pissed at corporate social media for the way they've accelerated the damage being done to our already degraded public discourse but I still needed somewhere to doomscroll and find... gifs... of... nothing in particular...

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.

Reddit killed the app I used.

Reddit killed third party apps with absurd API fees.

Got shadow banned from Reddit for Luigi support last December

got tired of my comments being removed for saying stuff like dead Nazis please me

although apparently some mods around here don't like that either

https://fortune.com/2024/03/19/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-unpaid-moderators/

Reddit is a Wall Street corporation that sells users to corporate advertisers

Lemmy is free and open source.

The API shenanigans

The apicalypse.

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.

Because fuck corporate social networks.

Fuck Spez

Reddit killed rif(so Reddit stopped being fun) So I installed connect instead of the actual Reddit app. Still use Reddit in browser for a few more niche subs, but that's almost always been lurking for me anyways

Reddit was a death of 1000 cuts.

The strictness of communities. Shadowbans. Intercommunity drama. Overly critical usrers and doomers. Removing the ability to see upvotes/downvotes. Old reddit slowly going away. Api changes.

One day i just found i wasnt having fun on reddit anymore. It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media. I spent 12 years on that platform and l learned a lot. But now its mostly its just clickbait and drama to keep you on.

So i went on lemmy, contributed to the code for a bit. Found i liked piefed because of the better fediverse interop. Stayed here and contributed a tiny bit of code.

Too much AI slop on Reddit. Most of adds on Reddit are AI SCAMs about cryptocurrencies.

Cuz got perma banned from r*edit. I argued with one of the many power tripping mods. Anyway my mental health is a lot better after the switch

I joined around the time Reddit changed their API pricing and killed Apollo (RIP). I hate how Reddit pushes content in their app or new website. I got tired of browsing old.reddit on my phone. I still do occasionally (I.e everyday) but I also stayed here because the memes are actually funny.

I'd been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn't interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.

Was banned permanently from Reddit for correctly identifying a certain South African billionaire's political leanings.

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!

Reddit was going downhill. Conversations are near impossible. You have to agree with the hive mind or you get down voted into oblivion. The monetization of the platform. The gamification of the platform. The AI bot problem.

There are too many to count. Lemmy is still small, and while it has its own problems, is not completely fucked yet.

To yell at delusional leftists who are misrepresenting progressive ideals and actions and roleplaying online instead of going out and making friends and reforming community, the thing we desperately need to combat actual fascism. I hate the circle-jerking and avoidant-personalities being allowed to thrive without pushback. This is bigger than all of us and yet the people with any shred of intelligence are doing everything but what we need to do.

Left reddit as part of usa boycot. No regrets.

I'd been using Reddit for quite some time. I wasn't willing to use it if they weren't going to allow third party clients.

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 a refugee from Reddit & Twitter. I still lurk there without posting anything.

I got banned from Reddit for calling Daniel Smith a traitorous jabroni