My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
When they shut down the Apollo app for Reddit is when I left
same with RIF
Reddit is no longer fun.
Yeah this was it for me. Best app ever…no bullshit ads or anything…and I was really upset that Reddit forcefully killed it for money. However, I did find that the app Red Reader is allowed to exist because of its accessibility features for the visually impaired. It’s a good browsing experience…simple and no ads or BS.
I still do browse Reddit because a lot of the communities I visit on there either don’t exist on Lemmy or are too underpopulated for much of any content. Please don’t tell me to just “post more content” myself. The point is I often don’t have much content for the communities I visit. Like it or not, a community with 10 active members just isn’t enough to have much to participate with, even if I am the one posting most of the content. For example, there is a tattoo community I stumbled across on Lemmy. But I only have so many tattoos. So obviously I cannot fill the page with endless more content.
I basically only use it for work stuff like /r/sysadmin or some of the vendor specific boards.
I mean, yeah the app was a way better experience than even desktop, but holy shit, the content!
It’s overflowing with fascist, racist, misogynist and violent stuff much more than even a year or two ago.
You get banned for pro violence posts that might be that in the vaguest sense. Wonder how they do that probably AI + human mods.
even implying is bannable, not even use direct violent words. also including referring to the word “demographic” depending the race of the poc discussed in a reddit posts.
Not to everything turning into a political argument
Everything social is also political.
It always has that. It’s why the first things you do when joining any online platform is to find the block button for anything news, faith, or politics related.
It had far less of that at the start. It was a boiled frog effect for me. I realised I was just fighting through corporate trash to find a few gems, rather than filtering trash from a sea of gems.
The loss of 3rd party apps just gave me the impetus to jump ship.
True, it’s what I did on here too. It’s better for one’s mental health.
You’re right, but either it’s me nas I’ve become sensitized, or Reddit really is much more disgusting than ever.
Shutting down third-party apps through unreasonable API pricing with extremely little notice, then actively lying about their conversations with Apollo’s developer about it even though he had recordings of the calls.
I think there was even more BS at that time that made it against my personal values to stay, but those were the nails in the coffin for me.
It was hard. I spent over ten years on reddit, and I’d been active in some meetup groups over the years, so a lot of my real-life friends came from there. It felt like ending a part of my identity.
But hearing what kinds of nonsense they’ve continued to pull, I know I made the right decision and I’m glad I moved.
They forcibly replaced moderation teams on tons of major subreddits that went dark in protest too. No hesitation, tossed out the old teams entirely and replaced them with randoms, even on the former default subs. It was fucking chaos.
There was very obvious botting happening to push opinions in favor of the api-pocalypse in certain big subs, to the point where you could reply to the bots with some of the most basic ass prompt redirection/escape and get them to spit out cooking recipes.
People were getting banned for even mentioning lemmy. Reddit was reverting people editing their comments to try and scrub their history on the site, and banning the accounts, which is arguably a violation of GDPR’s right to be forgotten.
It was an absolute shit show.
I had already made a lemmy account by that point. If it had just been the api lockdown, I probably would have went back in at least a limited capacity using one of the patched third party clients (use your own api key) or the patched official official one (removes the ads).
But all of that shit together broadcast loud and clear that Reddit’s owners weren’t just passively stupid about what actually made the site worthwhile, they were actively antagonistic towards it.
It was no secret that Reddit had no fucking clue why Reddit “worked” and couldn’t be trusted to make good decisions. But all this shit demonstrated that the only thing they were interested in doing was intentionally killing it in a delusional attempt to maximize short term gains.
And every time I had even a smidgen of desire to go back, they pulled more bullshit.
Auto-generated language specific copies of popular subreddits, utilizing poor quality machine translation and literally stealing the top posts from the original subs with no attribution. Reddit disavowed that it was done by Reddit admins themselves, but there’s no way it could have happened at the speed and scale it did otherwise.
Mods still don’t have anything remotely equivalent to the old tools from before the api bullshit.
People getting permabanned over the most basic word filters imaginable (discussing the game Luigi’s Mansion after the CEO-cide), then getting IP banned when they created a new account to try and get in touch with support.
I still browse some of the subs related to my work passively (sysadmin, powershell, azure, etc) but the drop in quality and amount of bots is unignorable. Half the sysadmin sub posts are the most thinly veiled product ad setups.
new accounts aand old accounts that were inactives are subject to shadowbans, and you dont need to say anything offensive. they treat them as “bots”. so its careful for new users to warm up the account before commenting.
for old accounts it might be best abandon it since you couldve potentially posted in a sub that may or may not have banned, removed comments,etc.
they know what they are doing , them going public as a company and started shilling for right wing propaganda for more ad revenue, allowing scraping by GOOGLE, palintir. and spez is inlove with MUSK, so he purges at his requests.
Yeah, I used Infinity for reddit but then they had to start charging for use because of the API pricing so I moved to Eternity which is a fork of Infinity for lemmy. Problem is, Eternity doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore so when it stops working with some lemmy update I guess I’ll just have to go back to entertaining myself with simon tatham’s portable puzzle collection or something
Give Voyager a try? There are others too, and obviously the official app Jerboa. None of them are enshitifying themselves.
I’ve tried others but I only really like eternity. I guess I could try to maintain it myself but I don’t like android development
There are lots of app options for Lemmy. If you want an excuse to break the habit, EOL of an app is a great reason. But if not, try something else. That post is about 3 years old but it was the first I found and I didn’t feel like digging for more, lol.
this one is more up to date https://lemmy.world/post/13129663
there’s also https://join-lemmy.org/apps
Then again fuck reddit.
Same
The APIcalypse for me.
Slightly concerned by how many people here managed to get banned from the entire site.
I got shadowbanned! And I don’t even know what I did.
99.9% of my posting was in two places: technical testing in localllama and fandom geeking in thelastairbender, in spite of brain drain in both subs. I never even raised my voice in a post.
I did post a Lemmy link, but that was well after my first shadowban I believe.
Anyway, it feels like tons of technical and lore intelligence drained from these subs, so I feel like I’m not the only one who got shut out.
Yeah, FWIW I recognise some of these users, and they’ve been fine. And Reddit hasn’t looked better when I’ve incidentally browsed through.
I was permanently banned for life. I am not sure what I did except maybe wish for a perfectly natural health event occur for a certain evil public person. I did not consider that promoting violence or some kind of evil plan to incite violence. Basically, coronary artery disease is progressive and no one can do anything to stop it.
When they provided the link to show me the post, it didn’t lead to anything. I assume it was a bot or someone reported me. It made me realize that the internet has changed quite a bit when it came to forums. It was also probably a good thing although I did have a lot of Karma. Also, every subreddit had so many touchy rules, it was hard to keep track. I found Lemmy via C. Doctorow recommending it.
I purposely got banned so I couldn’t as easily sign back up.
The API stupidity a while back. Reddit is unusable without 3rd party clients, and inc3 Joey didn’t work anymore I said goodbye to the few communities who’s members might recognize my username, and proceeded to delete my account.
Also a former Joey user, though I switched to Lemmy before Joey stopped working and just used both.
Ive only ever used reddit on pc
But only old.reddit.com
Spez
Greedy little pigboy…
I was permabanned from Reddit for correctly identifying Elon Musk’s political affiliations. Fuck spez and his bullshit.
I got perma banned for “inciting violence” because I said the Trump admin is/will go after lgbt people.
That’s what they say. Some bootlicking fashy mod just didn’t like you insulting their bronze golem or their emerald mine Führer.
Ya, conservatives in 2008 to 2016 were usually mocked relentlessly and buried, life went on. But now reddit has definitely been infiltrated by the right wing and you get banned for making them cry.
I had one account banned because I posted in a right wing sub of all places discussing Lord of the rings. The alt right has a weird obsession with LOTR if you didn’t know. . I posted a video clip of clerks 2 where Randall is trashing the LOTR movies and says the true ending should be frodo bricking in Sam’s mouth. Got banned for gay bashing in a right wing sub where they do it daily. The irony is astounding
it was mostly quiet before 2016, when trump won, russia realize reddit was a prime target so it has bombarded with so much propaganda, that bans started happening left and right for the slightest issue. also the gop/russia was responsible for shutting down alot of “controversial subs”
That type of stuff didn’t happen to me, but I saw it happening to others. That’s mostly why I left. Also I used the app Boost for Reddit, which became Boost for Lemmy so that helped me find an alternative and Reddit choosing corporate fascism helped me not look back.
spez loves him thats why
A federated web is a better one than a monopolized web, so I switched on principle.
Bots. Bots every where. Bots moderating. Bots posting. Bots responding.
Killing 3rd-party apps drastically reduced my usage, but didn’t convince me to leave.
However, when just upvoting Luigi posts was declared a bannable offense, that was when I decided it was time to pack up.
Two things:
I’m pretty sure more than half of the topics now are AI
Every topic on Reddit, no matter how serious, turned into a contest to see who could come up with the best one-liner in the comments.
come up withregurgitate the best one-linerThe amount of AI slop on Reddit these days is insane. A decade ago I could spend hours a day browsing interesting discussions, now I spend 5-10 minutes and I’m done.
Right? There used to be some great stories and comments now it all seems so white washed. Any vulgarity or dark humor more than likely gets you banned so does calling out Nazis.
Some of the best stories found on reddit by all time wouldn’t be allowed to be posted today. They remain to drive traffic. But post it today and they more than likely get removed and the user banned
Thats a really good point id never thought of before! I think that’s part of what keeps me coming back here is that the comments feel a lot realer some how
Haha meet too, friend.
the first is actually a great point, not sure about the second but maybe also true
API change killed Apollo, used Narwhal on and off for a year but ultimately did not want to pay a subscription for a social media platform, downloaded Voyager and here we are.
I backed up my Reddit subscriptions and multi-reddits and have them as shortcuts on my Redlib instance.
Been working on /c/[email protected] hoping to build up a community similar to /r/CanadaGuns!
Killing the API, ads, astroturfing, AI posts, reposts, generally selling out.
Api nonsense. The official reddit app is hot garbage. Mobile is barely usable, and only old reddit, which they are not supporting anymore.
general divestment from US everything
I’m European. Moving away from everything from the US Prefer to not disclose my ideas with US people
You say that like Europe isn’t almost identical.
They shut down third party apps. Now I like it better here :3
They shut down third party apps. Here’s good enough I guess.
There are some subs I absolutely miss though. I really miss the r/cfb sub. Enjoyed talking smack with fellow college football fans. During live game threads.
