Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
Banned for no reason I could figure out. Never got any response from mods when appealing. Pissed me off that an account that I had for 12+ years with no warnings of any kind was shadow banned.
you were probably banned by association. could have made a post 10 years ago in a community that was banned and thus you were banned.
The only reddit clone owned by individual people.
reddit killed 3rd party apps and i don’t wanna use their shitty app or websites on my phone so i just ditched it for lemmy
I might have worded it differently, but this is my answer as well.
I came when they took away 3rd party apps. Though to be truthful ive been leaning towards making a return because the communities here are just so small and mostly dead. Even popular topics have almost no presence here.
Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.
When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.
Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit
The data they had even proved it was useless to us. Something like 50% of the content came from the 10% on third party apps. They just couldn’t deal with only 90% of their users being served ads constantly though and had to kill off the third party apps.
From what I hear content got noticeably worse. Good
Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests
I left Reddit because I didn’t want AI scraping my lackluster comments.
I gravitated to lemmy vs Mastodon or Blsky because the community seemed more “based” instead of biased.
And it’s great. When I’m wrong, the
lemmingsfolks here rip me a new one.I suspect as with many here it was Reddit’s API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.
I think algorithms can get anyone who isn’t vigilant. Moving to the fediverse gives me more control over what goes into my head.
been on the fediverse a few years, but didn’t really move over until my third reddit ban and how increasingly awful reddit is. i might already be unbanned againt but i just don’t see a point in posting on reddit anymore where jokes about your cat killing rabbits is considered promoting violence and talking about your life experiences are considered sexist/racist.
i still miss my ‘controversial’ subreddits i used to be a part of. like bicyclingcirclejerk. i don’t miss the insane people on my city subreddit who had insane political takes and massive victim complexes. but there are plenty of people on lemmy who make posts like that. but at least here they are mostly in their own communities i can block, rather than spouting there crazy nonsense in totally unrelated spaces.
i started getting fed up with reddit around 2020, but all the alts back then were awful. at least now they have a decent user base and some more moderate/open minded instances. 5 years ago it was all conspiracy crazy people and nazis. i used kbin until it died and then moved to .world
Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.
When Reddit killed Apollo.
I took a meandering path to get here, but that’s the same reason for me.
Reddit app wouldn’t let me block those dumb He Gets Us ads. Even after blocking the account, I still saw them. I swapped to Apollo to avoid it, then Reddit dropped Apollo, so I dropped Reddit.
Me too. API death of reddit.
They thought disabling RIF would force me to use the Reddit Mobile App, but it just got me to break up with reddit finally after 10+ years.
Who nose, maybe this was all part of their plan to get rid of Reddit’s original users and make room for a younger culture who doesn’t care about privacy or ads or whatever.
You were replaced by 20 llm agent -> more ads revenue
It was Boost for Reddit for me. Note: I hate the ads in Boost for Lemmy, but I still havent jumped ship or started to pay for ad-free. When I go on contract at work (I hope) it’ll be more possible.
e: wait, it’s $5, one time? Ok, I’m killing the ads now.
I want to support the platforms that look at people for their interactions, not their marketability. APIs were going to be dead at Reddit and I wasn’t willing to stand over the body with a knife in hand.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
Pleasantly surprised to see so many Boost users in this thread. Great app
I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.
I am brand spankin’ new and didn’t realize mods migrated too! That’s great! Only thing I wish there was, was the database wealth of information that reddit has but that takes time and humans make that possible.
Oh yeah, it’s impossible to mod effectively via reddit’s official mobile app. And admin was becoming increasingly inconsistent in its demands and communication.
Reddit is shit now. PCMR is just memes and weird Linux vs Windows rivalry, Piracy sub is just memes and moral grandstanding, most gaming subs are just bots posting “news” articles, AIO/AITAH are just karma farming for people selling accounts or fanfic quality fantasies, many Linux subs are either insufferably elitist, have a weird fetish for distro-hopping or are just circlejerks (looking at you r/linuxmint).
The only thing it’s still good for is niche interests which I doubt will remain the case for long.
That’s a bummer because the Linux communities here are super welcoming and helpful, and it seems like people expect the opposite. Probably because of reddit.
Yeah, totally different vibe here on Lemmy I’m happy to say. There are helpful people on Reddit too of course just few and far between depending on the sub.
