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Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.

I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there's just too much useful info to ignore it. But I'm not going there directly

Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.

It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.

I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.

I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since

I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

I escaped when they killed their API.

I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

I'll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit's BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.

My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I'm pretty active.

I also left after the api access changes. I am so glad I switched, this a much more ethical model of operation.

I came here as a result of them fucking over 3rd party app developers. Never once have been banned by Reddit.

Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star

Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.

Moved from reddit because reddit is now infested with old twitter people who are just so annoying. Also I like the idea of a non centralized social media.

left because of api changes and their increasing censorship of content they don't like (I miss r/all having r/eyeblech).

Left because of Apollo shutting down. Thanks, Voyager devs, for recreating that experience on a different platform. :-]

Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.

12. It was 12 people.

As I've said before, Reddit's become the new Quora / Yahoo Answers.

Im mainly here cause I find the idea of the fediverse an intriguing concept to be honest :3

Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.

Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.

I became aware of Lemmy during reddit’s API bullshit. I left, and never posted there again. Let their greed, bots, and enshittification rot.

Came to Lemmy when reddit fucked up the api change. Month ago my Lemmy instance closed up so I moved to piefed instead as I find it more acceptable (take it as you want).

Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.

I left Reddit after the Apollo app was no longer usable due to the whole API thing. Their app is garbage and until recently their mobile website wouldn’t work (it would force you to visit with the app to view some subreddits).

Now, I use Voyager with Lemmy. I still check in on Reddit from time to time or when searching for info, but I use Lemmy mostly now.

Reddit is a shit platform, became worse with the IPO and LLMs, but mainly, to me, the moderation is completely haphazard and the shitty posters were let loose. The inconsistency in moderation made me give up on being constructive.

Here, if you find an instance and communities with good ground rules you agree with, it works. You even have a modlog for transparency.

Technically me, even though they eventually reversed it after appealing the ban 4 separate times (banned for "violence" for commenting "same" on a picture of a woman in a shirt that says "Punch a Nazi.") That whole thread showed that the admin staff of the site have nazis and/or Nazis sympathizers among them and I don't vibe with that shit. Once the API thing went through and RIF stopped working, I came here.

I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.

Oh, at least two, I’d guess. But seriously, I left when the api was shut down and I could no longer use Apollo to browse. There were other signs, but that was my tipping point.

Saw the direction Reddit was going in. Decided to join Lemmy to see what was going on. 2 months later I was axed from Reddit. Now here, I live.

When they killed third party apps while disregarding the need for accessibility completely - their own app doesn't even let blind people manage their own subreddit because of that.

So yeah, because I left reddit.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I'd guess it's dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.

Got banned for opposing genocide and Western imperialism in a main subreddit. 🤷

I got banned I guess for using a VPN? I honestly have no idea why. At that point, I decided I just don’t want invest in that platform anymore.