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When Reddit killed Apollo.

I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.

Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.

The death of third party Reddit apps.

I used Reddit for a long time, since the extremely early days of the site, back when most of the content was posted by Reddit staff and there was really just one page.

While I wasn't enthralled with the move from old.reddit.com to the new reddit.com, the site was at least still accessible via the old interface, absent a minor quirk here and there in how Markdown was interpreted, and different ways of customizing subreddit appearance. That wasn't enough to cause me to leave.

What did it for me was that I expected that when they moved from their growth phase to monetization phase that they'd make some changes that I wouldn't like, but I didn't expect them to end access for third-party clients, which was not okay with me.

Paywalling the API was the final straw for me. I saw they reduced the price to something "reasonable" for the top few 3rd party apps, but too little, too late. Leading up to that, I understood the ads, I was satisfied with using old.reddit, and I thought we were making progress with fighting management. Killing all the small time apps and turning Apollo et al into an income stream (or, really, stifling competition to their ad-infested 1st patty app) showed there was no way back to the reddit I knew

I left when it became clear they had no interest in dealing with nazi sympathisers, and when it became clear that transphobia was acceptable, as long as it was "civil". This was long before the Reddit API exodus

I found lemmy when looking for fediverse/federated Reddit like platforms, and spun up an instance to test it out. It was basically only me on the instance until the Reddit exodus happened, and then suddenly the instance and lemmy add a whole saw a huge growth in traffic.

And then we spun up a piefed instance when it became clear the lemmy devs also hold some shitty beliefs, so that users who wanted an alternative could have one.

I'm not going anywhere. Federated/decentralised social media is the future as far as I'm concerned. At the very least, it's the only future I'll consider.

Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit's relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.

Banned for saying that I would murder Andrew Tate given the opportunity.

When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.

Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit

I got banned from Reddit for making jokes about eating rich people. They warned me and temp banned me twice before the permaban. It was over like 6 months too, which means I don’t learn lessons and have a tendency to make those jokes often.

No regrets.

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.

No ads and killing off third party Reddit apps.

I wasn't going to use Reddit at all, and neither would my producer. Since we won't be using mainstream social slop (except YouTube), we use the Fediverse or Nostr instead.

I got banned by reddit by saying it wouldn't be a shame if the idiots who ride motorbikes on pavements in towns and nearly hit people ended up being hit by a bus

EMPRESS brought me into lemmy, she quit later because she got banned off .ml, i stuck around, and eventually started my own instance.

Access to the content we create not being controlled by any corporation or any person. That's about it for me, even though there were other things I did not like about reddit.

Because I love everything open source.

Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests

Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.

i think it was privacytools.io that got me here first, then reddit fucked up in 2023 and i actually got to use it more.

I read about the Fediverse years ago and opened a couple accounts across a couple platforms. As I expected at the time, too low volume of people to really keep me engaged.

I stayed on reddit until same as everyone else here; they killed 3rd party apps and mod tools. I was a mod on a small, friendly little niche hobby sub. It started getting overrun by bots and MAGA types who wanted to make every post about guns and women staying home to serve their husbands. Good members started leaving the sub and I turned from having fun to loathing it very quickly. I created some fresh Fediverse accounts and made the move for real.

Well I got banned off Reddit for no reason, but I think it was using a VPN. I was also in the process of trying to degoogle and increase privacy, so I figured Lemmy was the best option to solve getting banned off reddit and increasing privacy

i was temp banned initially, thought i would use another account that was untouched avoiding the sub, then i was getting multiple emails, found out they banned all the accounts i even forgot about too. then the wierd shadowban came for final account, appealed for a few months with no luck, while already made an account on lemmy.

this happened to loads of other users too, im also in another forums where they tracked the shadowbans more clearly. had to navigate throught he tankie instances for a few months without knowing that i was participating in, then found out i could block them, plus having do deal .world politics users too.

Banned from Reddit for taking the piss out of the far right.

Deleted from ml for taking the piss out of the far left.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Terrible Reddit experience; I still wanted to answer questions because of boredom just not on Reddit. Long story short, I experienced a romance scam/sextortion where a Reddit user manipulated me into sexting him by being my "friend" and he knew I was at a vulnerable place in my life because I told him that I was healing from a breakup since I genuinely thought he wanted to help and get to know me---he figured that I was lonely and hurt. Thankfully, I was quick enough to stop the convo before he threatened me to send him money or other things. Lesson learned.

liberal left

Accessibility options of different apps then reddit app.

When RIF shit down, talklittle sent people over to lemmy.world as a replacement for reddit (even though he himself went to tildes). The signup page was laggy so I signed up for a different instance instead.

I came looking for the conversations with all the beautiful people here.

Okay fine, it was separation from difect corporate control.

But I stay to read the opinions of all you beautiful people