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When Reddit said they were gonna disable 3rd party apps, I left when we all said we were gonna leave. They never changed course, so I never changed course 🤷.

Reddit killed third party apps and I didn't wanna use their shitty official app, so I searched for alternatives and switched to Lemmy. I happen to like open-source software, and the idea of the Fediverse is interesting as well =w=

Reddit killed "rif is reddit is fun for reddit" or whatever it was called

I wanted a place where I would be bombarded with constant mentions of Star Trek and Linux 

When reddit said they are disabling 3rd party apps was when I heard about it but was small and still on reddit, in the meantime I found mastodon and used reddit and I found about "buy european" so I started going on Lemmy. Now I am permabanned from reddit for posting on r/lies

As soon as the writing was on the wall about Reddits API proposals I made a Lemmy instance.

They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy

The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn't give me an aneurism

Reddit blocked 3rd party apps and I'm a principled man.

When reddit announced API changes. Glad I left because it is a hellhole now

The killing off of third party apps was the thing for me. Weirdly enough, it was only after I stopped using Reddit that I began to see all the other shitty things they were beginning to do.

I don't miss it at all. It was fucking shite.

Like many others here, I moved during the API-calypse. I tried giving the official app a try but it won't let me log in event though on the website everything worked. When they even can't get the login right, what else will wait for me when I finally manage to log in? During the period, when RiF still worked I saw feddit, switched there and am still happy here years later.

I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.

I banned reddit

I love decentralization and I hate Reddit. The Venn diagram overlaps in Lemmy.

Also fuck u/spez

API

I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit's that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.

I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.

When I couldn't use reddit is fun anymore, reddit wasn't fun.

Reddit killed the RiF app so here I am

Freedom.

reddit is authoritarian, and my ideology is anti-authoritarian and pro-decentralization and its just natural for me

Didn't really care for the 3rd party apps, I use brower anyways... but then again, Fediverse allows Tor and mobile browser UI is kinda great tbh, no annoying "dOwNlOaD oUr aPp" bullshit, fucking modern websites are so annoying, just let me use the browser, I don't want an app for everything lol

because federated social network is the way to go.

The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.

They killed baconreader.

Fuck spez

Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole (which is apparently a euphemism for telling someone to kill themselves???) for defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was unacceptable.

They thought mutilating baby penises was fine but not baby vaginas. So I called out the hypocrisy and told them to "crawl back into [their] hole".

Been here ever since.

Same as everyone else, I came over with the API refugees. I still lurk on Reddit using Brave (that and YT are the only things I use Brave for) because some communities there are still good fountains of information. I don’t post or vote on anything there, though.

Still have Apollo on my phone though.

Leaving reddit (usa boycot was half the decission)

I joined Reddit because it was an open and moderated collection of communities .. then after the blackout due to the API changes, moderators were sent packing and any sense of community that had been created was destroyed.

I joined both Mastodon and Lemmy and I'm glad I did.

The communities in both are nascent, but slowly growing, and that seems like a place I'd like to be.

After Twitter became Xitter, I also joined Bluesky but that feels much more like people ranting and venting, less about making communities.

Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I'v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.

reddit went to shit, bots everywhere

After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.

I only miss the guitar and cat subs.

Even though I learned about Lemmy, Kbin / Mbin and co by the Reddit API drama, what got me here was that this is a decentralized open platform build with FOSS software and also kinda "by nerds for nerds".

Social media NOT owned by money.

A bit before the API thing actually went into effect. I saw it mentioned somewhere on Reddit, got curious, and signed up. I mainly browsed Reddit through my web browser, so the lack of 3rd party clients wouldn't have really effected me, but seeing how Reddit was acting towards its users, there was no going back for me.

Because they kept shadowbanning me only because I use a VPN and they never ever gave any replies to my appeals. Even after having appealed at least 50 times.

Reddit closed their API, and that was my last straw

I liked the funny stuff on ich_iel that I saw on reddit. But I don't want to register on disgusting proprietary services. Then I saw a comment mentioning feddit . de. Also, I didn't even have to provide an email address, so it was easy pseudonymity.

I was already sick of what reddit was turning into, then it went full Spez and ruined the place completely. Lemmy was the only thing close that I could find. So here I am.

I just wanted to talk to people and less bots. I'm sort of becoming discouraged though. A lot of stuff here that interests me involves reading articles and it feels like most people just go off the headlines. Then there are certain subs that just feel so angry, like the gamer ones.

I'm always toying with the idea of joining some forums but I never know which are still alive. If anyone knows solid game, book, or film ones please lmk.

I left when they banned 3rd party apps, like many others. I never actually used 3rd party apps btw, however I could sense Reddit was about to go downhill, and I had been meaning to leave for a while - the straw that broke the camel's back. And I guess my suspicions were bang on correct.

To seek the holy grail. ...wait. That's not right.

Oh right! To seek a better place online that was like Reddit, but better. (There's less toxicity, more of a feeling of community connection here, and a lot less BS to deal with on Lemmy than what I recall from Reddit back in the early 2010s. And supposedly, that was around the time that "went to shit on Reddit.")

I don't like ads.

I jumped during the API fiasco, but in my case the story is a bit different I think.

One subreddit I used to spend a lot of time on was r/dndmemes. I was a relatively new DM at the time and loved hearing everyone’s stories and takes on things there. I even made a number of memes on the shenanigans that happened in my own campaign. Some of them took off way more than I could have ever imagined.

When the API fiasco started, that subreddit was one of the ones that participated in the blackout. When Reddit started sending threats to the mods to open it up, they asked what the community wanted. That’s when it went into what they called ‘goblin mode’. Basically everything had to be an NSFW meme since Reddit couldn’t advertise as much on those subreddits.

Reddit ended up removing just about all the mods and left the subreddit in a broken state. Practically nobody could post there. When they spun up attempt.network, I made the jump and haven’t looked back since