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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.
Games? Books? Films??? What about politics? What's your take on US politics? And how about Linux, what distro are you running? And AI slop, it's pretty bad, huh? Repeat, repeat, repeat...
API reasons
I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn't notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.
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.
Signed up when the Apollo app stopped working due to Reddit’s API restrictions.
Humanity is shit in general, but there's a greater concentration of the few like minded people here so that's attractive.
When they killed my boi Apollo
l was browsing around on r/kde sometimes, and there was a banner-thing Saying that KDE Supported open platforms like Lemmy. I took a look at Lemmy's Wikipedia, and browsed around a few days later. I liked the stuff on c/programmerhumour, So I joined.
Also my Reddit account got banned (i think, might be deactivated, idk) due to inactivity (I wasn't on for 2-3 years), and I didn't care to do anything about it.
Also, as a bit of context for the above, it did take a while from hearing about Lemmy and browsing and joining.
API refugee. I went to Lemmy first, then jumped over to PieFed because of the awesome features and devs. I still use my Lemmy account for a particular community.
I was banned from Reddit but the tides had already been shifting and dialog wasn't as pleasant or productive so I took it as a sign and bounced over here. 👍
To share my erotic fiction because the reddit mods banned it !!
They are such fascists over there. Seriously.
"Too hot for reddit" is a pretty good tagline though!
The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.
I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.
If you got banned not from a sub of Reddit but all of Reddit then that’s on you.
If you got banned once, then it's probably Reddit being a moron.
If you got banned twice, then it's still probably Reddit being a moron.
But if you got banned thrice, then the problem is you.
Same idea as the "If everyone in the room is an asshole, then the asshole is probably you."
I disagree. They ban for trumped-up reasons and being banned from 2 seperate subs makes you susceptible to just having your account banned from all of reddit temporarily.
There is NO human to appeal to in the ban process and sometimes no explanation of why you got banned.
Reddit use outrageous tracking techniques to try and detect stuff like multiple account usage and manually upvoting the same stuff with 2 accounts.
They seem to have made it illegal to have more than one account, but haven't announced this anywhere. If they don't want people to accidentally break their rules they need to make account formation harder, perhaps tie it to a phone number or wait for approval.
They're also dishing out bans for being pro-Palestine now, which might be why some fediverse instances like PieFed have/had a Palestine flag in their logo.
It was open source, federated and written in Rust!
The Reddit API enshittification event was just what kept me here.
Got permabanned on every account as well as IP and device banned, and this was literally only from commenting in the same community I was banned from on a different account which never touched the device I commented on, nor the email connected to the account I commented on.
I was banned countless times from reddit to where now registering to them through mobile, VPN even and normally for some reason (burner e-mails, creative with screen names), will give me a shadow-ban. The only way out now is to ask for a IP change or just move elsewhere, where I'll get a new ISP and new IP.
Reddit has been bred to have incredibly argumentative users, who shamelessly have wandered over to lemmy too as I've experienced. I have been subjected to numerous instances of people baiting, gas-lighting and have had orchestrated complaints against me just to have me banned so they can get their rocks off over it. It got really bad to where I couldn't even complain and vent about my job to the right subreddits where those posts would be warranted, without getting bombarded by asshole-by-design antagonistic users.
And to find that Reddit bathes itself in advertisements, bathes itself in censorship, bathes itself in its own form of political correctness (doesn't matter what view you have, it is entirely arbitrary) and bathes itself in getting involved with the stock market. That any redeemable quality Reddit had, has been pissed away and Spez is over there dancing merrily over it as he is a proclaimed billionaire. Getting enriched off the backs of those who've spent years of manhours having to bother maintaining "quality" of Reddit discussion.
And that wasn't enough so now Reddit came after the APIs as we all know and we all know how that wound up. Reddit Enhancement Suite, my favorite go-to plugin when I used to have bothered with Reddit, is no longer actively developed because of the API shit. So Spez can just fuck himself dry while gobbling his daddy Musk's cock.
I like trying new platforms, i saw that they is less pro genonice and settler colonialisms and a yesr later was banned from reddit
Because imgur was running ads for AfD
I thought the Imgur thing on reddit was optional? like, you could upload directly. Do they use it as a backend or something? Am I missing something?
Imgur is its own platform, has its own app and its own community. Reddit, I believe, may use it for image hosting as well?
The site was started by people who wanted to make a convenient image host for Reddit back when Reddit did not directly host any media, but it's a separate venture and Reddit later added their own image hosting capabilities.
Ahhh. That clears some things up. Thank you! :)
Of course!
Imgur was my passive, "only sort of social" social network of choice to find content. Then they were running ads for AfD and well... That was that for me. 😂
I didn’t know better. 😐
Even if I didn't join lemmy, I would've stopped using reddit. I still have an account so I can login and view posts when they would otherwise block me from viewing because of a VPN.
But why reddit is utter insidious and hostile garbage is another subject.
Lemmy and Mastodon are just in every way more how it's supposed to be. I can use a vpn. I can use whatever non-gmail email. I don't have to worry about one profit-oriented central authority becoming a target to shape discourse in favor of special interest groups, as I could just spin up my own instance, or go elsewhere. The communities are spread across different instances with different operators, owners and motivations. So it's much more organic.
This is by the way also a reason why it's quite important people don't all sign up to the same big instances.
This is a problem on mastodon, where even now joinmastodon.com, by default points to mastodon.social.
Mastodon.social hosts genocide-denying Zionists and is generally more pro-genocide than any of the decent larger instances. Regardless of their own motivations, being hosted in Germany and as THE entry to mastodon, they are a target for shaping public opinion.
Last wish before Christmas, I also wish people would alt-text more on lemmy. Maybe in the future there can be a bot that messages you when the image was posted without alt-text, like on Mastodon. It seemed to have helped people a lot who were new to this.
Last wish before Christmas, I also wish people would alt-text more on lemmy.
Wait let me test to see if alt text works the way I think it does:
EDIT: I've always wondered what those chunky brackets were for when attaching images! Now I know
I don't think it really works directly presently, at least not for all instances. I'm just using the spoiler tag, or body for alt-text on lemmy at the moment. That probably needs to change before bots can be useful (if I'm not wrong about this).
EDIT: Meh, never mind me, I don't know enough about direct alt-text on lemmy.
The text isn’t supposed to show up. It’s alternative text for viewers that can’t see the image (or otherwise need it described).
I joined Reddit in 2005 and liked the format. I had been self-hosting Mastodon for a while before I joined Lemmy because it had long been evident that a centralized corporate internet is not exactly great for its users or the world at large. I had also experimented with Hubzilla and Akkoma.
I looked at Lemmy a couple times before the Reddit API fiasco and it was just a couple servers that were dominated by people who thought Stalin did nothing wrong and killing Uyghurs is just fine and/or not happening. I was not motivated to participate at that time. When lemmy.world launched, I joined it because I had the impression mastodon.world was well-run.
Same here
I should have moved when they killed 3rd party apps but i have finally decided to move now because reddit just feels garbage now. Posts and comments just feel more like facebook level content then it used to and people just seem to argue a lot just to argue.
Plus the ads have gotten really stealthy in their official app. I didnt even notice how bad its gotten until the a few days ago i saw a comment thread were mods had nuked every comment and all was left visible in the sea of [deleted] was 20 comment looking ads
there's more. I'm pretty proud tbh. both Reddit and imgur I was banned because I told Nazis to kill themselves. and any time I get permabanned from a lemmy domain is usually because I pissed off some snowflake and they made some shit up to ban me.
I got sick of the automated moderation system that the petty sub mods could exploit.
Shadowbans, autoban, psycho-mods. Lemmy is a good alternative.
Privacy reasons. More specifically, I just don't like using platforms when there are alternatives that don't compromise my data. In the end, I don't lose as many features or communities going this route. That said, however, I do miss shitting on people who joined the "christian V atheist" Facebook it's one of my guilty pleasures. These people can't have a logical debates, and often times just completely unrelated to Christianity or atheism. so I end up just personally insulting them.
