Ask Lemmy

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

Same here

I recently deleted all my us-based accounts (except SoundCloud and bandcamp) to migrate to European services. Soo reddit is gone and it feels like it's way better here

Fuck You SPEZ

Banned for talking about "violence" against Nazis and Kluxers.

I moved when they broke Apollo. I hate the website and the official app. I use Voyager on iOS for lemmy because it’s so similar to Apollo.

Because it was there.

I use both, I just love more social media where people are actually fun to talk to

I left immediately after the api pricing thing happened. Did not delete my account but poisoned it by replacing my posts with glibber. They are still up, I check from time to time. Just did my share to fuck AI.

I quit reddit once. I don't really participate in social media. It all pisses me off.

Came back probably like a year later. Reddit is my sole social media addiction- I cut out tiktok (I do get lost in youtube shorts by accident sometimes now), but then, some more shit pissing me off. Everything is seeming to get more hateful, more alt-right(which is why I quit Tiktok)- and at the same time, I think the particular thing that made me truly quit- the straw which broke the camel's back- was when they announced the idea of some content being locked behind paywalls. I can't remember for sure, but I think I heard about that and decided "fuck it. Time to find an alternative."

When I found out some of the largest lemmy instances were blocked on libranet.de due to the large worker queue.

Left Reddit years ago, it was getting too fucking Libertarian, and the AI feature was foisted on everyone too

Had a while without any Reddit-like, then literally only a few months back heard of Lemmy and it sounded like "what if Reddit was more leftist, and didn't have a corporate overlord?", so I joined

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.

I was banned for saying rich people and their families should die. So I looked for Reddit alternatives.

Every few months I started new accounts to cycle through and let old ones die. In /r/privacy of all things, I got shadow banned, and the mods had no idea why. Turns out it was the new Contributor Quality Score - you can't just have karma. You need hot, fresh karma. It's an active social credit system to push their value ahead of the IPO and now stock price. You have to grind reddit to stay afloat now.

I grind for no one. Fuck reddit now and forever.