My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.

  • Abbie@lemmy.today
    6·
    46 minutes ago

    Two things:

    I’m pretty sure more than half of the topics now are AI

    Every topic on Reddit, no matter how serious, turned into a contest to see who could come up with the best one-liner in the comments.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works
    English
    1·
    2 minutes ago

    API change killed Apollo, used Narwhal on and off for a year but ultimately did not want to pay a subscription for a social media platform, downloaded Voyager and here we are.

    I backed up my Reddit subscriptions and multi-reddits and have them as shortcuts on my Redlib instance.

    Been working on /c/[email protected] hoping to build up a community similar to /r/CanadaGuns!

  • lietuva@lemmy.world
    2·
    25 minutes ago

    i like commies and Linux nerds. But jokes aside, the atmosphere here is much better — it feels like old internet, discussions more engaging and there’s greater respect for different opinions. I feel this place is more welcoming and engaging

  • Strider@lemmy.world
    2·
    42 minutes ago

    Reddit is currently actively supporting fascism. Before that, spez was just a customer unfriendly asshole.

    I left a long time ago when he killed all 3rd party support on purpose. The writing was on the wall but now you’re just insanely late.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 hour ago

    Reddit went past the level of shit that I was willing to tolerate. What I find amazing is how little I miss it.

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
    1·
    31 minutes ago

    Being suspended for three days for saying Luigi. I’d been a daily redditor for 14 years. Haven used it in a year. I have no want to go back either.

  • Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    I would have needed to create a user account for Reddit in order to start using it. And there was never a need to.

    Then there was an online community on Fecesbook that wanted to migrate to somewhere, and they chose the Forumverse. So, I joined a Lemmy instance. Then it turned out that there’s this thing called PieFed that I like a little bit more yet, so now I’m on PieFed and no longer use Lemmy.

    I have heard Reddit can be a reasonably good alternative to PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin, but I figure this suits my needs better, so there’s no need to try any alternatives.

    So… I kind of switched by only ever reading Reddit as unregistered and it being too impractical.

  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    BaconReader stopped working. It was around the time I switched to a Linux phone and there wasn’t a good Reddit option for that, anyways.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      It’s worse, they use AI to detect your behavior patterns, so many datapoints to determine who you are, using a VPN is not only not going to help but triggers their detection systems, they do NOT like anonymity anymore, in direct opposition to how it started out.

      In the first handful of years you put in a new username a password and you were in, people had dozens of alts, now they def connects all of them and know which ones are you. Get banned on one you get banned on all, and they will be on the lookout for you and doing heavy analysis to make sure you can’t get back in.

      • NachBarcelona@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        46 minutes ago

        I mean, yeah the app was a way better experience than even desktop, but holy shit, the content!

        It’s overflowing with fascist, racist, misogynist and violent stuff much more than even a year or two ago.

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        5 hours ago

        Yeah this was it for me. Best app ever…no bullshit ads or anything…and I was really upset that Reddit forcefully killed it for money. However, I did find that the app Red Reader is allowed to exist because of its accessibility features for the visually impaired. It’s a good browsing experience…simple and no ads or BS.

        I still do browse Reddit because a lot of the communities I visit on there either don’t exist on Lemmy or are too underpopulated for much of any content. Please don’t tell me to just “post more content” myself. The point is I often don’t have much content for the communities I visit. Like it or not, a community with 10 active members just isn’t enough to have much to participate with, even if I am the one posting most of the content. For example, there is a tattoo community I stumbled across on Lemmy. But I only have so many tattoos. So obviously I cannot fill the page with endless more content.

        • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          5 hours ago

          I basically only use it for work stuff like /r/sysadmin or some of the vendor specific boards.

    • Reyali@lemmy.world
      22·
      5 hours ago

      Shutting down third-party apps through unreasonable API pricing with extremely little notice, then actively lying about their conversations with Apollo’s developer about it even though he had recordings of the calls.

      I think there was even more BS at that time that made it against my personal values to stay, but those were the nails in the coffin for me.

      It was hard. I spent over ten years on reddit, and I’d been active in some meetup groups over the years, so a lot of my real-life friends came from there. It felt like ending a part of my identity.

      But hearing what kinds of nonsense they’ve continued to pull, I know I made the right decision and I’m glad I moved.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        They forcibly replaced moderation teams on tons of major subreddits that went dark in protest too. No hesitation, tossed out the old teams entirely and replaced them with randoms, even on the former default subs. It was fucking chaos.

        There was very obvious botting happening to push opinions in favor of the api-pocalypse in certain big subs, to the point where you could reply to the bots with some of the most basic ass prompt redirection/escape and get them to spit out cooking recipes.

        People were getting banned for even mentioning lemmy. Reddit was reverting people editing their comments to try and scrub their history on the site, and banning the accounts, which is arguably a violation of GDPR’s right to be forgotten.

        It was an absolute shit show.

        I had already made a lemmy account by that point. If it had just been the api lockdown, I probably would have went back in at least a limited capacity using one of the patched third party clients (use your own api key) or the patched official official one (removes the ads).

        But all of that shit together broadcast loud and clear that Reddit’s owners weren’t just passively stupid about what actually made the site worthwhile, they were actively antagonistic towards it.

        It was no secret that Reddit had no fucking clue why Reddit “worked” and couldn’t be trusted to make good decisions. But all this shit demonstrated that the only thing they were interested in doing was intentionally killing it in a delusional attempt to maximize short term gains.

        And every time I had even a smidgen of desire to go back, they pulled more bullshit.

        Auto-generated language specific copies of popular subreddits, utilizing poor quality machine translation and literally stealing the top posts from the original subs with no attribution. Reddit disavowed that it was done by Reddit admins themselves, but there’s no way it could have happened at the speed and scale it did otherwise.

        Mods still don’t have anything remotely equivalent to the old tools from before the api bullshit.

        People getting permabanned over the most basic word filters imaginable (discussing the game Luigi’s Mansion after the CEO-cide), then getting IP banned when they created a new account to try and get in touch with support.

        I still browse some of the subs related to my work passively (sysadmin, powershell, azure, etc) but the drop in quality and amount of bots is unignorable. Half the sysadmin sub posts are the most thinly veiled product ad setups.

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah, I used Infinity for reddit but then they had to start charging for use because of the API pricing so I moved to Eternity which is a fork of Infinity for lemmy. Problem is, Eternity doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore so when it stops working with some lemmy update I guess I’ll just have to go back to entertaining myself with simon tatham’s portable puzzle collection or something