or any other reason… im curious.
Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
Same here! My app stopped working (rip rif… You will be missed…!), I thought I give the official reddit app a try, it wouldn’t let me log in no matter what I tried and then I heard of lemmy via feddit. Only went back once to delete all my data and to close my account.
In hindsight, I’m really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it’s just not the same.
Me too
This is/was the way. I mean, not that people are not welcome here now but still supporting reddit that long is like supporting Elon after he went mad or Trump after the first time around…
I never paid for any of their products but now that I’m banned I see how much the profit off of everyone’s knowledge. It’s really such a scam. Convince everyone to contribute tons of useful information that when the rest of the Internet does searches it leads directly to Reddit where they get ad revenue for every click. Pretty unscrupulous if you ask me.
There are DOZENS of us!
Same. Reddit without Relay isn’t worth it
…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.
That’s a LOT of dozens!
Saaame.
I used the reddit app many many moons ago, but then discovered Boost. Once it quit working flawlessly, Lemmy became home. And Boost for Lemmy is wonderful :)
Yep. Also left digg during their ad push fiasco to go to reddit.
Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.
It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.
I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.
This is exactly what happened to be. I tried Mastodon for a bit but it was kinda boring? So now I’m here.
Same here. Lemmy at this stage feels a lot like Reddit did when I joined back in the early 2000s.
I’m glad I made the switch, because things are just generally nicer in a smaller community.
This is my exact answer. Thank you for writing it all for me.
I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there’s just too much useful info to ignore it. But I’m not going there directlyDitto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast
Is it just me, or does r/all seem like it’s getting more conservative?
A lot of it is literal chat bots and not even real people
How long do you think it’ll be before it’s a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.
I’m center-right and I was witch hunted off of reddit. I’m sure the fact that I approved of Luigi didn’t help.
oh they hate when you say that there lmao
TBF, I am critical of Luigi and find myself having to tread on thin ice with my opinons
What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.
Wasn’t banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.
Like… I genuinely can’t use words like “incel”, “cuck”, “snowflake”, “Trump”, “Andrew Tate”, etc without having my comment removed on most subs.
I wasn’t banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up “the grass is greener where you water it,” so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it’s just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!
Banned twice. They don’t much like when I call for throwing bricks at cops.
They didn’t like it when I was calling for the same against Nazis. Personally I don’t want to be part of a community where its wrong to throw a brick at a Nazi…beating up on Nazis is as American as Apple Pie.
Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years’ worth of content on my 250k karma account with “fuck spez” and left it all there to rot.
Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.
Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking “How many assholes we got on this ship”.
Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don’t miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn’t even aware Reddit was banning people.
I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.
Wish I was so bold. It took me actually getting banned to migrate.
you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, “boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account”
im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.
Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.
We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was “fired,” it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.
Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.
I can create a new accounts if I wanted to. I just gave up on Reddit. They banned me for posting about how a local Nazi. Tried to get a youth center burned down because it had a LGBTQ flag up for pride month. The guy is a captain at a county jail to.
I still use both but slowly making the transition to Lemmy. Been making political posts on Reddit for a while now & I’m convinced the mods of r/meme will perma ban me after my temp ban is lifted. Can’t speak the truth even if it gets millions of views.
I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.
