Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
When Reddit killed Apollo.
Me too. API death of reddit.
They thought disabling RIF would force me to use the Reddit Mobile App, but it just got me to break up with reddit finally after 10+ years.
Who nose, maybe this was all part of their plan to get rid of Reddit’s original users and make room for a younger culture who doesn’t care about privacy or ads or whatever.
You were replaced by 20 llm agent -> more ads revenue
It was Boost for Reddit for me. Note: I hate the ads in Boost for Lemmy, but I still havent jumped ship or started to pay for ad-free. When I go on contract at work (I hope) it’ll be more possible.
e: wait, it’s $5, one time? Ok, I’m killing the ads now.
I want to support the platforms that look at people for their interactions, not their marketability. APIs were going to be dead at Reddit and I wasn’t willing to stand over the body with a knife in hand.
My pihole blocks all ads in Boost.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.
I am brand spankin’ new and didn’t realize mods migrated too! That’s great! Only thing I wish there was, was the database wealth of information that reddit has but that takes time and humans make that possible.
Oh yeah, it’s impossible to mod effectively via reddit’s official mobile app. And admin was becoming increasingly inconsistent in its demands and communication.
When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.
Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit
Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.
I suspect as with many here it was Reddit’s API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.
Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.
Reddit is shit now. PCMR is just memes and weird Linux vs Windows rivalry, Piracy sub is just memes and moral grandstanding, most gaming subs are just bots posting “news” articles, AIO/AITAH are just karma farming for people selling accounts or fanfic quality fantasies, many Linux subs are either insufferably elitist, have a weird fetish for distro-hopping or are just circlejerks (looking at you r/linuxmint).
The only thing it’s still good for is niche interests which I doubt will remain the case for long.
I kept getting banned, got tired of making accounts. this place has its issues, but reddit is worse
The death of third party Reddit apps.
Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests
Because I love everything open source.
The death of 3rd party apps sent me here. It’s been great over in the fediverse but I do wish there was more content. I will sometimes go back to Reddit.
Overall it’s been great though.
reddit killed 3rd party apps and i don’t wanna use their shitty app or websites on my phone so i just ditched it for lemmy
I came when they took away 3rd party apps. Though to be truthful ive been leaning towards making a return because the communities here are just so small and mostly dead. Even popular topics have almost no presence here.
Paywalling the API was the final straw for me. I saw they reduced the price to something “reasonable” for the top few 3rd party apps, but too little, too late. Leading up to that, I understood the ads, I was satisfied with using old.reddit, and I thought we were making progress with fighting management. Killing all the small time apps and turning Apollo et al into an income stream (or, really, stifling competition to their ad-infested 1st patty app) showed there was no way back to the reddit I knew
