cuz i was banned from reddit
the api thing that happened 2 years ago
Same - don’t miss it at all.
Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit’s CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).
RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)
The API changes killed Boost for reddit. When I learned about Boost for Lemmy, I made an account here.
I was on r/piracy and someone had a link to a lemme post, and I was like “what’s a lemmy” and did some research. I had already left meta/tiktok, so reddit was my last “social media”
Curiosity, mostly. I learned about the FOSS alternative, checked it out, and haven’t been on Reddit for a couple months now.
Because I said fuck it when Reddit screw over people with their API bs and the Fediverse was an ok alternative.
The first few months were like the honeymoon phase every website has. Users stunned by how friendly everyone is. But the petty squabbles and infighting have begun.
Reddit API changes.
Probably done here soon too.
is there an even more niche alternative?
Every social media platform I’ve used in the past started out pretty similar then capitalists and advertisers shat all over it and refuse to moderate authoritarians like fascists and nazis because they have money while at the same time censoring violence against authoritarians and genocide footage requires a login to keep track of who is trying to educate themselves so I left.
If something similar happens here subsets of instances can stay federated with each other so hopefully it won’t be a complete wash & require a new platform but we’ll see. I’m still on the fence about a permanent history and not dumping out instance histories periodically or a rolling max archive say 5 years back, but anonymity I think pushes me further to the archive everything side.
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.
reddit’s new interface speaks to a total disregard, almost a disdain, for people with accessibility needs. it’s like the only guidance they gave was “put as much material design language into a non-google site as you can”
Fuck spez
fuck spez!
I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.
I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.
no worries, I’m sure lemmy will get there.
call me paranoid, but it’d be super easy for any big tech corp to spin up a federated instance for scraping data to train their AIs. … 😥
at least they probably can’t link your account to the rest of your internet traffic so at least there’s some anonymity. right? right??
Unfortunately, yeah. Re: point one - I’d be absolutely shocked if there isn’t such an instance already, or if the activity isn’t being scraped direct from ActivityPub via some other methods.
Re: point two … idk man, I’m one of those idiots that still has Facebook at the moment, and I’ve seen some shit that makes me suspicious (though whether that’s based on my lemmy activity or any one of a number of other leaky things is anyone’s guess).
I simply don’t know enough to state anything with confidence, but know your Lemmy activity (generally speaking) is very, very public. Anyone want to chime in and call me an idiot (re: this topic, otherwise I already know) with examples? It’d be deeply reassuring :)
Facebook federates with Mastodon through Threads so they may be scraping Lemmy.
That was my same story
Reddit makes profit in part from selling user generated content (posts/comments) to AI companies for training so you are absolutely right.
That was one reason to me, in addition that I got banned from many subreddits from just comments that goes against the narrative of the subreddit, it kills any interesting discussion when it just becomes silos where everyone has to basically agree
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
SoundCloud isn’t us-based, it’s german.
Lol you are right 😀😀 Should have known that since I live in Berlin…
i just use Soulseek for my music, bands/musicians don’t get shit from streamed music just buy their merch direct
I use those platforms to promote and sell my own music or buy music for my DJ Sets. But I agree conventional streaming is dogshit for artists!
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.
It was open source, federated and written in Rust!
The Reddit API enshittification event was just what kept me here.
