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?
been on the fediverse a few years, but didn’t really move over until my third reddit ban and how increasingly awful reddit is.
i still miss my ‘controversial’ subreddits i used to be a part of. like bicyclingcirclejerk. i don’t miss the insane people on my city subreddit who had insane political takes and massive victim complexes. but there are plenty of people on lemmy who make posts like that.
When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.
Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit
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.
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.
Left during the purge of 3rd party 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.
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 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.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.
I kept getting banned, got tired of making accounts. this place has its issues, but reddit is worse
i think it was privacytools.io that got me here first, then reddit fucked up in 2023 and i actually got to use it more.
The death of third party Reddit apps.
I used the Android app Boost for Reddit. One day I opened it as usual, browsed as usual, but something felt a bit odd. Turns out it was updated into being a Lemmy app instead. Fair enough then, I continued my scrolling.
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
