cuz i was banned from reddit
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.
That was my same story
Privacy reasons. More specifically, I just don’t like using platforms when there are alternatives that don’t compromise my data. In the end, I don’t lose as many features or communities going this route. That said, however, I do miss shitting on people who joined the “christian V atheist” Facebook it’s one of my guilty pleasures. These people can’t have a logical debates, and often times just completely unrelated to Christianity or atheism. so I end up just personally insulting them.
The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.
Same reason here. RiF was the perfect client for me - focused on the text and the comment chains rather than infinite scrolling the headline and photos.
Also realising that all the effort I put in to answering technical questions was just making other people rich, and the platform itself didn’t give a shit about me as a contributor.
To share my erotic fiction because the reddit mods banned it !!
They are such fascists over there. Seriously.
I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn’t notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.
I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit’s that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.
I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.
I should have moved when they killed 3rd party apps but i have finally decided to move now because reddit just feels garbage now. Posts and comments just feel more like facebook level content then it used to and people just seem to argue a lot just to argue.
Plus the ads have gotten really stealthy in their official app. I didnt even notice how bad its gotten until the a few days ago i saw a comment thread were mods had nuked every comment and all was left visible in the sea of [deleted] was 20 comment looking ads
Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I’v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.
After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.
I only miss the guitar and cat subs.
same. Was excited about the mil+ sub but it sucked. I miss my knockoff watch sub and the esp32 community. But I find myself getting more shit done now.
I left immediately after the api pricing thing happened. Did not delete my account but poisoned it by replacing my posts with glibber. They are still up, I check from time to time. Just did my share to fuck AI.
Social media NOT owned by money.
I jumped during the API fiasco, but in my case the story is a bit different I think.
One subreddit I used to spend a lot of time on was r/dndmemes. I was a relatively new DM at the time and loved hearing everyone’s stories and takes on things there. I even made a number of memes on the shenanigans that happened in my own campaign. Some of them took off way more than I could have ever imagined.
When the API fiasco started, that subreddit was one of the ones that participated in the blackout. When Reddit started sending threats to the mods to open it up, they asked what the community wanted. That’s when it went into what they called ‘goblin mode’. Basically everything had to be an NSFW meme since Reddit couldn’t advertise as much on those subreddits.
Reddit ended up removing just about all the mods and left the subreddit in a broken state. Practically nobody could post there. When they spun up attempt.network, I made the jump and haven’t looked back since
I don’t like ads.
Reddit killed third party apps and I didn’t wanna use their shitty official app, so I searched for alternatives and switched to Lemmy. I happen to like open-source software, and the idea of the Fediverse is interesting as well =w=
This is pretty much my exact same situation. I have no education in programming or software, but open-source became really interesting to me after learning what the fediverse is.
Some of the very best programmers I’ve ever met were self taught, don’t let your dreams be memes
I wanted a place where I would be bombarded with constant mentions of Star Trek and Linux
Don’t forget American politics.
please … tell me the enterprise ship board computers run on Linux
I really wanted to stay at reddit. I liked the crypto nfts and cheered when the closed the api. Really enjoyed that the ceo casually edits peoples comments, too.
Wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the constant feed of linux and star trek memes.
