The API changes. I use Sync, and not being able to use Sync made Reddit more or less unusable for me on my phone. I also fundamentally disagreed with the direction Reddit was going. So, Lemmy it was, and it’s great. And now there’s Sync for Lemmy, which is even better!
All of this me too.
Also, all of reddit felt like lemmy.ml, but here I can block .ml easy peasy
Blocking .ml is super nice. The only thing that is a bit annoying is that they have a lot of active members that don’t mind supporting fascist twats. Yet they participate in the fediverse and are otherwise informative. I don’t get notifications when they answer one of my questions. Oh well.
I’m digging the block.
Things have been more civil since I blocked the instance.
Isn’t it great when it’s up to you and not to some global platform-controlling entity?
Just want to note that a user-blocked instance still influences your feed via voting. The only way to truly and entirely block another instance is to get your admin to defederate the instance.
But on the fediverse you can choose your admin or become your own admin, so that’s still a lot better than reddit.
Stellar
Same here. I exclusively browsed Reddit via app on my phone and tablet. After watching my wife struggle with the official Reddit app, I decided I would never use it. So when that became the only option, I decided it was time to move on to Lemmy.
Besides, I’m very anti-advertisement and Reddit has turned very corporate lately, looking for every way to make a buck at our expense. So I’m done supporting that site. Information and community discussion should be freely accessible, not buried behind paywalls, awards, and advertisements.
This. Screw Spez.
Yep, BaconReader died and I came here.
what app do you use now?
Jerboa
I was on Infinity.
When it was forked as Eternity, that was my go-to on Lemmy (unfortunately hasn’t seen an update in a while).
Sync is awesome too!
Was using Boost for Reddit. API bits made them charge for Reddit. They offered lemmy. I’d been meaning to get started with Mastodon, having another fediverse portal offered made it easy.
Removed by mod
They murdered Apollo.
And then called Christian a liar. Spez can smoke a fat one
Greedy pig boy
Yes. This was the end. Hello Lemmy on Voyager.
Voyager is absolutely one of the S-Tier Lemmy apps
Voyager da goat no cap
Arctic > Voyager
since it’s not a web app, but an actual native iOS app written in Swift. Just like Apollo.Voyager does not collect any data.
Having also bailed because of Apollo, I kind of wish some of the iOS adjacent communities could get a decent toehold on Lemmy. 90% of the comments in those communities feel like they’re from people who are not subscribed, or never would.
Traffic from All hits Lemmy communities a lot faster and harder than Reddit communities, and that can make it hard for certain communities to get rooted on this platform
Yeah, that’s been my biggest complaint since coming over. People are way too hyper critical about what they think everyone should be doing/using/buying/consuming.
Yeah because the lower amount of content i basically only browse all. And typically don’t visit any communities.
Shutting down 3rd-party apps
RIP RIF
Yep this is what made me move. Boost has been a great replacement on lemmy though.
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Same. I miss Apollo.
Same. The closest thing I could find is !arctic@lemmy.world. On Android, I use !thunder_app@lemmy.world. (yes I always use 2 phones)
API changes killed the App I used.
What app do you use on lemmy?
I’m in the same boat, and I use Voyager. Formerly known as wefwef
Yes, it’s top-notch.
API changes. I hate ads.
Had Reddit wanted to charge a reasonable price for going ad-free I probably would’ve gone for it because I had no idea Lemmy existed at the time.
Of course now I wouldn’t go back because I do know it exists. 🙃
Reddit is (no longer) Fun.
Like others, the API change was the final straw. I used Reddit is Fun (RIF) for years, even paid for the full version, because both the official Reddit app and the mobile web interface were terrible. I was also using the old web interface with the Reddit Enhancement Suite, and that went on “maintenance mode”. Overall, Reddit just reached a point that the enshitification was getting to be too much for me to stomach. So, here I am.RIF clan, represent!
I haven’t tried them all, but I’ve been using Boost. What app are you using to recreate that RIF feel?
Jerboa hits that minimalist sweet spot for me.
I started using Summit and it was good enough that I stuck with it.
I feel like Summit is one of the most underrated apps. It’s been solid all around and steadily improving since the start.
I’ve found Thunder to be a great replacement with some modern, gesture and UX friendly enhancements. Raccoon for Lemmy is pure magic and I highly recommend it as well, but the UX and UI are more modern and has less of that RIF, old-school forum thread scroller vibe.
Connect for Lemmy on my Android phone has worked great! The interface is almost, but not quite, 1:1 with RIF.
It was pretty buggy at launch, but here we are about a year out, and I’m not sure if I remember the what/when the last bug I encountered was. That is to say, the devs for connect are on top of stuff with regular updates which is nice.
I tried connect first, but maybe that’s when it was buggy, because I switched to Boost. I guess there’s nothing wrong with Boost, but sometimes it gets weird interacting with embedded pics and unusual text.
The API-copalypse last year.
API changes / forcing 3rd party apps to shut down.
I’d been dissatisfied with Reddit for a while due to things like hive mind mentality and jokes repeated ad nauseum. I always enjoyed more when people were just posting their honest opinions or analysis of current events from a perspective that I don’t have. There wasn’t really anywhere else to go as an active “forum based” aggregator, so when the ground swell of people leaving due to the API fiasco came along and enough of a crowd started setting up shop on a different platform I jumped at the opportunity to ditch that place.
Glad to be done with it.
You were tired of the poop knife? How do you feel about that guy who was trying to hold it for 3 days?
The one that I absolutely hated the most was in any politics related thread at all invariably people would bring up how Herbert Comacho Mt Dew or whatever his name is was such a great politician. Like, shut up, I’m trying to read about the power vacuum in Iraq; your nonsense has nothing to do with that.
Timing and tone are hard in forums. It is a funny movie, though.
For sure, no shade intended toward the movie itself. But when you get the same string of posts that really only serves to interrupt from the actual topic of the thread, it just grated on me probably a little too much after some time.
samesies
Same for me. When I go to the big subs, like AITA, I am surprised by the style of conversation the people have and just the overall tone. I’ve asked questions here on Lemmy which go into an AITA direction, and the responses are so much more helpful and kind and respectful - you really notice the difference.
Also, far less bots.
I really don’t like Reddit’s attitude as a corporation. The sense of entitlement from a user driven content aggregator is insane.
They killed the apps.
Yeah, killing off the apps was particularly annoying because they had the worst one and instead of improving it to get more people on it, they killed the other ones off.
Other reasons for me:
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Spez saying that reddit owns all the content and no-one else can have it. No. It’s our content. Spez loosing his shit over apps that made money because he should have all the money because he deserves it for being such a self absorbed narcissist.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Website pushing the app desperately annoyingly hard. Every third post would have a clickaway telling me it was best viewed on the app. Taking away the option that turned that off when you’re logged in.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Making www.reddit.com different in a bad way on mobile, then killing mobile.reddit.com off when it had been OK on mobile.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Tankies taking over my local centre-left party’s subreddit and banning people for suggesting that we should vote for that party. I kid you not.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for protesting, replacing long-standing successful mods.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for being “unmoderated” when the truth was that he didn’t like the content and disagreed with some of the moderation policies.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Building a commercial empire on top of a lot of user generated content and then turning against the users.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
This commwnt looks better in the Official Reddit App. Download now!
Not just the apps, but the mobile website as well.
They made it more burdensome to use every time to push people to their app.
Switching to Lemmy on mobile was so refreshing. I didn’t even need to switch my browser to display the desktop version.
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My app of choice stopped working.
I felt like Reddit had been in decline for a long time. Then there was the API change and the debacle with the third party apps and I realised it was run by someone with no respect for the users, whose first instinct when something doesn’t go according to plan is to lie and blame someone else. I didn’t like that much, so here I am.
Reddit’s site sucks so bad nowadays. You’re bombarded with the “use the app” shit, it only loads like five comments when you first open the page, and you can’t see NSFW stuff without logging in (despite it totally loading then pretending it didn’t).
Look, I agree that the web interface sucks, but that’s kind of the point.
They want you to be so annoyed that you install the app instead.
No comment on whether the app also sucks. I’ve never installed it.
Look, I agree that the web interface sucks, but that’s kind of the point.
They want you to be so annoyed that you install the app instead.
🥃😮💨 Damn. Never looked at it like that.
Firefox + Old Reddit + Oldlander extension allows me to survive on that platform. I mostly cycle between Linux or computing related communities so I was unaffected by corrupt admins. My “engagement” is trying to answer questions and learning rather than discussing so I don’t boycott reddit.
I have used it a few times in the past year, but orders of magnitude less than before.
Spez makesike USD 200m, reddit annual loss is like 180m
Someone please correct me
Because fuck Spez. Lying, greedy asshat.
Oi!
Oi oi!
Like a lot of others I left when spez decided to fuck everyone using the API and kneecapped Apollo.
I was far more interested in Apollo than Reddit. I’m now using Voyager which is close enough to what Apollo was, but for Lemmy.
Same!
The lies about the content of the phone call were especially damning.
