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Fuck spez

Came for APIpocolypse. Stayed for Sync.

When they killed third party apps.

Like the majority here, reddit refugee

Reddit killing the app I used.

I am yet another fledditor. I think I looked at nearly all the alternatives and I liked the Fediverse the best.

I do miss the sheer volume of participation on reddit, but I that has been steadily improving. And the quality and tone of the conversations is generally much better.

Any forums with large numbers of participants is going to have certain problems. The difference is that reddit turned most of those problems into institutions while Lemmy provides better ways to deal with them and easier ways to avoid them.

Having worked in high tech for almost four decades, I have come to appreciate the advantages of not having everything controlled by a central authority. Sooner or later the leadership, however benevolent, will change into something repressive and exploitive. Once that happens, it will remain that way forever, because there is no financial or political incentive to move in that direction. Replacement has been the only thing that works, at least so far. The Fediverse provides an alternative to that cycle that seems viable.

Reddit being stupid. Specifically, they killed 3rd party apps. RIP RiF

Bitches took away Apollo. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I didn't like the changes on Reddit with the API and suddenly charging for access. Turns out, I like it better here. Probably would have liked it before the Reddit refugee situation, too.

Boost got blocked on Reddit during the API shutdown, the creator then made the app for Lemmy. I came here with the rest of the Reddit Refugees.

Came over (first to kbin) the day the blackout started. Never left.

Reddit api change but indirectly.

The 3rd party app closedown led to tons of weird niche subs showing up on popular, and their mods were quite silly, and several sub bans later, a complete ban for defending Palestine.

I came for the drugs and hookers. False advertisement much. Pretty disappointed.

Reddit banning third party apps was the last straw. Even though I didn't use them I supported the movement. I tried Tildes for a little while, but it didn't click for me. Lemmy works well and I don't feel it's as addictive as Reddit.

Still a little addictive though.

The appocalypse. I ain't using their bullshit first-party app and the site is garbage on mobile. I was looking for an alternative before that anyway, but because of it I heard about Lemmy (odd I didn't hear about it before though when I was searching specifically for a site like this).

The reddit IPO.

I admit it should of been sooner, but I had to make two emails just to sign up for this. (I wanted to try Protonmail and for some reason you need a email to get email with them so you can email your emails.

Reddit committed suicide then went full retard. So here I am.

I enjoyed posting on/reading Mastodon, so I decided to create an account. I think I'm unique in that I never had a Reddit account.

So far it's been an interesting diversion.

The apicalypse

Sync switching, aka the reddit APIcalypse

It's not trying to make money from me.

Reddit API change. Reddit is unusable on mobile without 3rd party apps. I used Joey, which is one of the lesser known clients, so it kept working for quite a while. When it didn't anymore I deleted all of my posts and comments before I deleted my account.

Once upon a time there was a website called Digg……

Partly it was the API fiasco on Reddit, and partly it was Lemmy that drew me in, honestly.

I've left discussion/chat forums before over the years when technology moved on, or the quality of discourse declined, like FidoNet, Usenet, ISCA BBS, or Slashdot. I lived my life just fine without them. Reddit was a good COVID19 distraction for me, a way to stay connected to people using a low-data phone plan. I hadn't heard about 3rd party apps until the appocalypse. I knew that the Android app ran up the count in DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection, and the iPad app drained the hell out of my battery. (Seriously, I could watch a 2-hour movie on Netflix, and the battery would be at 96%. An hour of the Reddit app drained it to about 60%. Was it, like, live-streaming the view from my camera back to Reddit servers?) I tried Apollo less than two weeks before the shutdown, and it was marvelous. The quality of the discourse had become, just, bad, so I figured I'd just leave Reddit behind when it ceased to function.

But, I checked out Lemmy after reading about it. It was small and quaint. But, I checked it out again. And again. And again. Then, about a month after API Day, I signed up for an account and never looked back. (The big draw, I think, was users who view comments as a discussion, not as a form of verbal combat that you "win".)

APIpocalypse as others said brought me here. The smaller, more personal community feel kept me here.

Like many I was a dedicated redditer. I had noticed a decline before the API fiasco, only viewing smaller subs, but momentum kept me there. No way I was going to use the default app/website though. Turns out I was more committed to Sync than reddit itself. Now Lemmy is my home and I keep a patched Sync for Reddit installed for the rare time a search result leads me there.

Same reason why I left Digg years ago...

There was a subreddit I used to be very active on that practically got nuked by the company during the protests. They kicked all of the mods off and replaced it with their own, leaving a huge mess behind.

A good number of them started over from scratch on Lemmy and I followed them here. Haven't really looked back since

I created my first account on sopuli.xyz on the 28th of April 2022, some days after leaving Twitter to join Mastodon, because I wanted to bring content to the fediverse (my ADHD brain wanted me to hyperfocus on the fediverse at that time).

I had almost exclusively used reddit through the Relay app since 2012 or something like that. Relay is still available actually, and I'd even be willing to pay for its subscription if most of the money went to the dev. I didn't like the idea of reddit making money off of a negative change they forced on me, it was bad enough that they trampled on the goodwill and efforts of the community.

Also I had used reddit since 2010, when it was much smaller. Most of reddit had grown too large, leaving only niche communities at a size where I felt it was worth interacting. I still miss some of the cooler small communities (and occasionally check on them through the API bypassing apps Geddit or Stealth), but Lemmy is generally at a size that I'm much happier to interact with.