Genuinely curious
When they closed down the API for third party apps I packed my things, I thought reddit would be different, but to me, at that moment they proved they were not different.
Lemmy is not perfect and the whole dev team has some pretty insane views. But you know, it’s FOSS, so it’s not about the devs as much. Perfect is the enemy of great, and Lemmy is a healthier choice then Reddit imo.
Yup, the death of 3rd Party Aps did it for me too. It made me sad because I had to leave behind a lot of the niche subreddits I enjoyed, but I could see the writing on the wall.
Neither, but I’m fed up with Reddit regardless. Open Source and self hosted is something I prefer.
And if everybody praises the alternatives, but nobody is using it, we’ll never get shit done.
Why are new lemmy users thinking this is a refuge for the reddit banned? To my knowledge my account is still usable, but I just don’t want to log in since the API cash grab. What bullshit is reddit doing these days?
- banning people just for upvoting comments they don’t like, you don’t even have to post to be censored and banned now
- half the site is bots or spam networks farming karma (every post on askreddit is a karma farm)
- toxicity has grown. Everyone is frothing at the mouth for an argument
Nah, i left when they killed whatever mobile app i was using to not have to deal with their shitty website
I left because they got rid of 3rd party apps, was never banned.
I came here because I didn’t like the censorship (of others, not me) on Reddit. I stayed because I love the lack of advertising.
Everyone on here seems chill and people on reddit often bait you to try to get you banned or poison the well in discussions , it’s just a shit site that’s tonedeaf man
I’ll jump back over to Reddit on occasion if I need to look something up. The adverts are super jarring.
You can use an extension like Libredirect to redirect you to a redlib instance. Minimal format frontend for reddit, no ads. Here is a list of instances.
On Android mobile, you can install the Libredirect extension on certain Firefox versions like IronFox. There’s also apps like Stealth.
I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.
This was it for me too
My 20 year account got banned for using Apollo sideloaded. I still go there but let’s be honest, lemmy has far better memes
I deleted my reddit account during the API debacle and didn’t participate since, but kept lurking there. Then, a couple days ago they started requiring an account to access the site, and now I’m here, oh well.
The ones with their cake day around may and a bit later in 2023 are most likely here because of the API changes. After that its mostly alt accounts on a new instance, privacy reasons and bans
I left Reddit when they threatened to remove 3rd party apps and started closing down sub-reddits that weren’t advertiser friendly.
I created an account here after the API nonsense. Stayed on reddit for a couple years, but the bot problem there got worse, and worse. I was very vocal about why reddit chose to turn a blind eye to the bot problem. My account of 12 years kept catching bans for the mildest of takes. Feels like they were trying to get rid of me. Finally caught a perm ban for ridiculous reasons in 2024, made an alt account that got caught for ban evasion a year later. Gave up because they’re very hawkish about keeping humans off the platform, but they welcome bots and alt right shitheads with open arms.
The only reason Lemmy was started in the first place is because Reddit banned communists and their communities. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
banned from reddit for “threatening to kill reddit staff”. the post: pedophiles should be executed.
it’s very telling.
I feel like the way the question is phrased is going to select for people who were banned. Personally I wasn’t but saw the upcoming IPO and wanted to dip before the platform was totally enshittified.
