I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
Reddit killed the app I used.
Same. Used Reddit Is Fun for like 11 years or something. Haven’t looked back. The most I’ll do is search for an answer for something and check a reddit thread if it shows up in the results.
Rif was great!
I keep it intalled so every time I click a reddit link, the redirect gives me a 403: forbidden error.
I keep it installed as a reminder of what was taken, that and animelab.
I’m another ex-RiF user. In hindsight it was a good thing Reddit killed the third party apps. I honestly don’t think I would have joined Lemmy if I was still able to use Reddit Is Fun.
RIP Baconreader
Try Boost, it’s pretty similar (might have to tweak a couple settings)
I switched to iOS along the way, but Boost is still my favorite Reddit, now Lemmy client. I wish they would make their way to iOS.
Yep, team API migrants here too. I spend less time on Lemmy than i used to spent on Reddit and that is a good thing i guess. Plus, Lemmy group pressured me into giving Linux a shot. Now i don’t have single device that is connected to one of the tech giants any more. Wouldn’t have happened without Lemmy nudging me in that direction,
They burned down Boost for Reddit, and Boost for Lemmy rose from the ashes
I’m on Boost too, and all things considered switching to Lemmy was less of a transition than if I’d had to switch to their app.
This, but the app survived 😅 (I revived it with revanced).
Now I use both, Sync for Reddit and Summit for Lemmy… NGL if Summit was available for Reddit I would use it as well!
I use summit too, I like it a lot.
It is a pretty GOATED client, and the “competition” is strong, so that even makes it deserve more praises to be fair.
Fuck Spez
Former mod of r/jailbait
Never let him live that down. any time you mention Spez, mention that.
It is like “X formerly known as Twitter”
“Steve Huffman - also known as /u/Spez, former mod of /r/jailbait”
It started as fuck spez, but I’ve learned the value of opposing homogeneity online and I will never go back.
Reddit killed third party apps with absurd API fees.
Also known as the apicalypse
Don’t forget lying and defaming one of the most prominent third party devs.
What annoyed me even more is how they handled that whole situation. They basically went: who cares, the protest is going to die down in a few days anyways so why should we do anything besides insulting everybody
Reddit was a death of 1000 cuts.
The strictness of communities. Shadowbans. Intercommunity drama. Overly critical usrers and doomers. Removing the ability to see upvotes/downvotes. Old reddit slowly going away. Api changes.
One day i just found i wasnt having fun on reddit anymore. It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media. I spent 12 years on that platform and l learned a lot. But now its mostly its just clickbait and drama to keep you on.
So i went on lemmy, contributed to the code for a bit. Found i liked piefed because of the better fediverse interop. Stayed here and contributed a tiny bit of code.
It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media.
I hate to tell you this, but you left New York and ended up in New Jersey.
Hah! Im gonna have to use this
NGL, there’s parts of Jersey that are lovely.
I really meant that they left one thing for something very close to what they left
Maybe its because im on piefed now, but my feed is VERY nice and healthy (mentally).
SHUT UP, WEENIE BOY!!!
nah jk
I did. Mostly because at my age and with my shit eyesight, I was looking for something I was familiar with layout wise.
Old lemmy to the rescue! It’s nice here, like Reddit was many, many years ago. Small, community-based and not rage-bot driven.
My word, as I look back on how Reddt pivoted in the last 5 years, I really can see it now.
This is really like the nice parts of Jersey. It’s lovely compared to the fiasco I left.
I’m glad we’re here together, brother.
Sister, actually… :)
I’m pleased to be here and glad you are too… Thank you for the kindness and you are most very welcome my friend!
Don’t forget the view in app and the constant sign in notifications. Fuck off. You’re a glorified website that should keep ya nose out.
Lol im litterally using firefox on mobile right now.
Its ok to have an app, but wtf at least dont get rid of existing funtionality that works much worse…
Now we have interinstance drama!
oh god the intercommunity drama. I got banned for one group just for participating in another. Reminds me of middle school when I felt forced to pick between two fighting friends. 🙄
Right now, you cant say meshcore (like the word) in the meshtastic subreddit. You would never know until people started getting randomly banned. LOL sometimes its just want one mod decided for the others.
I just dropped in there to seeif my particular device is having issues and bam more drama.
I’d been using Reddit for quite some time. I wasn’t willing to use it if they weren’t going to allow third party clients.
The API shenanigans
Yeah, same, when the apicalypse hit I was gone.
Why “apicalypse” and not “appocalypse”?
Two reasons:
- Because Reddit killed the API , which in turn killed the apps.
- It sounds funnier
Aaah I see. Yeah, yours is better.
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Reddit is a Wall Street corporation that sells users to corporate advertisers
Lemmy is free and open source.
The API thing. I was using RIF for a very long time at that point and had no intention of using the official Reddit app.
Saaame
I left reddit when they shut down the 3rd party readers. I don’t like ads, and I wasn’t willing to compromise and use their shitty app, so I came here and haven’t looked back since!
Same. Couldn’t be happier with the Fediverse as my main socials.
wow, nobody mentioned the open source thing yet. I’m here because I really like the open source thing and the idea of federated servers run by hobbyists.
I’m very appreciative of this. I want the people in charge here, not billionaires and CEOs.
Yeah, that is a big plus too (that, and the federation). This can hopefully mean that lemmy can never turn into what reddit currently is.
Because fuck corporate social networks.
Was banned permanently from Reddit for correctly identifying a certain South African billionaire’s political leanings.
This is why I left. I saw post about people being banned from communities for things like that, or saying eat the rich, iD’ing Nazis, calling Palestine a genocide and calling for action. It was clear they had fascist corporate donors to appease and had chosen sides.
Least fucked option.
Reddit: fucked. Twitter: fucked… Meta: fucked since forever. Bluesky: signs of future fuckededness. Mastodon: not what I was after.
Lemmy: hey, these people seem to be my kind of insane.
The apicalypse.
I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.
I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes.
Before a lot of people from Reddit came to Lemmy it was the same here.
Makes sense, that was when I started using it
