Asklemmy

Apollo going away was the catalyst for me. I will never use Reddit's garbage website or first-party app.

Plus Lemmy gave me an excuse to host another neat service and still waste the same time I did on Reddit.

Been wanting to quit reddit for a few years. Recent incidents just accelerated the process. I will still visit few smaller subreddits from time to time as I still see the original reddit charm in those places.

If I’m interacting with a business and then that business closes the method I’m using then fuck them I leave. I’ve done it with streaming services as my preferred devices have lost support through upgrades as well and I’ve done it at restaurants for forcing QR code menus.

Two of my three main subs have migrated over here including the whole family of one of them. And once I tried Lemmy I really liked it and support the concepts and philosophy.

So I’ll only go back to the old place to check in on that last main sub periodically until an alternative appears or I talk myself into creating it.

Two reasons:

1. Being angry at the business
2. Decent alternatives (Lemmy + apps)

No more Apollo.

Tired of our corporate overlords

They killed Boost and I'm not use the official app.

I used Boost exclusively. Great app with a lot of costumization and the ads weren't intrusive. I'll blow my dad before I ever use the official app. It's slow, comments take ages to read, and there's a million ads.

At this point, I won't return to reddit event if they were to roll back the changes and made ammends. I'd put money on them fucking up the experience further down the line.

I did not use Apollo. I used the alien blue / official Reddit app. It’s not the best Reddit client out out there. The thing that annoyed me the most is the toxic masculinity and the deterioration of subreddits in the last few months. I don’t know the challenges that mods face with regards to api changes, but the line for me is when spez talked about musk and twitter. I mean, I left twitter almost a month into acquisition as things got very toxic and inflamed. I have a suspicion Reddit will go into a slow death spiral with content being just reposts from tik tok(which was already happening).

At the end of the day, I find lemmy a bit more palatable for two reasons, it’s slow moving and there is quality content, and not just some staged videos from tik tok. If I wanted to see tik toks I’ll be in TikTok.

I can’t use their stupid mobile app it’s really bad

The metagame has changed. Good discussion is on lemmy, now.

Right now, all the useful stuff on reddit is private and it's burning down - Main reason. I tried joining lemmy like 2 years ago I guess, but back then lemmy was very strict, did not allow typical users. My appeal was rejected. I try to move to a decentralized platform if I can. I left meta, snapchat long time ago cuz there's nothing to lose.

where do I start, censorship, the free speech side died as soon as the Chinese investors came in, the owners not giving the third party any leeway, and of course my favourite apps going, but im praying Lemmy become the new reddit.

API changes primarily. Especially given the vast majority of my browsing was done on mobile, that and the increased monetization of the platform overall drove me away.

Baconreader stopped working

Reddit has gone downhill so much over the years; RIF was the only way I could continue to enjoy Reddit, get past the fake-post ads, get past all the stupid bells and whistles and flashing awards and whatnot. Without RIF, I can't stomach what Reddit has become.

How Reddit reacted to the 3rd party apps builders also really pissed me off, too. Solidarity to people, not money hungry corp.

I may occasionally go to Reddit via my desktop, to visit some communities that I love. But I'll be reading, not participating.

I hope to find a new nest over here.

I want to be a part of something new. And I want to see it from as early in the process as possible. I've been opening issues on lemmy apps, helping users, better understanding the technologies, the intricacies of federation, and the process of building and nurturing a positive, supportive community. That's fun, and rewarding. And it feels like we get to own it a little. And someday I may have my own Lemmy instance and I can continue the work, all in my own way.

Reddit has gotten incrementally worse every year in the past decade. I was already over it when spez made his power play. I’m glad I stayed on for little while more though or I would have never discovered Lemmy.

I refuse to use the official app. It's garbage. 99% of my reddit browsing is on my phone. Lemmy has a smaller but nicer community and scratches the same itch.

all good things come to an end

because they killed off FOSS 3rd party apps, and companies like that don't deserve my data

Reddit users are (mostly) wack, unfunny, self-absorbed losers who might as well all be the same exact person. Always have been, there just hasn’t been a viable alternative for me until now

I sort of left because of the blackout.

Lemmy sounds neat though it'll be interesting to see how something so nebulous grows on the internet. It's sort of a neat experiment. It'd be neat to see it get a kick in the pants lol.

It harkens back to the days that we all had a piece of the net.

Reddit is no longer accessible through Apollo. That’s really it.

Reddit's user interface is horrendous and the official app is an abomination.

I'm Relay user. It's not dead as other 3rd party reddit apps. Most of reddit migration is happening here. So, want to join this new site to know what's happening on this side too by becoming part of it.

Two things they deleted Reddit is fun from existence with the changes and I got Perma banned for expressing how shitty of a place they became in a support ticket for charging so much money for the api.

Honestly, I always really enjoyed the idea of fediverse and federated social media/forums. It's like the good ol' forums from back in the day but more interconnected! The issue has always been that there were too few users to make it even somewhat useful, so now with so many reddit refugees, it's finally becoming feasible

Also, reddit admins suck for killing Sync for Reddit and I will never forgive them. Can't wait for Sync for Lemmy!

I was using Apollo and Sync to access the site. They went off. I moved. New here btw. Hi everybody!

Spez.

Not fully left Reddit, but after discovering wefwef.app I much more enjoy browsing Lenny/kbin on my phone than through any means of browsing Reddit.

Lost trust in the company as a whole.

I only read reddit on my phone and the official app sucked.

I think this is better so far though I need to learn new subs now.

I really believe in open source in community-owned projects. The federated model fits right in with those values, and I believe it offers brightest possible future for social media.

I signed up during the blackouts, but before the mod removals. I honestly didn't (and don't) hate them for the API decision, but I was super excited for the influx of new users that would make Lemmy more viable. Then the mod drama started, and it's illustrates so well the advantage of the fediverse.

I have not been active on Reddit for a while. I mainly just doomscrolled a bit in the morning and evening. My habit for a long time.

During the blackout I still caught myself doing that but stopped it over the days afterwards. My feed mostly still worked but I also noticed the interesting posts I actually looked deeper into seemed to vanish (or I just doomscrolled less and didn't find them).

I've finally stopped that habit now (though I liked it since it was not excessive and hope to replace it with Lemmy).

Especially since my Reddit-App of choice, Infinity, will be switching to subscribe-only (decent way tbh) I don't see myself paying for it for the bit I use it. And I won't go back to the offcial app. That one started (literally!) draining my battery like crazy because Pi-Hole blocked the trackers and it kept Brute-Force attempting to connect to a specific one. My smartphone was hot for up to 2-3 hours after using reddit. I reported the issue, it got supposedly fixed, then returned a few days later (after which I switched to a 3rd party app). Otherwise I actually liked the official app and didn't have any (other) performance issues at all.