Asklemmy

Stopped using it for the initial blackout. Heard about lemmy, signed up 14 days ago, and have only visited reddit briefly (to see for myself that John Oliver took over r/pics / see if the reddit-is-a-dumpster-fire was hyperbole, etc.).

I have been very impressed with lemmy so far! Web client is totally usable on desktop, and I'm deciding between Jerboa, Summit, Connect, and most recently wefwef for my go-to mobile client (wefwef maybe in the lead, but I've only used it for a day or so).

My app stopped working this afternoon.

Community issues. It's such a big place that most sections are oversaturated with crap and there was gatekeeping towards newer users. A breath of fresh air was needed.

other people did, finally

I got banned and all of the subsequent accounts that I made kept getting banned too

I’ve been super interested in Lemmy and the fediverse for years. I was also a long-time Apollo user. As soon as the migration began I deleted my account.

I've been on it way too long and no ones ever had anything nice to say about reddit in the first place, it's always about the community.

Principle, I’m not using their shitty app after years of Apollo. I’m still waiting on any of these apps to have ‘scroll past to mark as read’ but loving wefwef and Memmy so far.

Also, snippy little cunts that come out of the woodwork and make a mountain out of a molehill over the smallest thing, momma said never argue on the internet. Just eye rollingly exhausting to witness.

I’ll miss Reddit and will still search engine append Reddit for niche searches but mobile browsing WILL be dead tomorrow.

I’m a plus one here, as are many others present and future. Gotta be part of that change lemmys right?!

Reddit screwed reddit aka reddit fucked reddit.

I may be unusual for around here: I was using the first-party app and thought it was fine. When it was announced that Reddit was effectively closing their API to third-party apps, I thought “welp, sucks for those people, but it is their API; if it puts them in trouble, maybe they shouldn’t have put all their business eggs in one business basket”. (Honestly, I still think that.)

What pushed me over the edge was Selig’s post which exposed Huffman’s entitlement and his pushing Selig under the bus, without realizing that the calls were recorded. I have no respect for that kind of behavior. I considered deleting Reddit at that point, but I didn’t, thinking I wanted to first see what they had to say in their damage control.

And then, there was the AMA where he doubled down. So much for damage control. That’s when I deleted the Reddit app. I assumed it would be a tough detox, so my main reason for actually deleting the app, was to avoid opening it without thinking. My stance was “I’ll go back to Reddit when they fire that guy”.

At some point I heard of Lemmy, so I signed up, and then something happened that I didn’t expect: it made the Reddit detox very, very easy. Lemmy posts would have links to Reddit sometimes, and it would refresh my memory of how much negativity there is in that community, all the while I was really enjoying my time in Lemmy and basically all interactions. Eventually it became clear I wouldn’t be interested in going back to Reddit anyway, so when they started sending those nasty threats to mods, I went ahead and destroyed my Reddit account.

Even if Lemmy as a community ended up shrinking again and becoming boring (which I’m really rooting for it not to happen), I’d probably stop using Lemmy of course, but I don’t think I’d go back to Reddit anyway. By showing me what Reddit could have been, my pleasant time here has totally ruined Reddit for me.

Time for something new. Also Boost is going to stop working

I left Reddit years ago when Reddit turned into the personal fiefdoms of the mods. Almost all political subreddits became echo chambers where holding an opinion different from the subreddit consensus got you banned.

API changes forced RIF out and their shitty native app is shitty

Sick of powermods.

It feels like they're imminently going to make it impossible for me to use. They already did that to a lot of app users, I can't image old Reddit is far behind.

Boost for Reddit :(

Personally, it was a lot of reasons as time went on and at the very start it wasn't just about the API pricing. I have only tried 3rd party apps recently (relative to the total time I have spent on reddit), and as crazy as it may sound, I was used to the official reddit interface. What pushed me to make an account on Kbin (and Lemmy) was when I heard that u/spez lied about Christian Selig blackmailing him and also accused him of "leaking conversations" for refuting the blackmail accusation with proof. I did out of spite, essentially. What made me stay here and significantly reduce my reddit activity is that the wider reddit community migrated here, and not just a bunch of assholes who came here for "free speech". It felt right at home, why would I even need to return to reddit to scroll when there's Lemmy? Other than for being able to search for specific information, which reddit still has the advantage of. Then when I started hearing and personally witnessing more and more of u/spez's dick moves (as well as attempting an experiment to block mobile users from accessing the website), that's when I started deleting my comments en-masse.

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Apollo :(

Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastodon is to Twitter so I want to give it a try. I confess I haven't left Reddit but I've certainly lessened my presence including removing their app.

A less toxic alternative got enough users.

I left when Reddit started effectively taking over subreddits by forcing them to open or change their content to what Reddit thought it should be. I was planning on paying for Reddit premium so I could keep using it ad-free. I am sympathetic to Reddit’s desire to make a profit. But when they started effectively taking over subreddits it stopped being the Reddit I like and I’ll never return.