Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
When Reddit killed Apollo.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
The loss of Reddit third party apps and the reasons they were giving for them doing it felt like it was going to be a slippery slope of shit. The Reddit app was also shit at the time and still is.
With Lemmy, I can just go looking for another app if there’s something I don’t like and even if I don’t switch between them, they also seem to be way more configurable too.
The death of third party Reddit apps.
Paywalling the API was the final straw for me. I saw they reduced the price to something “reasonable” for the top few 3rd party apps, but too little, too late. Leading up to that, I understood the ads, I was satisfied with using old.reddit, and I thought we were making progress with fighting management. Killing all the small time apps and turning Apollo et al into an income stream (or, really, stifling competition to their ad-infested 1st patty app) showed there was no way back to the reddit I knew
Banned for saying that I would murder Andrew Tate given the opportunity.
He literally abuses women and likely has murdered some. He is disgusting. The fact our government has used surveillance laws and things like The Smith Act to go after leftist causes / organization and never the KKK or proud boys… says a lot about how much these entities (including the wealthy) care about equity or human rights. Never are any of the right wing extremists labeled as terrorists but the black panthers were.
Reddit told me I wasn’t allowed to use a non-shitty application to read their content any more.
When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.
Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit
Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.
the 3rd party shutdown
No ads and killing off third party Reddit apps.
Accessibility options of different apps then reddit app.
Fled Reddit when the Exodus happened.
When the ‘fun’ side of reddit became unrecognizeable, then gradually after using Lemmy all I really do on Reddit is post in more useful places where I can share advice on chronic illness, and its really unfortunate there’s not much in comparison for communities here otherwise Reddit would be deleted already.
Political comments shouldn’t turn into vaguely threatening DMs, so many people on there nowadays need their teeth knocked out like some airpods for that shit.
most of my fun subs got you insta banned from more serious subs becauase no joking or mockery of weirdos was allow. had to separate out my accounts. even then I’d have crazy reddit weirdos stalking me and reporting my comments on other subs trying to get me banned for one comment i said in their sub.
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Terrible Reddit experience; I still wanted to answer questions because of boredom just not on Reddit. Long story short, I experienced a romance scam/sextortion where a Reddit user manipulated me into sexting him by being my “friend” and he knew I was at a vulnerable place in my life because I told him that I was healing from a breakup since I genuinely thought he wanted to help and get to know me—he figured that I was lonely and hurt. Thankfully, I was quick enough to stop the convo before he threatened me to send him money or other things. Lesson learned.
