My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
spez being a dipshit
Trying to quit USA products, forever.
There’s an official Lemmy app? Is it better than Voyager?
I use desktop, so the API stuff in 2023 didn’t affect me. I planned to just avoid reddit for the blackout, but Spez’s asshole comments about how it would blow over pissed me off. Seeing reddit become more and more enshittified in the years since, it turned out to be the right decision.
Their API bullshit and then trying to use their official app… 🤮🤮🤮
The official app is choppier than opening the site in Firefox mobile
API change killed Apollo, used Narwhal on and off for a year but ultimately did not want to pay a subscription for a social media platform, downloaded Voyager and here we are.
I backed up my Reddit subscriptions and multi-reddits and have them as shortcuts on my Redlib instance.
Been working on /c/ca_firearms_rights@sh.itjust.works hoping to build up a community similar to /r/CanadaGuns!
my third ban for supporting Palestine, by then it has become such a BS propaganda machine I decided it wasn’t worth it to go back
When they shut down the Apollo app for Reddit is when I left
same with RIF
Reddit is no longer fun.
Yeah this was it for me. Best app ever…no bullshit ads or anything…and I was really upset that Reddit forcefully killed it for money. However, I did find that the app Red Reader is allowed to exist because of its accessibility features for the visually impaired. It’s a good browsing experience…simple and no ads or BS.
I still do browse Reddit because a lot of the communities I visit on there either don’t exist on Lemmy or are too underpopulated for much of any content. Please don’t tell me to just “post more content” myself. The point is I often don’t have much content for the communities I visit. Like it or not, a community with 10 active members just isn’t enough to have much to participate with, even if I am the one posting most of the content. For example, there is a tattoo community I stumbled across on Lemmy. But I only have so many tattoos. So obviously I cannot fill the page with endless more content.
I basically only use it for work stuff like /r/sysadmin or some of the vendor specific boards.
Shutting down third-party apps through unreasonable API pricing with extremely little notice, then actively lying about their conversations with Apollo’s developer about it even though he had recordings of the calls.
I think there was even more BS at that time that made it against my personal values to stay, but those were the nails in the coffin for me.
It was hard. I spent over ten years on reddit, and I’d been active in some meetup groups over the years, so a lot of my real-life friends came from there. It felt like ending a part of my identity.
But hearing what kinds of nonsense they’ve continued to pull, I know I made the right decision and I’m glad I moved.
Same
Yeah, I used Infinity for reddit but then they had to start charging for use because of the API pricing so I moved to Eternity which is a fork of Infinity for lemmy. Problem is, Eternity doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore so when it stops working with some lemmy update I guess I’ll just have to go back to entertaining myself with simon tatham’s portable puzzle collection or something
Give Voyager a try? There are others too, and obviously the official app Jerboa. None of them are enshitifying themselves.
I’ve tried others but I only really like eternity. I guess I could try to maintain it myself but I don’t like android development
There are lots of app options for Lemmy. If you want an excuse to break the habit, EOL of an app is a great reason. But if not, try something else. That post is about 3 years old but it was the first I found and I didn’t feel like digging for more, lol.
Then again fuck reddit.
Reddit is currently actively supporting fascism. Before that, spez was just a customer unfriendly asshole.
I left a long time ago when he killed all 3rd party support on purpose. The writing was on the wall but now you’re just insanely late.
Being suspended for three days for saying Luigi. I’d been a daily redditor for 14 years. Haven used it in a year. I have no want to go back either.
The API stupidity a while back. Reddit is unusable without 3rd party clients, and inc3 Joey didn’t work anymore I said goodbye to the few communities who’s members might recognize my username, and proceeded to delete my account.
Also a former Joey user, though I switched to Lemmy before Joey stopped working and just used both.
Reddit went past the level of shit that I was willing to tolerate. What I find amazing is how little I miss it.
I was permabanned from Reddit for correctly identifying Elon Musk’s political affiliations. Fuck spez and his bullshit.
A federated web is a better one than a monopolized web, so I switched on principle.
Third party app block
I didn’t want their crappy client.
