Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.

I escaped when they killed their API.

I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.

Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.

I left over the API bullshit.

I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there's just too much useful info to ignore it. But I'm not going there directly

Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.

Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.

It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.

I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.

When they killed third party apps while disregarding the need for accessibility completely - their own app doesn't even let blind people manage their own subreddit because of that.

So yeah, because I left reddit.

My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I'm pretty active.

I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

Reddit is a shit platform, became worse with the IPO and LLMs, but mainly, to me, the moderation is completely haphazard and the shitty posters were let loose. The inconsistency in moderation made me give up on being constructive.

Here, if you find an instance and communities with good ground rules you agree with, it works. You even have a modlog for transparency.

I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.

left during the subreddit mod purges. we closed our sub - 45k~ users with lots of creative, daily content when they announced the API changes and other shittery. They demanded it reopen or they'd appoint new mods, no new mods would step forward. I left and never looked back. I probably should have left long before but the community kept me there doing the modwork.

A note: APPRECIATE YOUR MODS. They're keeping this experience trash free as much as humanly possible. There's a certain type of person that volunteers to help build good communities and they mostly deserve your appreciation.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Left reddit during the API controversy a few years ago. Never been banned or anything, just disagreed with the decisions being made.

Reddit is repetitive and tiresome on the main subs. It’s so bot driven. There are so many ads. Spaz is a dipshit.

That said Lemmy still lacks the small, niche subs, which are still ok over there due to small numbers.

That said Lemmy will get the numbers for those niche subs if we all join and contribute.

I'm not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.

I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I'd been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn't give a shit anymore.

Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.

I've been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it's better here.

edit: I didn't say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already

Once the baconreader app developer stated it would stop due to API nonsense I left.

I tried another one called something like Squabbles* for a few months and really liked it, then the owner of that site decided that the racists and nazis that were joining were allowed to say what they wanted.
There were a lot of trans, gay etc, and non whites on that site who tried to reason with the owner but ultimately left due to the hostilities. The place went downhill fast and about a week later I left. It may be far better now.

I only go on Reddit now if I'm looking for info on the PC and one of the links is from there. However most of the time it doesn't give me any real info, usually it's just lots of people having the same issue I was searching an answer for.

Edit: it was called Squabbles, not Squiggles
Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo. Squabbles seems to have died a death, and I'm not surprised tbh.

Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.

They took a sub away from me with over 200K subscribers because I ran it in a way counter to Chinese investment interests.

I was there from the inception.

Am I an inflammatory piece of shit? Yes.

Is free speech dead? YES!

I nuked my Reddit account when they dropped support for 3rd-party apps. Spez can eat a bag of dicks.

I only tolerated watching reddit using the slide app, so no app = no reddit.

I deleted all my posts.

One day when browsing from a VPN they said if you want to see this page you need to login. I reluctantly login, to get an email a few hours later "your account has been permanently banned for suspicious login"

I was banned from Reddit as a "security precaution" which I assume means they didn't like the fact that my browser was always security hardened thus they couldn't track me to feed me ads.

I was already considering leaving for Lemmy, but when they straight up banned me for doing nothing wrong other than protect my privacy, that was the final straw. Mind you, I didn't even use Reddit that frequently anyway, which made me all the more baffled by their sudden decision with no warnings at all.

Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life

Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since

I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.

Several years ago.

"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"

Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?

Not banned from Reddit, but I was given a warning for suggesting big tech was unethical.