Reddit killed the app I used.

the API exodus finally drove enough traffic here to keep it lively

Reddit basically banned 3rd party apps to fake a growth and show shareholders they can be profitable... so yeah, they can get fucked.

It's the same layout/format as Reddit, but with far less bullshit or total fuckheads. When it was announced that Reddit was shutting down 3rd party API access, Lemmy came to my attention and I've been here since (though a couple previous accounts were on instances that have since shut down).

I'm a hipster and also anti-capitalist. Tired of dogshit corpo social media enshittification

Less corporate, less centralized, open source tech. I don't quite fit in here, but I guess I'm weird enough to stick around anyway 🙂

wow, nobody mentioned the open source thing yet. I'm here because I really like the open source thing and the idea of federated servers run by hobbyists.

I'd been using Reddit for quite some time. I wasn't willing to use it if they weren't going to allow third party clients.

I couldn't use boost in reddit anymore and the native app is complete and utter hogwash.

I left reddit when they shut down the 3rd party readers. I don't like ads, and I wasn't willing to compromise and use their shitty app, so I came here and haven't looked back since!

First time I was banned from Reddit. Now I’m permanently banned so y’all stuck with me.

I didn't want to install the official Reddit app on my phone.

Reddit removed free API access and simultaneously became more corporate than Walmart. Is fully enshittified now.

https://fortune.com/2024/03/19/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-unpaid-moderators/

Reddit is a Wall Street corporation that sells users to corporate advertisers

Lemmy is free and open source.

Reddit got rid of my All button because they want to push people into echo chambers and controlled feeds. I only made an account to bitch about the Knicks, let me lurk.

When you browse by all, you see the patterns of subreddits turning political, same recycled posts being passed around, generalizations, things taken out of context, agendas.

By the way this place isn't as different as you'd like to think, just a lot more 'fuck the USA' posts so idk, I'm still searching

The API shenanigans

Democratic freedom and democracy in practice.

I left Reddit for Lemmy for the same reason I left Digg for Reddit: Enshittification, both technical and administrative.

Left reddit as part of usa boycot. No regrets.

Fuck Spez

The great Reddit APIcallypse exodus - but not for the reason you'd think. I actually used official app, didn't care much for the 3rd party stuff. Though I understood why people might care about it.

No, what did it for me was how Reddit handled it. The arogance. The hostile takeover of the subreddits that went down. I didn't like that one bit. Plus, every day Reddit felt less like how it used to and more like your typical social media. But what can you do, eh? I liked the format. But there is nohing other like it... right?

Well I said something like that in some thread where the discussion went off-topic to discuss the situation (pretty sure it was a Harry Potter sub). "If only there was an alternative!" Well there was, and it's called Lemmy, one user said. Intrigued, I checked it out - and was utterly confused. Instances? Federation? Makes no sense. So I figured I would ask. The guy (or gal) was super nice - answered all my questions, gave me pointers... and here I'm.

It was like you don't know something was broken but suddenly it's fixed and you don't know how you could've functioned like that before. It certainly helped that at the time I came here for the first time, the activity was booming so it was easier to switch. Died out a little after a while, but I feel like it is in a very good place now, activity wise. There aren't ultra specific communities for everything, but usually there is a general one at least. And it feels more like the Reddit I first joined than what it ended up being.

Infinitely grateful to the guy (or gal) tbh. Inevitably, being here taught me there are alternatives to more than Reddit. That open source apps are great, actually. That there is something like degoogling. That Linux might not be as scary and foreign, or for programmers only.

I don't know who you are, kind lemming - but hope somehow you read this.

got tired of my comments being removed for saying stuff like dead Nazis please me

although apparently some mods around here don't like that either

Reddit was going downhill. Conversations are near impossible. You have to agree with the hive mind or you get down voted into oblivion. The monetization of the platform. The gamification of the platform. The AI bot problem.

There are too many to count. Lemmy is still small, and while it has its own problems, is not completely fucked yet.

Freedom of free software.