If I’m interacting with a business and then that business closes the method I’m using then fuck them I leave. I’ve done it with streaming services as my preferred devices have lost support through upgrades as well and I’ve done it at restaurants for forcing QR code menus.

Two of my three main subs have migrated over here including the whole family of one of them. And once I tried Lemmy I really liked it and support the concepts and philosophy.

So I’ll only go back to the old place to check in on that last main sub periodically until an alternative appears or I talk myself into creating it.

It got too corporate and sterile. If I wanted to be on the Walmart of social media, I'd rejoin Facebook.

Lemmy is exactly what I was looking for.

I had been using Apollo for 6 years. I couldn't go back to their miserable app. Still can't stand their desktop mode either

Tired of our corporate overlords

I used RIF. Before this went down I tried the official Reddit app because I wanted to follow some accounts and make a news feed out of them. It was so crap. It was so annoying. Random notifications, not allowing you to open threads in browser... Just felt overall very intrusive. Deleted it in two days. There is a small random invite only community that is wholesome and I really love, but I couldn't even get myself to download the app for it. Also using Reddit just feels really icky now.

I just don't feel like Reddit management remembers what the point of their system is. If they have such contempt for the mods and the users, what even is the point anymore. I get that they need to make money, but they need to do it in a way that keeps reddits positive aspects. This can't end well, the only hope for them is if enough people leave and they readjust their perspective and become a little more self aware. I'm not holding my breath...

I can’t use their stupid mobile app it’s really bad

Reddit is no longer accessible through Apollo. That’s really it.

A less toxic alternative got enough users.

Same reason as everyone else, I reckon.

Apollo is the only way I’ve used reddit for about 6 years.

I don’t want ads, and I don’t want my data serving as an asset to capitalist pigs!

the fediverse was/is quite a daunting platform. I’m here for the long run (hopefully), but I worry that it will either continue to be a relatively vacant space compared to other media, or crumble under the weight of unexpected operating costs.

To anyone who has been here for quite some time, I ask you: what are some useful tricks to make the most out of the service?

Reddit has gone downhill so much over the years; RIF was the only way I could continue to enjoy Reddit, get past the fake-post ads, get past all the stupid bells and whistles and flashing awards and whatnot. Without RIF, I can't stomach what Reddit has become.

How Reddit reacted to the 3rd party apps builders also really pissed me off, too. Solidarity to people, not money hungry corp.

I may occasionally go to Reddit via my desktop, to visit some communities that I love. But I'll be reading, not participating.

I hope to find a new nest over here.

I was actually fine with the reddit app. All I want is memes and some news. I left to support the rest of the communities that were adversely impacted by the changes

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

I think that media platforms and public spaces should be publicly owned. I actually wrote an article on the subject a while back https://justiceinternationale.com/articles/2020-12-02-we-must-own-our-tools/

Because it became a hivemind of only one allowed thought process. If you disagreed with the vaccine being mandated and forced on people, or disagreed with masking inside of a car you were downvoted and ostracized. Reddit mods started going after communities just because they disagreed with them politically and it became unfun to use.

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.