or any other reason… im curious.
Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
There are DOZENS of us!
Same. Reddit without Relay isn’t worth it
RiF here, but agreed. (Now Voyager)
Me too
In hindsight, I’m really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it’s just not the same.
Saaame.
I used the reddit app many many moons ago, but then discovered Boost. Once it quit working flawlessly, Lemmy became home. And Boost for Lemmy is wonderful :)
This. Fuck reddit
This is/was the way. I mean, not that people are not welcome here now but still supporting reddit that long is like supporting Elon after he went mad or Trump after the first time around…
Same. I still miss bacon reader.
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 directlyDitto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast
Is it just me, or does r/all seem like it’s getting more conservative?
A lot of it is literal chat bots and not even real people
How long do you think it’ll be before it’s a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
It looks like most of their non-investor revenue comes from ads and data mining. I assume buyers only want human human views and data. With that in mind, what do you feel like is going on over there, and what will it lead to? Can they get users to pay enough to make an AI fantasy land? Will they defraud advertisers and data miners wi AI astroturf? It’s such a weird frontier. I wonder what fresh new horrors will emerge from the dystopia.
Edit: Not strictly relevant, but interesting link:
I think it’s a cat and mouse game, where they don’t approve or want them there but nothing they can really do.
There is c/feedthebeast@lemmit.online, but im not sure that counts
I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.
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.
Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though !cfb@fanaticus.social is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There’s less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.
I left over the API bullshit.
Same it was the bridge too far. Reddit was something I was willing to deal with on my terms. They decided that wasn’t good enough and I’m smart enough to walk away from a toxic relationship.
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Yup, once they wanted to force their garbage app on me, I quit.
I escaped when they killed their API.
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 when I couldn’t use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again
I came here as a result of them fucking over 3rd party app developers. Never once have been banned by Reddit.
Likewise. Then I realized how much better lemmy is than reddit and never looked back. Way higher quality content and discussions here
Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.
Same. The moment Apollo shut down I quit reddit and started using lemmy on the voyager (pretty much an Apollo clone for lemmy)
apollo devs making digg, but digg will prob be just as bad as reddit lol, at least im not perma banned there yet
Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.
Same. It seems like old Reddit. Which I missed. A few differences. But all in all I am glad I switched. Fuck Spez.
Same, when the app stopped I looked for a new place to call proper home
Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star
I’ll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit’s BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.
I also came here shortly before the full API bullshit. They announced it (months?) before, or there were at least hints from app developers about what was going to happen.
By that point i already had a laundry list of other shit i was pissed off about at that site. So i knew that was finally time to leave and find somewhere else.
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.
Man I can’t even begin to fathom how little of a shit they give about disability and accessibility at this point.
Would you believe Reddit was actually a great and welcoming place a long time ago? Can’t blame you if you don’t.
It’s 2025 and I know from experience the world is inaccessible, but the most basic accessibility options in apps… C’mon.
And yeah I do remember, sadly. I miss the time reddit had silly inside jokes and comments weren’t buried under bots talking to other bots. I miss Aaron Schwarz. (Although it must be said it was a weird time to be a woman acknowledging you were on Reddit because the times were… Weird back then)
- It was 12 people.
There are dozen of us! Dozen!
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.
