I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
Where my Sync peeps at??
the API fiasco.
This was the same reason for me.
I used Apollo to browse Reddit. It was really a great app, and it made browsing Reddit enjoyable. The dev, Christian, listened to his users, frequently updated and improved the app, was active in the subreddit, and seemed to care about making it a positive experience. It really was like being a part of a club.
It wasn’t just that Reddit shut down the API, but the way they boldfaced lied about Christian and their interactions with him. He was feverishly in talks with them to save the app, but Reddit not only wasn’t negotiating in good faith, but even worse, lying about the interactions to try to smear Christian and make him look like the villain. It was then that I knew that Reddit would never be the same, and I started looking for alternatives.
I tried several, but Lemmy seemed to be the closest to Reddit and scratched the itch. Not only that, an amazing dev created Voyager, which is heavily inspired by Apollo, (pretty much a direct copy), and makes me feel at home. There’s not as many communities here as subreddits over there, but I have curated a great Home feed, which includes most of my interests and that I enjoy browsing. I can honestly say the comments here are much better and more authentic. On the whole I get real replies and have better conversations instead of trolls and confrontations like I frequently did at Reddit. I do stop in over there sometimes out of boredom and browse, but it’s really not the same as before. (And maybe it is, and I was just fooling myself and not seeing it.) I don’t think I’ve posted or commented on Reddit since Apollo died except on live sports game feeds, which I do miss over here. I found a regional instance that I like, and, on the whole, I really enjoy it here.
TLDR: API killed Apollo.
Same journey for me. Digg > Reddit > Lemmy. I do need leave .world though.
I was on .world too, but I’m from Georgia, so I like being on yall.theatl.social much better. It’s a smaller, more tight knit community, and it’s in Atlanta, so it’s more-or-less local for me.
Same journey here.
My story’s pretty much this.
Well, I was originally here to promote a movie…
I had a crush on you as a teenager when I saw you in suicide squad
I got banned from reddit for saying the genocide in Gaza was bad.
I got banned for saying Israel was a fascist state and this was years before the current genocide started. Zionists have infiltrated that platform good and proper.
Most of us kinda didn’t realize that Israel is a disgusting abomination until Oct 7th
These parasites really crossed some lines
Never again 🤡
I believe the politically correct term to appease the only “acceptable” narrative is war not genocide to describe a very clear targeting of Palestinian children Tsk Tsk for you not knowing it’s common knowledge at this point /s
Reddit killed RIF. I’d already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.
…didn’t stay on Jerboa long
What client do you use?
I switched to Connect, and have liked it well enough that I haven’t tried any others
Same story, except I have used Connect from day one.
Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit’s official app was a turd sandwich.
I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.
API debacle. Went from Apollo for Reddit to Voyager for Lemmy
Fuck u/spez
This. Lying bastard.
I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I’ve been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.
(I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
Bromies love their chains
My Reddit app stopped working…
Stopped working? Like the app crashed?
Bias for FOSS
I might sound illeterate but what is Foss?
Free and open source software
Free & Open Source Software
(Free as in freedom, not as in “costs nothing”)
Invented by GNU together with the GPL (GNU general public license)
Supposed to make both making and using software accessible to all, and protect the software from being stolen from the public
Free open source software
User can audit the code 🤡User relies on some tech bro to audit the code but hey at least there is some transparency
I like open protocols and free software, and during the API exodus there was finally enough content that I wanted to jump ship.
of course I had annoyances with reddit, but I have annoyances with Lemmy too.
it’s still preferable imho
Started on Digg moved to reddit when Digg shot itself in the foot moved to lemmy when reddit shot itself in the foot. I will say I post and comment way more on here. Than I ever did on digg and reddit combined. This place feels more like old school forms than social media. Where people come out of the woodwork to be jerks. Ether because your views don’t match theirs or you get some spelling or grammar that’s not 100% perfect vs just engaging with your ideas for a constructive discussion. I can’t tell how many times I have come back to a reply and gone " you make a good point." on lemmy.
I joined Hexbear for the hentai.
I don’t know why this feels so genuine
It shouldn’t, Hexbear has a strict no-porn rule, Hentai included.
Had my account permabanned on Reddit by mods on a power trip.
Then they cut third party support so my app stopped working.
Centralised Social media is a disaster waiting to happen. You just can’t trust corporates. They will be corrupted eventually.
