What brought you to Lemmy?
Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
reddit killed 3rd party apps and i don't wanna use their shitty app or websites on my phone so i just ditched it for lemmy
Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests
When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.
Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit
Reddit is shit now. PCMR is just memes and weird Linux vs Windows rivalry, Piracy sub is just memes and moral grandstanding, most gaming subs are just bots posting "news" articles, AIO/AITAH are just karma farming for people selling accounts or fanfic quality fantasies, many Linux subs are either insufferably elitist, have a weird fetish for distro-hopping or are just circlejerks (looking at you r/linuxmint).
The only thing it's still good for is niche interests which I doubt will remain the case for long.
That's a bummer because the Linux communities here are super welcoming and helpful, and it seems like people expect the opposite. Probably because of reddit.
Yeah, totally different vibe here on Lemmy I'm happy to say. There are helpful people on Reddit too of course just few and far between depending on the sub.
I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.
I am brand spankin' new and didn't realize mods migrated too! That's great! Only thing I wish there was, was the database wealth of information that reddit has but that takes time and humans make that possible.
Oh yeah, it's impossible to mod effectively via reddit's official mobile app. And admin was becoming increasingly inconsistent in its demands and communication.
When Reddit killed Apollo.
Me too. API death of reddit.
They thought disabling RIF would force me to use the Reddit Mobile App, but it just got me to break up with reddit finally after 10+ years.
Who nose, maybe this was all part of their plan to get rid of Reddit's original users and make room for a younger culture who doesn't care about privacy or ads or whatever.
You were replaced by 20 llm agent -> more ads revenue
It was Boost for Reddit for me. Note: I hate the ads in Boost for Lemmy, but I still havent jumped ship or started to pay for ad-free. When I go on contract at work (I hope) it'll be more possible.
e: wait, it's $5, one time? Ok, I'm killing the ads now.
I want to support the platforms that look at people for their interactions, not their marketability. APIs were going to be dead at Reddit and I wasn't willing to stand over the body with a knife in hand.
I took a meandering path to get here, but that’s the same reason for me.
Reddit app wouldn’t let me block those dumb He Gets Us ads. Even after blocking the account, I still saw them. I swapped to Apollo to avoid it, then Reddit dropped Apollo, so I dropped Reddit.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
Pleasantly surprised to see so many Boost users in this thread. Great app
Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.
Because I love everything open source.
I used the Android app Boost for Reddit. One day I opened it as usual, browsed as usual, but something felt a bit odd. Turns out it was updated into being a Lemmy app instead. Fair enough then, I continued my scrolling.
The death of third party Reddit apps.
Paywalling the API was the final straw for me. I saw they reduced the price to something "reasonable" for the top few 3rd party apps, but too little, too late. Leading up to that, I understood the ads, I was satisfied with using old.reddit, and I thought we were making progress with fighting management. Killing all the small time apps and turning Apollo et al into an income stream (or, really, stifling competition to their ad-infested 1st patty app) showed there was no way back to the reddit I knew
I kept getting banned, got tired of making accounts. this place has its issues, but reddit is worse
Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.
I read about the Fediverse years ago and opened a couple accounts across a couple platforms. As I expected at the time, too low volume of people to really keep me engaged.
I stayed on reddit until same as everyone else here; they killed 3rd party apps and mod tools. I was a mod on a small, friendly little niche hobby sub. It started getting overrun by bots and MAGA types who wanted to make every post about guns and women staying home to serve their husbands. Good members started leaving the sub and I turned from having fun to loathing it very quickly. I created some fresh Fediverse accounts and made the move for real.
No ads and killing off third party Reddit apps.
i think it was privacytools.io that got me here first, then reddit fucked up in 2023 and i actually got to use it more.
I used Reddit for a long time, since the extremely early days of the site, back when most of the content was posted by Reddit staff and there was really just one page.
While I wasn't enthralled with the move from old.reddit.com to the new reddit.com, the site was at least still accessible via the old interface, absent a minor quirk here and there in how Markdown was interpreted, and different ways of customizing subreddit appearance. That wasn't enough to cause me to leave.
What did it for me was that I expected that when they moved from their growth phase to monetization phase that they'd make some changes that I wouldn't like, but I didn't expect them to end access for third-party clients, which was not okay with me.
Access to the content we create not being controlled by any corporation or any person. That's about it for me, even though there were other things I did not like about reddit.
When RIF shit down, talklittle sent people over to lemmy.world as a replacement for reddit (even though he himself went to tildes). The signup page was laggy so I signed up for a different instance instead.
I left when it became clear they had no interest in dealing with nazi sympathisers, and when it became clear that transphobia was acceptable, as long as it was "civil". This was long before the Reddit API exodus
I found lemmy when looking for fediverse/federated Reddit like platforms, and spun up an instance to test it out. It was basically only me on the instance until the Reddit exodus happened, and then suddenly the instance and lemmy add a whole saw a huge growth in traffic.
And then we spun up a piefed instance when it became clear the lemmy devs also hold some shitty beliefs, so that users who wanted an alternative could have one.
I'm not going anywhere. Federated/decentralised social media is the future as far as I'm concerned. At the very least, it's the only future I'll consider.
❤️💛💚💙 Thank you for making a home for so many of us here.
Banned for saying that I would murder Andrew Tate given the opportunity.
He literally abuses women and likely has murdered some. He is disgusting. The fact our government has used surveillance laws and things like The Smith Act to go after leftist causes / organization and never the KKK or proud boys... says a lot about how much these entities (including the wealthy) care about equity or human rights. Never are any of the right wing extremists labeled as terrorists but the black panthers were.
Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit's relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.
I came looking for the conversations with all the beautiful people here.
Okay fine, it was separation from difect corporate control.
But I stay to read the opinions of all you beautiful people
EMPRESS brought me into lemmy, she quit later because she got banned off .ml, i stuck around, and eventually started my own instance.
Banned from Reddit for taking the piss out of the far right.
Deleted from ml for taking the piss out of the far left.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
I got banned by reddit by saying it wouldn't be a shame if the idiots who ride motorbikes on pavements in towns and nearly hit people ended up being hit by a bus
Accessibility options of different apps then reddit app.
liberal left
Terrible Reddit experience; I still wanted to answer questions because of boredom just not on Reddit. Long story short, I experienced a romance scam/sextortion where a Reddit user manipulated me into sexting him by being my "friend" and he knew I was at a vulnerable place in my life because I told him that I was healing from a breakup since I genuinely thought he wanted to help and get to know me---he figured that I was lonely and hurt. Thankfully, I was quick enough to stop the convo before he threatened me to send him money or other things. Lesson learned.
Well I got banned off Reddit for no reason, but I think it was using a VPN. I was also in the process of trying to degoogle and increase privacy, so I figured Lemmy was the best option to solve getting banned off reddit and increasing privacy
i was temp banned initially, thought i would use another account that was untouched avoiding the sub, then i was getting multiple emails, found out they banned all the accounts i even forgot about too. then the wierd shadowban came for final account, appealed for a few months with no luck, while already made an account on lemmy.
this happened to loads of other users too, im also in another forums where they tracked the shadowbans more clearly. had to navigate throught he tankie instances for a few months without knowing that i was participating in, then found out i could block them, plus having do deal .world politics users too.
Since I am here for near 5 years, maybe I just like to replace greedy-shitholes with fediverse alternatives as soon as possible.
Banned for no reason I could figure out. Never got any response from mods when appealing. Pissed me off that an account that I had for 12+ years with no warnings of any kind was shadow banned.