The Android client I use will quit working at the end of the month if nothing changes. Reddit is becoming a publicly-traded corporation sometime this year, and that will no doubt cause big and mostly negative changes based on past experience. And old.reddit.com I suspect won't last long. So this is my redoubt, I can see it's a viable place to fall back to even if I don't completely understand Lemmy and whether it is sustainable if a huge number of Reddit users start using it.
I've been learning to hate reddit over the past few years between:
-its awful redesign
-it's focus on more social media aspects like group chats, friend lists, follower count.
-Shutting down third party apps
-NFTs
-WAY too many ads
Basically everything that an alternative like lemmy solves
I really need some stuff to read on my phone while on the toilet. And reddit is saying I might soon not be able to do that in the way I prefer.
Reddexodus due to them killing 3rd-party apps in a month. I'm weaning myself off reddit, as I don't think I could go cold turkey.
This place seems much nicer, inherently built to mitigate a lot of what I grew to hate about reddit-- namely the various bigotries, disinformation, and, well, the Nazis. And, frankly, I'm tired of the corporate-owned social media sites (even though Reddit managed to skirt that designation for a very long time), and the idea of FOSS, federated social media that's inherently better-moderated by people with zero tolerance for hateful people really does appeal to me.
So, I'm here checking the place out, and we'll see how it goes and how it grows!
Obviously because RiF is shutting down.
On the advice of someone else here I used Power Delete Suite to scrub all my posts and edit my comments to say why I'm leaving Reddit how I did it.
I highly recommend doing it if anyone is leaving Reddit instead of just deleting their account. This way it leaves a protest message and removes content from the platform.
I like how Lemmy is open source and you can set up your own server/instance to connect it to other instances.
I don't like ads.
It's really cool how there are separate communities very similar to Reddit/Twitter/Instagram and yet each community can actually communicate across these services with the same account.
Reddit has gone downhill over time and their API changes were the final straw that caused me to start looking for something new.
I was tired of reddit continuing to push their IPO agenda, too many influences that changed it from being what it was to a ad ridden dumpster fire.
It was mentioned on Reddit. I wanted to give it a try. I'm not in favor of losing old.reddit.com or RIF and, like many others, am looking for a new internet home.
For me, if Reddit is trying to get rid of third-party apps, they're trying to get rid of me. I tried their official app and found it to be not fit for purpose. Especially compared to the superior offerings of third-party developers. The Sync app basically IS reddit to me. That goes away and so does reddit.
I'll be interested to see if Reddit backs down from their current stance in order to avert a mass exodus, and also if ekought people will actually leave to force their hand. Time will tell I guess.
Was sick of the consolidation / enshittification of the net and everything that came with it and one of the ways I can contribute is to post on a platform like lemmy.
I came for the drugs and hookers. So far, pretty disappointed.
Because I like the general interface of (old.)reddit but not its userbase. Nor do I think social media should be a profit-driven, as the practices to keep us engaged is clearly having effects on society in every corner of the world.
I also miss the days of old, when communities were smaller and you could actually get to know people.
Originally because I wanted to check it out when it first launched. I have been checking out reddit alternatives for a while and I've been waiting for a migration to happen from reddit, I figured they aren't going to keep old.reddit going forever. Wasn't expecting the api changes to happen first, but since folks are making the move I'm finally participating here because I want reddit style communities to succeed on the fediverse and there's a lot more people here now for that to happen.
Various reasons:
- Getting banned for random reasons even though I participated in good faith
- Nothing being done about hateful posts and messages
- The company following in Elmo's footsteps and their lack of transparency because corporate greed
I joined after Genzedong got quarantined. Transphobia is less common here which I really appreciate. On the other hand there isn't as big of a community of trans people.
I've been interested in the Fediverse for a long time but didn't have any reason to jump into it because the applications I was aware of did not appeal to me. If I don't use Twitter and Instagram, why would I be interested in Mastodon and Pixelfed? This all changed when Reddit announced their API change. Reddit is the only social media site I use, so Lemmy seems like the perfect reason to jump in.
Because i use RedReader and refuse to use reddit without it. The official apps and website are garbage can residue quality. I have actually had a lemmy account for a while and use mastodon almost every day, but never really made myself get used to lemmy. I am really hoping the RedReader dev ports the app to lemmy as i am not the only one asking and they seem open to the idea
I've been on Reddit since before subreddits were a thing. With the continuing degradation of the primary UIs the only things that kept it usable were the API and old.reddit.com. With one going away it would be foolish to count on the other staying around. I really thought that Reddit knew better than to go full Digg but I guess I was wrong.
So it's time to learn a lesson and move on. I've been enjoying Mastodon for the past few months but I also like to have a place for topic-focused communities so this is the natural place to come to. Looking pretty sweet so far. With the community-based federation model it seems like the closest thing we have to a Usenet 2.0.
Like many here, mostly because Reddit will restrict their API access and kill a lot of features (like the remind me bot) and beloved third party apps.
And I really dislike the direction Reddit is going... Adding a online status to your account, letting random people follow your account, rampant bot spam and I'm pretty sure they will go after the porn subs when they go public.
Searched an alternative to Reddit after the news about API charges. Not because there shouldn't be any payments but the way this is handled.
Also made good experience with Mastodon and like the philosophy of the fediverse.
To be early enough to not have to turn the lights off in my favorite Reddit communities.
Because I like the content and model on Reddit, and want to support a federated and open source Reddit alternative. Would be nice if Lemmy would grow.
I joined around the time /r/chapotraphouse got banned. I didn't and don't listen to the podcast, but I enjoyed participating in an online community with a leftist slant and the cultural values that come with that. And a community that was more about memes and joking than just dry politics all the time. It was cathartic, and I thought the banning justification was total bull shit.
When I learned about the Fediverse and these open source, decentralized services, they struck me as projects that more aligned with my personal values compared to Twitter and Reddit. So I joined up hoping they'd eventually grow to replace those.
I actually have probably been using the Hexbear instance more than the federated instances though I cooled down on that instance over time. Still go every now and then though, but Reddit still has some subreddits that didn't have an analog there or here. Hoping that's going to begin to change.
I had been souring on Reddit for years as I watched the default subs get worse and worse over time and saw cracks in the general community that I either was ignoring when I was younger or better recognized as I got older. I no longer identified with the "average Redditor"
I joined a few months ago, when all of Reddit went down for hours... then only the new site went up at first before old and the API were restored.
It was like a glimpse into the near future. Thus I started my transition into Lemmy and Jerboa, from Reddit and QuantumBadger's RedReader app.
Got fed up with anti-consumer behavior of companies. Projects like Lemmy are really the only long term reliable alternative to the communication style reddit showed me
I like platforms that are owned by the users.
Just chillin, reddit is becoming toxic for me
Escaping Reddit's bullsh*t. I exclusively use Reddit using Infinity, Apollo and old.reddit.com. They are now killing the API (and 3rd party clients for that matter) and I don't think that old.reddit.com will live much longer tbh and I cannot be bothered to use the new Reddit. It takes ages to load and is WAY to bloated. Add the NFT Profile pictures and RPAN into the mix and you have a dead website in my eyes.
it has a large leftist community and hasn't been overrun with FBI and CIA just yet
I've had my eye on it for a while. Now that Reddit is getting super corporate anticipating their IPO, now may be its moment.
Because I was getting fed up wading though endless garbage on the sewage-plant also know as Reddit
same reason I joined Reddit when Digg was starting to behave like a Digg.
I love Apollo and don’t agree with the BS that Reddit is doing. The Musk era of Twitter pushed me to try Mastodon and I’ve loved exploring the Fediverse since then.
I haven't signed up for a Lemmy account yet nor settled on an instance to join, but I'm here through the magic of federation!
When I do probably join, it'll be because of the Reddit API going away. I use Reddit almost exclusively from my phone, and there's no way I'm using their official app with all those ads. Mobile web just results in constant nagging to use their app – plus they recently ran an experiment where they logged out some mobile web users to try and force them into their app.
I learned of it awhile back through an arrrr acquaintance. I would lurk a little here and there. Didn't make a profile until I saw my RIF was going to die... Without RIF there is no reddit.
I've been curious about the fediverse since I first learned about it, which was probably about when Trump's social media company cloned Mastodon instead of creating their own site from scratch. I did some reading and glanced at some different fediverse sites, but couldn't entirely wrap my mind around how the fediverse worked and honestly I was overwhelmed by the server choice aspect, especially since so many Mastodon servers in particular seem focused on specific topics and there wasn't any one specific topic I wanted to interact with more than the others.
Once Elon took over Twitter, I decided to finally sign up for a general Mastodon server out of a voyeuristic desire to see what the people fleeing had to say about their experiences. Joining in the middle of the Twitter exodus meant tons of fediverse tips and explanation posts were being shared and I finally got a better grasp of how the fediverse as a whole worked. I commented on PeerTube from Mastodon, I tried PixelFed and learned the global feed was pretty much all Mastodon posts and wished there was a global PixelFed-only option between local server and entire fediverse, and I finally settled on Calckey because it's way more playful with emojis and text animations but still allowed me to follow all the fascinating scientists that had hopped on the Mastodon train and Calckey formatted their Mastodon posts well.
I had checked out Lemmy, too, when reading up on the fediverse because I use Reddit far more than any other social media site. I initially passed on Lemmy because of server choice paralysis again and also because it didn't look very active. Now that Reddit is making their API unaffordable for third party apps, it seemed like a good time to give Lemmy a chance. The official Reddit app and site are insufferable and I'd rather start over in a smaller community without the ads (I loathe ads) than deal with an app that's too cluttered with irrelevant features like NFTs or use a website that constantly begs me to switch over to that terrible app instead.
I hope this does well. I have been using the internet since the 90s and it has been a crazy evolution. I'd love if we move out from the walled gardens that took over. Maybe I'll just be on the fringes while the masses stay with the corporations, but at least there are good people in these fringes.
/u/awkwardtheturtle
Was looking for an alternative to Reddit, found Lemmy and really like the concept.
When I joined mastodon during the Twitter Diaspora I learnt more about alternativee, (actually) decentralized social Networks and mostly the Fediverse. I wanted to try something different and know more. Thanks of this I've actually realized how fucked up the enveroinment in other commercial social media platforms. I love that the Fediverse is decentralized and maintained by people like me so that companies and the American govt don't spy on me
At least here people are actually willing to have a conversation without ending up insulting you just because you have a different opinion and you're not a white bourgeois girl
Reddit's been spiraling downhill for years. Been searching for an alternative that's not the cesspits of Twitter and 4chan. API is getting killed, government and corporations pushing agendas, armchair experts, subreddit bannings, poor UI/UX, echochambers, hardly any OC, and many many other issues that I'm sure others have already mentioned. I'm dumping the site as soon as old.reddit goes down.
There's nothing but outrage culture on social media. Just looking for a spot to chill really...
I think I just searched for open source reddit and came across Lemmy. I'm really into FOSS and I like decentralized social media so it was a perfect match.
@GoldenDoge Because it is a topic-oriented access to the Fediverse.
I don't have any experience with #Reddit or similar, but rather like that it's a kind of forum where the content is a bit more sorted than in the micro-/macroblogging software. Nevertheless, everyone with accounts from #Misskey, #Mastodon, #Friendica, #Hubzilla etc. can also comment and create posts in #Lemmy communities. So the circle of users is much larger than just Lemmy alone.Freedom
Reddit is an absolute dumpster fire right now.
Honestly just playing around w/ self hosting it.
I've been chasing the old Usenet feel for decades. Reddit came close, but I can see the writing on the wall now. Lemmy's got the possibility to get closer.
Reddit is burning alive, twitter is burned down, facebook is dead, 4chan sucks, fark is old, and nothing else exists in this capacity.
I’ve been looking for a change from Reddit for a while now and as an Apollo user this is the push I needed. So far this seems like a much better alternative to Reddit!
