I value freedom and love free / libre / open source software. After the US trade war against basically everyone I searched for non-US Reddit alternative. Lemmy is a great combination.

Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.

When Reddit started charging for their API Key. Killed off Apollo, best Reddit app on iOS. Didn’t want to try the Reddit App. After Apollo officially shutdown, I stuck around reddit through old.reddit and it wasn’t the same. Deleted all my accounts and jumped over to Lemmy. Joined Lemm.ee then that shut down and moved over to lemdro.id

I left Reddit because I realized that the people running it were complete assholes who believed money was more important than community.

What made me interested in Lemmy was the decentralized nature. What made me stay is how it reminded me of Reddit a decade ago and of course the community.

Another vote for Rexodus.

Typical angry reddit user. I didn’t like that they allowed r/conservative to be a sub full of racist shit. Then they banned one of my favorite sub reddits. They’re greedy and only allow you to use their shitty app.

Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests

Reddit being reddit caused me to look around.

The nice beeple at beehaw drew me in.

Now I have a couple accounts (beehaw was the first) and I haven’t really run into many rude people. I like it here.

The loss of Reddit third party apps and the reasons they were giving for them doing it felt like it was going to be a slippery slope of shit. The Reddit app was also shit at the time and still is.

With Lemmy, I can just go looking for another app if there’s something I don’t like and even if I don’t switch between them, they also seem to be way more configurable too.

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.

Because I love everything open source.

the 3rd party shutdown

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.

Lol. Reddit hasn’t been leftist in a long time if it ever really was. There were some leftist spaces, and I guess a lot of users were left-of-center, but the platform certainly wasn’t.

I came over here when they blocked third party apps. I didn’t join earlier because I thought it’d be similar to Voat, which was apparently horrible and an alt-right cesspool. I was pleasantly surprised. I like that people can have actual discussions here without things being flooded by thousands of comments.

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