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

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

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.

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

I kept getting banned, got tired of making accounts. this place has its issues, but reddit is worse

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.

When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.

Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit

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 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.

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.

Accessibility options of different apps then reddit app.

liberal left