I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
Reddit killed my favorite app Joey so I, nuked my Reddit account by talking shit about a mod, came here, and never looked back.
Exact same backstory here
Reddit was a death of 1000 cuts.
The strictness of communities. Shadowbans. Intercommunity drama. Overly critical usrers and doomers. Removing the ability to see upvotes/downvotes. Old reddit slowly going away. Api changes.
One day i just found i wasnt having fun on reddit anymore. It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media. I spent 12 years on that platform and l learned a lot. But now its mostly its just clickbait and drama to keep you on.
So i went on lemmy, contributed to the code for a bit. Found i liked piefed because of the better fediverse interop. Stayed here and contributed a tiny bit of code.
It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media.
I hate to tell you this, but you left New York and ended up in New Jersey.
NGL, there’s parts of Jersey that are lovely.
I really meant that they left one thing for something very close to what they left
Maybe its because im on piefed now, but my feed is VERY nice and healthy (mentally).
SHUT UP, WEENIE BOY!!!
nah jk
I did. Mostly because at my age and with my shit eyesight, I was looking for something I was familiar with layout wise.
Old lemmy to the rescue! It’s nice here, like Reddit was many, many years ago. Small, community-based and not rage-bot driven.
My word, as I look back on how Reddt pivoted in the last 5 years, I really can see it now.
This is really like the nice parts of Jersey. It’s lovely compared to the fiasco I left.
I’m glad we’re here together, brother.
Sister, actually… :)
I’m pleased to be here and glad you are too… Thank you for the kindness and you are most very welcome my friend!
Hah! Im gonna have to use this
oh god the intercommunity drama. I got banned for one group just for participating in another. Reminds me of middle school when I felt forced to pick between two fighting friends. 🙄
Right now, you cant say meshcore (like the word) in the meshtastic subreddit. You would never know until people started getting randomly banned. LOL sometimes its just want one mod decided for the others.
I just dropped in there to seeif my particular device is having issues and bam more drama.
Don’t forget the view in app and the constant sign in notifications. Fuck off. You’re a glorified website that should keep ya nose out.
Lol im litterally using firefox on mobile right now.
Its ok to have an app, but wtf at least dont get rid of existing funtionality that works much worse…
Now we have interinstance drama!
Reddit has just been steadily declining in quality the past few years.
The bullshit with the api and 3rd party apps was the start of it for me. I use to love alien blue. Then came the censorship… I’ve gotten two warnings so far within maybe a year of each other about upvoting, not making a comment or a post that would be offensive, inappropriate, or alarming but a fucking up vote. Apparently it violates a Reddit rule. Best part… they won’t even fucking tell me what I upvoted that was so egregious.
That was the final straw for me.
why a lot of people migrated here, right? By the way, I like you, I’ll follow you :D
I can help you spoof the API and get your favorite third party app going again, if you really want. I was using RIF up until a few weeks ago. Still works too, I just got banned and decided it wasn’t worth it to start over.
In the wake of the API shit I would use the report function for basically everything via browser. It was the easiest way to block a user and waste effort for the mods who stuck around all in one go. Never really posted or commented so I didn’t catch a ban that way.
And by everything I mean I had a short fuse. Bad grammar, saw the post twice, the post or reply is just too “reddit”, the post didn’t bitch about the API thing enough, accidentally clicked on it, saw the post twice, user beat me to the punch with a joke worse than mine, sometimes I wouldn’t even read posts and just start smashing that report button.
My understanding is that moderation tools were also fucked over like the apps we loved. So to me it was a good way to kick em while they were down and make them get familiar with the shitty interface to do their volunteer moderation for free.
Without fail I would report admin and mod comments. That’s probably what got the bans for the first few accounts. Eventually I got browser fingerprint banned and found my way here.
I joined after finding a good username/avatar combo
There was obscure rules and hard to post in some subreddits. Sick of the people/bots
I used Apollo for Reddit on my phone. The dev was very active in the subreddit, and using Apollo truly felt like being a member of a club. When they shut down the API access, Christian, the dev, tried to negotiate with them to keep the app alive. Not only was Reddit not negotiating in good faith, but they actively lied about the interactions. Unfortunately for them, Christian produced the receipts that made them look like idiots. (But they apparently couldn’t care less.) I went looking for alternatives and found Lemmy. Voyager is “heavily inspired” by Apollo (which means it’s almost a carbon copy), and scratches the itch. Now, with PieFed, I’m even more happy here.
the 3party killstreak. My app got some workarounds later but decided against reddit
Fuck Spez
Former mod of r/jailbait
Never let him live that down. any time you mention Spez, mention that.
It is like “X formerly known as Twitter”
“Steve Huffman - also known as /u/Spez, former mod of /r/jailbait”
It started as fuck spez, but I’ve learned the value of opposing homogeneity online and I will never go back.
Reddit basically banned 3rd party apps to fake a growth and show shareholders they can be profitable… so yeah, they can get fucked.
Yup. Landed here during the APIcolypse and haven’t looked back. The only time I visit Reddit now is when I have obscure tech issues, and the only search results are people asking about it on Reddit.
Cuz got perma banned from r*edit. I argued with one of the many power tripping mods. Anyway my mental health is a lot better after the switch
To yell at delusional leftists who are misrepresenting progressive ideals and actions and roleplaying online instead of going out and making friends and reforming community, the thing we desperately need to combat actual fascism. I hate the circle-jerking and avoidant-personalities being allowed to thrive without pushback. This is bigger than all of us and yet the people with any shred of intelligence are doing everything but what we need to do.
That’s why you got on Lemmy? How did you even hear about this den of delusional leftists.
There there, it will be okay.
Well, I guess to be completely honest with you guys
I got banned from reddit after 13+ years and over half a million comment karma. Same username if you want to go take a trip.
There was a post in the game collecting sub and the guy, a European, had a MAGA hat in the background. People were going back and forth, as they do. One guy then says that a European having a MAGA hat as a novelty souvenir is fine. To which I responded, Nazis only belong 6 feet under. I was slightly worried that a simpleton may interpret it as a threat, but I figured there’s no way someone with common sense and critical thinking skills would think that.
Well, of course this one hit a little close to home to the admins, big surprise, and I was permanently banned. 13 years and 500,000 points later, I get banned for saying nazis deserve to be dead.
Honestly, I’m not surprised given how the site was going. Posts being removed, comments being deleted. That used to happen back in the day but never to the degree that it is happening now.
My only chuckle on the way out is knowing I modified the reddit API to use third party apps long after they were shut down.
I do wish this place was a bit more active, but it’s still pretty good. It’s not like I don’t have alts on reddit anyway. My only regret was not selling my account for a ton of money before it got banned. Oh well lol
My story is similar to yours, though I just got a warning, not a ban.
The first warning was for “abusing the report function” after I reported a post defending Derek Chauvin. I stopped reporting to the admins after that, and over time grew increasingly uneasy with the direction of Reddit as a more and more fascist-friendly organization, and the willing and eager contribution of Reddit’s CEO to millions of Covid deaths left a sour taste (and a nasty cough).
I got the second warning about a week ago after I joked the US government should go into the White House and Melania’s lover’s residence to arrest them since Trump pardoned a drug dealer, by the same reasoning the US government used to abduct Maduro and his wife. This was “threatening violence.” That was the last straw, I quit Reddit after that.
It’s not even that I mind them erring on the side of caution, or in this case on the side of insanity, it’s the double standard that irks me the most. An obvious joke goes too far, but in certain subreddits (you know the ones) users can advocate ethnic cleansing, war crimes, etc. with reckless abandon.
That’s a great story, honestly, 13 years?! That’s already an exaggeration based on a simple comment. I came here looking for a safe space, where you’re not criticized for not following a certain trend
Yep, that’s also one of the reasons I came here. This feels like old reddit. I like the plethora of apps that are fully customizable, also like the old days of reddit. It really was a great time until it wasn’t. This community is much more open. Transparency here is a wonderful thing, something that reddit lost a long time ago.
Freedom of free software.
Reddit killed my favourite apps with their obnoxious API access charges.
I got banned from Reddit for quoting Worf from Star Trek.
What, they took issue with “Good tea. Nice house.”?
