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That stupid day when Elon carried a sink around Twitter HQ.

The developer of Boost for Reddit remade the app for Lemmy called Boost for Lemmy, and it's the exact same viewing experience as before. It's a bit sad that in comparison Lemmy is lacking content i yearn for, but what can ya do?😅

Reddit's fall

I got banned from Reddit, which is why I am here.

I can't tolerate that kind of hypocrisy, and I am tired of my favourite subs getting hijacked.

Rules are fine, but don't apply on everyone equally. If you catch sight of a mod on his bad day, then you are done. But somehow they are okay with few people being total psychos. This selective treatment is just criminal. another case of "Rules for thee but not for me."

The Reddit API situation brought me here. It's a much nicer crew.

I got shadow banned on Reddit. I suspect it’s because I kept using the old.reddit interface. I would have let some ads/suggested communities into my feed, but I hate infinite scrolling.

i have been looking to exit reddit since like 2019, but nothing had really matured to be viable until fediverse in '23. then i was on Kbin for awhile but that imploded so I went to lemmy.

reddit subs were cool in the 2010s but starting getting weird after Trump was elected, and I suddenly a lot of my comments were being removed and banned, then I got my first sitewide ban in '20, but it was reversed and then every new account I had kept getting bans because my views were seen by extremists as intolerable. my site bans kept happening over inncuous comments on my city subreddit, which seemed to have a lot of very unhinged far-right and far-left posters, and my factual or contextual comments about things like housing policy, homeless regulations, criticisms of politicians, etc. were branded 'hate speech' buy one or both sides because they like their delusional hug boxes rather than acknowledging the limits of our political and social reality.

I also got into trouble a lot on book subreddits for talking about the books I read because they dealt with subject matter that is uncomfortable for american liberals who dominating the literary spaces.

I've also noticed a huge drop off in quality from all the subs I used to visit, my local sub is basically just tourists and people bitching about homeless people, restaurant fees, housing costs and how lonely/sad/friendless they are now. a couple of my hobby subs totally shut down, and a couple of the others just became bully pulpits for the mods political views and viral advertising. it sucks. I don't have any temptation to return and participate in such captured and negative nonsense.

I got banned from reddit because I said Nazis don't deserve to live. When I tried to appeal it I showed numerous examples of similar things being said throughout reddit's history and that killing Nazis was an important part of my country's history. I guess its suddenly not allowed anymore on that platform so I am here now.

Also I've seen way worse said about trans people on reddit but that is OK for some reason.

I was shared an article about reddit shitting the bed (API thing) that mentioned ActivityPub and Lemmy, so I checked it out on a whim. Been around since.

Lemmy has a Canadian instance. Pretty much the only place you can have online discourse without getting spammed by bots or doxxed by some Maple MAGAt divorcee.

I heard about Lemmy on Reddit around the time of the Reddit API lockdown, and it appealed to me, so I joined and have been here since

Reddit shat itself and on its users by forcing people to use an unusable app, and since I only found reddit tolerable via 3rd party apps I stumbled across Lemmy while looking for alternatives.

I liked the idea of a federated platform run by people and not big tech.

Getting more and more annoyed by corpos turning into Nazi Bars, basically

They broke RIF with the API changes, and Voyager for Lemmy was the recommended alternative at the time. Still here 3 years later.

I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account because, as much as I hate to admit it, the site is often a good source of information for hobby projects etc, but I’ve gone completely read-only. I get what I need and then leave - no voting, no comments, no messaging.

IIRC I joined before the Reddit API protests. I wanted an alternative where I would be more free to speak my mind. The problem is, Voat and Ruqqus got overtaken by white supremacists, Tildes is too much of a walled garden and both Snapzu and Hubski are basically dead.

I created a Mastodon account in 2022 when Musk took over Twitter, but wasn't really active there. When Reddit closed down their API in 2023 I started using Lemmy daily. Now I'm on Mastodon, Lemmy, PieFed, PeerTube, Bookwyrm and more. Love the fediverse!

Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.

What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo "blackmailing" them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.

https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.

I just had my quarter-life crisis and was starting to have a very FOSS period of my life. Forgot from where, but I heard someone mentioning Mastodon so I joined; this was months before the Reddit API fiasco

Being banned from Reddit

The only useable app on ios (imo) for reddit for the longest time was Apollo. The dev had something like Kofi setup so people could toss him some money for his long term efforts. Reddit one day decides to charge for API use or something along those lines which would end up costing them ~~hundreds of thousands of dollars~~ (see end). I think they accused people of profiting off their API. Keep in mind Apollo was so popular because the reddit app was utter shit, but they can monetise users on their own app easier (and ads). An app a sizeable portion of the iOS community had been using for years, gone within weeks due to reddit greed. Fuck that place and fuck reddit staff.

The app is still in the App Store, Christian’s eulogy says it best.

Apollo was an iOS app for browsing Reddit from 2015 to 2023. In 2023 Reddit announced significant price changes to their API, going from free to potentially costing tens of millions of dollars per year, with 30 days notice before developers would start incurring charges. As a result, Apollo was forced to shut down after the better part of a decade building for an incredible, supportive community. With over 100,000 five star ratings, and many accolades, I was incredibly proud of what Apollo accomplished.

I simply wanted a fresh space to build new communities on a service that better promotes the visibility of content. Reddit is busy, but it's also old and tired. Every community name is taken. All the names are used up. Some are actively maintained with enthusiasm, some are run by skeleton crews and others are mostly abandoned. Just because a site has all the people doesn't mean you can get engagement there because more people also means more competition for visibility.

Got banned on Reddit because i said the world was flat (sarcastically joking with another user) then the mod banned me for breaking a sub rule (spreading misinformation or something), then i got perma banned for ban evasion, so i looked for an alternative to reddit.

My reddit app stopped working one day and I had to choose between my mental health and more suffering and I chose suffering.

Got tired of the reddit app and decided to switch to lemmy

Ironically, a Reddit mod sent me this way (well, it was probably a bot). Somehow I'd managed to play by the rules for 13 years, but what do I know? Apparently it's bad to suggest someone with very clear emotional issues find someone they trust to talk to about things - a friend, relative, or professional. It was a short interaction with a random commenter, but I was genuinely trying to be helpful.

I was banned for ... bullying? Hate speech? Something like that?

Who knows. I forget.

I went and deleted it all, anyway. My entire account. No training their AI from my data, thanks.

And fuck 'em all to Uranus!

This place is far more interesting, generally the people are far more open, intelligent, and polite to begin with (and not automatically looking to go to war because someone else had the temerity to slightly disagree with them over politics, art, religion, whatever). There is definitely a more community feel overall.

I wish I'd been banned from Reddit sooner!

I was looking for an alternative long before the reddit API thing. I had encountered lemmy and logged in a few times but it was a shit show. Just a couple of prolific posters from .ml spamming propaganda.

Not really knowing any of the background and the proclivities of the devs, it was bizarre. I felt like this progressive new decentralised network had been infested by pariahs.

Every 6 months or so I'd log in just to make sure I hadn't misunderstood something. Weird.

Anyhow, then the reddit API thing happened and suddenly there was enough normal people around to just block .ml

Got banned by an AI on reddit, my appeal was rejected by the same AI, And after thinking it over I realized getting to see all the advertisements and bots replying to bot posts really wasn't worth the effort of creating a new profile

It was the API bullshit about 3 years ago now, Apollo for Reddit was the only useable format and with that gone I was desperate for the old internet. So much better here

boost for lemmy announcement post on a random community about the API pricing protest

I wanted to try out this "twitter" thing everyone was talking about in 2019, but it wouldn't let me sign up without a mobile phone so I went with fedi instead.

Reddit imploded and I never went back, simple as.

I came here when I wanted to show some solidarity for the API protests by not using Reddit until they're over. Figured I'd take the chance to try out some alternatives, and stuck with /kbin, now Mbin.

I got Perma banned from Reddit for ban evasion. So I went looking for alternatives.

I am not really sure what was the final straw with my main account to get it perma banned. I am pretty sure it was something obnoxious I said about someone in Trump Administration. Or maybe it was me being a dick in r/movies. The stupid shit that stays on repeat in that sub was just idiotic.

Anyway my main account got banned and when. I was drunk and not thinking I logged in with one of my alt account to visit some of my favorite porn subs and it got perma banned too.

I have other reddit accounts but I have just moved on. I do miss some of the subs though.

I don't care much for the "fediverse" as a concept, I just wanted a non-US alternative to reddit.

I am a huge believer in free software and researched a bit if there was any open source social media.

I found out the Fediverse was a pretty successful attempt at this and now I am active mostly on piefed and Mastodon.

Contrary to most people here, I don't have a huge gripe with Reddit, that I wouldn't have with any other corporate owned social media. I am here mostly because I believe in this project and want to see it evolve. I don't simply see it as a Reddit / Twitter alternative.

Permanently banned from reddit for ban evasion. I didn't know I wasn't allowed to subscribe to incompatible subbreddits. I think one of them was conspiracy, don't remember the other. I just think conspiracy theories are entertaining.

Reddit turning to nazi infested shit while simultaneously making the site annoying to even view by ending API support and making their web layout even shittier than it already was without using the old.reddit domain.

Permabanned.