I got the warning for supporting Luigi Mangione. I immediately looked for an alternative.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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The Reddit APIcolypse of 2023. I came crawling back to Reddit a few weeks ago though. Lemmy doesn't have the size to support the kind of niches that Reddit has, and Reddit has a much broader user base as well, so conversations are more interesting because I can't predict what 80% of the responses to any topic will be.
It was there.
All other social media sucked and were bad. Reddit wasn't that bad and I had my subs that where fun. Then reddit blew up and so many people started flooding with their agenda. Specially once Elmo bought out twitter. So called "twitter refugees" came over and turned it into twitter wanna be. This got bot farms active and now every second post if not every big post you see is just a bot post with a very clear agenda. And now you can't even look at their profile histories anymore.
When I heard of Lemmy I was, hmm ok maybe it's good. And to be honest, it feels like old school reddit, which is awesome. Yes, you get less interactions, but they are more meaningfull than the ones on reddit.
I was never really much of a Redditor, but the API changes what caused me to stop visiting it completely.
The reason I use Lemmy more than I did Reddit is because it has replaced basically all of my other social sites so I visit this one instead of all of the other sites I had in the past.
I'm tired of the "hot take" toxic culture that has spread from other social media to reddit. It's just ragegagement now like everything else. Even my gaming subreddits are hostile in the comments now.
Mainly curiosity
I'm migrating from Reddit so this is my take from that.
Privacy concerns, ethicality of Reddit, and wanting to cocreate in a better community.
Communists
Back in 2021 I fell really deep into the whole Privacy Rabbit hole. Switched to Linux, degoogeld my Phone. All the classics. I never had much social media, no insta, no tiktok. I only had Reddit. Then I searched for alternatives of Reddit and found the back then freshly created german server feddit.de (sadly not arround anymore)
So yea. Was not really active in the first two years, because it was reeaaallly dead here. Felt like one new interessting post a month. Not much more. Then in 2023 suddenly there came a huge wave from more Reddit users because of the API Situation. Since then there is finally enough action here, then I fully deleted my Reddit and was finally able to call this my new home :)
Still thanks for all of you coming around in 2023. Was really boring here before you guys.
When these threads come up, it's always interesting to see how many of the "I was banned for no reason at all, I only said puppies are cute" users have a post history here on Lemmy that makes me think "I don't agree with full-on bans, but in this case, I can kind of see why they might've done it."
Also, I always wonder with these how many people are saying "I was banned from Reddit" when actually they were only banned from a specific sub. It's super easy to get banned from the average sub on Reddit (at least it used to be). Much higher bar, generally speaking with caveats, to get banned from the site itself.
Having said all that, I did get a temporary site-wide suspension from Reddit, the REAL DEAL, for using the word "retard" in the accurate non-abusive way when discussing methods to slow the growth of mold. So, there's that.
As for what made me join this place? I was already ready to be done with Reddit. I was aware of Mastodon, checked it out, definitely not for me, but by looking into that I found out that there was a news aggregator style alternative of similar principle called Lemmy.
Reddit alternatives seem to attract people who were banned from Reddit. I think that explains a lot about the general vibe on here. I was never on Voat but I’m aware of its reputation, and a lot of the time Lemmy feels like how I imagine Voat was, same personalities, different politics.
i never used Reddit, but came from 9gag here in the search for something where you can actually filter the content. being foss and decentralized (both of which I'm a huge fan) was an added bonus
Just a heads’ up — the majority of accounts that will see this post aren’t from lemmy.world. For example, I’m from feddit.online. Your posts are federated, which means your instance, lemmy.world, passes your post to our instances, where we see them.
I understand that, meaning what made you join the community, if you will.
I try to join all of the fediverse services to give em a fair shake. I haven’t tried Helos yet, and I can’t get into the wanderer instance I’m most interested in, but I’ve tried all the big ones: mastodon, loops, pixelfed, bookwyrm, funkwhale, etc. I’m a social media nerd so I like to stay up-to-date on what folks are doing in the space, and the fediverse is the one that most closely aligns with my values.
I just looked up feddit.online, but what is it exactly? Is it a Lemmy instance or more a collection of different instances on one feed? I'm still new to the Fediverse and the whole thing so sorry if I sound ignorant.
It’s a piefed instance. One of the coolest things about the fediverse is that you can follow from different kinds of platforms, so some folks follow from a mastodon instance, or a sharkey instance, or a pixelfed instance, but they can still participate the same as people on a lemmy instance. Piefed is basically the same ui as you see, with a few minor differences, but some of them get pretty exotic.
Ok I had a reply typed up here last night but I must have deleted it by accident :/ it was a post saying how cool it all is and thanking you for explaining it!
I am not on .world
But came during the great reddit blackout a while ago
Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole because they were defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was disgusting and abhorrent.
I was on my way out anyway but getting banned for thinking infants shouldn't have their genitals mutilated at all was the final nail that made me jump ship.
I still use it occasionally anonymously for porn but I've noticed a lot of the porn subs are shutting down so I'll eventually quit using it altogether.
I miss lemmynsfw. Fedinsfw isn't even remotely as good and as far as I'm aware there's no app for it so I'm forced to open it in my browser and it's not very optimized
I really wanted aether to happen and it never happened but this is similar enough. The only big difference is no baked in 6 month deletion cycle but if I had my own server presumably I could just delete stuff that often and send out requests for content deletion at that interval and not all of them would get honored but probably most of them would.
I wholeheartedly agree with that developers sentiment that if any of my statements were really all that positively OR negatively profound that they would have been saved elsewhere by that time. It would reduce a lot of instances where people look up someone's posts from 5-10 years ago that became politically incorrect in that time and are representative of a mindset they've probably outgrown. Doesn't make it impossible, just unlikely, and to me that's good enough.
Came here with the FuckSpez wave and boycott. never owned a reddit account, decided to make one here because smaller forum 0 less scary
so. I signed up for reddit because of some mmos I was on. It kinda seemed like a nice slashdot alternative and was a bit more reminiscent of the old internet usenet in some ways. I stopped playing the mmos and it was just sorta a time waster at that point. I had been hearing about decentralized social media like mastadon but I never liked twitter even before it became xitter. when the api fiasco happened there was a lot of mention of decentralized alternatives and since these are setup in a way I more like I went to it. Started on kbin because earnest was way prolific and doing things then when he had life issues and kbin folded went to mbin but with piefed I saw that same gusto so switched to it. I feel I have more control here than I ever did on reddit.
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