Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
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.
When Reddit killed Apollo.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
Reddit told me I wasn’t allowed to use a non-shitty application to read their content any more.
I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.
I am brand spankin’ new and didn’t realize mods migrated too! That’s great! Only thing I wish there was, was the database wealth of information that reddit has but that takes time and humans make that possible.
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.
Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.
They killed my favorite app “rif”, so I started using the web version. Then they made the web version almost unusable with the “open this in our app” banner on every page which was the last straw for me. Can’t use third party apps, and the web version is constantly nagging you to not use it? Stupid. Now I just use Lemmy on Firefox and have had 0 issues.
I was already “over” Reddit and fully invested in Lemmy by the time RIF went down, but RIF actually going from 100% working to not working…I actually watched it happen. That was surreal. I think that’s when it really hit me that I’m not considered economically viable anymore.
The death of third party Reddit apps.
I used Reddit for a long time, since the extremely early days of the site, back when most of the content was posted by Reddit staff and there was really just one page.
While I wasn’t enthralled with the move from old.reddit.com to the new reddit.com, the site was at least still accessible via the old interface, absent a minor quirk here and there in how Markdown was interpreted, and different ways of customizing subreddit appearance. That wasn’t enough to cause me to leave.
What did it for me was that I expected that when they moved from their growth phase to monetization phase that they’d make some changes that I wouldn’t like, but I didn’t expect them to end access for third-party clients, which was not okay with me.
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.
Also, since you’re new, I’d recommend against Lemmy.world. They’re a little aggressive with moderation. They’re the largest instance, which is another reason to go somewhere else. The fediverse works best when no one instance controls it.
lemmy.world is the least aggresive with moderation i have seen. i’ve been banned from other instances, mostly for not agreeing with politics or linking to factual sources that don’t agree with their narrative.
i have never been banned from anything on .world.
They aren’t as bad as .ml or Hexbear, but some of the communities are apparently not great. I haven’t been banned, but I’ve heard from other people who have for pretty minor things. They definitely aren’t the least aggressive. There’s a lot of instances out there.
Regardless, it’s the largest instance. We should I courage people to spread out.
Can you please elaborate a bit about that “little aggressive work moderation” on lemmy.world? I am there so I am interested.
Paywalling the API was the final straw for me. I saw they reduced the price to something “reasonable” for the top few 3rd party apps, but too little, too late. Leading up to that, I understood the ads, I was satisfied with using old.reddit, and I thought we were making progress with fighting management. Killing all the small time apps and turning Apollo et al into an income stream (or, really, stifling competition to their ad-infested 1st patty app) showed there was no way back to the reddit I knew
Fled Reddit when the Exodus 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
When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.
Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit
Banned for saying that I would murder Andrew Tate given the opportunity.
He literally abuses women and likely has murdered some. He is disgusting. The fact our government has used surveillance laws and things like The Smith Act to go after leftist causes / organization and never the KKK or proud boys… says a lot about how much these entities (including the wealthy) care about equity or human rights. Never are any of the right wing extremists labeled as terrorists but the black panthers were.
I wasn’t going to use Reddit at all, and neither would my producer. Since we won’t be using mainstream social slop (except YouTube), we use the Fediverse or Nostr instead.
