I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn’t notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.

I left immediately after the api pricing thing happened. Did not delete my account but poisoned it by replacing my posts with glibber. They are still up, I check from time to time. Just did my share to fuck AI.

I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit’s that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.

I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.

Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I’v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.

After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.

I only miss the guitar and cat subs.

Social media NOT owned by money.

I jumped during the API fiasco, but in my case the story is a bit different I think.

One subreddit I used to spend a lot of time on was r/dndmemes. I was a relatively new DM at the time and loved hearing everyone’s stories and takes on things there. I even made a number of memes on the shenanigans that happened in my own campaign. Some of them took off way more than I could have ever imagined.

When the API fiasco started, that subreddit was one of the ones that participated in the blackout. When Reddit started sending threats to the mods to open it up, they asked what the community wanted. That’s when it went into what they called ‘goblin mode’. Basically everything had to be an NSFW meme since Reddit couldn’t advertise as much on those subreddits.

Reddit ended up removing just about all the mods and left the subreddit in a broken state. Practically nobody could post there. When they spun up attempt.network, I made the jump and haven’t looked back since

When I found out some of the largest lemmy instances were blocked on libranet.de due to the large worker queue.

I don’t like ads.

reddit went to shit, bots everywhere

I wanted a place where I would be bombarded with constant mentions of Star Trek and Linux

Same as everyone else, I came over with the API refugees. I still lurk on Reddit using Brave (that and YT are the only things I use Brave for) because some communities there are still good fountains of information. I don’t post or vote on anything there, though.

Still have Apollo on my phone though.

Reddit killed the RiF app so here I am

When Reddit said they were gonna disable 3rd party apps, I left when we all said we were gonna leave. They never changed course, so I never changed course 🤷.

A bit before the API thing actually went into effect. I saw it mentioned somewhere on Reddit, got curious, and signed up. I mainly browsed Reddit through my web browser, so the lack of 3rd party clients wouldn’t have really effected me, but seeing how Reddit was acting towards its users, there was no going back for me.