My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
When they shut down the Apollo app for Reddit is when I left
same with RIF
Reddit is no longer fun.
Yeah this was it for me. Best app ever…no bullshit ads or anything…and I was really upset that Reddit forcefully killed it for money. However, I did find that the app Red Reader is allowed to exist because of its accessibility features for the visually impaired. It’s a good browsing experience…simple and no ads or BS.
I still do browse Reddit because a lot of the communities I visit on there either don’t exist on Lemmy or are too underpopulated for much of any content. Please don’t tell me to just “post more content” myself. The point is I often don’t have much content for the communities I visit. Like it or not, a community with 10 active members just isn’t enough to have much to participate with, even if I am the one posting most of the content. For example, there is a tattoo community I stumbled across on Lemmy. But I only have so many tattoos. So obviously I cannot fill the page with endless more content.
I basically only use it for work stuff like /r/sysadmin or some of the vendor specific boards.
I mean, yeah the app was a way better experience than even desktop, but holy shit, the content!
It’s overflowing with fascist, racist, misogynist and violent stuff much more than even a year or two ago.
You get banned for pro violence posts that might be that in the vaguest sense. Wonder how they do that probably AI + human mods.
even implying is bannable, not even use direct violent words. also including referring to the word “demographic” depending the race of the poc discussed in a reddit posts.
It always has that. It’s why the first things you do when joining any online platform is to find the block button for anything news, faith, or politics related.
It had far less of that at the start. It was a boiled frog effect for me. I realised I was just fighting through corporate trash to find a few gems, rather than filtering trash from a sea of gems.
The loss of 3rd party apps just gave me the impetus to jump ship.
True, it’s what I did on here too. It’s better for one’s mental health.
You’re right, but either it’s me nas I’ve become sensitized, or Reddit really is much more disgusting than ever.
Not to everything turning into a political argument
Everything social is also political.
Shutting down third-party apps through unreasonable API pricing with extremely little notice, then actively lying about their conversations with Apollo’s developer about it even though he had recordings of the calls.
I think there was even more BS at that time that made it against my personal values to stay, but those were the nails in the coffin for me.
It was hard. I spent over ten years on reddit, and I’d been active in some meetup groups over the years, so a lot of my real-life friends came from there. It felt like ending a part of my identity.
But hearing what kinds of nonsense they’ve continued to pull, I know I made the right decision and I’m glad I moved.
They forcibly replaced moderation teams on tons of major subreddits that went dark in protest too. No hesitation, tossed out the old teams entirely and replaced them with randoms, even on the former default subs. It was fucking chaos.
There was very obvious botting happening to push opinions in favor of the api-pocalypse in certain big subs, to the point where you could reply to the bots with some of the most basic ass prompt redirection/escape and get them to spit out cooking recipes.
People were getting banned for even mentioning lemmy. Reddit was reverting people editing their comments to try and scrub their history on the site, and banning the accounts, which is arguably a violation of GDPR’s right to be forgotten.
It was an absolute shit show.
I had already made a lemmy account by that point. If it had just been the api lockdown, I probably would have went back in at least a limited capacity using one of the patched third party clients (use your own api key) or the patched official official one (removes the ads).
But all of that shit together broadcast loud and clear that Reddit’s owners weren’t just passively stupid about what actually made the site worthwhile, they were actively antagonistic towards it.
It was no secret that Reddit had no fucking clue why Reddit “worked” and couldn’t be trusted to make good decisions. But all this shit demonstrated that the only thing they were interested in doing was intentionally killing it in a delusional attempt to maximize short term gains.
And every time I had even a smidgen of desire to go back, they pulled more bullshit.
Auto-generated language specific copies of popular subreddits, utilizing poor quality machine translation and literally stealing the top posts from the original subs with no attribution. Reddit disavowed that it was done by Reddit admins themselves, but there’s no way it could have happened at the speed and scale it did otherwise.
Mods still don’t have anything remotely equivalent to the old tools from before the api bullshit.
People getting permabanned over the most basic word filters imaginable (discussing the game Luigi’s Mansion after the CEO-cide), then getting IP banned when they created a new account to try and get in touch with support.
I still browse some of the subs related to my work passively (sysadmin, powershell, azure, etc) but the drop in quality and amount of bots is unignorable. Half the sysadmin sub posts are the most thinly veiled product ad setups.
new accounts aand old accounts that were inactives are subject to shadowbans, and you dont need to say anything offensive. they treat them as “bots”. so its careful for new users to warm up the account before commenting.
for old accounts it might be best abandon it since you couldve potentially posted in a sub that may or may not have banned, removed comments,etc.
they know what they are doing , them going public as a company and started shilling for right wing propaganda for more ad revenue, allowing scraping by GOOGLE, palintir. and spez is inlove with MUSK, so he purges at his requests.
Yeah, I used Infinity for reddit but then they had to start charging for use because of the API pricing so I moved to Eternity which is a fork of Infinity for lemmy. Problem is, Eternity doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore so when it stops working with some lemmy update I guess I’ll just have to go back to entertaining myself with simon tatham’s portable puzzle collection or something
Give Voyager a try? There are others too, and obviously the official app Jerboa. None of them are enshitifying themselves.
I’ve tried others but I only really like eternity. I guess I could try to maintain it myself but I don’t like android development
There are lots of app options for Lemmy. If you want an excuse to break the habit, EOL of an app is a great reason. But if not, try something else. That post is about 3 years old but it was the first I found and I didn’t feel like digging for more, lol.
Then again fuck reddit.
Same