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

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.

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.

Reddit’s fall

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

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 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.

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.

the reddit api thing for me as well. I mean I did not use it but reddit was getting bad for so long and it seemed like such bs. Then on top of it I think I had heard about the federation before but just like mastadon. Looking at kbin and lemmy I jumped on kbin. that was lost so I went to mbin but then piefed came up and it felt like it had that kbin spirit so I moved over. You know its kinda funny because I actually hated the initial www having been used to command line stuff. man the newsgroups by the end of the 90’s were just garbage though. I liked that I could personal my excite and then when it died made do with yahoo and then google came on the scene. I really did not think about the whole corpo control thing. hung on slashdot and my mmo’s got me on reddit. Enshitification got everywhere and now I don’t want anything to do with anything that is corpo that I don’t have to.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.