cuz i was banned from reddit
Reddit killed “rif is reddit is fun for reddit” or whatever it was called
This right fucking here. Never forget. o7
I wanted a place where I would be bombarded with constant mentions of Star Trek and Linux
please … tell me the enterprise ship board computers run on Linux
They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy
The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn’t give me an aneurism
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.
When reddit announced API changes. Glad I left because it is a hellhole now
API
When I couldn’t use reddit is fun anymore, reddit wasn’t fun.
I banned reddit
the api thing that happened 2 years ago
The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.
Same reason here. RiF was the perfect client for me - focused on the text and the comment chains rather than infinite scrolling the headline and photos.
Also realising that all the effort I put in to answering technical questions was just making other people rich, and the platform itself didn’t give a shit about me as a contributor.
Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole (which is apparently a euphemism for telling someone to kill themselves???) for defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was unacceptable.
They thought mutilating baby penises was fine but not baby vaginas. So I called out the hypocrisy and told them to “crawl back into [their] hole”.
Been here ever since.
It’s still one of the cultural norms I don’t fully understand why it’s lasted as a practice for so long. I would have thought that it would become a rare practice by 2020. Nope. That being said, I have noticed an uptick of ‘people’ online voicing their disapproval of any baby mutilation.
Standing up for men seems to be a sore spot for the admins.
I got banned sitewide for reporting egregious misandry of the “kill all men” sort.
I love decentralization and I hate Reddit. The Venn diagram overlaps in Lemmy.
Also fuck u/spez
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.
I got permabanned from Reddit for criticizing Israel.
The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.
I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.
reddit’s new interface speaks to a total disregard, almost a disdain, for people with accessibility needs. it’s like the only guidance they gave was “put as much material design language into a non-google site as you can”
