I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
Reddit killed the app I used.
Same. Used Reddit Is Fun for like 11 years or something. Haven’t looked back. The most I’ll do is search for an answer for something and check a reddit thread if it shows up in the results.
I’m another ex-RiF user. In hindsight it was a good thing Reddit killed the third party apps. I honestly don’t think I would have joined Lemmy if I was still able to use Reddit Is Fun.
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RIP Baconreader
Try Boost, it’s pretty similar (might have to tweak a couple settings)
I switched to iOS along the way, but Boost is still my favorite Reddit, now Lemmy client. I wish they would make their way to iOS.
They burned down Boost for Reddit, and Boost for Lemmy rose from the ashes
Yep, team API migrants here too. I spend less time on Lemmy than i used to spent on Reddit and that is a good thing i guess. Plus, Lemmy group pressured me into giving Linux a shot. Now i don’t have single device that is connected to one of the tech giants any more. Wouldn’t have happened without Lemmy nudging me in that direction,
Fuck Spez
It started as fuck spez, but I’ve learned the value of opposing homogeneity online and I will never go back.
Reddit killed third party apps with absurd API fees.
I left reddit when they shut down the 3rd party readers. I don’t like ads, and I wasn’t willing to compromise and use their shitty app, so I came here and haven’t looked back since!
Same. Couldn’t be happier with the Fediverse as my main socials.
Was banned permanently from Reddit for correctly identifying a certain South African billionaire’s political leanings.
The API thing. I was using RIF for a very long time at that point and had no intention of using the official Reddit app.
Saaame
the API exodus finally drove enough traffic here to keep it lively
The API shenanigans
API boatlift gang 🇨🇺🤞
Left reddit as part of usa boycot. No regrets.
Because fuck corporate social networks.
wow, nobody mentioned the open source thing yet. I’m here because I really like the open source thing and the idea of federated servers run by hobbyists.
I’m very appreciative of this. I want the people in charge here, not billionaires and CEOs.
I’m a hipster and also anti-capitalist. Tired of dogshit corpo social media enshittification
Lemmy almost reminds me of the internet before it went to hell. A breath of fresh air.
Least fucked option.
Reddit: fucked. Twitter: fucked… Meta: fucked since forever. Bluesky: signs of future fuckededness. Mastodon: not what I was after.
Lemmy: hey, these people seem to be my kind of insane.
I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.
I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes.
Before a lot of people from Reddit came to Lemmy it was the same here.
Makes sense, that was when I started using it
For the michmichs
