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.

    • Asafum@lemmy.world
      37·
      13 days ago

      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.

    • Gloomy@mander.xyz
      4·
      12 days ago

      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,

    • hash@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      It started as fuck spez, but I’ve learned the value of opposing homogeneity online and I will never go back.

  • SendPicsofSandwiches@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    13 days ago

    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!

  • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    13 days ago

    Was banned permanently from Reddit for correctly identifying a certain South African billionaire’s political leanings.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    13 days ago

    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.

  • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    13 days ago

    I’m a hipster and also anti-capitalist. Tired of dogshit corpo social media enshittification

  • python@lemmy.world
    12·
    12 days ago

    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.

  • rslogix89@lemmy.world
    12·
    13 days ago

    Reddit has just been steadily declining in quality the past few years.

    The bullshit with the api and 3rd party apps was the start of it for me. I use to love alien blue. Then came the censorship… I’ve gotten two warnings so far within maybe a year of each other about upvoting, not making a comment or a post that would be offensive, inappropriate, or alarming but a fucking up vote. Apparently it violates a Reddit rule. Best part… they won’t even fucking tell me what I upvoted that was so egregious.

    That was the final straw for me.

    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      I can help you spoof the API and get your favorite third party app going again, if you really want. I was using RIF up until a few weeks ago. Still works too, I just got banned and decided it wasn’t worth it to start over.

  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    13 days ago

    Reddit gradually began to suck. Enshittification started to take its toll, but I was protected because I used Old Reddit with a lot of blockers, and I never used the app. Then the API crisis happened, and I thought “Why am I supporting a corporate big-tech platform?” So I left, because a bunch of other people were doing the same.

    TLDR: everyone else did everyone who counts did.

    • Cromer4ever @lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      12 days ago

      I wasn’t aware of that, but it’s a shame Reddit has become like that. But there are wonderful people out there creating these kinds of communities and websites :)

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      12 days ago

      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.