I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn’t at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can’t post or comment on regular subs.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    28·
    19 days ago

    Reddit api change and could not use a free app to access the place.

    As for why .world specifically I don’t remember. I picked one from the list and it was probably not sorted alphabetically at least.

    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      18 days ago

      Yeah I was on Apollo right up to the end, then came here. Made accounts on .world, .ca, and sh.itjust.works and stuck with the latter. I chose it because it’s based in east coast Canada and I’ve stuck with it because it’s been the most consistently reliable.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    20·
    19 days ago

    API change and third party app fiasco.

    Never got banned from anything, I just left on principle. Really looking to move on from big tech altogether. It’s gonna take years.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
    11·
    18 days ago

    Anybody on here with an account age of roughly 2yr 10m is probably here because of the API changes lol

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    6·
    18 days ago

    Apollo for Reddit shut down, and Reddit’s app sucks. Voyager looks identical to Apollo, so I moved to it.

  • c64z86@lemmy.world
    5·
    18 days ago

    I was banned from Reddit for posting NSFW pics of my own body in the right adult subs, and appealed and they still did not unban me, so here I am! I miss the friends I made there but I don’t miss the site… they are too ban happy over there and it was becoming buggy.

      • c64z86@lemmy.world
        2·
        18 days ago

        ha mine is below average, didn’t stop them from banning me though. Someone probably thought it was too ugly to be real or something lmfaoo.

          • c64z86@lemmy.world
            4·
            18 days ago

            Yeah, they are getting a little too comfortable with the ban hammer over there. I’ve been reading threads of others that had the same thing happen to them. Soo glad I’m not alone and so glad I found this place!

            • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              17 days ago

              I got banned for accidentally using “far right extremist terminology” lol. I’m still not entirely sure what I did wrong

              • c64z86@lemmy.world
                2·
                17 days ago

                Yep! I’ve known people to get banned for using far left terminology and with nothing threatening either being said. It seems if you piss off one of the mods on there on one of their bad days, then it can easily be game over for your time in that sub, or even your account. it’s that easy to catch a ban that you probably have less chance of catching a cold lmfao. Reddit has given the mods far too much power. I’m so glad for the Fediverse!

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    18 days ago

    Freedom to choose (servers). no corporate shilling.

    I browsed as Anon some years ago, signed up to .world and have moved servers since, along with a backup on piefed.

    i left Reddit long before i signed you on Lemmy. I came to Lemmy from Mastodon. I mostly don’t use that anymore but do have a gotosocial account

  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    16 days ago

    i never used Reddit, but came from 9gag here in the search for something where you can actually filter the content. being foss and decentralized (both of which I’m a huge fan) was an added bonus

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
    2·
    18 days ago

    One of the biggest reasons i stick around, is just the slower pace and lack of algorithms. If i check in the morning, there’s a good chance that the same content will be trending in the afternoon or evening so I’m less inclined to scroll.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    2·
    16 days ago

    The Reddit APIcolypse of 2023. I came crawling back to Reddit a few weeks ago though. Lemmy doesn’t have the size to support the kind of niches that Reddit has, and Reddit has a much broader user base as well, so conversations are more interesting because I can’t predict what 80% of the responses to any topic will be.