I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
When they nuked third party apps. For a long time I used the official app, then I switched to 3rd party, nd I couldn’t go back
It seems like most people joined Lemmy for the 3rd party apps. I admit I am not familiar with reddit 3rd party apps and what they do in terms of functionality, I’d love if someone explained them to me
The goal of 3rd party apps is to do what’s best for the user so they continue to use their app
The goal of Reddit’s official app is to do what’s best for Reddit
It’s possible to expand on the functionality but that’s the fundamental misalignment on priorities regarding users
I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.
I didn’t even use a third party app so it didn’t affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.
I’m the same but I used Apollo, and the ads + principle of what they did drove me away permanently And I scrambled all my comments
I have a very similar experience, I only left because I noticed just how awful the website has turned by the time the API fiasco happened, and I was definitely getting a bit addicted to the website so leaving essentially made me combat this addiction. I haven’t logged into Lemmy for over a month. Yeah, it has definitely helped me cut down on social media usage.
Same here, both the X and the Reddit things came at a time when I was trying to cut down on social media usage as it was definitely having an effect on me. Having social media that runs out and doesn’t just go on for infinity is so much healthier.
Fun fact: I deleted Twitter exactly 23 days before it was renamed to X. I was just tired of scrolling through drama.
I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.
Heh, and they say the exodus/protest were pointless 🤣
Reddits CEO.
Reddit just isn’t fun without Reddit is fun.
I still have RiF installed for the nostalgia.
I left it on my phone for a long time. Then I started to get worried about it not being maintained.
the API fiasco.
This was the same reason for me.
Well, I was originally here to promote a movie…
I had a crush on you as a teenager when I saw you in suicide squad
I got banned from reddit for saying the genocide in Gaza was bad.
I got banned for saying Israel was a fascist state and this was years before the current genocide started. Zionists have infiltrated that platform good and proper.
I believe the politically correct term to appease the only “acceptable” narrative is war not genocide to describe a very clear targeting of Palestinian children Tsk Tsk for you not knowing it’s common knowledge at this point /s
Reddit killed RIF. I’d already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.
…didn’t stay on Jerboa long
What client do you use?
I switched to Connect, and have liked it well enough that I haven’t tried any others
Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit’s official app was a turd sandwich.
I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.
The self-destruction of Reddit and the much greater toxicity. Leftist communities here are far more chill than Reddit as well.
API debacle. Went from Apollo for Reddit to Voyager for Lemmy
I used Boost for Reddit but well, we know how that went. I really loved Boost. The dev pivoted to Lemmy, so I did as well. So far the experience has been pretty solid.
I’m not sure I’m aware of reddit boosts or 3rd party apps, could you please explain to me how those work and how it was a deal breaker to so many people here on Lemmy?
Reddit changed the API which meant that any popular third party apps were going to have the pay thousands or even millions to Reddit just to access it.
Third party apps like Boost, Apollo etc all left the platform but some devs created apps for Lemmy instead which gave people the experience they were used to. Reddit official app is full of ads and you can’t download half the stuff you want.
Spez
Bias for FOSS
I might sound illeterate but what is Foss?
Free and open source software
Reddit is becoming WAY too nazi like. Say something that goes against they ideas and views? banned. fuck those fat fucks.
Started on Digg moved to reddit when Digg shot itself in the foot moved to lemmy when reddit shot itself in the foot. I will say I post and comment way more on here. Than I ever did on digg and reddit combined. This place feels more like old school forms than social media. Where people come out of the woodwork to be jerks. Ether because your views don’t match theirs or you get some spelling or grammar that’s not 100% perfect vs just engaging with your ideas for a constructive discussion. I can’t tell how many times I have come back to a reply and gone " you make a good point." on lemmy.
I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I’ve been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.
(I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
