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 was a death of 1000 cuts.
The strictness of communities. Shadowbans. Intercommunity drama. Overly critical usrers and doomers. Removing the ability to see upvotes/downvotes. Old reddit slowly going away. Api changes.
One day i just found i wasnt having fun on reddit anymore. It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media. I spent 12 years on that platform and l learned a lot. But now its mostly its just clickbait and drama to keep you on.
So i went on lemmy, contributed to the code for a bit. Found i liked piefed because of the better fediverse interop. Stayed here and contributed a tiny bit of code.
It was just doomer content rolled into just another social media.
I hate to tell you this, but you left New York and ended up in New Jersey.
Hah! Im gonna have to use this
NGL, there’s parts of Jersey that are lovely.
I really meant that they left one thing for something very close to what they left
Maybe its because im on piefed now, but my feed is VERY nice and healthy (mentally).
SHUT UP, WEENIE BOY!!!
nah jk
I did. Mostly because at my age and with my shit eyesight, I was looking for something I was familiar with layout wise.
Old lemmy to the rescue! It’s nice here, like Reddit was many, many years ago. Small, community-based and not rage-bot driven.
My word, as I look back on how Reddt pivoted in the last 5 years, I really can see it now.
This is really like the nice parts of Jersey. It’s lovely compared to the fiasco I left.
I’m glad we’re here together, brother.
Sister, actually… :)
I’m pleased to be here and glad you are too… Thank you for the kindness and you are most very welcome my friend!
Don’t forget the view in app and the constant sign in notifications. Fuck off. You’re a glorified website that should keep ya nose out.
Lol im litterally using firefox on mobile right now.
Its ok to have an app, but wtf at least dont get rid of existing funtionality that works much worse…
Now we have interinstance drama!
oh god the intercommunity drama. I got banned for one group just for participating in another. Reminds me of middle school when I felt forced to pick between two fighting friends. 🙄
Right now, you cant say meshcore (like the word) in the meshtastic subreddit. You would never know until people started getting randomly banned. LOL sometimes its just want one mod decided for the others.
I just dropped in there to seeif my particular device is having issues and bam more drama.
Was banned permanently from Reddit for correctly identifying a certain South African billionaire’s political leanings.
This is why I left. I saw post about people being banned from communities for things like that, or saying eat the rich, iD’ing Nazis, calling Palestine a genocide and calling for action. It was clear they had fascist corporate donors to appease and had chosen sides.
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.
Reddit killed third party apps with absurd API fees.
Don’t forget lying and defaming one of the most prominent third party devs.
What annoyed me even more is how they handled that whole situation. They basically went: who cares, the protest is going to die down in a few days anyways so why should we do anything besides insulting everybody
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.
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.
Yeah, that is a big plus too (that, and the federation). This can hopefully mean that lemmy can never turn into what reddit currently is.
Left reddit as part of usa boycot. No regrets.
I left Reddit for Lemmy for the same reason I left Digg for Reddit: Enshittification, both technical and administrative.
Reddit is a Wall Street corporation that sells users to corporate advertisers
Lemmy is free and open source.
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I got sniped by a bot on Reddit, just two weeks shy of 15 years.
Didn’t even ask for the account to be reinstated but got a denial reply nonetheless that claimed it was decided by a “human” (…who obviously could not understand, “…So long and thanks for all the fish…” was a goodbye, and not a “please reconsider…” “Human” responder my foot…).
They also won’t let me delete the account.
Obviously its being run with AI now and the bots are doing the moderation and the refusal to delete accounts means they’re also ginning the numbers for the investors.
It really went off the rails when the IPO dropped.
Also, they’re deprecating the old reddit style and for people like myself with eyesight issues, the new layout is a visual mess.
I found old.lemmy.zip and fell into it and fell in love.
Haven’t missed a beat and don’t even thnk of Reddit anymore.
The API shenanigans
Democratic freedom and democracy in practice.
I’d been using Reddit for quite some time. I wasn’t willing to use it if they weren’t going to allow third party clients.
the 3party killstreak. My app got some workarounds later but decided against reddit
