I heard about Lemmy from Mental Outlaw and it caught my interest. The Reddit API situation made me finally decide to drop Reddit and make an account on lemmy.world. I haven’t turned back since.
What about you, what brought you to the Fediverse?
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Reddit’s fall
The Reddit API situation brought me here. It’s a much nicer crew.
Same.
And that I’d rather use Boost than the Reddit app.
That stupid day when Elon carried a sink around Twitter HQ. It was trending fascist long before that, there was just something about the utter stupidity of that stunt that clicked with me. Been on Mastodon ever since. (Came to Lemmy later that year when Reddit started chirping about getting rid of their API.)
The developer of Boost for Reddit remade the app for Lemmy called Boost for Lemmy, and it’s the exact same viewing experience as before. It’s a bit sad that in comparison Lemmy is lacking content i yearn for, but what can ya do?😅
I got banned from reddit because I said Nazis don’t deserve to live. When I tried to appeal it I showed numerous examples of similar things being said throughout reddit’s history and that killing Nazis was an important part of my country’s history. I guess its suddenly not allowed anymore on that platform so I am here now.
Also I’ve seen way worse said about trans people on reddit but that is OK for some reason.
I got banned from Reddit, which is why I am here.
I can’t tolerate that kind of hypocrisy, and I am tired of my favourite subs getting hijacked.
Rules are fine, but don’t apply on everyone equally. If you catch sight of a mod on his bad day, then you are done. But somehow they are okay with few people being total psychos. This selective treatment is just criminal. another case of “Rules for thee but not for me.”
I got banned about 5 times. The last time I just said fuck it, typed “reddit alternative” into search engine and this was first up.
Still havent looked if theres any others that might be better, this is pretty sweet.
Yeah. Leemy UI is kinda wack tho.
I heard about Lemmy on Reddit around the time of the Reddit API lockdown, and it appealed to me, so I joined and have been here since
Reddit shat itself and on its users by forcing people to use an unusable app, and since I only found reddit tolerable via 3rd party apps I stumbled across Lemmy while looking for alternatives.
For me it wasn’t even matter of reddit only being tolerable via third party apps, third party apps were Reddit.
Reddit released their first app in 2014. My email shows I purchased “Reddit is Fun (Premium)” in 2013, and I know I used other apps before that.
Reddit is Fun WAS Reddit for me for 10+ years.
When it went away and I had to change anyway, I jumped to the closest thing. (Eventually landing on Voyager.)
My story is the same all the way up until I eventually landed on Boost.
I was shared an article about reddit shitting the bed (API thing) that mentioned ActivityPub and Lemmy, so I checked it out on a whim. Been around since.
They broke RIF with the API changes, and Voyager for Lemmy was the recommended alternative at the time. Still here 3 years later.
I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account because, as much as I hate to admit it, the site is often a good source of information for hobby projects etc, but I’ve gone completely read-only. I get what I need and then leave - no voting, no comments, no messaging.
Isn’t rif devs now making app for tildes now?
Are people allowed to use Tildes now?
It still need invite code
I created a Mastodon account in 2022 when Musk took over Twitter, but wasn’t really active there. When Reddit closed down their API in 2023 I started using Lemmy daily. Now I’m on Mastodon, Lemmy, PieFed, PeerTube, Bookwyrm and more. Love the fediverse!
I just made an account on Bookwyrm last week but I’m kind of confused with it. Is it just basically public reviewing of books you’ve read/reading?
I’m using it to track what books I’ve read and to discover new books to read by following others. But you can also create read later lists, write and read reviews, rate books, comment on others reviews or status updates. Also, every time a book isn’t available on Bookwyrm I enjoy to enter the metadata and make it available for everyone.
Getting more and more annoyed by corpos turning into Nazi Bars, basically
I got shadow banned on Reddit. I suspect it’s because I kept using the old.reddit interface. I would have let some ads/suggested communities into my feed, but I hate infinite scrolling.
Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.
What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo “blackmailing” them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.
https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/
In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.
The only useable app on ios (imo) for reddit for the longest time was Apollo. The dev had something like Kofi setup so people could toss him some money for his long term efforts. Reddit one day decides to charge for API use or something along those lines which would end up costing them
hundreds of thousands of dollars(see end). I think they accused people of profiting off their API. Keep in mind Apollo was so popular because the reddit app was utter shit, but they can monetise users on their own app easier (and ads). An app a sizeable portion of the iOS community had been using for years, gone within weeks due to reddit greed. Fuck that place and fuck reddit staff.The app is still in the App Store, Christian’s eulogy says it best.
Apollo was an iOS app for browsing Reddit from 2015 to 2023. In 2023 Reddit announced significant price changes to their API, going from free to potentially costing tens of millions of dollars per year, with 30 days notice before developers would start incurring charges. As a result, Apollo was forced to shut down after the better part of a decade building for an incredible, supportive community. With over 100,000 five star ratings, and many accolades, I was incredibly proud of what Apollo accomplished.
