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The reddit IPO.

I admit it should of been sooner, but I had to make two emails just to sign up for this. (I wanted to try Protonmail and for some reason you need a email to get email with them so you can email your emails.

The appocalypse. I ain't using their bullshit first-party app and the site is garbage on mobile. I was looking for an alternative before that anyway, but because of it I heard about Lemmy (odd I didn't hear about it before though when I was searching specifically for a site like this).

I came for the drugs and hookers. False advertisement much. Pretty disappointed.

Being banned from Reddit

Reddit banned me for reporting bots lol.

The death of RiF helped it along too

Bitches took away Apollo. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Came over (first to kbin) the day the blackout started. Never left.

APIpocalypse as others said brought me here. The smaller, more personal community feel kept me here.

Years ago I was looking for alternatives. I was pissed at Reddit not banning my moderator account, even if they went out of the way to ban all my other accounts. That delivered a clear "we don't want you here... unless you're working for us, for free, you sucker" message that I was not willing to accept.

I created my first account on sopuli.xyz on the 28th of April 2022, some days after leaving Twitter to join Mastodon, because I wanted to bring content to the fediverse (my ADHD brain wanted me to hyperfocus on the fediverse at that time).

Apps simulating reddit when it was good. Using Thunder atm

I had almost exclusively used reddit through the Relay app since 2012 or something like that. Relay is still available actually, and I'd even be willing to pay for its subscription if most of the money went to the dev. I didn't like the idea of reddit making money off of a negative change they forced on me, it was bad enough that they trampled on the goodwill and efforts of the community.

Also I had used reddit since 2010, when it was much smaller. Most of reddit had grown too large, leaving only niche communities at a size where I felt it was worth interacting. I still miss some of the cooler small communities (and occasionally check on them through the API bypassing apps Geddit or Stealth), but Lemmy is generally at a size that I'm much happier to interact with.

Reddit being stupid. Specifically, they killed 3rd party apps. RIP RiF

Like many I was a dedicated redditer. I had noticed a decline before the API fiasco, only viewing smaller subs, but momentum kept me there. No way I was going to use the default app/website though. Turns out I was more committed to Sync than reddit itself. Now Lemmy is my home and I keep a patched Sync for Reddit installed for the rare time a search result leads me there.

I enjoyed posting on/reading Mastodon, so I decided to create an account. I think I'm unique in that I never had a Reddit account.

So far it's been an interesting diversion.

I was already on my way out of reddit before the API pricing changes, but not being able to use my choice of app was the final nail in the coffin. I had noticed just how much time I was spending looking at my phone doing nothing but scrolling through stuff, reading things I didn't care for. I spend so much time looking at screens as part of work, recreation, and socialising that I knew I needed to drop my usage. Return to monke.

Using federated services after going cold turkey for about 2 months, I now have a much healthier relationship with it. I like how its smaller and I don't get the feeling of missing out on something if I wasn't constantly checking. I started feeling calmer and generally happier.

Fuck spez

I am yet another fledditor. I think I looked at nearly all the alternatives and I liked the Fediverse the best.

I do miss the sheer volume of participation on reddit, but I that has been steadily improving. And the quality and tone of the conversations is generally much better.

Any forums with large numbers of participants is going to have certain problems. The difference is that reddit turned most of those problems into institutions while Lemmy provides better ways to deal with them and easier ways to avoid them.

Having worked in high tech for almost four decades, I have come to appreciate the advantages of not having everything controlled by a central authority. Sooner or later the leadership, however benevolent, will change into something repressive and exploitive. Once that happens, it will remain that way forever, because there is no financial or political incentive to move in that direction. Replacement has been the only thing that works, at least so far. The Fediverse provides an alternative to that cycle that seems viable.

I didn't like the changes on Reddit with the API and suddenly charging for access. Turns out, I like it better here. Probably would have liked it before the Reddit refugee situation, too.

Came for APIpocolypse. Stayed for Sync.

Like the majority here, reddit refugee