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Just like everyone else: APIcalypse and enshittification of Reddit.
I think the real question is: Why a social news aggregation content rating forum instead of any other type of social media?
If I cared about people, I would be spending my time on Mastodon. Since I care more about specific topics, Iβm here on Lemmy instead. IMO, the structure of conversations is also much nicer and more readable here on Lemmy.
I've been posting on internet forums for almost 30 years now. It's just a thing I like doing.
I'm here now because it's the best place I know of at the moment.
API changes killing Apollo.
Because fuck Spez, thatβs why.
because I can't use my favourite reddit app anymore
I was meant to be doing something but I got distracted
I have no idea what I was meant to be doing because I smoked the mystery joint
I think most of it was probably blue cheese
communists aren't allowed on reddit, but communists built lemmy
seemed natural
i came here like most lemmy did; because reddit; and i hope to be here for a long time since all substantially financed social media platforms enshitify eventually like reddit or facebook did or enshitify immediately like bluesky did when they banned gazans.
Because Reddit is a shit hole from which no intelligent life will ever escape.
To spread the word about the ultimate beverage: WATER
but it's so dangerous; everyone who drinks it dies. lol
you must only consume piss
No one whoever drank piss died because of it
This is just one of Big Soda's lies. Everyone who had drank water and died, had also breathed air. Oxygen is also toxic, so I think, that conclusion is obvious.
I'm a bit less extreme about it than many here. But, in short, back when Reddit made sweeping API changes it immediately gave me 'the ick' and so I sought less centralised platforms. Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to people just hosting their own message boards like back in the early internet.
I'm a big fan of decentralized platforms and I love the concept of ActivityPub.
That said, I still use Reddit and have recently started to really enjoy BlueSky, so I'm not militantly against the corporate platforms or anything.
Finally, I just like the natural selection things like Lemmy and Mastodon have for those who are naturally more techy and nerdy.
Saw the whole fiasco of Reddit unraveling and then went to Lemmy. Seriously fuck Spez and how he treated the developer of Apollo.
Found out about it from Reddit, and it seemed better in several ways, so I tried it out.