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What ai ridden, social media platform caused you to migrate to lemmy? (lemmy.world)

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Reddit is a cesspool

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[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Reddit when they started charging exorbitant prices for API access and killed off the third party app ecosystem.

RIP Apollo

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

one of the bigger waves that came here. i bet the official the reddit app still sucks that bad.

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

They have no incentive to improve it for users, the competition is gone. I think that was the primary goal.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

that's why so many people came here at once back then

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