When Reddit said they were gonna disable 3rd party apps, I left when we all said we were gonna leave. They never changed course, so I never changed course 🤷.

Reddit killed "rif is reddit is fun for reddit" or whatever it was called

I wanted a place where I would be bombarded with constant mentions of Star Trek and Linux 

Reddit killed third party apps and I didn't wanna use their shitty official app, so I searched for alternatives and switched to Lemmy. I happen to like open-source software, and the idea of the Fediverse is interesting as well =w=

They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy

The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn't give me an aneurism

When reddit said they are disabling 3rd party apps was when I heard about it but was small and still on reddit, in the meantime I found mastodon and used reddit and I found about "buy european" so I started going on Lemmy. Now I am permabanned from reddit for posting on r/lies

As soon as the writing was on the wall about Reddits API proposals I made a Lemmy instance.

Reddit blocked 3rd party apps and I'm a principled man.

I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.

When reddit announced API changes. Glad I left because it is a hellhole now

I love decentralization and I hate Reddit. The Venn diagram overlaps in Lemmy.

Also fuck u/spez

I banned reddit

I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit's that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.

I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.

API

When I couldn't use reddit is fun anymore, reddit wasn't fun.

the api thing that happened 2 years ago

Reddit killed the RiF app so here I am

Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit's CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).

The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.

Freedom.

reddit is authoritarian, and my ideology is anti-authoritarian and pro-decentralization and its just natural for me

Didn't really care for the 3rd party apps, I use brower anyways... but then again, Fediverse allows Tor and mobile browser UI is kinda great tbh, no annoying "dOwNlOaD oUr aPp" bullshit, fucking modern websites are so annoying, just let me use the browser, I don't want an app for everything lol

because federated social network is the way to go.

They killed baconreader.

Fuck spez

reddit went to shit, bots everywhere

Same as everyone else, I came over with the API refugees. I still lurk on Reddit using Brave (that and YT are the only things I use Brave for) because some communities there are still good fountains of information. I don’t post or vote on anything there, though.

Still have Apollo on my phone though.

The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.

I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.

Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I'v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.

After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.

I only miss the guitar and cat subs.

A bit before the API thing actually went into effect. I saw it mentioned somewhere on Reddit, got curious, and signed up. I mainly browsed Reddit through my web browser, so the lack of 3rd party clients wouldn't have really effected me, but seeing how Reddit was acting towards its users, there was no going back for me.

I joined Reddit because it was an open and moderated collection of communities .. then after the blackout due to the API changes, moderators were sent packing and any sense of community that had been created was destroyed.

I joined both Mastodon and Lemmy and I'm glad I did.

The communities in both are nascent, but slowly growing, and that seems like a place I'd like to be.

After Twitter became Xitter, I also joined Bluesky but that feels much more like people ranting and venting, less about making communities.

Because I said fuck it when Reddit screw over people with their API bs and the Fediverse was an ok alternative. 

The first few months were like the honeymoon phase every website has. Users stunned by how friendly everyone is. But the petty squabbles and infighting have begun. 

Social media NOT owned by money.

I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.

Even though I learned about Lemmy, Kbin / Mbin and co by the Reddit API drama, what got me here was that this is a decentralized open platform build with FOSS software and also kinda "by nerds for nerds".

Because they kept shadowbanning me only because I use a VPN and they never ever gave any replies to my appeals. Even after having appealed at least 50 times.

Reddit API changes.

Probably done here soon too.

Reddit closed their API, and that was my last straw

API reasons

I jumped during the API fiasco, but in my case the story is a bit different I think.

One subreddit I used to spend a lot of time on was r/dndmemes. I was a relatively new DM at the time and loved hearing everyone’s stories and takes on things there. I even made a number of memes on the shenanigans that happened in my own campaign. Some of them took off way more than I could have ever imagined.

When the API fiasco started, that subreddit was one of the ones that participated in the blackout. When Reddit started sending threats to the mods to open it up, they asked what the community wanted. That’s when it went into what they called ‘goblin mode’. Basically everything had to be an NSFW meme since Reddit couldn’t advertise as much on those subreddits.

Reddit ended up removing just about all the mods and left the subreddit in a broken state. Practically nobody could post there. When they spun up attempt.network, I made the jump and haven’t looked back since

I just wanted to talk to people and less bots. I'm sort of becoming discouraged though. A lot of stuff here that interests me involves reading articles and it feels like most people just go off the headlines. Then there are certain subs that just feel so angry, like the gamer ones.

I'm always toying with the idea of joining some forums but I never know which are still alive. If anyone knows solid game, book, or film ones please lmk.

I don't like ads.

API refugee. I went to Lemmy first, then jumped over to PieFed because of the awesome features and devs. I still use my Lemmy account for a particular community.

I left when they banned 3rd party apps, like many others. I never actually used 3rd party apps btw, however I could sense Reddit was about to go downhill, and I had been meaning to leave for a while - the straw that broke the camel's back. And I guess my suspicions were bang on correct.

To seek the holy grail. ...wait. That's not right.

Oh right! To seek a better place online that was like Reddit, but better. (There's less toxicity, more of a feeling of community connection here, and a lot less BS to deal with on Lemmy than what I recall from Reddit back in the early 2010s. And supposedly, that was around the time that "went to shit on Reddit.")

I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn't notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.

To share my erotic fiction because the reddit mods banned it !!

They are such fascists over there. Seriously.

l was browsing around on r/kde sometimes, and there was a banner-thing Saying that KDE Supported open platforms like Lemmy. I took a look at Lemmy's Wikipedia, and browsed around a few days later. I liked the stuff on c/programmerhumour, So I joined.

Also my Reddit account got banned (i think, might be deactivated, idk) due to inactivity (I wasn't on for 2-3 years), and I didn't care to do anything about it.

Also, as a bit of context for the above, it did take a while from hearing about Lemmy and browsing and joining.

Because I want to be in a FOSS & decentralized version of reddit that provides excellent support for 3rd-party apps.

Signed up when the Apollo app stopped working due to Reddit’s API restrictions.

It was open source, federated and written in Rust!

The Reddit API enshittification event was just what kept me here.

Humanity is shit in general, but there's a greater concentration of the few like minded people here so that's attractive.

Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole (which is apparently a euphemism for telling someone to kill themselves???) for defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was unacceptable.

They thought mutilating baby penises was fine but not baby vaginas. So I called out the hypocrisy and told them to "crawl back into [their] hole".

Been here ever since.

Leaving reddit (usa boycot was half the decission)

When they killed my boi Apollo

I was banned from Reddit but the tides had already been shifting and dialog wasn't as pleasant or productive so I took it as a sign and bounced over here. 👍

They killed the app I used (Boost) with the API changes, then the developer of said app made one for Lemmy so I came here.

Settled originally on lemm.ee, now I'm here. RIP lemm.ee

Curiosity, mostly. I learned about the FOSS alternative, checked it out, and haven't been on Reddit for a couple months now.

I like trying new platforms, i saw that they is less pro genonice and settler colonialisms and a yesr later was banned from reddit

Got permabanned on every account as well as IP and device banned, and this was literally only from commenting in the same community I was banned from on a different account which never touched the device I commented on, nor the email connected to the account I commented on.