When they shut down the Apollo app for Reddit is when I left

The API stupidity a while back. Reddit is unusable without 3rd party clients, and inc3 Joey didn't work anymore I said goodbye to the few communities who's members might recognize my username, and proceeded to delete my account.

I was permabanned from Reddit for correctly identifying Elon Musk's political affiliations. Fuck spez and his bullshit.

A federated web is a better one than a monopolized web, so I switched on principle.

API change killed Apollo, used Narwhal on and off for a year but ultimately did not want to pay a subscription for a social media platform, downloaded Voyager and here we are.

I backed up my Reddit subscriptions and multi-reddits and have them as shortcuts on my Redlib instance.

Been working on /c/ca_firearms_rights@sh.itjust.works hoping to build up a community similar to /r/CanadaGuns!

They shut down third party apps. Now I like it better here :3

Killing the API, ads, astroturfing, AI posts, reposts, generally selling out.

Api nonsense. The official reddit app is hot garbage. Mobile is barely usable, and only old reddit, which they are not supporting anymore.

Lemmy is much more representative how Reddit use to be and has so much more potential.

I left Reddit as soon as I discovered this mostly
Because Reddits shit algorithms, ads, and political moderation. Total enshittification.

Their API bullshit and then trying to use their official app... 🤮🤮🤮

The Reddit API murder. Although I do still use Reddit for specifically Heroquest and NewPipe.

Reddit is currently actively supporting fascism. Before that, spez was just a customer unfriendly asshole.

I left a long time ago when he killed all 3rd party support on purpose. The writing was on the wall but now you're just insanely late.

Fuck spez. That's why.

Third party app block

I didn't want their crappy client.

EMPRESS, a video game cracker sent me here. Too bad she left afterwards, I stayed after I discovered how it fits my needs exactly.

App-ocolypse where they shut down 3rd party apps (made API prices prohibitively expensive and removed access to nsfw stuff like Ukraine war reporting) and a bunch of users and moderators left. I stayed for a few months to observe how the subreddits and tone changed towards a younger, more right leaning liberal politics with way more bots and AI dross while using mastodon before checking out Lemmy.

Killing 3rd-party apps drastically reduced my usage, but didn't convince me to leave.

However, when just upvoting Luigi posts was declared a bannable offense, that was when I decided it was time to pack up.

They banned me over some insanely trivial nonsense. I used a throwaway to get back in and then they perma-banned me. Actually insane much effort they put into enforcing these arbitrary bans.

spez being a dipshit

Reddit turned into a censorship hellhole

The APIcalypse for me.

Slightly concerned by how many people here managed to get banned from the entire site.

I got a permanent ban from Reddit because of my username (after 6 months on that account), which was very similar to my username here - they didn’t get the reference, and said it was promoting violence, even on appeal. Since the issue was my username, I tried to make a new account, and that one was immediately permanently banned for using the same email address (ban evasion). I tried to appeal, since the issue had been my username, and the new one had no violent words, but was of course denied. Since they also track IP addresses and device IDs, I decided that it would be silly to fast-track getting a new phone and/or computer for fucking Reddit, and started to look at the alternatives.

Left during the API bullshit. R.I.P. RIF:/

I still visit Reddit occasionally for old niche tech support, but that's about it. Tried Voat but it was dead on arrival.

Here's a list -

Lose of RiF was the last straw.

Inconsistent censorship.

Mods targeting users.

Promoted ads disguised content

Hive mind comment bombing and down voting

Lack of understanding or reason

Gatekeeping by mods and users

Spam bots

Achievements and robot challenges

Reposting/resharing the same memes over and over like it was new content.

Reporting posts didn't seem to do anything

Reddit went past the level of shit that I was willing to tolerate. What I find amazing is how little I miss it.

Getting randomly shadowbanned. Seemingly IP shadowbanned.

The right wing sycophants running the and moderating the site.

It's over run with right wing trolls and disinformation, but you get banned for calling it out

I use desktop, so the API stuff in 2023 didn't affect me. I planned to just avoid reddit for the blackout, but Spez's asshole comments about how it would blow over pissed me off. Seeing reddit become more and more enshittified in the years since, it turned out to be the right decision.

Bots. Bots every where. Bots moderating. Bots posting. Bots responding.

I hadn't found PieFed yet.

I found convos were more human.

Spez.

reddit got worse, wanted alternative board.

lemmy actually had people using it

reddit isn't fun anymore. it's way too serious and full of weirdos who take everything super seriously.

lemmy isn't as bad, but it's getting there. more and more weridos showing up here who want to harass you and ban you for not being like them.

i was a reddit user since 2010, it was a great site until the 2016 election when it started rapidly going downhill and then massively accelerated after 2020 and now with the AI crap, they ban you for stupid reasons. I got banned in '22 for talking about my cat killing rabbits, because I was promoting violence, apparently. they unbanned me for the IPO, of course.

It's a stupid place full of stupid people. lemmy has smarter people, but honestly that is really starting to deteriorate as more and more people come and they are dumb. way too many brainwashed people on here who think it's OK to scream at and threaten other users for differences of opinion. i will never understand people like that.

Bot banning.

Sorry, I don't care to use a platform that auto-bans me for saying a few key words that in no way amount to breaking any site rules.

Sites that auto-ban you for words that aren't slurs simply aren't worth anyone's time.

My subreddit voted to participate in the Reddit API blackouts in June 2023. When Spez doubled down on enshittifying Reddit, we voted to go dark until the situation improves, but Reddit never got better. Moving to Lemmy was not a popular option at the time, but I didn't want to stop posting, so I went to Kbin. !floatingisfun@fedia.io has been viewable on Lemmy and PieFed ever since.

API drama caused Boost to relaunch as a Lemmy client