What was your motivation for seeking out non-mainstream platforms? Why did you choose this platform?
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10 hoursReddit ending third party client support.
I wasn’t super-enthusiastic about old.reddit.com effectively being mothballed, and I always would have preferred something more like Usenet. And I didn’t agree with the change to how blocking worked. But the “the only client is our client” thing was the breaking point for me.
I always expected Reddit to be less-desirable once it was monetized, but I hadn’t anticipated them killing third party client support.
- gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish23 hours
The Reddit API-pocalypse. I’m boycotting them until they re-enable third-party app support. If that’s never, so be it.
I wouldn’t go back if they re-enabled it, this place is better now, and isn’t supporting a user hostile mega corp.
They can re-enable whatever they want. I don’t trust corporate social media anymore.
- HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish23 hours
I’m not going that far but I chose to not use Reddit through their first party app.
- cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish22 hours
Same here that’s the thing that finally got me to completely leave. I think my quality of life has been better for it.
- 23 hours
Reddit went to shit, and Lemmy is a lot like reddit was back in 2010 or so.
- AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish17 hours
reddit in 2010 wasn’t fully of ideological extremists.
it was mostly nerdy nice people.
- AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish16 hours
world has changed, real life is way more cringy than it was in 2010 too.
and if you don’t embrace the cringe, people basically accuse you of being a bigot, that’s the new thing.
- 19 hours
Like many others, I tried out the Fediverse when Reddit nuked third-party apps.
I hadn’t used Reddit’s third-party apps in some years, but the debacle just showed to everyone that Reddit is a for-profit company, and they’ll always put profits ahead of users’ interests.
- 11 hours
I stuck it out with old.reddit for awhile. I deleted my account because too I would get halfway through writing a reply to things and say “nah not worth it”.
But without old reddit I won’t even bother lurking.
- 23 hours
Plenty of things that brought me from reddit to Lemmy.
:the algorithm deciding what subreddits you see instead of upvotes
:removal of r/all
:the kind of racist and misogynist shit that kept propping up
:Especially true in Indian subreddits, a kind of action, reaction whiplash. One subreddit says something, gets backlash on other, and this cycle.
:subreddit pollution, again an Indian subreddit problem, where you get 5 different subreddits for same topic, and all of them are getting astro turfed by politics
: and the fact all of these subreddits were being shoved down my throat. Look, there’s few Indian subreddits I like to visit, but why does the algorithm keep shoving down the bad ones? And how bad you may ask? I was called out for spreading propaganda for pulling statistical figures from UNs official sources.
:also bots. Plenty of bots. Karma farmers who tell fake stories, which was easier to spot before reddit doubled down on making accounts private.
And that’s it. Reddit has gotten so bad I don’t even feel like scrolling r/popular or r/all anymore. And atleast for me, it’s a quality problem.
Switched to Mastodon when Musk took over Twitter in 2022. Switched to Lemmy when Reddit banned 3rd party apps in 2023.
I was interested in decentralized platforms before. Technically Diaspora was my first “fediverse” social network, but it lacked content so I didn’t use it much.
Same. I didn’t even use the 3rd party Reddit apps (browser only here), but I knew what that kind of corporate control meant. I’m disappointed that more people didn’t drop Reddit at that time. Oh well, we’re taking the long game.
Updooting a Luigi post apparently got me perma banned for “inciting violence” or something stupid.
- BlindPenguin@piefed.socialEnglish13 hours
Reddit is turning into Facebook 2.0. More and more subs getting infiltrated with far-right pricks. After having to leave yet another Euro sub, i decided to try some other pages. The problem is, that the Euro fascists are quite decent in having a seemingly reasonable discussion, but once you know the dogwhistles and check their history, you’ll quickly notice their agenda.
- 19 hours
Got my 15 years Reddit account banned for sharing a UN documented proof of Israel committing genocide in gaza, in a pro Palestine sub.
This made me 100% sure that shithole of site is moderated by Israeli PR agents to control the narrative.
The reason they banned me was “supporting terrorism” lol.
- 18 hours
Too bad the API is shut down. I’d love to see the average time between someone’s first comment on r/jewsofconscience and their last comment on reddit.
Probably hiding these shennanigans was one motivation for closing the API.
- 19 hours
I came here after leaving reddit, when they shut off third party app access. I had already been wanting to leave to another platform, and many people were mentioning Lemmy and the Fediverse as an alternative. The idea of independent federated instances really appealed to me, and losing RIF was my final straw.
I also left Twitter for Mastodon around the same time, although I’m much more active here than on Mastodon.
I’m so glad I did it, because I’ve had a much better experience here. Even though we have bots, spammers, and some bad mods, it’s nothing compared to the shithole that is reddit.
A lot of youtubers I watch in tech spaces had their mastodon listed for social media, and after looking into it I found the concept of the fediverse neat, so I decided to try out a couple of platforms, and see if it’s any better than the cesspit that is mainstream social networks
- AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish18 hours
Because it seemed cool. reddit had been taking over by crazy people and normies who were happy to go along with the crazy.
Now it’s getting worse day by day, as the crazies take over here as well. they are getting impossible to avoid.
i am looking for a place for reasonable thoughtful people to exist and collaborate and share ideas… that is rapidly becoming impossible in the current social environment.
- PlzGibHugs@piefed.caEnglish20 hours
The API. At that point, I deleted my account and created an account here. Unfortunately, at this point I’m debating going back, especially since you need a login to use old.reddit. As much as I want Lemmy to succeed, there just isn’t enough here for me. I was on Reddit for the niche interests like Dota, CS, 3D Printing, military hardware, and Virtual Reality, and none of that is really present here. That said, no way am I downloading their official app. All their new UIs are unusable.
- 19 hours
Use redlib if you’re going to use reddit, don’t give them positive traffic, or worse, your data and content. For example: https://redlib.privadency.com/
While I totally acknowledge and agree that there are missing niche interests (although I’m pretty sure the 3D printing communities here are popular), the only way they’ll grow is if people with niche interests start contributing. More content (especially OC) generally means more people, and more people means more content for you to consume. Be the change, and all that.
Might I ask, how do access reddit outside of the official app?
- PlzGibHugs@piefed.caEnglish19 hours
You can just use the website, particularly with old.reddit, but u/CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone suggested redlib, which also looks really promising.
