What was your motivation for seeking out non-mainstream platforms? Why did you choose this platform?
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The Reddit API-pocalypse. I’m boycotting them until they re-enable third-party app support. If that’s never, so be it.
To clarify, if Reddit ever did allow third-party apps again, I would re-evaluate my stance. If I were to re-evaluate my stance today, however, I would choose to to return due to all of the moderators and most of the posts being bots.
They killed RIF, so here I am.
They can re-enable whatever they want. I don’t trust corporate social media anymore.
I wouldn’t go back if they re-enabled it, this place is better now, and isn’t supporting a user hostile mega corp.
I’m not going that far but I chose to not use Reddit through their first party app.
Same here that’s the thing that finally got me to completely leave. I think my quality of life has been better for it.
Reddit went to shit, and Lemmy is a lot like reddit was back in 2010 or so.
reddit in 2010 wasn’t fully of ideological extremists.
it was mostly nerdy nice people.
Yeah. I don’t remember Reddit being this cringy
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.
Seeing the evolution of “cringe” has almost made me lose touch of what cringe even is. What do you classify as cringe…? Because for me it’d be stuff like copypastas :3 oWo XD. Roflcopter.
Cringe basically just means “Acting in an unpleasant & embarrassing way that isn’t outright harmful”. uwu roflcopter is still cringe, but so is being a reddit mod for example. If something is outright harmful such as punching someone, that isn’t really ‘cringe’ anymore. The word doesn’t fit.
People keep saying this but I haven’t really seen that yet. I guess I need to stay longer. For the most part its your run of the mill lefty talking points, not very different from Reddit.
You must be right, as many people say it, I just personally haven’t seen it.
easy. say something that goes against lefty talking points, especially on a social issue.
easy example. when i first bought my condo i rented out the extra bedroom for a couple of years. seems a pretty innocuous thing, you’d think.
according to a large chunk of the lemmy users this makes me a sociopathic mass murderer who is morally unredeemable and must be murdered for my ‘crime’ of being an evil landlord.
not sure, but i never got that reaction on reddit for the fact about my life. or say you console game, use windows, etc. people here will come out in droves to tell you how horrible and racist and shitty you are. i’m not sure how using Windows/Mac computer makes you racist, but according to many weirdos here, it does, because their do these weird logical leapfrog arguments where a windows programmer once made racist tweets and therefore if you use windows at all ever in any capacity you are explicitly racist…
reddit was stupid but i hardly ever got the level of vitriol and insanity that I get here on a fairly regular basis for my ‘normie’ views/activities. I am way too ‘mainstream’ for this place, but on reddit I was considered a crazy leftist… so I just laugh, but it’s still annoying and offputting.
If you go to the right spaces (or the wrong ones, I guess) it gets a little crazy quick. Might be your instance blocks the really extreme instances which would mostly insulate you.
Reddit 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.
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.
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.
I moved over the day that RIF stopped working
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.
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.
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.
r/europe is some of the most hateful places in reddit, i wont be surprised if that shithole was officially being ran by political PR campaigns for far right groups, i am talking big money being poured and narrative being forced by official political movements, autosurfing and news manipulation was a normal thing at that fuggly sub
Updooting a Luigi post apparently got me perma banned for “inciting violence” or something stupid.
API gate started it for me. Logged out of my account, never logged back in (refused to contribute to reddit after that), stayed on reddit a few months longer using old.reddit.com, but once they rolled out the forced sign on just to use that it was a straw too far.
Same although, not on this account. I still have a reddit because I run a few larger subs but, I have brought that content to the fediverse.
The APIcalypse
Came during the reddit blackout.
I believe API gate was the last straw for me on Reddit, after 10 years.
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
My trigger to try it was Reddit killing third party apps. What kept me here is the different instances interacting with one another, the people and the way it works in my third party app. It just fits my requirements. Content could be a bit better though, and I wish there’d be an option to hide duplicate posts of these actuality bots posting the same news story to five instances. RSS is capable of that.
People,and less bots
