Ask Lemmy

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

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

because /c/196 moved here after the reddit blackout over the api crackdown and I thought it would like, stick, but

Cause they killed my favorite 3rd party app and then banned every account I had except one for "report abuse" (I reported too many ads disguised as posts as spam).

the api thing that happened 2 years ago

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).

Reddit banned me ,wrongfully

Perma-banned from Reddit after 12 years for 'ban evasion', basically using a throwaway account - which was common and widely regarded as normal behaviour for years. Guess I missed the memo. Worst part is the sub I was initially banned from (AskUK) kicked me out for using ChatGPT - which I only ever used to correct grammar.

The mods there are the worst stereotypes of power-crazed oddballs. That is their crime and, satisfyingly, also their punishment 🤣

Reddit has been taken over by Ai bots and banned all humans

I found something better - not using Reddit

Increasing censorship, upvote surveillance and ever increasing enshitification

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. 

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 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 🤷.

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.

Fuck spez

Reddit API changes.

Probably done here soon too.

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

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=

I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.

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

Every social media platform I've used in the past started out pretty similar then capitalists and advertisers shat all over it and refuse to moderate authoritarians like fascists and nazis because they have money while at the same time censoring violence against authoritarians and genocide footage requires a login to keep track of who is trying to educate themselves so I left.

If something similar happens here subsets of instances can stay federated with each other so hopefully it won't be a complete wash & require a new platform but we'll see. I'm still on the fence about a permanent history and not dumping out instance histories periodically or a rolling max archive say 5 years back, but anonymity I think pushes me further to the archive everything side.

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

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.

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.

The API changes killed Boost for reddit. When I learned about Boost for Lemmy, I made an account here.

It was open source, federated and written in Rust!

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

I was on r/piracy and someone had a link to a lemme post, and I was like "what's a lemmy" and did some research. I had already left meta/tiktok, so reddit was my last "social media"

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

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

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

The killing off of third party apps was the thing for me. Weirdly enough, it was only after I stopped using Reddit that I began to see all the other shitty things they were beginning to do.

I don't miss it at all. It was fucking shite.

I recently deleted all my us-based accounts (except SoundCloud and bandcamp) to migrate to European services. Soo reddit is gone and it feels like it's way better here

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

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