What was your motivation for seeking out non-mainstream platforms? Why did you choose this platform?
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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.
The API shit happened alongside one of the worst arguments I’ve ever gotten on the internet from Reddit. I realized those people lost the plot. I deleted my account.
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
When they killed r/all I nearly left, then when they made the “for you” tab the unswitchable default that was it. I gather they reversed that decision but I’d already deleted my account and I could see the writing on the wall anyway.
The default front-page is now so awful that I never get lost doomscrolling it like I used to. It’s literally like reading a tabloid.
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.
I joined mbin after reddit spezzed out with their API bullshit.
Reddit, twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, AI…
Just trying to find some place that isn’t polluted.
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.
Was here ever since the Reddit shitshow with the third party apps, didn’t really have any practical reason why other than u/spez being a huge piece of out-of-touch shit lol. Did anyone remember the whole landed gentry thing? Him talking about wanting to be some sort of feudal landlord? Can’t care enough to find it anymore…
Then I stayed around because I prefer the environment here. Lots of innovation because of federation. I used to be on Kbin, then Lemmy then PieFed. Haven’t really done much on Mastodon, not really a fan of the Twitter format…
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.
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.
They killed RIF, so here I am.
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.
Came during the reddit blackout.
Reddit became sort of unusable. The community has changed a lot and I felt like I didn’t really know the site anymore.
I originally wasn’t going to find a replacement and spent a few years without one, but I found myself lurking Lemmy more and more so I made an account. Not sure if it will stick though.
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.
I cam here to not get asked weekly why I came here.
y u cam here?
I switched to Linux so it seemed like the logical choice to move to the home of Linux memes.
I believe API gate was the last straw for me on Reddit, after 10 years.
