cuz i was banned from reddit
Because I want to be in a FOSS & decentralized version of reddit that provides excellent support for 3rd-party apps.
the api thing that happened 2 years ago
Same - don’t miss it at all.
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).
RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)
Jerboa is pretty close in vibe. I was sad to see the pick tildes over Lemmy too.
I used jerboa for a while back in 2023, but ultimately I’ve settled on Connect. Its slightly different but still pretty similar to rif
Jerboa has improved a lot since then. It used to be noticably buggy!
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).
Reddit banned me ,wrongfully
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 🤷.
Apollo on iPhone for me.
Same thing here for me now I use Eternity. Barely look at the Warframe sub sometimes but I don’t post anything. Sometimes I have a problem and they have the solution or something.
I thought your UN looked familiar.
I left for the same reasons. Their native app is shit. They got bought out and took private. I have a dental problem with authority - back me into a corner by taking away my choices and you get brick.
I used to reddit a lot in 2011-2013 but set it down then just lurked periodically. I found out where everyone else was going and here I am. A bit of a learning curve to get set up but now I’m happy and this place feels like reddit (but friendlier) before it started sucking
Me too they didn’t need to ban me because I left.
Reddit has been taken over by Ai bots and banned all humans
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 🤣
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.
no worries, I’m sure lemmy will get there.
call me paranoid, but it’d be super easy for any big tech corp to spin up a federated instance for scraping data to train their AIs. … 😥
at least they probably can’t link your account to the rest of your internet traffic so at least there’s some anonymity. right? right??
Unfortunately, yeah. Re: point one - I’d be absolutely shocked if there isn’t such an instance already, or if the activity isn’t being scraped direct from ActivityPub via some other methods.
Re: point two … idk man, I’m one of those idiots that still has Facebook at the moment, and I’ve seen some shit that makes me suspicious (though whether that’s based on my lemmy activity or any one of a number of other leaky things is anyone’s guess).
I simply don’t know enough to state anything with confidence, but know your Lemmy activity (generally speaking) is very, very public. Anyone want to chime in and call me an idiot (re: this topic, otherwise I already know) with examples? It’d be deeply reassuring :)
Facebook federates with Mastodon through Threads so they may be scraping Lemmy.
That was my same story
Reddit makes profit in part from selling user generated content (posts/comments) to AI companies for training so you are absolutely right.
That was one reason to me, in addition that I got banned from many subreddits from just comments that goes against the narrative of the subreddit, it kills any interesting discussion when it just becomes silos where everyone has to basically agree
I found something better - not using Reddit
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.
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.
reddit’s new interface speaks to a total disregard, almost a disdain, for people with accessibility needs. it’s like the only guidance they gave was “put as much material design language into a non-google site as you can”
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=
This is pretty much my exact same situation. I have no education in programming or software, but open-source became really interesting to me after learning what the fediverse is.
Some of the very best programmers I’ve ever met were self taught, don’t let your dreams be memes
I have come to terms with knowing that I will never be so invested in software that I start building my own programs. And that’s okay. It’s been a blast exploring what amazing software other open source advocates have built. Just in this last year I built a PC, switched from windows to Linux on my laptop, started using libreoffice, prioritized F-Droid apps, learned terminal commands, built a software stack using Docker for a media library, bought a domain and networked a tunnel to access Jellyfin remotely, setup cloud sync with Immich to locally backup my photos…and I’m sure there’s much more I’m missing. If l’m ever looking for a new hobby, programming may eventually be something I look into, but for now I’ll just continue to support developers that make the FOSS I have used so far.
