The Reddit API situation brought me here. It’s a much nicer crew.

I heard about Lemmy on Reddit around the time of the Reddit API lockdown, and it appealed to me, so I joined and have been here since

the reddit api thing for me as well. I mean I did not use it but reddit was getting bad for so long and it seemed like such bs. Then on top of it I think I had heard about the federation before but just like mastadon. Looking at kbin and lemmy I jumped on kbin. that was lost so I went to mbin but then piefed came up and it felt like it had that kbin spirit so I moved over. You know its kinda funny because I actually hated the initial www having been used to command line stuff. man the newsgroups by the end of the 90’s were just garbage though. I liked that I could personal my excite and then when it died made do with yahoo and then google came on the scene. I really did not think about the whole corpo control thing. hung on slashdot and my mmo’s got me on reddit. Enshitification got everywhere and now I don’t want anything to do with anything that is corpo that I don’t have to.

Reddit’s fall

I created a Mastodon account in 2022 when Musk took over Twitter, but wasn’t really active there. When Reddit closed down their API in 2023 I started using Lemmy daily. Now I’m on Mastodon, Lemmy, PieFed, PeerTube, Bookwyrm and more. Love the fediverse!

Reddit shat itself and on its users by forcing people to use an unusable app, and since I only found reddit tolerable via 3rd party apps I stumbled across Lemmy while looking for alternatives.

They broke RIF with the API changes, and Voyager for Lemmy was the recommended alternative at the time. Still here 3 years later.

I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account because, as much as I hate to admit it, the site is often a good source of information for hobby projects etc, but I’ve gone completely read-only. I get what I need and then leave - no voting, no comments, no messaging.

I liked the idea of a federated platform run by people and not big tech.

I got banned from reddit because I said Nazis don’t deserve to live. When I tried to appeal it I showed numerous examples of similar things being said throughout reddit’s history and that killing Nazis was an important part of my country’s history. I guess its suddenly not allowed anymore on that platform so I am here now.

Also I’ve seen way worse said about trans people on reddit but that is OK for some reason.

The only useable app on ios (imo) for reddit for the longest time was Apollo. The dev had something like Kofi setup so people could toss him some money for his long term efforts. Reddit one day decides to charge for API use or something along those lines which would end up costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars (see end). I think they accused people of profiting off their API. Keep in mind Apollo was so popular because the reddit app was utter shit, but they can monetise users on their own app easier (and ads). An app a sizeable portion of the iOS community had been using for years, gone within weeks due to reddit greed. Fuck that place and fuck reddit staff.

The app is still in the App Store, Christian’s eulogy says it best.

Apollo was an iOS app for browsing Reddit from 2015 to 2023. In 2023 Reddit announced significant price changes to their API, going from free to potentially costing tens of millions of dollars per year, with 30 days notice before developers would start incurring charges. As a result, Apollo was forced to shut down after the better part of a decade building for an incredible, supportive community. With over 100,000 five star ratings, and many accolades, I was incredibly proud of what Apollo accomplished.

I simply wanted a fresh space to build new communities on a service that better promotes the visibility of content. Reddit is busy, but it’s also old and tired. Every community name is taken. All the names are used up. Some are actively maintained with enthusiasm, some are run by skeleton crews and others are mostly abandoned. Just because a site has all the people doesn’t mean you can get engagement there because more people also means more competition for visibility.

Got banned on Reddit because i said the world was flat (sarcastically joking with another user) then the mod banned me for breaking a sub rule (spreading misinformation or something), then i got perma banned for ban evasion, so i looked for an alternative to reddit.

Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.

What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo “blackmailing” them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.

https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.

Getting more and more annoyed by corpos turning into Nazi Bars, basically

Lemmy has a Canadian instance. Pretty much the only place you can have online discourse without getting spammed by bots or doxxed by some Maple MAGAt divorcee.