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.

Fuck Reddit mods

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.

Ironically, it was talklittle. I say ironically because even though he directed people to lemmy he himself ended up on tildes.

I believe API gate was the last straw for me on Reddit, after 10 years.

Came during the reddit blackout.

Because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and corporate greed. Also, the mods are power-hungry chodes.

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.

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.

i used tildes for awhile but it was way too group-thinky for me.

if you aggresively block entire instances where the majority of weirdos come from, it gets a lot better here.

but you get waaaaay less content. the majority of the content and activity is from insane people and their victimhood doomer hater agenda.

The video showing exactly how Musk helped Trump steal the election.

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.

escaping surveillance, algo feeds, and detoxxing myself and reducing screen time (works like a charm so far)

So I was actually on Mastodon a long time ago in ~2016, where someone very programmer recommended it to me. I didn't get it and so skipped out but I was aware of it.

Years later, before the API-pocalypse, I was getting frustrated with Reddit and then-Twitter and so bailed out on them. A friend had brought up trying to ditch Facebook and algorithms, and I recalled Mastodon and went to looking at it again, this time giving it a proper try.

Well I stuck around obviously and went to browse around at other Fedi-stuff and stumbled upon Lemmy/PieFed, joining it a short while later.

So I heard about the concept and it appealed. Its like when I heard stallman talk I started looking for gpl in everything I could. The first time I heard about it was mastadon but I never liked twitter and the format did not appeal to me. When the api thing happened with reddit there was more talk and I found there was the reddit alternative in kbin and lemmy. I like kbin better and went with it and when earnest dropped away I went to mbin as that made kbin kinda abandonware. Mbin was nice enough but did not have the energy that earnest brought to kbin but piefed came out and it kinda had that energy. So I went to that. I do miss moist though.

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...

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.

I joined mbin after reddit spezzed out with their API bullshit.

Interest on foss alternative to big corpo social network. It s not big corpo but if u didn't know well it s just the same

Oh fosho. 😬

But yes, iirc either a group of subreddits or at least a major one was moderated by Ghislaine Maxwell so the Mossad was deep in it. Oh well.

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.

Reddit, twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, AI.......

Just trying to find some place that isn't polluted.

Truly some of the worst moderation I've ever seen. Admins too. Up there with stack overflow, which was dying from poor moderation long before AI decapitated it

I wish it was publicised more when accounts get nuked. The what & why. Everyone online just assumes if you get action'ed on you must have been spouting some far right nazi rhetoric but it's way way more common for it to be something innocent, or just out of context, or even just poorly worded. There is a wide range.

Reddit encourages you to care about your account (cakeday, karma, reply notifications etc. It's all set to make your care about your account) and then they nuke it when you say something they don't like.

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.

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.

Preach

Preach

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.

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.

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.

Right person, be happy about it

I cam here to not get asked weekly why I came here.

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.

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.

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.

y u cam here?

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.

I switched to Linux so it seemed like the logical choice to move to the home of Linux memes.

To be fair at least Relay is still going, it's just paid now because of the nonsense. But if reddit ever does something to make Relay not be able to work at all, or gets rid of old reddit, that's when I'll be gone for good. But for now I'm browsing both. Lemmy is more active now than when I signed up, it seems. Or maybe I'm just figuring it out better, haha.