The API changes. I use Sync, and not being able to use Sync made Reddit more or less unusable for me on my phone. I also fundamentally disagreed with the direction Reddit was going. So, Lemmy it was, and it's great. And now there's Sync for Lemmy, which is even better!
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All of this me too.
Also, all of reddit felt like lemmy.ml, but here I can block .ml easy peasy
Blocking .ml is super nice. The only thing that is a bit annoying is that they have a lot of active members that don't mind supporting fascist twats. Yet they participate in the fediverse and are otherwise informative. I don't get notifications when they answer one of my questions. Oh well.
I'm digging the block.
Things have been more civil since I blocked the instance.
Isn’t it great when it’s up to you and not to some global platform-controlling entity?
This. Screw Spez.
Same here. I exclusively browsed Reddit via app on my phone and tablet. After watching my wife struggle with the official Reddit app, I decided I would never use it. So when that became the only option, I decided it was time to move on to Lemmy.
Besides, I'm very anti-advertisement and Reddit has turned very corporate lately, looking for every way to make a buck at our expense. So I'm done supporting that site. Information and community discussion should be freely accessible, not buried behind paywalls, awards, and advertisements.
I was on Infinity.
When it was forked as Eternity, that was my go-to on Lemmy (unfortunately hasn't seen an update in a while).
Sync is awesome too!
Shutting down 3rd-party apps
RIP RIF
They murdered Apollo.
And then called Christian a liar. Spez can smoke a fat one
Greedy pig boy
Yes. This was the end. Hello Lemmy on Voyager.
Voyager is absolutely one of the S-Tier Lemmy apps
I really don't like Reddit's attitude as a corporation. The sense of entitlement from a user driven content aggregator is insane.
API changes. I hate ads.
Had Reddit wanted to charge a reasonable price for going ad-free I probably would’ve gone for it because I had no idea Lemmy existed at the time.
Of course now I wouldn’t go back because I do know it exists. 🙃
API changes killed the App I used.
What app do you use on lemmy?
I’m in the same boat, and I use Voyager. Formerly known as wefwef
Yes, it's top-notch.
API changes / forcing 3rd party apps to shut down.
They killed the apps.
Yeah, killing off the apps was particularly annoying because they had the worst one and instead of improving it to get more people on it, they killed the other ones off.
Other reasons for me:
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Spez saying that reddit owns all the content and no-one else can have it. No. It's our content. Spez loosing his shit over apps that made money because he should have all the money because he deserves it for being such a self absorbed narcissist.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Website pushing the app desperately annoyingly hard. Every third post would have a clickaway telling me it was best viewed on the app. Taking away the option that turned that off when you're logged in.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Making www.reddit.com different in a bad way on mobile, then killing mobile.reddit.com off when it had been OK on mobile.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Tankies taking over my local centre-left party's subreddit and banning people for suggesting that we should vote for that party. I kid you not.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for protesting, replacing long-standing successful mods.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for being "unmoderated" when the truth was that he didn't like the content and disagreed with some of the moderation policies.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Building a commercial empire on top of a lot of user generated content and then turning against the users.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Reddit is (no longer) Fun.
Like others, the API change was the final straw. I used Reddit is Fun (RIF) for years, even paid for the full version, because both the official Reddit app and the mobile web interface were terrible. I was also using the old web interface with the Reddit Enhancement Suite, and that went on "maintenance mode". Overall, Reddit just reached a point that the enshitification was getting to be too much for me to stomach. So, here I am.
RIF clan, represent!
I haven't tried them all, but I've been using Boost. What app are you using to recreate that RIF feel?
The API-copalypse last year.
I'd been dissatisfied with Reddit for a while due to things like hive mind mentality and jokes repeated ad nauseum. I always enjoyed more when people were just posting their honest opinions or analysis of current events from a perspective that I don't have. There wasn't really anywhere else to go as an active "forum based" aggregator, so when the ground swell of people leaving due to the API fiasco came along and enough of a crowd started setting up shop on a different platform I jumped at the opportunity to ditch that place.
Glad to be done with it.
My app of choice stopped working.
I find Lemmy much more ethical. It truly is by the community, for the community.
On reddit, a select few are getting rich by the content YOU create. Seems a bit weird to me. You create content, they get to buy a new house/yacht. No thank you.
I felt like Reddit had been in decline for a long time. Then there was the API change and the debacle with the third party apps and I realised it was run by someone with no respect for the users, whose first instinct when something doesn't go according to plan is to lie and blame someone else. I didn't like that much, so here I am.
Reddit's site sucks so bad nowadays. You're bombarded with the "use the app" shit, it only loads like five comments when you first open the page, and you can't see NSFW stuff without logging in (despite it totally loading then pretending it didn't).
The killing of Apollo (and all others) really rubbed me the wrong way, and I refuse to support companies moving in the direction of forcing ads in front of people.
Same. I used Apollo almost exclusively for Reddit. I left the day it shut down and haven’t been back.
Reddit admins perma-banned me for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza after calling me "antisemitic Nazi trash."
The API changes were the last straw; but it had been heavily destroyed by astroturfing for years before the API restrictions finally just pushed me over the edge.
Technically, the fediverse would be even easier to astroturf. Luckily we’re early enough that astroturfing is foolish on Lemmy.