After leaving Reddit due to the whole API scandal, I noticed that that decision was really a wake up call to take a break off the internet. Actually, it made me delete every “traditional” social media application, with the obvious exception of YouTube. I’ve never felt better. Being addicted to social media for this long can have some pretty serious issues.
Lemmy is pretty great, so much so that it’s a part of my username now (it’s more of a pseudonym now). In fact, it being small kinda encouraged me to take breaks off the internet. I’ve had one for like… 2 months perhaps?
Left when 3rd party apps were killed, stayed because I believe in the concept of the fediverse.
Still have my Reddit accounts, but just hardly use them. There is still a much larger active user base there for a bunch of stuff so I haven’t gone scorched earth yet, but Lemmy is my social media home now.
Like MySpace, Reddit, as we knew and loved it, died a long time ago (arguably long before the API scandal). The API scandal was just the straw that broke the camel’s back for many of us.
reddit when downhill the moment trump as elected the first time, i noticed they started to ban increasingly more, and easier, very sensitive filters, partially due to the rise of trolls and bot farms. then social media so increasingly lucrative revenue from right wings trafficking to thier platform through ads, thus the allowance of astroturfing, and banning of alleged “violence, or threats”
#falsedichotomy
I left reddit during the API scandal. I had the energy and time to move platforms and so I did. Open software, FOSS, non-for-profit digital solutions are all things I’m trying to support more at the cost of not using those paid or private services. Every dollar out of their pockets (the rich) is another dollar in ours.
wish i knew about api, im guessing it also allowed you to remain “hidden” so its harder for reddit to ban accounts? its probably one of the other reasons they wanted it gone, aside from the money from ads, and not being paid by those APIS.
An API is like a question a service provides that it will programmatically answer. So reddit provided questions for getting all of its content for free. People built front end apps for viewing the content to match their preferences, provide anonymity, avoid ads, etc.
There were a lot of good reasons for reddit to stop providing that service free of charge, but they went full Corporate enshittificatioon where they made the pricing so awful it forced most of the apps to shut down.
Couple that with the protecting of /r/theDonald and other non-humanist political subs and, for me anyway, it was clear that the company wasn’t run by good people but by greedy people and things would only get worse.
I never really got into reddit.
Getting in on Lemmy (relatively) early made it feel more specifical so I actually do more than search it for answers
Lemmy as a platform speaks to me on a philosophical level when it comes to the kinds of technology I use when I have the choice. I like that it is not at the mercy of the need to turn a profit to exist.
I’m banned on enough accounts they auto ban me when I make new ones. I went off the rails on a lot of political topics. I never threatened anyone, but I did wish them unspecified harms, use the words of naughtiness, and made myself a target of a few pro Trump mods and that was it. Anyway, I’m fine here, I also didn’t start using this until years after the ban so, not very related.
Yea i usually created new accounts, or made accounts just in case one gets banned on too many subs, the new one i just avoid the subs i was banned in. but this time once they banned people for anything, even if its temp they just rout all your connected accounts. Oh and they do shadownban people if you make another account if your previous accounts were sitewide banned or shadow banned. i think the shadowbanning is alittle worst than the outright site-wide bans. i was visiting the “shadowban sub” recently and people are getitng the axe the moment they create an account.
I left briefly to go on Kbin.social first, but went back to Reddit when the instance got flooded with spam and then started to go down more often than not. I had fun customizing how my communities/magazines looked when I was on there.
After the stupid decisions like making upvotes bannable which have worse implications longterm, I went back to the Fediverse. I decided just change instances if shit hits the fan instead of allowing myself to get back into Reddit. It sucks because I’ve used Reddit since around 2010. That being said, Lemmy feels more like how Reddit used to when I started using it.
its not even safe to comment as a new person, or certain subs anymore.
Just trying it out. Not yet banned anywhere
I have banned myself from Reddit.
Same. Also removed what content I had put there, to the extent that I could. Account is still there.
Like lemmy more.
After Apollo stopped working I learned I liked nice UI and no ads more than I tolerated vanilla Reddit.
Not banned. I think it’s great that when you copy posts from .ml, you mention the author now.
Neither, but the hope still remains that Lemmy grows to be better. Right now I just see too many weird takes here, but its the best alternative currently.
