So you're from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.
PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/
Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven't been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.
I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.
I'm in the same boat here, not regretting it at all that I moved on.
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Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you're having fun, I guess.
That's why I'm here! :D
The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez's game and start charging for usage.
So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It's not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it's swipe gestures aren't as intuitive—but it's close and still better than paying to use reddit.
Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez
Is there more than one exodus now? I haven't been keeping track.
AFAIK there was another exodus after they announced to be training AI based on Reddit content, another when they went public, another for starting heavily censoring more the platform (some people a while ago were getting banned just for saying Luigi or upvoting posts with it)
I don't know if I was part of any major purge or not... I had some temp bans from a bot and then finally a permanent one, just expressing a wish for some blood clot to break free. I mean, it was way less expressive than other posts but I was marked for exit due to violence?!. I felt sad. I deleted an account, made another and then got re-banned within 24 hrs for no specific post, just for trying to overcome the ban... then I did a bit of research and honestly decided they suck, I don't need them and life offers better platforms. I hate this current internet shitification level though. The way I was treated... well, I kind of understand why people decide to be trolls as a lifestyle behavior. I am not a troll though... just a bit rowdy and irreverent.
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There was a smaller (?) one a few months ago when reddit started punishing people for upvoting content that went against their ToS.
Edit: here's an article.
There have been several. Before lemmy there were others that failed.
Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked...
Amen
Happy lemon cake day!
i already got banned once, so its really THE reddit expirience. xD
PieFed becoming a lot more akin to an evolved Reddit than Lemmy lately with the recent updates
Is that a positive or native opinion of PieFed? I’m genuinely curious since I’ve never really scrolled through PieFed
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I was kind of surprised to find so many that were banned and denied even their appeals. I chose not to appeal because it was obviously they were power addled assholes.
i wasnt radical enough in a comment for .ml and discussed a bit, so it was fully deserved! you cant have different political views than the mods!
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Congrats! This is definitely a better place than reddit.
4 years over here for me, when lemmy.ml was pretty much the only option.
4 years wow, so you must really remember the more quiet times. Even just in the last 1 to 2 years it's got so much busier.
Yes, it was pretty quiet, but I feel the quality was always pretty good, even from the beginning.
2 years is coming up for me shortly. I realized not too long ago that I’ve always been interested in Reddit alt. I signed up to… volt? I forgot the name, but the users were awful so I didn’t stick around. I’m glad lemmy worked out.
Yeah voat was pretty much nazi central
Wow, thanks for the memories. I waded through the Nazis to get my shitposts on Voat, now I wade through the tankies to get my shitposts here. Reality is a wild and magical thing, isn't it?
Do you recall the year?
Yes! Voat… anyway. Grateful for lemmy.
2 years for me as well!
Happy cake day Dave
Almost two years for me too. Wow, time flies.
Geez that was a quick two years
Happy 2 years!
Happy 2-year! Damn, I’ll coming up on my 2y in a few weeks. Time flies, and I don’t even remember much about xhitter and reddit anymore.
Me too. Happy 2 years everyone!
Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.
I've not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I'm looking for something in particular now.
Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.
hey me too! All the best!
Wow. Same here. Haven't logged on since then either. Although I do browse r/printsf in my laptop still... Fediverse is the shit
Same here. It's been a blast.
Has it really been that long...? I can't even tell since I can't log into my OG account anymore to see my join date (yiffit shut down 😭).
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