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When Reddit said they were gonna disable 3rd party apps, I left when we all said we were gonna leave. They never changed course, so I never changed course 🤷.

Reddit killed third party apps and I didn't wanna use their shitty official app, so I searched for alternatives and switched to Lemmy. I happen to like open-source software, and the idea of the Fediverse is interesting as well =w=

Reddit killed "rif is reddit is fun for reddit" or whatever it was called

I wanted a place where I would be bombarded with constant mentions of Star Trek and Linux 

When reddit said they are disabling 3rd party apps was when I heard about it but was small and still on reddit, in the meantime I found mastodon and used reddit and I found about "buy european" so I started going on Lemmy. Now I am permabanned from reddit for posting on r/lies

They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy

The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn't give me an aneurism

As soon as the writing was on the wall about Reddits API proposals I made a Lemmy instance.

Reddit blocked 3rd party apps and I'm a principled man.

I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.

When reddit announced API changes. Glad I left because it is a hellhole now

The killing off of third party apps was the thing for me. Weirdly enough, it was only after I stopped using Reddit that I began to see all the other shitty things they were beginning to do.

I don't miss it at all. It was fucking shite.

Like many others here, I moved during the API-calypse. I tried giving the official app a try but it won't let me log in event though on the website everything worked. When they even can't get the login right, what else will wait for me when I finally manage to log in? During the period, when RiF still worked I saw feddit, switched there and am still happy here years later.

I banned reddit

I love decentralization and I hate Reddit. The Venn diagram overlaps in Lemmy.

Also fuck u/spez

API

the api thing that happened 2 years ago

I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit's that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.

I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.

Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit's CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).

When I couldn't use reddit is fun anymore, reddit wasn't fun.

Reddit killed the RiF app so here I am

Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole (which is apparently a euphemism for telling someone to kill themselves???) for defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was unacceptable.

They thought mutilating baby penises was fine but not baby vaginas. So I called out the hypocrisy and told them to "crawl back into [their] hole".

Been here ever since.

Freedom.

reddit is authoritarian, and my ideology is anti-authoritarian and pro-decentralization and its just natural for me

Didn't really care for the 3rd party apps, I use brower anyways... but then again, Fediverse allows Tor and mobile browser UI is kinda great tbh, no annoying "dOwNlOaD oUr aPp" bullshit, fucking modern websites are so annoying, just let me use the browser, I don't want an app for everything lol

The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.

because federated social network is the way to go.

Fuck spez

They killed baconreader.

Leaving reddit (usa boycot was half the decission)

reddit went to shit, bots everywhere

Same as everyone else, I came over with the API refugees. I still lurk on Reddit using Brave (that and YT are the only things I use Brave for) because some communities there are still good fountains of information. I don’t post or vote on anything there, though.

Still have Apollo on my phone though.

The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.

I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.

I got permabanned from Reddit for criticizing Israel.

Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I'v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.

After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.

I only miss the guitar and cat subs.

I joined Reddit because it was an open and moderated collection of communities .. then after the blackout due to the API changes, moderators were sent packing and any sense of community that had been created was destroyed.

I joined both Mastodon and Lemmy and I'm glad I did.

The communities in both are nascent, but slowly growing, and that seems like a place I'd like to be.

After Twitter became Xitter, I also joined Bluesky but that feels much more like people ranting and venting, less about making communities.

Because I said fuck it when Reddit screw over people with their API bs and the Fediverse was an ok alternative. 

The first few months were like the honeymoon phase every website has. Users stunned by how friendly everyone is. But the petty squabbles and infighting have begun. 

Social media NOT owned by money.

Even though I learned about Lemmy, Kbin / Mbin and co by the Reddit API drama, what got me here was that this is a decentralized open platform build with FOSS software and also kinda "by nerds for nerds".

Because they kept shadowbanning me only because I use a VPN and they never ever gave any replies to my appeals. Even after having appealed at least 50 times.

A bit before the API thing actually went into effect. I saw it mentioned somewhere on Reddit, got curious, and signed up. I mainly browsed Reddit through my web browser, so the lack of 3rd party clients wouldn't have really effected me, but seeing how Reddit was acting towards its users, there was no going back for me.

I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.

I liked the funny stuff on ich_iel that I saw on reddit. But I don't want to register on disgusting proprietary services. Then I saw a comment mentioning feddit . de. Also, I didn't even have to provide an email address, so it was easy pseudonymity.

Reddit closed their API, and that was my last straw

Because I want to be in a FOSS & decentralized version of reddit that provides excellent support for 3rd-party apps.