Because Reddit has fully turned to the dark side lol. It’s been trending downhill for a while now but with the recent API shenanigans it became very clear it wasn’t going to improve. So here I am lol. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to find an alt (RIP Digg).

Reddit’s new API rules for third parties. Unfair and I’m not happy. Hoping Christian makes Apollo for Lemmy if the audience is here to support it.

I've been learning to hate reddit over the past few years between:

-its awful redesign

-it's focus on more social media aspects like group chats, friend lists, follower count.

-Shutting down third party apps

-NFTs

-WAY too many ads

Basically everything that an alternative like lemmy solves

The Android client I use will quit working at the end of the month if nothing changes. Reddit is becoming a publicly-traded corporation sometime this year, and that will no doubt cause big and mostly negative changes based on past experience. And old.reddit.com I suspect won't last long. So this is my redoubt, I can see it's a viable place to fall back to even if I don't completely understand Lemmy and whether it is sustainable if a huge number of Reddit users start using it.

Well originally because I want to have a place in case r/piracy gets banned.

Now it's because of reddit's horrible decisions regarding their API

I really need some stuff to read on my phone while on the toilet. And reddit is saying I might soon not be able to do that in the way I prefer.

Reddexodus due to them killing 3rd-party apps in a month. I'm weaning myself off reddit, as I don't think I could go cold turkey.

This place seems much nicer, inherently built to mitigate a lot of what I grew to hate about reddit-- namely the various bigotries, disinformation, and, well, the Nazis. And, frankly, I'm tired of the corporate-owned social media sites (even though Reddit managed to skirt that designation for a very long time), and the idea of FOSS, federated social media that's inherently better-moderated by people with zero tolerance for hateful people really does appeal to me.

So, I'm here checking the place out, and we'll see how it goes and how it grows!

Obviously because RiF is shutting down.

On the advice of someone else here I used Power Delete Suite to scrub all my posts and edit my comments to say why I'm leaving Reddit how I did it.

I highly recommend doing it if anyone is leaving Reddit instead of just deleting their account. This way it leaves a protest message and removes content from the platform.

I was tired of reddit continuing to push their IPO agenda, too many influences that changed it from being what it was to a ad ridden dumpster fire.

I like how Lemmy is open source and you can set up your own server/instance to connect it to other instances.

I don't like ads.

It's really cool how there are separate communities very similar to Reddit/Twitter/Instagram and yet each community can actually communicate across these services with the same account.

Reddit has gone downhill over time and their API changes were the final straw that caused me to start looking for something new.

Because Reddit plans to kill 3rd party clients. No sync no Reddit

It was mentioned on Reddit. I wanted to give it a try. I'm not in favor of losing old.reddit.com or RIF and, like many others, am looking for a new internet home.

The memes are here, I trust the anime titties are on there way too.

Was sick of the consolidation / enshittification of the net and everything that came with it and one of the ways I can contribute is to post on a platform like lemmy.

For me, if Reddit is trying to get rid of third-party apps, they're trying to get rid of me. I tried their official app and found it to be not fit for purpose. Especially compared to the superior offerings of third-party developers. The Sync app basically IS reddit to me. That goes away and so does reddit.

I'll be interested to see if Reddit backs down from their current stance in order to avert a mass exodus, and also if ekought people will actually leave to force their hand. Time will tell I guess.

I came for the drugs and hookers. So far, pretty disappointed.

Mainly because its libre and federated, what pushed me over the edge was the reddit api changes (R.I.P in advance infinity)

Because I like the general interface of (old.)reddit but not its userbase. Nor do I think social media should be a profit-driven, as the practices to keep us engaged is clearly having effects on society in every corner of the world.

I also miss the days of old, when communities were smaller and you could actually get to know people.

The idea of having various communities of different sizes and all kinds of topics as we know it from reddit just fits so perfectly to the idea of the fediverse! No more big data companies - truly community owned places for discussion and sharing of information. I really hope lemmy will grow.

I only used RIF to browse Reddit, hearing the app was getting killed made me jump ship here.

Originally because I wanted to check it out when it first launched. I have been checking out reddit alternatives for a while and I've been waiting for a migration to happen from reddit, I figured they aren't going to keep old.reddit going forever. Wasn't expecting the api changes to happen first, but since folks are making the move I'm finally participating here because I want reddit style communities to succeed on the fediverse and there's a lot more people here now for that to happen.

I joined after Genzedong got quarantined. Transphobia is less common here which I really appreciate. On the other hand there isn't as big of a community of trans people.

Various reasons:

• Getting banned for random reasons even though I participated in good faith
• Nothing being done about hateful posts and messages
• The company following in Elmo's footsteps and their lack of transparency because corporate greed

Because i use RedReader and refuse to use reddit without it. The official apps and website are garbage can residue quality. I have actually had a lemmy account for a while and use mastodon almost every day, but never really made myself get used to lemmy. I am really hoping the RedReader dev ports the app to lemmy as i am not the only one asking and they seem open to the idea

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/13ylk42/update_3_reddit_effectively_kills_off_third_party/

I've been interested in the Fediverse for a long time but didn't have any reason to jump into it because the applications I was aware of did not appeal to me. If I don't use Twitter and Instagram, why would I be interested in Mastodon and Pixelfed? This all changed when Reddit announced their API change. Reddit is the only social media site I use, so Lemmy seems like the perfect reason to jump in.

Searched an alternative to Reddit after the news about API charges. Not because there shouldn't be any payments but the way this is handled.

Also made good experience with Mastodon and like the philosophy of the fediverse.

Mostly because of Lemmy spam on reddit intensified 😅 technically it is good alternative, but it lacks content.

Like many here, mostly because Reddit will restrict their API access and kill a lot of features (like the remind me bot) and beloved third party apps.

And I really dislike the direction Reddit is going... Adding a online status to your account, letting random people follow your account, rampant bot spam and I'm pretty sure they will go after the porn subs when they go public.

I've been on Reddit since before subreddits were a thing. With the continuing degradation of the primary UIs the only things that kept it usable were the API and old.reddit.com. With one going away it would be foolish to count on the other staying around. I really thought that Reddit knew better than to go full Digg but I guess I was wrong.

So it's time to learn a lesson and move on. I've been enjoying Mastodon for the past few months but I also like to have a place for topic-focused communities so this is the natural place to come to. Looking pretty sweet so far. With the community-based federation model it seems like the closest thing we have to a Usenet 2.0.

Just chillin, reddit is becoming toxic for me