To be honest I'm still winding down there.

But for me, once the blind moderators said they can't work with the new system, that's pretty definitive for me. When people with disabilities have found and built their own ways to exercise equal power with others and protect their communities, and then those ways are wantonly taken away from them — yeah, that's bad.

I did not use Apollo. I used the alien blue / official Reddit app. It’s not the best Reddit client out out there. The thing that annoyed me the most is the toxic masculinity and the deterioration of subreddits in the last few months. I don’t know the challenges that mods face with regards to api changes, but the line for me is when spez talked about musk and twitter. I mean, I left twitter almost a month into acquisition as things got very toxic and inflamed. I have a suspicion Reddit will go into a slow death spiral with content being just reposts from tik tok(which was already happening).

At the end of the day, I find lemmy a bit more palatable for two reasons, it’s slow moving and there is quality content, and not just some staged videos from tik tok. If I wanted to see tik toks I’ll be in TikTok.

all good things come to an end

Apollo going away was the catalyst for me. I will never use Reddit's garbage website or first-party app.

Plus Lemmy gave me an excuse to host another neat service and still waste the same time I did on Reddit.

Right now, all the useful stuff on reddit is private and it's burning down - Main reason. I tried joining lemmy like 2 years ago I guess, but back then lemmy was very strict, did not allow typical users. My appeal was rejected. I try to move to a decentralized platform if I can. I left meta, snapchat long time ago cuz there's nothing to lose.

I ain't using that goofy orange app.

Reddit has gone downhill so much over the years; RIF was the only way I could continue to enjoy Reddit, get past the fake-post ads, get past all the stupid bells and whistles and flashing awards and whatnot. Without RIF, I can't stomach what Reddit has become.

How Reddit reacted to the 3rd party apps builders also really pissed me off, too. Solidarity to people, not money hungry corp.

I may occasionally go to Reddit via my desktop, to visit some communities that I love. But I'll be reading, not participating.

I hope to find a new nest over here.

If I’m interacting with a business and then that business closes the method I’m using then fuck them I leave. I’ve done it with streaming services as my preferred devices have lost support through upgrades as well and I’ve done it at restaurants for forcing QR code menus.

Two of my three main subs have migrated over here including the whole family of one of them. And once I tried Lemmy I really liked it and support the concepts and philosophy.

So I’ll only go back to the old place to check in on that last main sub periodically until an alternative appears or I talk myself into creating it.

Reddit screwed reddit aka reddit fucked reddit.

The tone shift, mainly. I mean, I knew it was going downhill, but I didn't realize it'd happen so quickly until the huge shift in tone after the protests. Then it kinda clicked that "whoa this place is turning into a shithole fast".

It's good old cancer. The influx people don't really know how to use the community, they don't "get it", and now there are enough of them to resist being driven away. It's unstoppable now. Every sub slowly turns into a shitpost sub, bit by bit, as the negatively creeps in subtly.

A single mod team can't hold it back, trolls are too smart for that, and trolling mods is too fun. It takes a larger community culture to keep them at bay. Lose that ... and watch for yourself. Should take a year or two, off the top of my head. Not even r/humansbeingbros with a mod army could withstand the coming times of darkness and despair. It would merely be the Rivendell among Sauron's endless hordes. lol

I gotta admit, I thought reddit was immune. The karma system. But a critical mass of users is capable of undermining and subverting it, and then spez came. While he could backtrack and possibly cure the cancer by inspiring some decency again, I don't think that's very likely. No profit in that.

where do I start, censorship, the free speech side died as soon as the Chinese investors came in, the owners not giving the third party any leeway, and of course my favourite apps going, but im praying Lemmy become the new reddit.

I used Reddit is Fun for about 7 years, I can't imagine going back to the official app with its clunky format even on the most compact setting and its hundreds of trackers mining user data for who knows what. The browser version still a useful enough tool for news, but that only lasts as long as users keep posting. Once they migrate here or somewhere else, that's the end for Spez's moneymaking scheme. I heard the RIF developer's working on an app for Tilde, but Connect for Lemmy has been a pretty good alternative so far.

because they killed off FOSS 3rd party apps, and companies like that don't deserve my data

Spez and getting rid of 3rd party

Community issues. It's such a big place that most sections are oversaturated with crap and there was gatekeeping towards newer users. A breath of fresh air was needed.

The CEO basically said fuck you to like 15% of users, and hes doubling down on lies about it.

Killing off third party apps was the straw that broke the camel's back. I still browse Reddit, not gonna lie, but I don't contribute anymore. And my mobile browsing will likely stop entirely once Apollo stops working tomorrow. I'm using Lemmy as a substitute, but also using this whole thing as a general opportunity to use social media less... less time mindlessly browsing reddit, more time doing things I actually enjoy.

Death of the 3rd party apps. I used to use BaconReader but switched to Sync for Reddit a couple of years ago. Both way above and beyond the official reddit app that's full of bloat and ads (unless you pay for gold).

They really just didn't seem like they were going to bring the functionality of a lot of the 3rd party apps so I can't see myself using their official app long term.

Oh, plus the Sync dev said he is creating an app for Lemmy, which I had never heard of before this, so that's how I found myself here!

Their weak approach to hate speech meant that it wasn't a safe place. I basically stopped using it around 6 months ago, and have been on Lemmy since. Though it hasn't been very active until recently

Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastodon is to Twitter so I want to give it a try. I confess I haven't left Reddit but I've certainly lessened my presence including removing their app.

Been wanting to quit reddit for a few years. Recent incidents just accelerated the process. I will still visit few smaller subreddits from time to time as I still see the original reddit charm in those places.

other people did, finally

I deleted my account a long time ago, but I still followed various subreddits with libreddit, teddit, and gopherddit. The API changes may kill those services, so I'm here.

It's a lot of reasons.

1. Reddit always felt like "The Inquirer" magazine to me. It was mostly trashy gossip, but I had a few forums that had good discussions.

2 I'm not really involved in any of the commercialized social media platforms because I don't like feeling like I'm the product. I don't like feeling like I'm being manipulated by an algorithm. I don't use YouTube or Facebook or any if the others either. I liked Reddit in that I could just browse without an account.

3. My phone and computer is my most personal storage. It's my diary, bank account, addressbook, calendar, personal correspondence and more. I can change my life and become a digital hermit, but I shouldn't have to. For this reason and #2, I only install applications on my phone and computer that I can trust will behave alongside all that juicy data about my life. I trust my spouse, doctor and lawyer with this information and no one else. This means that your spy app (Reddit app, too) doesn't get to be on my phone or computer. I only run apps that I can view the source code for (with a few exceptions, like banking). Same for the operating system (sorry, Apple. Sorry, Google). I know it's not bulletproof, but it's better than most.

4. Finally, I didn't know that there was an alternative. When this API stuff started, I first learned about Lemmy and Mastodon.

There's a lot more, but Lemmy's what I've been looking for for some time now, I just needed a nudge.

I think that media platforms and public spaces should be publicly owned. I actually wrote an article on the subject a while back https://justiceinternationale.com/articles/2020-12-02-we-must-own-our-tools/

Same reason as everyone else, I reckon.

Apollo is the only way I’ve used reddit for about 6 years.

I don’t want ads, and I don’t want my data serving as an asset to capitalist pigs!

the fediverse was/is quite a daunting platform. I’m here for the long run (hopefully), but I worry that it will either continue to be a relatively vacant space compared to other media, or crumble under the weight of unexpected operating costs.

To anyone who has been here for quite some time, I ask you: what are some useful tricks to make the most out of the service?

I haven't officially left yet. I'm using the patched app with Revanced. If that somehow gets nuked though I don't know what I'll do.