or any other reason… im curious.
I left over the API bullshit.
Yup, once they wanted to force their garbage app on me, I quit.
Same it was the bridge too far. Reddit was something I was willing to deal with on my terms. They decided that wasn’t good enough and I’m smart enough to walk away from a toxic relationship.
Same
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Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
In hindsight, I’m really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it’s just not the same.
There are DOZENS of us!
…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.
That’s a LOT of dozens!
Same. Reddit without Relay isn’t worth it
RiF here, but agreed. (Now Voyager)
Me too
Same here! My app stopped working (rip rif… You will be missed…!), I thought I give the official reddit app a try, it wouldn’t let me log in no matter what I tried and then I heard of lemmy via feddit. Only went back once to delete all my data and to close my account.
Saaame.
I used the reddit app many many moons ago, but then discovered Boost. Once it quit working flawlessly, Lemmy became home. And Boost for Lemmy is wonderful :)
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Same. Used rif.
Same. I still miss bacon reader.
Yep. Also left digg during their ad push fiasco to go to reddit.
This. Fuck reddit
This is/was the way. I mean, not that people are not welcome here now but still supporting reddit that long is like supporting Elon after he went mad or Trump after the first time around…
Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.
Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking “How many assholes we got on this ship”.
Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don’t miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)–but I don’t know that for sure, maybe I’m just being cynical.
Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn’t delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that’s cool.
And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a “clean” version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits. 😌
Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
I came here as a result of them fucking over 3rd party app developers. Never once have been banned by Reddit.
Likewise. Then I realized how much better lemmy is than reddit and never looked back. Way higher quality content and discussions here
I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.
I escaped when they killed their API.
I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.
I became aware of Lemmy during reddit’s API bullshit. I left, and never posted there again. Let their greed, bots, and enshittification rot.
Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.
Same. It seems like old Reddit. Which I missed. A few differences. But all in all I am glad I switched. Fuck Spez.
Same, when the app stopped I looked for a new place to call proper home
I’m just making a comeback after some time. Reddit is dead, there is bots and ads and AI everywhere.
Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since
I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.
Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.
I’m not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.
