or any other reason… im curious.
Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
Me too
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)
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.
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.
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…
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 :)
Yep. Also left digg during their ad push fiasco to go to reddit.
This. Fuck reddit
Same. I still miss bacon reader.
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Same. Used rif.
Moved from reddit because reddit is now infested with old twitter people who are just so annoying. Also I like the idea of a non centralized social media.
Farewell Apollo (the API fiasco), and thank you Voyager (my lemmy app)
exactly why I came here. I was hardly using Reddit anymore as it was because it felt off. it still does feel off when I go back to visit, a lot of the posts are formatted in a very machine like way. when I found out about that r/changemyview AI comments thing I knew I wasn’t crazy for thinking this.
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 left after yet another ban.
1st time because I criticized the US. Second time cause I said that trump needs the Mussolini treatment.
With everything that is said on reddit this was tame in comparison. Then I landed on Lemmy, and it feels like I am out of the land of bots.
I escaped when they killed their API.
Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
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.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years’ worth of content on my 250k karma account with “fuck spez” and left it all there to rot.
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.
My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I’m pretty active.
The great api killing was the largest lemmy jump I believe
Saw the direction Reddit was going in. Decided to join Lemmy to see what was going on. 2 months later I was axed from Reddit. Now here, I live.
Oh, at least two, I’d guess. But seriously, I left when the api was shut down and I could no longer use Apollo to browse. There were other signs, but that was my tipping point.
I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
Same. Rip RIF is fun
RIF ly beloved 😭
That sucks. I’m on Eternity for Lemmy thanks to Infinity for Reddit’s nice community forking the project for Lemmy
