Ask Lemmy

Had to replace one addiction with another

I left Reddit after the hypocrisy coming from the leadership at Reddit and with their decisions. After the AMA from Spez, it was the final nail in the coffin for my decision to leave Reddit, instead of taking accountability and owning up to their mistakes, they had completely attempted to justify their actions and seeing the developers' work go down the drain was heartbreaking, and I stand in solidarity with them. Even though I might be some minor spec to the entirety of Reddit, I still feel it's important to stand up for the community, even if it doesn't matter to them.

I figure reddit is going to get real shitty with the mass exodus, and I wanted to familiarize myself with a new social media app rather than watch my time waster from the last 6 years go down the toilet

Also I struggle with an eating disorder and continually got ads about intermittent fasting that were extremely triggering. I kept reporting them and they kept appearing in one way or another. So it really wasn't hard to convince me to delete that shit

They killed Apollo, the standard Reddit Client on iOS is unusable and also I have an issue supporting a lying piece of garbage.

It's apparent that the Reddit CEO doesn't appreciate that most of their content is produced by users and moderated by unpaid mods. I fully think Reddit deserves to be paid for API usage somehow, but stubbornly asking 24 cents per 1000 requests is ridiculous.

I wanted to join Reddit this week, and found it was going into "interesting times". So I joined Lemmy instead.

I'm witnessing a slow death of my beloved RIF. If they're killing it, I'm going down with that ship. I think spez solidified my choice with the Q&A.

I went back to see who was participating in the blackout and who wasn't. A lot of subreddits aren't that I had followed. I have been slowly but surely unsubcribing from all subreddits that still have posts barring things like the Ukraine subreddit where it's obviously really important for that one to still be active.

Once all that is done... I'm not going to have a reason to go back. I think this is the best way. I may salvage some of my old posts and repost them here where relevant. Then deactivate my account forever.

I don't agree with the direction of the internet. I think I need to practice what I preach and this in my opinion is the right way to go about it.

I originally left back during the pedo admin stuff

After 15 years of using Reddit, I was finally getting comfortable with Boost.

I knew this time would come, because corporations got to corporate... but it's still annoying.

I hope enough people come over to give Lemmy critical mass.

Corporate greed has got a real bad stench , and I am not about that life. I will be on reddit until one day I am so use to opening Lemmy instead , until then I guess I will never truly leave reddit.

• 👎 Con reddit: Buggy web page on desktop. It always asks me to use the app on mobile. No thanks.
• 👍 Pro: Lemmy: fast loading web page, no banners. It works.

Smells of a crusting company trying to sit on its laurels and work for itself rather than support its communities.

Cos I am petty!

I only want to use third party apps to browse reddit, infinity is awesome. Also I read that reddit is trying to force people to use their app by blocking them from accessing reddit on their mobile browser. Fuck 'em.

Baconreader or bust

I noticed that I'm not bound by any social media in specific (just WhatsApp and Discord for family and friends), just by the need to scroll something and see some things of interest. And I would rather scroll away at this site. It is calmer and people are more friendly.

Boost was Reddit for me

Knew this was coming, so hopped over here for an alternative. Have had a bunch of communities been following for a couple years. I hope this takes off, love seeing all the different opinions people have on topics. This is my first post!

Because we shut it down.

It's pretty simple. Reddit as a company seems to have been on a path for years where they have done everything they possibly can to make the site more corporate at the expense of Reddit as a community.

I've been on Reddit for years (I deleted at least two accounts before sticking with my now 14-year-old account). To put it in context, my Reddit account is older than my child, who has his own Reddit account.

There were a lot of things on Reddit that I found annoying but it was easy to ignore. I was saddened by the way they fired Victoria and unfairly blamed it on Ellen Pao, and the effects of those decision s including the noticeable degradation in quality and corpoatization of AMA posts.

I also hated how blatant advertising and astroturfing kept showing up more and more and did not like the way practically everything turned into politics and divisiveness in a more recent era.

But again, most of that was pretty easy to avoid and I could just stick to my little niche subreddits that I liked, ignore the rest of the content, and view the site and a format I like because I could use a third party app. I never really cared for new Reddit and especially hated the official Reddit app, and with that being gone and ads and chat being forced on me, I'm done with it.

Everyone is nicer here, no rage bait.

I am about 75% off of Reddit. I'm waiting for a community that is equivalent to r/Ukraine and r/Ukraineconflict, and need to purge my posts and comments still.

Once the 3rd Party Apps are dead, I won't have much of a choice, since I use Infinity.

API changes will probably kill Relay. Even if they don't, want to quit out of principal (principle?).

Anyway, nice to meet y'all. Hope this takes off.

I didn't leave reddit. I'll still be there after everything's all said and done.

However, I tried their app years ago. It was garbage. Once July 1st rolls around, I'll just use old.reddit.com or RES to use their site. I do most of my reading/posting using boost though, so I'll be using reddit less than before. Once those options go, then I don't see myself using reddit any longer.

I've been a tildes and hacker news user for a few years at this point. If this migration attempt means anything to me, it's to diversify even more. So I'm checking out Lemmy and kbin and I went back to slashdot.

I left due to the issues with using Apollo. i was a major fan of the app and knowing it will be going dark soon for use, I think it was time for me to leave. Plus I've noticed since cutting reddit out of my daily routine it has significantly improved my mental health.