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Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life

Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.

It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.

I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.

left because of api changes and their increasing censorship of content they don't like (I miss r/all having r/eyeblech).

Left because of Apollo shutting down. Thanks, Voyager devs, for recreating that experience on a different platform. :-]

Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.

I stopped using reddit after the api changes, and started using lemmy after about a year of going cold turkey

2 years into the fediverse; left during the IPO enshittification nonsense when they removed public access APIs and made Apollo impossible.

Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star

Left reddit when the API nonsense was coming and the site had gotten so bad in general.

I left reddit a little over two years ago. The API debacle was the end, though I had been mostly offline for a few months prior.

The fediverse has only gotten better since. However, this is my fourth account. I joined vlemmy, which disappeared overnight, then lemm.ee, which shut down recently, then another instance which wasn’t for me, and now reddthat. I also signed up for hexbear after a few beers, forgot my password, haven’t been able to contact the mods, didn’t use an email address and haven’t been able to get back in since.

Left Reddit after they killed third party apps ( R.I.P RiF) and haven't looked back. That site is dead to me.

I also left after the api access changes. I am so glad I switched, this a much more ethical model of operation.

Technically me, even though they eventually reversed it after appealing the ban 4 separate times (banned for "violence" for commenting "same" on a picture of a woman in a shirt that says "Punch a Nazi.") That whole thread showed that the admin staff of the site have nazis and/or Nazis sympathizers among them and I don't vibe with that shit. Once the API thing went through and RIF stopped working, I came here.

I left Reddit after the Apollo app was no longer usable due to the whole API thing. Their app is garbage and until recently their mobile website wouldn’t work (it would force you to visit with the app to view some subreddits).

Now, I use Voyager with Lemmy. I still check in on Reddit from time to time or when searching for info, but I use Lemmy mostly now.

Banned there for "inciting political violence" but then discovered you can get banned across multiple communities or whole servers here because a mod gets their feelings hut.

So, idk. Just trying to get used to the idea of not telling stranger my opinions on things, it seems weird.

Got banned a little before the whole API thing because Reddit admins think child molesters deserve a safe space. Fuck them and their shithole site.

As I've said before, Reddit's become the new Quora / Yahoo Answers.

I’ve grown very interested and supportive of the fediverse, its values, and advantages. I’m still on Reddit though mainly because some of my communities haven’t started here or reached a critical mass. Yes, I know: So start them myself.

I try to spend as much of my Reddit/forum time as I can here these days. And I’m doing what I can to promote this place.

Got banned for opposing genocide and Western imperialism in a main subreddit. 🤷

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

Not banned. It had been going downhill, so I made up my mind I'd leave during blackout, kbin.social had been shared by Ernest there (hope he's okay), and ended up on Lemmy.

Eta cool username

I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there's just too much useful info to ignore it. But I'm not going there directly

Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I'd guess it's dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.

I was banned for calling out an antisemetic dogwhistle in an anime sub. Asking why I was banned instead of the other person led to a permanent sitewide ban.

I haven't seriously posted anything on reddit since the APIcalypse but still lurk there occasionally.

It's also still a decent source of tech information and user experience but that will soon be over as well.

These days reddit is filled with AI slop, malicious bots, Russian trolls, nazi propaganda etc. Outside of some niche subreddits that site is not worth interacting with anymore than necessary.

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.

Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.

Rude awakening came last year after using reddit since 2015. Got banned for responding to r4r prompts. These days its become a cesspit for telegram ads and spam. Ironical you ban humans for botlike activities but let bots roam freely .

Joined lemmy and mostly use discord as an alt for redit subs i was actively involved in.

I did. Not banned though.

Like many in the comments, I left after the API changes. I'm not using their shitty app, and it's so bot infested now it's not even worth it.

Came to Lemmy when reddit fucked up the api change. Month ago my Lemmy instance closed up so I moved to piefed instead as I find it more acceptable (take it as you want).