cuz i was banned from reddit

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      27 days ago

      I thought your UN looked familiar.

      I left for the same reasons. Their native app is shit. They got bought out and took private. I have a dental problem with authority - back me into a corner by taking away my choices and you get brick.

      I used to reddit a lot in 2011-2013 but set it down then just lurked periodically. I found out where everyone else was going and here I am. A bit of a learning curve to get set up but now I’m happy and this place feels like reddit (but friendlier) before it started sucking

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    74·
    27 days ago

    Reddit killed third party apps and I didn’t wanna use their shitty official app, so I searched for alternatives and switched to Lemmy. I happen to like open-source software, and the idea of the Fediverse is interesting as well =w=

    • myserverisdown@lemmy.world
      6·
      27 days ago

      This is pretty much my exact same situation. I have no education in programming or software, but open-source became really interesting to me after learning what the fediverse is.

        • myserverisdown@lemmy.world
          1·
          26 days ago

          I have come to terms with knowing that I will never be so invested in software that I start building my own programs. And that’s okay. It’s been a blast exploring what amazing software other open source advocates have built. Just in this last year I built a PC, switched from windows to Linux on my laptop, started using libreoffice, prioritized F-Droid apps, learned terminal commands, built a software stack using Docker for a media library, bought a domain and networked a tunnel to access Jellyfin remotely, setup cloud sync with Immich to locally backup my photos…and I’m sure there’s much more I’m missing. If l’m ever looking for a new hobby, programming may eventually be something I look into, but for now I’ll just continue to support developers that make the FOSS I have used so far.

  • zecg@lemmy.world
    47·
    27 days ago

    Reddit killed “rif is reddit is fun for reddit” or whatever it was called

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    35·
    27 days ago

    They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy

    The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn’t give me an aneurism

  • Una@europe.pub
    35·
    27 days ago

    When reddit said they are disabling 3rd party apps was when I heard about it but was small and still on reddit, in the meantime I found mastodon and used reddit and I found about “buy european” so I started going on Lemmy. Now I am permabanned from reddit for posting on r/lies

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
    24·
    26 days ago

    I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.

    • yyyesss?@lemmy.world
      3·
      26 days ago

      no worries, I’m sure lemmy will get there.

      call me paranoid, but it’d be super easy for any big tech corp to spin up a federated instance for scraping data to train their AIs. … 😥

      at least they probably can’t link your account to the rest of your internet traffic so at least there’s some anonymity. right? right??

      • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        26 days ago

        Unfortunately, yeah. Re: point one - I’d be absolutely shocked if there isn’t such an instance already, or if the activity isn’t being scraped direct from ActivityPub via some other methods.

        Re: point two … idk man, I’m one of those idiots that still has Facebook at the moment, and I’ve seen some shit that makes me suspicious (though whether that’s based on my lemmy activity or any one of a number of other leaky things is anyone’s guess).

        I simply don’t know enough to state anything with confidence, but know your Lemmy activity (generally speaking) is very, very public. Anyone want to chime in and call me an idiot (re: this topic, otherwise I already know) with examples? It’d be deeply reassuring :)

    • LoneWolf_McQuade@lemmy.zip
      2·
      26 days ago

      Reddit makes profit in part from selling user generated content (posts/comments) to AI companies for training so you are absolutely right.

      That was one reason to me, in addition that I got banned from many subreddits from just comments that goes against the narrative of the subreddit, it kills any interesting discussion when it just becomes silos where everyone has to basically agree

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    27 days ago

    I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit’s that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.

    I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    26 days ago

    Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit’s CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).