I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
Reddit killed third party apps with absurd API fees.
Also known as the apicalypse
Don’t forget lying and defaming one of the most prominent third party devs.
What annoyed me even more is how they handled that whole situation. They basically went: who cares, the protest is going to die down in a few days anyways so why should we do anything besides insulting everybody
The API thing. I was using RIF for a very long time at that point and had no intention of using the official Reddit app.
Saaame
The API shenanigans
Yeah, same, when the apicalypse hit I was gone.
Why “apicalypse” and not “appocalypse”?
Two reasons:
- Because Reddit killed the API , which in turn killed the apps.
- It sounds funnier
Aaah I see. Yeah, yours is better.
API boatlift gang 🇨🇺🤞
Reddit is a Wall Street corporation that sells users to corporate advertisers
Lemmy is free and open source.
Least fucked option.
Reddit: fucked. Twitter: fucked… Meta: fucked since forever. Bluesky: signs of future fuckededness. Mastodon: not what I was after.
Lemmy: hey, these people seem to be my kind of insane.
Because fuck corporate social networks.
The apicalypse.
the API exodus finally drove enough traffic here to keep it lively
Less corporate, less centralized, open source tech. I don’t quite fit in here, but I guess I’m weird enough to stick around anyway 🙂
I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.
I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes.
Before a lot of people from Reddit came to Lemmy it was the same here.
Makes sense, that was when I started using it
Reddit was going downhill. Conversations are near impossible. You have to agree with the hive mind or you get down voted into oblivion. The monetization of the platform. The gamification of the platform. The AI bot problem.
There are too many to count. Lemmy is still small, and while it has its own problems, is not completely fucked yet.
You have to agree with the hive mind or you get down voted into oblivion.
Isn’t Lemmy the same way though?
I have had disagreements with people on Lemmy and not been downvoted. People here are more focused on debate and whether you are arguing in good faith.
For the michmichs
got tired of my comments being removed for saying stuff like dead Nazis please me
although apparently some mods around here don’t like that either
It’s the same fucking crowd.
I’m a refugee from Reddit & Twitter. I still lurk there without posting anything.
Got pissed at corporate social media for the way they’ve accelerated the damage being done to our already degraded public discourse but I still needed somewhere to doomscroll and find… gifs… of… nothing in particular…
Suspicious
