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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 111 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The reason for the Reddit protests could have been justified, but the CEO's response couldn't.

He messed up, doubled down, and then continued to mess up. I don't know why the rest of the team let him keep talking

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was lying about the Apollo developer for me. He lied, he got caught, and then said (paraphrasing), "wow, he's a terrible person for recording our conversation without my knowledge! I don't want to work with him anymore anyway!"

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.

[–] KeepFlying@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

That's what sold it for me.

I don't mind if reddit wants to make some money on their API, but giving app developers barely a month to respond, having insanely high prices, throwing away the relationships they built with app devs, and not responding to community feedback around the issue at all was all too much.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

It was the AMA that was the last straw for me, on top of everything before. It had been going downhill, but that was where I lost all hope it would improve.

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[–] shashi154263@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reddit was killed, no, murdered.

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 year ago

Reddit killing 3rd party apps

[–] Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja 37 points 1 year ago

A link on Reddit.

It was immediately after spez's fatuous AMA. I wasn't specifically planning to leave Reddit, but I had never really been satisfied there, so I was open to the idea. And I ran across a link to join-lemmy.org, so I followed it, just to see what it was about. I had no idea then that following that link would end up being the last thing I did on Reddit, but that's the way it worked out.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reddit threatening to ban /r/piracy made me setup a failover in raddle. Raddle restricting sign-ups for months made me switch the failover to lemmy.ml. Reddit protests made me setup lemmy.dbzer0.com and make it the primary location for /c/piracy

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[–] davemeech@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

+1 for the third party Reddit app ban.

[–] mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Reddit forcing me to use their shitty app

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dude, it's so bad. The hordes of people defending reddit, saying, "the official app isn't even bad! Stop complaining! You're just too autistic to learn something new!" we're either liars or have no idea what a good app looks like. The official reddit app has tons of ads that are designed to look like regular posts. It's so stuttery. It constantly loses your place. You can't change the home page sort. Read posts get demoted, so after it refreshes on its own without your permission, you can't find your read posts again.

It's by far one of the worst apps I have ever used. How it has even been released is beyond me.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bots. Many pro-reddit pro-official-app comments were proven to be bots during the height of the protests.

Reddit literally has a long, long history of using bots to make the site seem like it has more engagement, even from the early days of the site.

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Many things, but ultimately Spez

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[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] porkchop@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Same, but Apollo. I’m still grumpy about it.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Came from reddit like many others. I had been unhappy with the artificial and corporate-sterile feel of reddit for a while. And second to that, the way subreddits were set up made it rife with powermod agendas and no good alternatives to escape them.

I much prefer the "interconnected islands" of lemmy that reduces the ability of anyone to advertise, astroturf, or have ownership of the whole system. It feels looser and puts more control back in the hands of users, which is refreshing.

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[–] outbound@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

I had been flip-flopping for a while, but I figured that it was finally time to get off of Digg.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] DBT@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When Reddit killed Apollo I deleted my ten year old account and never went back.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

General interest in noncommercial social media. My Lemmy account is two years old, and I've been on Mastodon for longer than that. I did start spending a lot more time here once reddit axed 3rd party apps.

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit killing off 3rd party apps. Also Lemmy feels more free as I don't need a set amount of karma to be able to submit a post or comment. I had a lurker account on Reddit that was verified and everything, but there were times when I wanted to post and when I did only I could see my comment.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

RiF stopped working on Reddit

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A desire for a fresh start most of all.
To be more open and friendly with others and to have some interaction. Not to be like the lurker I used to be :)
The whole reddit exodus was a good reason to follow through on it.

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[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reddit killing off third party apps. I'll blow a leper before I use the official one. Lemmy was a good enough replacement at the time, and nowadays I only visit reddit when I need super specific information that might've been asked in the past 10 years.

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[–] olizet@lemmy.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because spez killed Apollo.

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[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit banned r/chapotraphouse and this site was made.

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I've been waiting for Lemmy to take off since 2019. Reddit's API change made me jump at the opportunity to stop using it.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

It all started when someone's reddit AMA got canceled due to the protests...

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My web browser then Android apps.

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[–] mbryson@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

The Reddit fiasco.

What made me stay was the concept of federation, and how similar to Reddit Lemmy actually is. I do find that my "home" feed gets stale compared to the refreshing of content Reddit would always have every time I checked, but I find there's a different style of discussion on Lemmy compared to Reddit, allowing for a more broad perspective than what one platform can provide to me.

As that sentence implies, I still use Reddit, but I divide my time now between there and here, with more niche communities being found on Reddit, focusing on FOSS and technology via Lemmy, and larger events (politics, world news, etc) being spread between both.

[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Sync stopped working on reddit.

[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the chapo chatters pulled me back in

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[–] TootsLeMonde@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Apollo shutting down and the original Reddit app being πŸ’©πŸ’©πŸ’© Plus the way everything was handled by Reddit. So gross!

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[–] ElRenosaurusReg@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit's recent API changes making it difficult to moderate the communities I was in charge of was the final straw for me. Tbh I'm surprised the racism, transphobia, and rampant sinophobia didn't scare me away sooner.

I'm digging hexbear and the lemmyverse, y'all are cool as fuck... mostly.

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[–] itsmaxyd@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

fuck u/spez

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The API pricing change and the closing of r/ProgrammerHumor.

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[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Ads, ads, and more ads. Especially once my feed got flooded with that β€œHe Gets Us” bullshit every other post. I finally found out about Apollo only about a month before the APIcalypse happened, and the thought of going back was draining. I participated in r/place as a last hoorah before deleting Reddit, and that’s where I saw the Lemmy ad… Haven’t looked back since

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EMPRESS. Funny enough that she got banned on this server a few days after I registered.

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[–] Clearwater@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Infinity broke, so now I have something new to scroll through while on the toilet.

[–] Sigmatank@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly started using Mastodon right at the start of the Twitter announcements, although I had never used Twitter. I was getting worried about where most things online were trendeing and tended to use reddit for a big chunk of my online browsing. I wasn't really expecting reddit to implode so quickly after Twitter, but as I was already using mastodon another federated platform seemed good to join

[–] Epicmulch@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ultimately the killing of sync brought me. But reddit just isn't what it used to be. Every gaming sub is just a bunch of cry babies complaining about the game that used to be good but isn't. Every post is just someone else reposting the same popular phrase or meme. It just over all sucks. I've actually tried using the app and the site it just doesn't work well. It doesn't even show content from all of my subs like sync used to. Now I'm using sync on lemmy and its passable. I actually kind of like the smaller user base. Less hive mind bull shit.

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[–] innermachine@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

The great reddit exodus of 2023 brought me here

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