• arc@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastodon is to Twitter so I want to give it a try. I confess I haven’t left Reddit but I’ve certainly lessened my presence including removing their app.

  • Bulletdust@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Put simply, I’m tired of being the product, and it’s obvious that Reddit wanted to implement more data harvesting and more advertising to their platform. Couple that with the outrageous cost to use their API, and it’s bye, bye Reddit.

  • VictoriousStalemate@lemm.ee
    21·
    1 year ago

    They killed RIF and Apollo.

    Also, they killed off edgy content like /r/imgoingtohellforthis. And censorship got out of control. Sadly, I expect the same will happen here. But I remain cautiously optimistic.

  • coldv@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I used RIF. Before this went down I tried the official Reddit app because I wanted to follow some accounts and make a news feed out of them. It was so crap. It was so annoying. Random notifications, not allowing you to open threads in browser… Just felt overall very intrusive. Deleted it in two days. There is a small random invite only community that is wholesome and I really love, but I couldn’t even get myself to download the app for it. Also using Reddit just feels really icky now.

  • TONKAHANAH@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I havent fully left. I’ll probably still use it on my browser for some time while also visiting lemmy. It’ll be dead to me on my phone though, boost was my window to reddit on mobile, removing that is a death sentence.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I deleted 50k karma worth of posts and comments and my account when it occurred to me that they’re charging these API fees to essentially make money off content that I - and others like me - made. Screw that. I’ll take my two cents elsewhere, thank you. It’s pretty exciting to be part of something relatively new as well. There are already Lemmy reproductions of some of my favorite subreddits, and despite being significantly smaller, there’s much less meta to slog through. People are talking about the things that made them passionate about those subjects to begin with again, rather than some obscure piece of memery that has taken over the entire community.

  • Xepher@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    Death of the 3rd party apps. I used to use BaconReader but switched to Sync for Reddit a couple of years ago. Both way above and beyond the official reddit app that’s full of bloat and ads (unless you pay for gold).

    They really just didn’t seem like they were going to bring the functionality of a lot of the 3rd party apps so I can’t see myself using their official app long term.

    Oh, plus the Sync dev said he is creating an app for Lemmy, which I had never heard of before this, so that’s how I found myself here!

  • MonkRome@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just don’t feel like Reddit management remembers what the point of their system is. If they have such contempt for the mods and the users, what even is the point anymore. I get that they need to make money, but they need to do it in a way that keeps reddits positive aspects. This can’t end well, the only hope for them is if enough people leave and they readjust their perspective and become a little more self aware. I’m not holding my breath…