The API changes. I use Sync, and not being able to use Sync made Reddit more or less unusable for me on my phone. I also fundamentally disagreed with the direction Reddit was going. So, Lemmy it was, and it’s great. And now there’s Sync for Lemmy, which is even better!
All of this me too.
Also, all of reddit felt like lemmy.ml, but here I can block .ml easy peasy
Blocking .ml is super nice. The only thing that is a bit annoying is that they have a lot of active members that don’t mind supporting fascist twats. Yet they participate in the fediverse and are otherwise informative. I don’t get notifications when they answer one of my questions. Oh well.
I’m digging the block.
Things have been more civil since I blocked the instance.
This. Screw Spez.
Same here. I exclusively browsed Reddit via app on my phone and tablet. After watching my wife struggle with the official Reddit app, I decided I would never use it. So when that became the only option, I decided it was time to move on to Lemmy.
Besides, I’m very anti-advertisement and Reddit has turned very corporate lately, looking for every way to make a buck at our expense. So I’m done supporting that site. Information and community discussion should be freely accessible, not buried behind paywalls, awards, and advertisements.
I was on Infinity.
When it was forked as Eternity, that was my go-to on Lemmy (unfortunately hasn’t seen an update in a while).
Sync is awesome too!
Was using Boost for Reddit. API bits made them charge for Reddit. They offered lemmy. I’d been meaning to get started with Mastodon, having another fediverse portal offered made it easy.
No more Slide for Reddit
They murdered Apollo.
And then called Christian a liar. Spez can smoke a fat one
Greedy pig boy
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Voyager is absolutely one of the S-Tier Lemmy apps
Voyager da goat no cap
Having also bailed because of Apollo, I kind of wish some of the iOS adjacent communities could get a decent toehold on Lemmy. 90% of the comments in those communities feel like they’re from people who are not subscribed, or never would.
Traffic from All hits Lemmy communities a lot faster and harder than Reddit communities, and that can make it hard for certain communities to get rooted on this platform
Yeah because the lower amount of content i basically only browse all. And typically don’t visit any communities.
API changes killed the App I used.
What app do you use on lemmy?
I’m in the same boat, and I use Voyager. Formerly known as wefwef
Yes, it’s top-notch.
API changes. I hate ads.
The API-copalypse last year.
Reddit is (no longer) Fun.
Like others, the API change was the final straw. I used Reddit is Fun (RIF) for years, even paid for the full version, because both the official Reddit app and the mobile web interface were terrible. I was also using the old web interface with the Reddit Enhancement Suite, and that went on “maintenance mode”. Overall, Reddit just reached a point that the enshitification was getting to be too much for me to stomach. So, here I am.RIF clan, represent!
I haven’t tried them all, but I’ve been using Boost. What app are you using to recreate that RIF feel?
I’ve found Thunder to be a great replacement with some modern, gesture and UX friendly enhancements. Raccoon for Lemmy is pure magic and I highly recommend it as well, but the UX and UI are more modern and has less of that RIF, old-school forum thread scroller vibe.
I started using Summit and it was good enough that I stuck with it.
I feel like Summit is one of the most underrated apps. It’s been solid all around and steadily improving since the start.
API changes / forcing 3rd party apps to shut down.
Removed by mod
I felt like Reddit had been in decline for a long time. Then there was the API change and the debacle with the third party apps and I realised it was run by someone with no respect for the users, whose first instinct when something doesn’t go according to plan is to lie and blame someone else. I didn’t like that much, so here I am.
They killed the apps.
Yeah, killing off the apps was particularly annoying because they had the worst one and instead of improving it to get more people on it, they killed the other ones off.
Other reasons for me:
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Spez saying that reddit owns all the content and no-one else can have it. No. It’s our content. Spez loosing his shit over apps that made money because he should have all the money because he deserves it for being such a self absorbed narcissist.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Website pushing the app desperately annoyingly hard. Every third post would have a clickaway telling me it was best viewed on the app. Taking away the option that turned that off when you’re logged in.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Making www.reddit.com different in a bad way on mobile, then killing mobile.reddit.com off when it had been OK on mobile.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Tankies taking over my local centre-left party’s subreddit and banning people for suggesting that we should vote for that party. I kid you not.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for protesting, replacing long-standing successful mods.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for being “unmoderated” when the truth was that he didn’t like the content and disagreed with some of the moderation policies.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Building a commercial empire on top of a lot of user generated content and then turning against the users.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
This commwnt looks better in the Official Reddit App. Download now!
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Like a lot of others I left when spez decided to fuck everyone using the API and kneecapped Apollo.
I was far more interested in Apollo than Reddit. I’m now using Voyager which is close enough to what Apollo was, but for Lemmy.
Same!
Because fuck Spez. Lying, greedy asshat.
Oi!
Oi oi!
I left with the 3rd party app ban, Reddit’s quality had been dropping steadily for a while at that point and now I couldn’t even use an app that worked.
The official Reddit app stopped working for me altogether early last year, with comment sections taking upwards of a minute to load.
I still use Reddit for specific gaming communities that I check from time to time, since they don’t exist here on Lemmy.
Hey it’s me, you.
Hey it’s me, you and you too
That’s when I left. App would have worked fine for me, but the writing was on the wall.
Everything they did after that point made me feel good about my decision.
They’ve been dicks with the API.
Also, Reddit is flooded with coomer level maniacs who are desperately looking for any kind of discussion. To the point they misread shit intentionally just to start some shit.
Aaaaaand I got banned from r/gaming for calling someone out when he tried to justify pedophilia. Mods must be professional SSB players.
Mods must be professional SSB players.
Dammit, I nearly forgot about all that.
I don’t see how’s that related to a game
Ah sorry. It’s kinda super specific. Back in the day there happened to be a couple of news about pro SSB players grooming minors. I tried to be funny and failed.
Also, Reddit is flooded with coomer level maniacs who are desperately looking for any kind of discussion. To the point they misread shit intentionally just to start some shit.
That’s extremely frequent here too.
I’d been fed up with reddit for a while, but the API bullshit was the final straw for me: As soon as discovered the fediverse I was sold.
Connect is a great mobile app btw.
same.
I would have paid reddit a fee directly, say $2-$5 a month to keep API access, but the way they did it was unacceptable.
Spez ama for 3rd party changes. Immediately deleted my account because it signaled that the era was over.
Ha ha exactly the same here!
Connect & Voyager are both nice IMO. I’m just a very ordinary user though
