I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
Had my account permabanned on Reddit by mods on a power trip.
Then they cut third party support so my app stopped working.
Centralised Social media is a disaster waiting to happen. You just can’t trust corporates. They will be corrupted eventually.
Apollo for Reddit died. Came here as it was supposedly a better experience. Used to be super active and use Reddit for hours a day for nearly a decade, now I barely use this platform at all as it’s insufferable and tiny tbh. The Linux Cultism here is off the charts and cringe as fuck, the communities are tiny and spammy and bloat the All page, so I block users and communities every day, and it’s been a pretty mediocre experience here for the year I’ve used it. Reddit is ofc a crapshoot now so it’s not worth going back, so I just use this platform for maybe 5-10m a day and that’s all my social media browsing for the day. So Reddit dying and not being replaced with a decent alternative actually cracked my addiction for endless scrolling which is super nice.
When they nuked third party apps. For a long time I used the official app, then I switched to 3rd party, nd I couldn’t go back
It seems like most people joined Lemmy for the 3rd party apps. I admit I am not familiar with reddit 3rd party apps and what they do in terms of functionality, I’d love if someone explained them to me
They’re just apps not made by Reddit, but made by Reddit users, some of which were paid. And many which were significantly better and more reliable than Reddit’s.
A quick example on Lemmy just with the web, these are all lemmy.world but different UIs:
- https://a.lemmy.world/ - Alexandrite UI
- https://photon.lemmy.world/ - Photon UI
- https://m.lemmy.world/ - Voyager mobile UI
- https://old.lemmy.world/ - A familiar UI
And that one too: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
And that’s just the web browser ones, there’s a bunch for iOS and Android too. Reddit had even more.
A good app that matches your style of scrolling really makes a difference.
The Official client was mid at best and hundred of thousands of people where on various third party apps.
Then Spez wanted to sell API access to train AI so it became prohibitively expensive for most third party reddit clients to continue.
So I didn’t want to use their app and on top of that it was to sell my data to AI businesses.
I actually wanted to nuke all my comments to be sure they couldn’t use them but didn’t manage to do it reliably.
But yeah the fact that they completely killed the reddit client I used just to sell my data for AI training was the last straw for me.
Also reddit was getting quite toxic especially in some subreddits IMO.
They literally acquired the Alien Blue client, which at the time was the best Reddit client according to many people, and used it as the base for their official client. How on earth did they fuck it up this badly??
I never used Apollo since I was stuck on Android. But I still wish I had the chance to use it while it was available.
There’s nothing left of AlienBlue with their redesign, it’s basically a glorified web wrapper like many other apps at this point.
What a shame. It’s almost like the biggest companies make the worst crap or something.
The goal of 3rd party apps is to do what’s best for the user so they continue to use their app
The goal of Reddit’s official app is to do what’s best for Reddit
It’s possible to expand on the functionality but that’s the fundamental misalignment on priorities regarding users
I used Boost for Reddit but well, we know how that went. I really loved Boost. The dev pivoted to Lemmy, so I did as well. So far the experience has been pretty solid.
I’m not sure I’m aware of reddit boosts or 3rd party apps, could you please explain to me how those work and how it was a deal breaker to so many people here on Lemmy?
Reddit changed the API which meant that any popular third party apps were going to have the pay thousands or even millions to Reddit just to access it.
Third party apps like Boost, Apollo etc all left the platform but some devs created apps for Lemmy instead which gave people the experience they were used to. Reddit official app is full of ads and you can’t download half the stuff you want.
Reddits CEO.
Reddit just isn’t fun without Reddit is fun.
I still have RiF installed for the nostalgia.
I left it on my phone for a long time. Then I started to get worried about it not being maintained.
Not sure which wave in the toilet bowl I rode in on, but I do know I will one day be flushed.
Don’t hang on to tightly.
API debacle. Went from Apollo for Reddit to Voyager for Lemmy
I got banned for inciting violence for saying Monty Williams should invest all the money he stole from Detroit back into the city and then promptly be killed with hammers as a sort of ritual sacrifice to cleanse Little Caesars Arena of his bad juju. It was just a joke and had lots of upvotes but guess it hurt a mods feelings.
My first admin finger-wag in fifteen years on reddit was after a long conversation with some antivax loon. I understand how “Okay, enjoy your dead kids, I guess” could sound like I’m the bad guy, in a vacuum. But we don’t live in a vacuum. Any site unwilling to acknowledge that ‘hey uh your mistakes might end a human life’ can be expressed glibly is not being moderated sensibly.
First came over with the API Reddit thing but realized Reddit is way better and Lemmy had zero content so I just went back as many did.
Then I got super into selfhosting and read a comment or post on that sub that asked why is the selfhosting sub not self hosted but thedonald is? That made me realize I thought Reddit was dumb and lemmy was my future. Now I try to invest in all selfhosted things
They banned leftist subreddits during the 2020 protests
It was a new technology that had released and I was keeping up with its progress. I didn’t use it super religiously until Reddit banned a bunch of leftist subreddits around 2020 though because the user base was still pretty small.
My Reddit app stopped working…
I got temp banned for saying antizionist things, while I was banned I began to look for an open source alternative which lead me here. Early on I used .world but after finding out about Blahaj Lemmy I switched :3
Fuck u/spez
This. Lying bastard.
When reddit started it’s dive down the enshitification hole. As for things I wish it had, a lemmy version of multireddits would be nice, especially since we can end up with multiple communities for the exact same thing here.
