• Argyle13 @lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Another arrival due to APIpocalypse and the enshittification process that Spez started with Reddit.

  • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Reddit banning third party apps was the last straw. Even though I didn’t use them I supported the movement. I tried Tildes for a little while, but it didn’t click for me. Lemmy works well and I don’t feel it’s as addictive as Reddit.

    Still a little addictive though.

  • rickrolled767@ttrpg.network
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    6 months ago

    There was a subreddit I used to be very active on that practically got nuked by the company during the protests. They kicked all of the mods off and replaced it with their own, leaving a huge mess behind.

    A good number of them started over from scratch on Lemmy and I followed them here. Haven’t really looked back since

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Partly it was the API fiasco on Reddit, and partly it was Lemmy that drew me in, honestly.

    I’ve left discussion/chat forums before over the years when technology moved on, or the quality of discourse declined, like FidoNet, Usenet, ISCA BBS, or Slashdot. I lived my life just fine without them. Reddit was a good COVID19 distraction for me, a way to stay connected to people using a low-data phone plan. I hadn’t heard about 3rd party apps until the appocalypse. I knew that the Android app ran up the count in DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection, and the iPad app drained the hell out of my battery. (Seriously, I could watch a 2-hour movie on Netflix, and the battery would be at 96%. An hour of the Reddit app drained it to about 60%. Was it, like, live-streaming the view from my camera back to Reddit servers?) I tried Apollo less than two weeks before the shutdown, and it was marvelous. The quality of the discourse had become, just, bad, so I figured I’d just leave Reddit behind when it ceased to function.

    But, I checked out Lemmy after reading about it. It was small and quaint. But, I checked it out again. And again. And again. Then, about a month after API Day, I signed up for an account and never looked back. (The big draw, I think, was users who view comments as a discussion, not as a form of verbal combat that you “win”.)

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Reddit api change but indirectly.

    The 3rd party app closedown led to tons of weird niche subs showing up on popular, and their mods were quite silly, and several sub bans later, a complete ban for defending Palestine.

    • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      From what I’ve seen, that last bit might get you some negative responses here, too. Unless you picked your instance well, it might cause you trouble with your account, too.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        It has yeah.

        Doesn’t matter, fediverse is so wide that if I end up on an instance like that, I’d like to be banned so as not to even accidentally go there again.

        Hell, I could put up my own instance if I wanted to.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Reddit API change. Reddit is unusable on mobile without 3rd party apps. I used Joey, which is one of the lesser known clients, so it kept working for quite a while. When it didn’t anymore I deleted all of my posts and comments before I deleted my account.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    RiF reaching senility.

    Came to /kbin first, and still here sometimes but Voyager wins on my phone after Neurospicy Artemis disappeared.

  • meco03211@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Another API leaver here. I’m curious what their non-bot population was pre and post dumbassery.