or any other reason… im curious.
I left during the API debacle.
I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there’s just too much useful info to ignore it. But I’m not going there directlyDitto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast
Is it just me, or does r/all seem like it’s getting more conservative?
imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.
I’m center-right and I was witch hunted off of reddit. I’m sure the fact that I approved of Luigi didn’t help.
oh they hate when you say that there lmao
TBF, I am critical of Luigi and find myself having to tread on thin ice with my opinons
What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.
A lot of it is literal chat bots and not even real people
How long do you think it’ll be before it’s a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
It looks like most of their non-investor revenue comes from ads and data mining. I assume buyers only want human human views and data. With that in mind, what do you feel like is going on over there, and what will it lead to? Can they get users to pay enough to make an AI fantasy land? Will they defraud advertisers and data miners wi AI astroturf? It’s such a weird frontier. I wonder what fresh new horrors will emerge from the dystopia.
Edit: Not strictly relevant, but interesting link:
I think it’s a cat and mouse game, where they don’t approve or want them there but nothing they can really do.
There is c/feedthebeast@lemmit.online, but im not sure that counts
Moved from reddit because reddit is now infested with old twitter people who are just so annoying. Also I like the idea of a non centralized social media.
Im mainly here cause I find the idea of the fediverse an intriguing concept to be honest :3
I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.
Same here (I was never one of the cool kids, though).
Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven’t seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.
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Raised brow indeed!
Holy shit the first thing I had to do when I got to Lemmy was block like 250 deep-fried-content accounts and communities. And I have to block something or somebody new almost daily here.
Old reddit was so so useful this transition to everybody being loud with little depth of knowledge has been sad to watch.
The people who shouldn’t comment or reply ro any post are the ones who immediately chime in with advice there, they’ve even taken to giving you ai responses like mf, I am fully capable of opening chatgpt on my own if I wanted ai responses
Rude awakening came last year after using reddit since 2015. Got banned for responding to r4r prompts. These days its become a cesspit for telegram ads and spam. Ironical you ban humans for botlike activities but let bots roam freely .
Joined lemmy and mostly use discord as an alt for redit subs i was actively involved in.
I left Reddit after the Apollo app was no longer usable due to the whole API thing. Their app is garbage and until recently their mobile website wouldn’t work (it would force you to visit with the app to view some subreddits).
Now, I use Voyager with Lemmy. I still check in on Reddit from time to time or when searching for info, but I use Lemmy mostly now.
Technically me, even though they eventually reversed it after appealing the ban 4 separate times (banned for “violence” for commenting “same” on a picture of a woman in a shirt that says “Punch a Nazi.”) That whole thread showed that the admin staff of the site have nazis and/or Nazis sympathizers among them and I don’t vibe with that shit.
I was banned for calling out an antisemetic dogwhistle in an anime sub. Asking why I was banned instead of the other person led to a permanent sitewide ban.
I wasn’t banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up “the grass is greener where you water it,” so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it’s just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though !cfb@fanaticus.social is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There’s less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.
"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!
left because of api changes and their increasing censorship of content they don’t like (I miss r/all having r/eyeblech).
I did. Not banned though.
got banned for supporting Luigi. albeit a bit vocally.
Left because of Apollo shutting down. Thanks, Voyager devs, for recreating that experience on a different platform. :-]
Amen, brother. Voyager helps scratch that old Apollo itch.
Like many in the comments, I left after the API changes. I’m not using their shitty app, and it’s so bot infested now it’s not even worth it.
