Zerlyna ,
@Zerlyna@lemmy.world avatar

API changes. I hate ads.

Phenomephrene ,
@Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org avatar

I'd been dissatisfied with Reddit for a while due to things like hive mind mentality and jokes repeated ad nauseum. I always enjoyed more when people were just posting their honest opinions or analysis of current events from a perspective that I don't have. There wasn't really anywhere else to go as an active "forum based" aggregator, so when the ground swell of people leaving due to the API fiasco came along and enough of a crowd started setting up shop on a different platform I jumped at the opportunity to ditch that place.

Glad to be done with it.

crawancon ,

samesies

Today ,

You were tired of the poop knife? How do you feel about that guy who was trying to hold it for 3 days?

Phenomephrene ,
@Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org avatar

The one that I absolutely hated the most was in any politics related thread at all invariably people would bring up how Herbert Comacho Mt Dew or whatever his name is was such a great politician. Like, shut up, I'm trying to read about the power vacuum in Iraq; your nonsense has nothing to do with that.

Today ,

Timing and tone are hard in forums. It is a funny movie, though.

Phenomephrene ,
@Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org avatar

For sure, no shade intended toward the movie itself. But when you get the same string of posts that really only serves to interrupt from the actual topic of the thread, it just grated on me probably a little too much after some time.

balderdash9 ,
@balderdash9@lemmy.zip avatar

I really don't like Reddit's attitude as a corporation. The sense of entitlement from a user driven content aggregator is insane.

ephrin ,

They murdered Apollo.

JimmyBigSausage ,

Yes. This was the end. Hello Lemmy on Voyager.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Voyager is absolutely one of the S-Tier Lemmy apps

unrushed233 ,

Arctic > Voyager
since it's not a web app, but an actual native iOS app written in Swift. Just like Apollo.

JimmyBigSausage ,

Voyager does not collect any data.

steal_your_face ,
@steal_your_face@lemmy.ml avatar

Voyager da goat no cap

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

And then called Christian a liar. Spez can smoke a fat one

ephrin ,

Greedy pig boy

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

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

TotallyNotSpez ,

API changes / forcing 3rd party apps to shut down.

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

API changes killed the App I used.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

What app do you use on lemmy?

TheMinions ,

I’m in the same boat, and I use Voyager. Formerly known as wefwef

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, it's top-notch.

Thade780 ,

The API-copalypse last year.

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

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!

Varyk ,

All of this me too.

Also, all of reddit felt like lemmy.ml, but here I can block .ml easy peasy

Speculater ,
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Varyk ,

I'm digging the block.

Things have been more civil since I blocked the instance.

henfredemars ,

Isn’t it great when it’s up to you and not to some global platform-controlling entity?

Varyk ,

Stellar

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Just want to note that a user-blocked instance still influences your feed via voting. The only way to truly and entirely block another instance is to get your admin to defederate the instance.

But on the fediverse you can choose your admin or become your own admin, so that's still a lot better than reddit.

Etterra ,

This. Screw Spez.

cobysev ,

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.

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

Yep, BaconReader died and I came here.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

what app do you use now?

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

Jerboa

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

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!

EarthShipTechIntern ,

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.

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