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?

  • kalleboo@lemmy.world
    44·
    7 days ago

    I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.

    I didn’t even use a third party app so it didn’t affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.

    • trouble@lemm.ee
      11·
      7 days ago

      I’m the same but I used Apollo, and the ads + principle of what they did drove me away permanently And I scrambled all my comments

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      I have a very similar experience, I only left because I noticed just how awful the website has turned by the time the API fiasco happened, and I was definitely getting a bit addicted to the website so leaving essentially made me combat this addiction. I haven’t logged into Lemmy for over a month. Yeah, it has definitely helped me cut down on social media usage.

      • kalleboo@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 days ago

        Same here, both the X and the Reddit things came at a time when I was trying to cut down on social media usage as it was definitely having an effect on me. Having social media that runs out and doesn’t just go on for infinity is so much healthier.

        • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          Fun fact: I deleted Twitter exactly 23 days before it was renamed to X. I was just tired of scrolling through drama.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.

      Heh, and they say the exodus/protest were pointless 🤣

  • Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
    36·
    7 days ago

    I used Apollo to browse Reddit. It was really a great app, and it made browsing Reddit enjoyable. The dev, Christian, listened to his users, frequently updated and improved the app, was active in the subreddit, and seemed to care about making it a positive experience. It really was like being a part of a club.

    It wasn’t just that Reddit shut down the API, but the way they boldfaced lied about Christian and their interactions with him. He was feverishly in talks with them to save the app, but Reddit not only wasn’t negotiating in good faith, but even worse, lying about the interactions to try to smear Christian and make him look like the villain. It was then that I knew that Reddit would never be the same, and I started looking for alternatives.

    I tried several, but Lemmy seemed to be the closest to Reddit and scratched the itch. Not only that, an amazing dev created Voyager, which is heavily inspired by Apollo, (pretty much a direct copy), and makes me feel at home. There’s not as many communities here as subreddits over there, but I have curated a great Home feed, which includes most of my interests and that I enjoy browsing. I can honestly say the comments here are much better and more authentic. On the whole I get real replies and have better conversations instead of trolls and confrontations like I frequently did at Reddit. I do stop in over there sometimes out of boredom and browse, but it’s really not the same as before. (And maybe it is, and I was just fooling myself and not seeing it.) I don’t think I’ve posted or commented on Reddit since Apollo died except on live sports game feeds, which I do miss over here. I found a regional instance that I like, and, on the whole, I really enjoy it here.

    TLDR: API killed Apollo.

    • Bullybeard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      21·
      6 days ago

      I had a crush on you as a teenager when I saw you in suicide squad

    • Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days ago

      I got banned for saying Israel was a fascist state and this was years before the current genocide started. Zionists have infiltrated that platform good and proper.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        3·
        6 days ago

        Most of us kinda didn’t realize that Israel is a disgusting abomination until Oct 7th

        These parasites really crossed some lines

        Never again 🤡

    • Bullybeard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I believe the politically correct term to appease the only “acceptable” narrative is war not genocide to describe a very clear targeting of Palestinian children Tsk Tsk for you not knowing it’s common knowledge at this point /s

  • Revan343@lemmy.ca
    13·
    6 days ago

    Reddit killed RIF. I’d already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.

    …didn’t stay on Jerboa long

    • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit’s official app was a turd sandwich.

      I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
    10·
    6 days ago

    I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I’ve been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.

    (I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)

      • m532@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        6 days ago

        Free & Open Source Software

        (Free as in freedom, not as in “costs nothing”)

        Invented by GNU together with the GPL (GNU general public license)

        Supposed to make both making and using software accessible to all, and protect the software from being stolen from the public

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        3·
        6 days ago

        Free open source software

        User can audit the code 🤡

        User relies on some tech bro to audit the code but hey at least there is some transparency