I am new to this whole Fediverse stuff. Trying to privatize my life and break away from big tech.
But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddirt? Where the population us much larger and its basically the same? It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway?
Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right? So what’s the benefit?
They shut down third party apps like Apollo. That was my last draw.
Fuck using that garbage official app.
Same for me as well. Voyager and lemmy instances are what filled that immediate reddit void for me.
Lemmy feels like the old Reddit that i love.
Fuck spez
I’m a communist. I don’t mean to say I’m here because of the leftist population (though, that is nice sometimes, but as in any lefty heavy place there’s infighting and bullshit), but rather I have certain values that guide my decision making process, and one of them is not supporting massive corporations and shitty services when possible. Lemmy is an alternative to reddit that doesn’t benefit the same class of people as reddit, while actively benefiting the people who actually use it.
They blocked 3rd party apps so I left.
That greedy little pigboy Spez decided to lock down the API and kill third party apps, and we all left.
It’s been only bots there for the last two years.
I got warned for “report abuse” after reporting a bunch of misogynistic comments on a sports subreddit.
Also, fuck spez.
Where the population us much larger and its basically the same?
well that’s exactly why. I don’t want more I want better.
TBF with you I’ve been here for more than a year and only miss 1 single community, and I don’t have to “go back” to see the posts (which is what matters).
I am new to this whole Fediverse stuff. Trying to privatize my life and break away from big tech.
Welcome!
I have found the “DeGoogle Yourself” Lemmy to be full of good information about gaining some privacy from big tech: https://lemmy.ca/c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
Cool! They have that here too! 😳
Other people said to leave because third party apps were being shut down, so I left.
The reddit admins got a little fashy for my taste. i got a 7-day ban for saying Luigi probably didn’t deserve to go to prison for what he did, they called it inciting violence. The ban was lifted on appeal of course, because it was bullshit, but not before I was then given a permanent ban for circumventing the temp ban with another account. It, too, was liftedo on appeal because it, too, was bullshit (I was on reddit for 14 years and never even made a throwaway, much less other accounts in general), but by that point I’d had enough.
Also it’s very not the same, as you will learn if you spend some time here. I find people are generally friendlier and a lot less hostile here.
Because Reddit is corporate rock and we’re punk rock
Permabanned and not interested in circumventing it.
Where the population us much larger and its basically the same?
Larger population but also more bots, more cortent that’s irrelevant to me and more corporate bullshit. And it’s been getting worse and worse. I prefer it here. It’s a more focused experience but imo that’s not a bad thing.
The main reason is that they took away my preferred app, and the official app is excessively noisy (visually) to the point that I just can’t parse anything on the screen without huge effort. Doom scrolling is supposed to be brain off time, not brain work extra hard time.
I use Reddit through Relay and it’s gone now. Even if I want to use Reddit, I have to jump through hoops to use it.
