been on the fediverse a few years, but didn’t really move over until my third reddit ban and how increasingly awful reddit is. i might already be unbanned againt but i just don’t see a point in posting on reddit anymore where jokes about your cat killing rabbits is considered promoting violence and talking about your life experiences are considered sexist/racist.

i still miss my ‘controversial’ subreddits i used to be a part of. like bicyclingcirclejerk. i don’t miss the insane people on my city subreddit who had insane political takes and massive victim complexes. but there are plenty of people on lemmy who make posts like that. but at least here they are mostly in their own communities i can block, rather than spouting there crazy nonsense in totally unrelated spaces.

i started getting fed up with reddit around 2020, but all the alts back then were awful. at least now they have a decent user base and some more moderate/open minded instances. 5 years ago it was all conspiracy crazy people and nazis. i used kbin until it died and then moved to .world

When they try to force me ads in official app killing third party apps.

Fuck marketing! Everything it touches it turns shit

Boost for lemmy being announced soon after the Reddit API pricing on a subreddit created for the protests

Because I love everything open source.

Reddit is shit now. PCMR is just memes and weird Linux vs Windows rivalry, Piracy sub is just memes and moral grandstanding, most gaming subs are just bots posting “news” articles, AIO/AITAH are just karma farming for people selling accounts or fanfic quality fantasies, many Linux subs are either insufferably elitist, have a weird fetish for distro-hopping or are just circlejerks (looking at you r/linuxmint).

The only thing it’s still good for is niche interests which I doubt will remain the case for long.

Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.

i think it was privacytools.io that got me here first, then reddit fucked up in 2023 and i actually got to use it more.

I kept getting banned, got tired of making accounts. this place has its issues, but reddit is worse

Left during the purge of 3rd party apps.

I used the Android app Boost for Reddit. One day I opened it as usual, browsed as usual, but something felt a bit odd. Turns out it was updated into being a Lemmy app instead. Fair enough then, I continued my scrolling.

I read about the Fediverse years ago and opened a couple accounts across a couple platforms. As I expected at the time, too low volume of people to really keep me engaged.

I stayed on reddit until same as everyone else here; they killed 3rd party apps and mod tools. I was a mod on a small, friendly little niche hobby sub. It started getting overrun by bots and MAGA types who wanted to make every post about guns and women staying home to serve their husbands. Good members started leaving the sub and I turned from having fun to loathing it very quickly. I created some fresh Fediverse accounts and made the move for real.

I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.

When Reddit killed Apollo.

Access to the content we create not being controlled by any corporation or any person. That’s about it for me, even though there were other things I did not like about reddit.

The death of third party Reddit apps.