My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
Spez
Greedy little pigboy…
I was going back and forth for a while because it was a bot infested shithole and most of the mods were fuckheads. The final straw was getting banned for “advocating violence” against child molesters.
I got banned for making fun of Elon back when people were burning Teslas.
Because of the API thing. I actually wasn’t aware at the time that there were actually third party clients for Reddit, but I am somewhat tech-savvy so I immediately recognized the effect that the change will have had. Also my favorite community was r/ProgrammerHumour (as it is now), and I left when they announced it will go private due to protestation for the API changes.
Fuck Reddit but this place is far from a bastion of free sharing of ideas. Honestly fuck Lemmy too.
I mainly browsed on the phone, obviously not with the official malware; greedy little pigboy spez effectively banned third party apps by setting absurdly high API fees, making it impossible to browse on the phone, so I had to find an alternative, and I ended up here.
I’m European. Moving away from everything from the US Prefer to not disclose my ideas with US people
You say that like Europe isn’t almost identical.
I wish it were for political reasons but honestly the main reason for me is that reddit just sucks now. It’s way too sterile and predictable.
Front page:
- Am I an asshole?
- Am I overreacting?
- Ragebait of all sorts.
- Pop culture.
Logged in, in a few dozen smaller subreddits:
- Chat, am I cooked?
- Same question as was asked yesterday. And the day before. Illiteracy.
- Is this good? (Screenshot of cheapest Amazon garbage you could find)
- AM I GONNA DIE? (from soldering fumes)
- We built this with AI
- And my favorite “I want something like (popular proprietary app), but free, open source, easy to use, and same number of users. Why hasn’t anyone made this?!”
Welcome to the resistance
general divestment from US everything
Bots. Bots every where. Bots moderating. Bots posting. Bots responding.
I got banned for calling Elon a crybaby bitch
You were not wrong.
Came in with the '23 fuck spez wave. When they started training LLMs with reddit data. Edited all my posts and closed the account.
- I’m European (enough said)
- smaller networks provide less doomscroll temptations
- I <3 FOSS/federated networks and despise corpo-run social media platforms, especially those in Sil-V
- being an early adopter (hopefully)
I’m still on Reddit, but less and less over time.
After their API stunt. This was “projected future maybe profits above taking care of the place”, so nah, I’m out
