cuz i was banned from reddit
Got permabanned on every account as well as IP and device banned, and this was literally only from commenting in the same community I was banned from on a different account which never touched the device I commented on, nor the email connected to the account I commented on.
I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.
Fuck spez
It was open source, federated and written in Rust!
The Reddit API enshittification event was just what kept me here.
I got sick of the automated moderation system that the petty sub mods could exploit.
I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.
Reddit makes profit in part from selling user generated content (posts/comments) to AI companies for training so you are absolutely right.
That was one reason to me, in addition that I got banned from many subreddits from just comments that goes against the narrative of the subreddit, it kills any interesting discussion when it just becomes silos where everyone has to basically agree
That was my same story
The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.
Same reason here. RiF was the perfect client for me - focused on the text and the comment chains rather than infinite scrolling the headline and photos.
Also realising that all the effort I put in to answering technical questions was just making other people rich, and the platform itself didn’t give a shit about me as a contributor.
I joined when reddit killed third party apps, and then compared the existing volunteer mod teams that was following what their revolting user-base wanted, to a landed gentry while also threatening to reopen closed reddit’s that had voted via their user-base to close in regards to this protest.
I came across the link in a protest forum, saw the general flow of tech based things and decided to give it a try.
I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn’t notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.
Privacy reasons. More specifically, I just don’t like using platforms when there are alternatives that don’t compromise my data. In the end, I don’t lose as many features or communities going this route. That said, however, I do miss shitting on people who joined the “christian V atheist” Facebook it’s one of my guilty pleasures. These people can’t have a logical debates, and often times just completely unrelated to Christianity or atheism. so I end up just personally insulting them.
To share my erotic fiction because the reddit mods banned it !!
They are such fascists over there. Seriously.
I should have moved when they killed 3rd party apps but i have finally decided to move now because reddit just feels garbage now. Posts and comments just feel more like facebook level content then it used to and people just seem to argue a lot just to argue.
Plus the ads have gotten really stealthy in their official app. I didnt even notice how bad its gotten until the a few days ago i saw a comment thread were mods had nuked every comment and all was left visible in the sea of [deleted] was 20 comment looking ads
Like many, first came over with the big reddit wave when Reddit changed API policy. It did not stick right away. It would take three attempts of getting into Lemmy and Sync making an app for it. I still use reddit for some videogame specific subs but otherwise I’v stopped looking at /all on reddit and will just browse here instead.
After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration blood bath, for a message I had posted many times in the past. Never caused any stir in the past, and suddenly it was bad enough for a permanent ban.
I only miss the guitar and cat subs.
same. Was excited about the mil+ sub but it sucked. I miss my knockoff watch sub and the esp32 community. But I find myself getting more shit done now.
Social media NOT owned by money.
