I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
The API thing. I was using RIF for a very long time at that point and had no intention of using the official Reddit app.
Saaame
The API shenanigans
Yeah, same, when the apicalypse hit I was gone.
Why “apicalypse” and not “appocalypse”?
Two reasons:
- Because Reddit killed the API , which in turn killed the apps.
- It sounds funnier
Aaah I see. Yeah, yours is better.
API boatlift gang 🇨🇺🤞
Reddit is a Wall Street corporation that sells users to corporate advertisers
Lemmy is free and open source.
Because fuck corporate social networks.
The apicalypse.
Least fucked option.
Reddit: fucked. Twitter: fucked… Meta: fucked since forever. Bluesky: signs of future fuckededness. Mastodon: not what I was after.
Lemmy: hey, these people seem to be my kind of insane.
the API exodus finally drove enough traffic here to keep it lively
Less corporate, less centralized, open source tech. I don’t quite fit in here, but I guess I’m weird enough to stick around anyway 🙂
got tired of my comments being removed for saying stuff like dead Nazis please me
although apparently some mods around here don’t like that either
It’s the same fucking crowd.
For the michmichs
Got pissed at corporate social media for the way they’ve accelerated the damage being done to our already degraded public discourse but I still needed somewhere to doomscroll and find… gifs… of… nothing in particular…
Suspicious
Too much AI slop on Reddit. Most of adds on Reddit are AI SCAMs about cryptocurrencies.
API apocalypse, stuck around and rediscovered my enjoyment for linux and got into selfhosting. Also become even more anti-corporate lol. I get less content, but I probably was on reddit too much before anyway lol so it’s self moderating in a way.
I grew up on forums and 4chan
…are you me?
Reddit killed rif(so Reddit stopped being fun) So I installed connect instead of the actual Reddit app. Still use Reddit in browser for a few more niche subs, but that’s almost always been lurking for me anyways
I hope you’re enjoying Connect!
Fyi, You can patch rif with revanced and it still works
Because once the news broke of the Ellisons buying US TikTok (and their transparent reasons for doing so), it became clear to me that for the free and open internet, “winter is coming”.
Oct 7th and the global outpouring of support for Palestinians (and trashing of the reputation of Israel) was a huge wake-up call to the ruling classes. I think until then, they were largely content with controlling the narratives via traditional media spaces. The aftermath of Oct 7 taught them that social media and the internet cannot be ignored and in fact must controlled. It’s not like anyone under 65 is watching Fox News or CNN, and not many reading the NYT. All of the actions we have seen in the last 2 years - making sure Facebook / Google / Twitter / Reddit and now TikTok have tightly controlled messaging, requiring IDs and verification, etc - are pointing towards a future where free expression online is severely limited. I don’t want to be a part of that.
And I do believe that it’s important to get out there and discuss things that are important to me with others (Palestinian and indigenous liberation, communism, online privacy). I’m not happy to just retreat into my own bubble. That is ultimately the reason I joined (I was of course already included to using the fediverse as I’ve long appreciated FOSS and decentralized systems and non-commercialized things in general).
