My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
I just uninstalled Reddit and installed Sync for Lemmy. I’ll still end up on reddit occasionally from a Google search result or something, but I don’t go there intentionally.
Unfortunately Sync has been abandoned, so you might want to look for a new app soon.
That’s sad. I’ll keep using it until it stops functioning. Don’t like my cheese moving unless it has to
Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).
I don’t browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.
Never used reddit but then found lemmy and liked it
I haven’t post in Reddit since they announced the app ban. I found reddit and for me the transition was instant.
I still read reddit for information. But for posting and social media I solely use lemmy.
For me then hardest part was loosing the niche communities. But the UX at reddit is so bad that I prefer loosing those places that having to go through reddit UX to post in them.
At first I was petty. Now I have other things to do with my time so Lemmy has more than enough content.
Stop giving reddit your energy.
Start giving it to lemmy.
Don’t fully switch. I only use Lemmy on my phone, and reddit on my computer.
The API charade was more than enough to push me over. At that point, I was banned multiple times because that platform had become a cesspool of its own toxicity. You just couldn’t escape it for long, no matter where you posted. When you got people dogpiling you just for complaining about work in a subreddit where it is completely warranted and acceptable to do it in, then that’s a problem.
Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.
Signed up for Lemmy, participated in things I was interested in.
If you’re that addicted to Reddit just stay there. I hate this “please beg me to stay” crap that goes on pretty frequently.
I just made the account, subscribed to all the equvalent groups and nothing else
If you are struggling with this, then you are struggling in general. Figure out what’s going wrong in your life and fix it.
I didn’t really, I have 13 Reddit tabs and like 25 Lemmy tabs open in this browser window atm
Reddit kept being shittier and shittier, the people got dumber and dumber, and I kept getting more and more worried about being about to say what I really wanted about magas being fucking terrorists. Then they killed third party apps, and while I tried to make it work for a little while, eventually they killed the workaround, and that was the last straw.
Fediverse/kbin/lemmy has been such a constant breath of fresh air, even if that breath continues to be bad news, that I have literally no reason to go back. The queer techie and neighbor tankies and based non-Americans just make this place so much healthier and positive in a time in history when we really need people who aren’t giant assholes and who are awake at all and who make a conscious decision to at least try to do the right thing.
