They killed RiF, and I wasn’t about to use their shitty app.
I didn’t have a choice. They banned my account and instantly shadowban any new account I make. Even if I use a VPN or agent spoofer.
I was banned for expressing a political opinion. I was annoyed that someone else was trying to shoehorn politics into an art appreciation sub, to which I responded in a visceral way, typical of an alcoholic who had been dry for less than a week.
My Reddit app stopped working, and the official app is dogshit; Reddit kind of made the switch for me
Same for me. When the third party API fiasco happened, Reddit was dead to me.
If I can’t engage on my terms, I don’t want to engage at all
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.
Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It’s been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I’ve stayed away from them.
But also I use the web mostly, and “switching” on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It’s sad that many folks who use the Internet don’t understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.
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.
Never used reddit but then found lemmy and liked it
Stop giving reddit your energy.
Start giving it to lemmy.
Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.
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.
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.
Don’t fully switch. I only use Lemmy on my phone, and reddit on my computer.
I just made the account, subscribed to all the equvalent groups and nothing else
