cuz i was banned from reddit
Because I said fuck it when Reddit screw over people with their API bs and the Fediverse was an ok alternative.
The first few months were like the honeymoon phase every website has. Users stunned by how friendly everyone is. But the petty squabbles and infighting have begun.
I use both, I just love more social media where people are actually fun to talk to
Fuck You SPEZ
Banned for talking about “violence” against Nazis and Kluxers.
The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.
I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.
reddit’s new interface speaks to a total disregard, almost a disdain, for people with accessibility needs. it’s like the only guidance they gave was “put as much material design language into a non-google site as you can”
I recently deleted all my us-based accounts (except SoundCloud and bandcamp) to migrate to European services. Soo reddit is gone and it feels like it’s way better here
i just use Soulseek for my music, bands/musicians don’t get shit from streamed music just buy their merch direct
SoundCloud isn’t us-based, it’s german.
Lol you are right 😀😀 Should have known that since I live in Berlin…
I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.
Left Reddit years ago, it was getting too fucking Libertarian, and the AI feature was foisted on everyone too
Had a while without any Reddit-like, then literally only a few months back heard of Lemmy and it sounded like “what if Reddit was more leftist, and didn’t have a corporate overlord?”, so I joined
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.
Fuck spez
fuck spez!
I moved when they broke Apollo. I hate the website and the official app. I use Voyager on iOS for lemmy because it’s so similar to Apollo.
It was open source, federated and written in Rust!
The Reddit API enshittification event was just what kept me here.
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.
no worries, I’m sure lemmy will get there.
call me paranoid, but it’d be super easy for any big tech corp to spin up a federated instance for scraping data to train their AIs. … 😥
at least they probably can’t link your account to the rest of your internet traffic so at least there’s some anonymity. right? right??
Unfortunately, yeah. Re: point one - I’d be absolutely shocked if there isn’t such an instance already, or if the activity isn’t being scraped direct from ActivityPub via some other methods.
Re: point two … idk man, I’m one of those idiots that still has Facebook at the moment, and I’ve seen some shit that makes me suspicious (though whether that’s based on my lemmy activity or any one of a number of other leaky things is anyone’s guess).
I simply don’t know enough to state anything with confidence, but know your Lemmy activity (generally speaking) is very, very public. Anyone want to chime in and call me an idiot (re: this topic, otherwise I already know) with examples? It’d be deeply reassuring :)
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
I got sick of the automated moderation system that the petty sub mods could exploit.
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.
