My reason is that Reddit has opened a representative office in Turkey. This means the government can hand over IP addresses whenever it wants. In short, I came to Lemmy because freedom is gone. Fuck Reddit.
Permabanned for “harassment”
They banned me over some insanely trivial nonsense. I used a throwaway to get back in and then they perma-banned me. Actually insane much effort they put into enforcing these arbitrary bans.
Because I dont want to support US based company
reddit got worse, wanted alternative board.
lemmy actually had people using it
Reddit turned into a censorship hellhole
spez being a dipshit
Trying to quit USA products, forever.
Same
The Reddit API murder. Although I do still use Reddit for specifically Heroquest and NewPipe.
Killing 3rd-party apps drastically reduced my usage, but didn’t convince me to leave.
However, when just upvoting Luigi posts was declared a bannable offense, that was when I decided it was time to pack up.
I use desktop, so the API stuff in 2023 didn’t affect me. I planned to just avoid reddit for the blackout, but Spez’s asshole comments about how it would blow over pissed me off. Seeing reddit become more and more enshittified in the years since, it turned out to be the right decision.
Api nonsense. The official reddit app is hot garbage. Mobile is barely usable, and only old reddit, which they are not supporting anymore.
Their API bullshit and then trying to use their official app… 🤮🤮🤮
The official app is choppier than opening the site in Firefox mobile
There’s an official Lemmy app? Is it better than Voyager?
Killing the API, ads, astroturfing, AI posts, reposts, generally selling out.
API change killed Apollo, used Narwhal on and off for a year but ultimately did not want to pay a subscription for a social media platform, downloaded Voyager and here we are.
I backed up my Reddit subscriptions and multi-reddits and have them as shortcuts on my Redlib instance.
Been working on /c/ca_firearms_rights@sh.itjust.works hoping to build up a community similar to /r/CanadaGuns!
