how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I came here after deciding to quit reddit. I'm Canadian. I had no problems with reddit other than Trump's threats to annex (invade) Canada. I'm also joining my national brothers and sisters in the tariff boycotts.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Left reddit during the API controversy a few years ago. Never been banned or anything, just disagreed with the decisions being made.
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Once the baconreader app developer stated it would stop due to API nonsense I left.
I tried another one called something like Squabbles* for a few months and really liked it, then the owner of that site decided that the racists and nazis that were joining were allowed to say what they wanted.
There were a lot of trans, gay etc, and non whites on that site who tried to reason with the owner but ultimately left due to the hostilities. The place went downhill fast and about a week later I left. It may be far better now.I only go on Reddit now if I'm looking for info on the PC and one of the links is from there. However most of the time it doesn't give me any real info, usually it's just lots of people having the same issue I was searching an answer for.
Edit: it was called Squabbles, not Squiggles
Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo. Squabbles seems to have died a death, and I'm not surprised tbh.Another site tried to do that years ago, Voat, and like your story, died as a free speech absolutist Nazi hell hole.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)
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Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I left when I couldn't use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again
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Another site tried to do that years ago, Voat, and like your story, died as a free speech absolutist Nazi hell hole.
I remember that, I signed up for Voat and poked around a bit but it was empty and boring
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Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
This. Fuck reddit
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I left over the API bullshit.
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A lot of it is literal chat bots and not even real people
How long do you think it'll be before it's a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
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How long do you think it'll be before it's a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
My app stopped working due to their API stuff so I just kinda stopped using it over the next few weeks, after trying to use it in a browser which was horrible.
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One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It looks like most of their non-investor revenue comes from ads and data mining. I assume buyers only want human human views and data. With that in mind, what do you feel like is going on over there, and what will it lead to? Can they get users to pay enough to make an AI fantasy land? Will they defraud advertisers and data miners wi AI astroturf? It's such a weird frontier. I wonder what fresh new horrors will emerge from the dystopia.
Edit: Not strictly relevant, but interesting link:
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or any other reason.. im curious.
They took a sub away from me with over 200K subscribers because I ran it in a way counter to Chinese investment interests.
I was there from the inception.
Am I an inflammatory piece of shit? Yes.
Is free speech dead? YES!
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I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.
Several years ago.
"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"
Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?
Only Israel may commit genocide, you evil genocider!
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When they killed third party apps while disregarding the need for accessibility completely - their own app doesn't even let blind people manage their own subreddit because of that.
So yeah, because I left reddit.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Man I can't even begin to fathom how little of a shit they give about disability and accessibility at this point.
Would you believe Reddit was actually a great and welcoming place a long time ago? Can't blame you if you don't.
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I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.
Several years ago.
"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"
Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?
Pretty much the same that and people reporting my every comment after I wrote a few negative comments on Trump and Musk.
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I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.
Ah, the old "glorifying violence" eh?
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Two years ago. Haven't looked back. Much
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Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.
Same. The moment Apollo shut down I quit reddit and started using lemmy on the voyager (pretty much an Apollo clone for lemmy)
