For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!
For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!
So you’re from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.
Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.
PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/
I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.
Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven’t been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.
I’m in the same boat here, not regretting it at all that I moved on.
Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too
Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you’re having fun, I guess.
That’s why I’m here! :D
The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez’s game and start charging for usage.
So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It’s not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it’s swipe gestures aren’t as intuitive—but it’s close and still better than paying to use reddit.
Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez
Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked…
Is there more than one exodus now? I haven’t been keeping track.
AFAIK there was another exodus after they announced to be training AI based on Reddit content, another when they went public, another for starting heavily censoring more the platform (some people a while ago were getting banned just for saying Luigi or upvoting posts with it)
i was part of the 1st AI usage of banning. yup once you get a temp ban all your accounts will get ban automatically, regardless if its lifted or not for the original ban. and then i started hearing people were getting shadowban for no reason at all. i still visit the shadowban sub.
I had no idea they went public
TheVerge covered it nicely
I don’t know if I was part of any major purge or not… I had some temp bans from a bot and then finally a permanent one, just expressing a wish for some blood clot to break free. I mean, it was way less expressive than other posts but I was marked for exit due to violence?!. I felt sad. I deleted an account, made another and then got re-banned within 24 hrs for no specific post, just for trying to overcome the ban… then I did a bit of research and honestly decided they suck, I don’t need them and life offers better platforms. I hate this current internet shitification level though. The way I was treated… well, I kind of understand why people decide to be trolls as a lifestyle behavior. I am not a troll though… just a bit rowdy and irreverent.
reddit went downhill as soon as they went public and capitulated to MUSK and by extension right wingers, because spez is so in love with him.
alot of people originally were fighting politcal posts on thier subs from being posted, after the musk purges, they all allow it now, for the ones that dont strictly block politics.
There was a smaller (?) one a few months ago when reddit started punishing people for upvoting content that went against their ToS.
Edit: here’s an article.
There have been several. Before lemmy there were others that failed.
Amen