cuz i was banned from reddit
because /c/196 moved here after the reddit blackout over the api crackdown and I thought it would like, stick, but
Because I want to be in a FOSS & decentralized version of reddit that provides excellent support for 3rd-party apps.
Cause they killed my favorite 3rd party app and then banned every account I had except one for “report abuse” (I reported too many ads disguised as posts as spam).
Reddit banned me ,wrongfully
Increasing censorship, upvote surveillance and ever increasing enshitification
Reddit has been taken over by Ai bots and banned all humans
the api thing that happened 2 years ago
Same - don’t miss it at all.
Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit’s CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).
RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)
Jerboa is pretty close in vibe. I was sad to see the pick tildes over Lemmy too.
The API changes killed Boost for reddit. When I learned about Boost for Lemmy, I made an account here.
I was on r/piracy and someone had a link to a lemme post, and I was like “what’s a lemmy” and did some research. I had already left meta/tiktok, so reddit was my last “social media”
Curiosity, mostly. I learned about the FOSS alternative, checked it out, and haven’t been on Reddit for a couple months now.
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.
Every social media platform I’ve used in the past started out pretty similar then capitalists and advertisers shat all over it and refuse to moderate authoritarians like fascists and nazis because they have money while at the same time censoring violence against authoritarians and genocide footage requires a login to keep track of who is trying to educate themselves so I left.
If something similar happens here subsets of instances can stay federated with each other so hopefully it won’t be a complete wash & require a new platform but we’ll see. I’m still on the fence about a permanent history and not dumping out instance histories periodically or a rolling max archive say 5 years back, but anonymity I think pushes me further to the archive everything side.
Reddit API changes.
Probably done here soon too.
is there an even more niche alternative?
