• Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    951·
    12 days ago

    Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.

    Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It’s like a slice of the old web.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      10 days ago

      Yep. Not to mentioned permanently AI astroturfed, and the politics went full on hard authoritarian and Zionist.

      I used to mod 2 communities with over 300k members.

  • ghewl@lemmy.world
    26·
    11 days ago

    I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.

    🖕spez

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      11 days ago

      hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 days ago

      I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    171·
    12 days ago

    I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there… I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

    Lemmy is just so much better quality.

  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
    14·
    10 days ago

    Not banned. I chose Lemmy because I’m a big believer in the ideas of the fediverse and I want it to succeed.

    I do still have to use Reddit occasionally to look up info that hasn’t made it here yet, but I don’t post or comment there.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    13·
    11 days ago

    I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn’t like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.

    Edit: damn it’s almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride

    Edit: did you really just copy the same post as? There’s no karma like on reddit you know that right?

    https://lemm.ee/post/60400188

  • SassyRamen@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 days ago

    Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲

    My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit… but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    10·
    12 days ago

    I left Reddit on principle.
    I still have functioning accounts over there.

    The only time i go there is if I’m linked there when searching for info.

    • xorollo@leminal.space
      4·
      10 days ago

      Same. And it didn’t impact me directly but clearly demonstrated the value of a distributed platform.

  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
    9·
    12 days ago

    I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don’t want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I’d look back at what I’ve posted and commented more often, but I haven’t much at all.

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    9·
    12 days ago

    I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn’t use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      hopefully its not to nutrek super-fans, those are the worst kind of trek fans.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
    9·
    11 days ago

    I never used Reddit properly, Lemmy was also open source, I get no replies, no interaction on Reddit, nearly every comment and post I make on Lemmy gets someone to reply, it’s almost impossible to go back to Reddit once you get used to you always getting some form of attention

    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
      1·
      10 days ago

      I get no replies, no interaction on Reddit

      Reddit is really fucking passive-aggressive about hiding/not posting stuff and not telling you. If I’m banned or a comment/post is removed, have the fucking balls to tell me. And no, I don’t buy the argument of shadowbanning…it’s really easy to figure it out simply by logging out.

  • cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 days ago

    I left reddit during the api drama last year (more than a year?). I did it on principle. The content on lemmy is not comparable to the niche communities on reddit. Yeah, Steve Huffman is a little pissbaby or whatever the current meme is. But lemmy doesn’t have the art communities or the weird goofy shit that reddit did, and as a chronically online loser, my life is a little emptier without it. And I know how stupid and unimportant that is, which is why I’m here and not there.

    Plus the porn on lemmy is just like… so disappointing and sparse.

    Unrelated- I’m ready to switch to Linux, but do I really have to learn what a distro is and how to build my own PC? Can’t I just buy a Linux PC ready to go? Please?

    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
      3·
      11 days ago

      Hey stranger! I switched for the same reason from reddit to lemmy and while I can’t help you with the porn problem… you may want to look into Linux Mint.

      There are very easy to understand guides online (e. g. on itsfoss.com you can find an installation guide, recommended first steps after installation, …) and there are communities here on lemmy as well. So this may not be the same or a replacement for the communities you miss from reddit but maybe something new to focus on and a way to get in touch with other more or less chronical online people :)

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      I can build you one that has Linux ready to go. That’s literally what I do, IRL. I build custom PCs for university students and professors. The real issue is that I cannot recommend any particular distro over another. I personally would suggest Linux Mint for most users, but if you are using your computer for more high end stuff, like 3d rendering, AutoCAD, or AAA gaming, there are other distros that are more finely tuned for those purposes.

      Try out mint. Throw it on an older machine and use it instead of your daily driver. When you encounter issues, just ask in c/Linux. Most of us are friendly and will help even the newbiest of newbs, because we were all there once as well.

      After a few months, you should feel comfortable enough to either totally nuke windows, (how I did it because I am lazy,) or set up a dual boot partition on your drive so that you can choose to boot into windows if you really need to do so. Warning. Windows will overwrite your boot sector every single time it updates, killing the ability to dual boot until you fix the sector.

      • cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 days ago

        I am grateful that you and others took the time to respond. I fear that even these really simple answers are still beyond my understanding. It’s good to know there are people that build pcs on commission, i guess i probably knew that was an option.

        Anyway, it’s all beyond me knowledge and finance wise at the moment, but I will save your response. I want to de-google and de-microsoft for the same reason I de-reddited. Not cuz it really matters to my life, but because idk i think it matters to the world and even if I’m just one small drop in the bucket, enough of us are a tidal wave.

        Hope you’re having a peaceful day xx

        ETA: I foster cats and grow weed too, let’s go get ice cream be best friends

    • RamenDame@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      Switched for the same reason. I have the feeling that in the last couple of weeks lemmy got a lot more interactions, especially after Elon tried to ban posts on reddit, but maybe it is just a feeling. Initially I really missed Reddit. Some inside jokes where missing for my communities. Having this girl show up in everyone’s inbox felt like the first kind of sitewide memory to look back onto. I don’t miss the porn. Having to see crazy attractive people all the time made me feel bad. Would prefer fair trade porn if I seek it.

    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      0·
      10 days ago

      almost any computer made in the last two decades can run Linux, I wouldn’t recommend trying to use it on a laptop though (laptops frequently choose to think different [not follow specifications]). For distros I would recommend Debian because almost all software that is made for Linux gets tested on it.

  • bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    I mostly switched to lemmy because the mobile reddit app i used finally broke after the api changes.

    I refuse to use that shitty reddit app and the creator of the app i used made a lemmy app so here i am

    • xektop@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 days ago

      I did the same when the API changes were introduced and my app didn’t work anymore. Open source is the way to go.