this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
129 points (96.4% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26664 readers
1728 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 101 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’d rather not. He always looks a little clammy and moist.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 74 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Came for APIpocolypse. Stayed for Sync.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ditto, but it was Apollo and the Voyager team that faithfully cloned it for Lemmy.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Voyager is great. I really like the client and aeharding's responsiveness.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] SpacemanSpiff@lemm.ee 71 points 7 months ago

When they killed third party apps.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reddit killing the app I used.

[–] qwed113@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same. I’m really liking Voyager for Lemmy - scratches my Apollo itch

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Like the majority here, reddit refugee

[–] brap@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (7 children)

As soon as Apollo stopped working that was it.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 42 points 7 months ago

I am yet another fledditor. I think I looked at nearly all the alternatives and I liked the Fediverse the best.

I do miss the sheer volume of participation on reddit, but I that has been steadily improving. And the quality and tone of the conversations is generally much better.

Any forums with large numbers of participants is going to have certain problems. The difference is that reddit turned most of those problems into institutions while Lemmy provides better ways to deal with them and easier ways to avoid them.

Having worked in high tech for almost four decades, I have come to appreciate the advantages of not having everything controlled by a central authority. Sooner or later the leadership, however benevolent, will change into something repressive and exploitive. Once that happens, it will remain that way forever, because there is no financial or political incentive to move in that direction. Replacement has been the only thing that works, at least so far. The Fediverse provides an alternative to that cycle that seems viable.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reddit being stupid. Specifically, they killed 3rd party apps. RIP RiF

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

RiF was so good. It's how I interacted with reddit for a very long time. Now Jerboa but it's still not quite there. Although it's free and the devs are super awesome.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bitches took away Apollo. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

[–] Lemming421@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Same here. I floundered and ended up on Kbin. Then that had a massive outage and I discovered that lemmy had Voyager, and bam!

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

I didn't like the changes on Reddit with the API and suddenly charging for access. Turns out, I like it better here. Probably would have liked it before the Reddit refugee situation, too.

[–] st33lb0ne@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Killing my favorite 3rd party Reddit app and the way they treat their customers and subreddits

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Came over (first to kbin) the day the blackout started. Never left.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Because I could no longer access Reddit is fun.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Boost got blocked on Reddit during the API shutdown, the creator then made the app for Lemmy. I came here with the rest of the Reddit Refugees.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Reddit api change but indirectly.

The 3rd party app closedown led to tons of weird niche subs showing up on popular, and their mods were quite silly, and several sub bans later, a complete ban for defending Palestine.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 18 points 7 months ago

Reddit sent me to Lemmy with their actions. Thanks Reddit!

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I came for the drugs and hookers. False advertisement much. Pretty disappointed.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've got drugs and holes I can sell for money.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The reddit IPO.

I admit it should of been sooner, but I had to make two emails just to sign up for this. (I wanted to try Protonmail and for some reason you need a email to get email with them so you can email your emails.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 7 months ago

The appocalypse. I ain't using their bullshit first-party app and the site is garbage on mobile. I was looking for an alternative before that anyway, but because of it I heard about Lemmy (odd I didn't hear about it before though when I was searching specifically for a site like this).

[–] Argyle13@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Another arrival due to APIpocalypse and the enshittification process that Spez started with Reddit.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago

Reddit banning third party apps was the last straw. Even though I didn't use them I supported the movement. I tried Tildes for a little while, but it didn't click for me. Lemmy works well and I don't feel it's as addictive as Reddit.

Still a little addictive though.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Reddit committed suicide then went full retard. So here I am.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 11 points 7 months ago

I enjoyed posting on/reading Mastodon, so I decided to create an account. I think I'm unique in that I never had a Reddit account.

So far it's been an interesting diversion.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Reddit API change. Reddit is unusable on mobile without 3rd party apps. I used Joey, which is one of the lesser known clients, so it kept working for quite a while. When it didn't anymore I deleted all of my posts and comments before I deleted my account.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 months ago

The apicalypse

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Reddit bullshit

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Sync switching, aka the reddit APIcalypse

[–] multicolorKnight@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

It's not trying to make money from me.

[–] UckyBon@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I just followed some of the other redditors to here, like an innocent little ducky.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago

Partly it was the API fiasco on Reddit, and partly it was Lemmy that drew me in, honestly.

I've left discussion/chat forums before over the years when technology moved on, or the quality of discourse declined, like FidoNet, Usenet, ISCA BBS, or Slashdot. I lived my life just fine without them. Reddit was a good COVID19 distraction for me, a way to stay connected to people using a low-data phone plan. I hadn't heard about 3rd party apps until the appocalypse. I knew that the Android app ran up the count in DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection, and the iPad app drained the hell out of my battery. (Seriously, I could watch a 2-hour movie on Netflix, and the battery would be at 96%. An hour of the Reddit app drained it to about 60%. Was it, like, live-streaming the view from my camera back to Reddit servers?) I tried Apollo less than two weeks before the shutdown, and it was marvelous. The quality of the discourse had become, just, bad, so I figured I'd just leave Reddit behind when it ceased to function.

But, I checked out Lemmy after reading about it. It was small and quaint. But, I checked it out again. And again. And again. Then, about a month after API Day, I signed up for an account and never looked back. (The big draw, I think, was users who view comments as a discussion, not as a form of verbal combat that you "win".)

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Once upon a time there was a website called Digg……

[–] rickrolled767@ttrpg.network 7 points 7 months ago

There was a subreddit I used to be very active on that practically got nuked by the company during the protests. They kicked all of the mods off and replaced it with their own, leaving a huge mess behind.

A good number of them started over from scratch on Lemmy and I followed them here. Haven't really looked back since

[–] frankspurplewings@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Reddit API bullshit. But mostly I wanted to support the dev for reddit sync.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Like many I was a dedicated redditer. I had noticed a decline before the API fiasco, only viewing smaller subs, but momentum kept me there. No way I was going to use the default app/website though. Turns out I was more committed to Sync than reddit itself. Now Lemmy is my home and I keep a patched Sync for Reddit installed for the rare time a search result leads me there.

load more comments
view more: next ›