I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

Reddit is a shit platform, became worse with the IPO and LLMs, but mainly, to me, the moderation is completely haphazard and the shitty posters were let loose. The inconsistency in moderation made me give up on being constructive.

Here, if you find an instance and communities with good ground rules you agree with, it works. You even have a modlog for transparency.

Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I’m pretty active.

I left reddit a little over two years ago. The API debacle was the end, though I had been mostly offline for a few months prior.

The fediverse has only gotten better since. However, this is my fourth account. I joined vlemmy, which disappeared overnight, then lemm.ee, which shut down recently, then another instance which wasn’t for me, and now reddthat. I also signed up for hexbear after a few beers, forgot my password, haven’t been able to contact the mods, didn’t use an email address and haven’t been able to get back in since.

I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I’d been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn’t give a shit anymore.

Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.

I’ve been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it’s better here.

edit: I didn’t say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already

2 years into the fediverse; left during the IPO enshittification nonsense when they removed public access APIs and made Apollo impossible.

Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.

I wasn’t banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up “the grass is greener where you water it,” so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it’s just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.

I haven’t seriously posted anything on reddit since the APIcalypse but still lurk there occasionally.

It’s also still a decent source of tech information and user experience but that will soon be over as well.

These days reddit is filled with AI slop, malicious bots, Russian trolls, nazi propaganda etc. Outside of some niche subreddits that site is not worth interacting with anymore than necessary.

Banned there for “inciting political violence” but then discovered you can get banned across multiple communities or whole servers here because a mod gets their feelings hut.

So, idk. Just trying to get used to the idea of not telling stranger my opinions on things, it seems weird.

Left reddit when the API nonsense was coming and the site had gotten so bad in general.

I stopped using reddit after the api changes, and started using lemmy after about a year of going cold turkey

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.