I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

  • tht@social.pwned.pageEnglish
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    6 days ago
    • Most of the content is reposts and bots
    • Moderators remove anything they dont like(Creating an echo chamber)
    • Comments are mostly low-effort jokes or bots, not valuable discussion
  • Womdat10@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    I was one of the leaders of the big fuck spez on r/place, would have been a bit hypocritical if I’d stuck around after the that.

    Edit: probably should add a photo

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    In no particular order as to why I left Reddit to join Lemmy:

    • Reddit became a chore just to see good content. (This is even after the fact of filtering out unrelated or unwanted subreddits in my feed.)
    • The comment sections on Reddit became worse and worse with more joke/meme comments than actually related comments, low effort comments, bot spam, and the burial of your comment for no one to see, (or care to reply to,) if you were to comment on a post or comment more than 24 hours after it’s original posting. (Most of the time it felt like you had maybe 8 hours before it seemed to be a waste to comment.) Why would anyone stick around to comment or reply if nearly no one is going to engage?
    • (Like many others have mentioned in the comments,) if you mentioned or talked about anything that wasn’t considered good, you were often blasted with downvotes and/or comments.
    • How often you saw rinse and repeat content, questions, and sometimes comments. (I’ll admit. I took part in the rinse and repeat content ‘sharing’ and I wish I hadn’t done it for so long. The karma whoring was real for me.)
    • Concerns (then later the reality check,) about how much Reddit is an echo chamber.
    • /u/Spez showing us who he really is.
    • Not liking the direction Reddit was heading. Writing on the wall when they fired Victoria Taylor
    • The API fiasco.
    • Movement towards IPO.

    Lemmy doesn’t have any of these problems that I’ve experienced. Lemmy feels very much like a grass roots movement and I like that. I wish the communities that I am a part of had more active users, but that will more likely come with time.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’d quit stop using Reddit quite some tine ago, mostly a philosophical thing. Saw on Mastodon mention about a Reddit (aka Usenet 2.0) like replacement on Lemmy so, here I am.

    I had been using Boost on Reddit, so I grabbed that as well as play with other apps like Jerboa, Raccoon.

  • Riley@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    I used other Fediverse platforms since about 2022 and was keen to find one that replicated a more reddit-like style.

  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
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    8 days ago

    I was already on Mastodon when the API price increase thing happened on reddit and my favourite client (infinity) became useless. I wasn’t going to use the bloat-fest that is the reddit app, so I switched to Lemmy in “protest”. Now I’m using eternity (a fork of infinity) and I have found a place in this community where I’m incredibly happy. I’m never going back to that shithole and I don’t miss anything from there. There’s a lot of karma-farming and every single person there reads exactly the same. There’s no real discourse. The only times I use it (and through a web browser) is when I’m looking for solutions to some tech-related issue, and that is, if I haven’t found the solution here already.

  • ByteMe@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I found out about Lemmy when the api thing happened but since Infinity was still working, I stayed. But because I like open source stuff and I wanna be part of the fediverse and support it, I joined Lemmy.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I quit Reddit many years ago, because I noticed the toxic culture was fucking with my mental health. Then I was on Mastodon for a few years. Lemmy started to exist in that timeframe and the premise sounded good, so I joined pretty early on, when there were only a handful of posts every week or so. But yeah, these days Mastodon is what I check only occasionally and this place has taken over, as I do like the format a lot more.

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    Reddit is heavily American-centric.

    At least on Lemmy, there can be multiple communities with the same name with different rules, focus, region, and culture.

  • Mysteriarch ☀️@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I already quit many corporate social media platforms in the years before, switching to decentralized alternatives for some of them (Mastodon mainly), but was still active on Reddit somehow. Then during the Reddit blackout protest, it was as good a time as any to check out and switch to Lemmy. Its downsides for me are also part of the upside: there is no endless scrolling to be done.

  • Zeusz@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    When they nuked third party apps. For a long time I used the official app, then I switched to 3rd party, nd I couldn’t go back

    • Bullybeard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      It seems like most people joined Lemmy for the 3rd party apps. I admit I am not familiar with reddit 3rd party apps and what they do in terms of functionality, I’d love if someone explained them to me

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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        8 days ago

        They’re just apps not made by Reddit, but made by Reddit users, some of which were paid. And many which were significantly better and more reliable than Reddit’s.

        A quick example on Lemmy just with the web, these are all lemmy.world but different UIs:

        And that one too: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/

        And that’s just the web browser ones, there’s a bunch for iOS and Android too. Reddit had even more.

        A good app that matches your style of scrolling really makes a difference.

      • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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        8 days ago

        The Official client was mid at best and hundred of thousands of people where on various third party apps.

        Then Spez wanted to sell API access to train AI so it became prohibitively expensive for most third party reddit clients to continue.

        So I didn’t want to use their app and on top of that it was to sell my data to AI businesses.

        I actually wanted to nuke all my comments to be sure they couldn’t use them but didn’t manage to do it reliably.

        But yeah the fact that they completely killed the reddit client I used just to sell my data for AI training was the last straw for me.

        Also reddit was getting quite toxic especially in some subreddits IMO.

        • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          They literally acquired the Alien Blue client, which at the time was the best Reddit client according to many people, and used it as the base for their official client. How on earth did they fuck it up this badly??

          I never used Apollo since I was stuck on Android. But I still wish I had the chance to use it while it was available.

          • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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            8 days ago

            There’s nothing left of AlienBlue with their redesign, it’s basically a glorified web wrapper like many other apps at this point.

      • phcorcoran@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        The goal of 3rd party apps is to do what’s best for the user so they continue to use their app

        The goal of Reddit’s official app is to do what’s best for Reddit

        It’s possible to expand on the functionality but that’s the fundamental misalignment on priorities regarding users

  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I used Boost for Reddit but well, we know how that went. I really loved Boost. The dev pivoted to Lemmy, so I did as well. So far the experience has been pretty solid.

    • Bullybeard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I’m not sure I’m aware of reddit boosts or 3rd party apps, could you please explain to me how those work and how it was a deal breaker to so many people here on Lemmy?

      • Venicon@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Reddit changed the API which meant that any popular third party apps were going to have the pay thousands or even millions to Reddit just to access it.

        Third party apps like Boost, Apollo etc all left the platform but some devs created apps for Lemmy instead which gave people the experience they were used to. Reddit official app is full of ads and you can’t download half the stuff you want.