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When they shut down the Apollo app for Reddit is when I left

The API stupidity a while back. Reddit is unusable without 3rd party clients, and inc3 Joey didn't work anymore I said goodbye to the few communities who's members might recognize my username, and proceeded to delete my account.

A federated web is a better one than a monopolized web, so I switched on principle.

I was permabanned from Reddit for correctly identifying Elon Musk's political affiliations. Fuck spez and his bullshit.

They shut down third party apps. Now I like it better here :3

Killing the API, ads, astroturfing, AI posts, reposts, generally selling out.

API change killed Apollo, used Narwhal on and off for a year but ultimately did not want to pay a subscription for a social media platform, downloaded Voyager and here we are.

I backed up my Reddit subscriptions and multi-reddits and have them as shortcuts on my Redlib instance.

Been working on /c/ca_firearms_rights@sh.itjust.works hoping to build up a community similar to /r/CanadaGuns!

Api nonsense. The official reddit app is hot garbage. Mobile is barely usable, and only old reddit, which they are not supporting anymore.

Lemmy is much more representative how Reddit use to be and has so much more potential.

I left Reddit as soon as I discovered this mostly
Because Reddits shit algorithms, ads, and political moderation. Total enshittification.

Killing 3rd-party apps drastically reduced my usage, but didn't convince me to leave.

However, when just upvoting Luigi posts was declared a bannable offense, that was when I decided it was time to pack up.

Their API bullshit and then trying to use their official app... 🤮🤮🤮

The APIcalypse for me.

Slightly concerned by how many people here managed to get banned from the entire site.

The Reddit API murder. Although I do still use Reddit for specifically Heroquest and NewPipe.

Reddit is currently actively supporting fascism. Before that, spez was just a customer unfriendly asshole.

I left a long time ago when he killed all 3rd party support on purpose. The writing was on the wall but now you're just insanely late.

App-ocolypse where they shut down 3rd party apps (made API prices prohibitively expensive and removed access to nsfw stuff like Ukraine war reporting) and a bunch of users and moderators left. I stayed for a few months to observe how the subreddits and tone changed towards a younger, more right leaning liberal politics with way more bots and AI dross while using mastodon before checking out Lemmy.

I used to have an iPhone and used Apollo on it. Once the Apollo dev announced that his app would no longer work because of the API changes, I came straight to Lemmy. I was not going to tolerate the official Reddit app.

Everything that has happened to Reddit since vindicates my decision. In fact, using Lemmy has really opened my eyes to enshitification and to FOSS software, so I've had a much better time on here.

Third party app block

I didn't want their crappy client.

I hadn't found PieFed yet.

Fuck spez. That's why.

Trying to quit USA products, forever.

EMPRESS, a video game cracker sent me here. Too bad she left afterwards, I stayed after I discovered how it fits my needs exactly.

my third ban for supporting Palestine, by then it has become such a BS propaganda machine I decided it wasn't worth it to go back

Being suspended for three days for saying Luigi. I'd been a daily redditor for 14 years. Haven used it in a year. I have no want to go back either.

Reddit turned into a censorship hellhole

They banned me over some insanely trivial nonsense. I used a throwaway to get back in and then they perma-banned me. Actually insane much effort they put into enforcing these arbitrary bans.

spez being a dipshit

I got a permanent ban from Reddit because of my username (after 6 months on that account), which was very similar to my username here - they didn’t get the reference, and said it was promoting violence, even on appeal. Since the issue was my username, I tried to make a new account, and that one was immediately permanently banned for using the same email address (ban evasion). I tried to appeal, since the issue had been my username, and the new one had no violent words, but was of course denied. Since they also track IP addresses and device IDs, I decided that it would be silly to fast-track getting a new phone and/or computer for fucking Reddit, and started to look at the alternatives.

I still visit Reddit occasionally for old niche tech support, but that's about it. Tried Voat but it was dead on arrival.

Here's a list -

Lose of RiF was the last straw.

Inconsistent censorship.

Mods targeting users.

Promoted ads disguised content

Hive mind comment bombing and down voting

Lack of understanding or reason

Gatekeeping by mods and users

Spam bots

Achievements and robot challenges

Reposting/resharing the same memes over and over like it was new content.

Reporting posts didn't seem to do anything

Left during the API bullshit. R.I.P. RIF:/

Lemmy users are sexier.

I originally made an account during the Third party app shut down. However, my app still worked after. (Boost). Reddit kept being more and more shitty. Then finally I just made the permanent switch.

Then after using lemmy for a while I learned the devs were dumb fuck tankies and switch to Piefed.

Reddit went past the level of shit that I was willing to tolerate. What I find amazing is how little I miss it.

The right wing sycophants running the and moderating the site.

It's over run with right wing trolls and disinformation, but you get banned for calling it out

Bots. Bots every where. Bots moderating. Bots posting. Bots responding.

Getting randomly shadowbanned. Seemingly IP shadowbanned.

I use desktop, so the API stuff in 2023 didn't affect me. I planned to just avoid reddit for the blackout, but Spez's asshole comments about how it would blow over pissed me off. Seeing reddit become more and more enshittified in the years since, it turned out to be the right decision.