• SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The API changes. I use Sync, and not being able to use Sync made Reddit more or less unusable for me on my phone. I also fundamentally disagreed with the direction Reddit was going. So, Lemmy it was, and it’s great. And now there’s Sync for Lemmy, which is even better!

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      2 months ago

      Same here. I exclusively browsed Reddit via app on my phone and tablet. After watching my wife struggle with the official Reddit app, I decided I would never use it. So when that became the only option, I decided it was time to move on to Lemmy.

      Besides, I’m very anti-advertisement and Reddit has turned very corporate lately, looking for every way to make a buck at our expense. So I’m done supporting that site. Information and community discussion should be freely accessible, not buried behind paywalls, awards, and advertisements.

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      2 months ago

      I was on Infinity.

      When it was forked as Eternity, that was my go-to on Lemmy (unfortunately hasn’t seen an update in a while).

      Sync is awesome too!

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    I really don’t like Reddit’s attitude as a corporation. The sense of entitlement from a user driven content aggregator is insane.

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    I’d been dissatisfied with Reddit for a while due to things like hive mind mentality and jokes repeated ad nauseum. I always enjoyed more when people were just posting their honest opinions or analysis of current events from a perspective that I don’t have. There wasn’t really anywhere else to go as an active “forum based” aggregator, so when the ground swell of people leaving due to the API fiasco came along and enough of a crowd started setting up shop on a different platform I jumped at the opportunity to ditch that place.

    Glad to be done with it.

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    2 months ago

    Reddit is (no longer) Fun.
    Like others, the API change was the final straw. I used Reddit is Fun (RIF) for years, even paid for the full version, because both the official Reddit app and the mobile web interface were terrible. I was also using the old web interface with the Reddit Enhancement Suite, and that went on “maintenance mode”. Overall, Reddit just reached a point that the enshitification was getting to be too much for me to stomach. So, here I am.

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      2 months ago

      RIF clan, represent!

      I haven’t tried them all, but I’ve been using Boost. What app are you using to recreate that RIF feel?

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      Yeah, killing off the apps was particularly annoying because they had the worst one and instead of improving it to get more people on it, they killed the other ones off.

      Other reasons for me:

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Spez saying that reddit owns all the content and no-one else can have it. No. It’s our content. Spez loosing his shit over apps that made money because he should have all the money because he deserves it for being such a self absorbed narcissist.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Website pushing the app desperately annoyingly hard. Every third post would have a clickaway telling me it was best viewed on the app. Taking away the option that turned that off when you’re logged in.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Making www.reddit.com different in a bad way on mobile, then killing mobile.reddit.com off when it had been OK on mobile.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Tankies taking over my local centre-left party’s subreddit and banning people for suggesting that we should vote for that party. I kid you not.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Shutting down communities for protesting, replacing long-standing successful mods.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Shutting down communities for being “unmoderated” when the truth was that he didn’t like the content and disagreed with some of the moderation policies.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Building a commercial empire on top of a lot of user generated content and then turning against the users.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

      Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.

    • undefined@links.hackliberty.org
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      Had Reddit wanted to charge a reasonable price for going ad-free I probably would’ve gone for it because I had no idea Lemmy existed at the time.

      Of course now I wouldn’t go back because I do know it exists. 🙃

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    I find Lemmy much more ethical. It truly is by the community, for the community.

    On reddit, a select few are getting rich by the content YOU create. Seems a bit weird to me. You create content, they get to buy a new house/yacht. No thank you.