• beejboytyson@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    I can’t be left. I can’t be right. Mods power tripping and I don’t like walking on egg shells when I’m talking.

  • BlackLaZoR@kbin.run
    42·
    5 months ago

    Mostly? The new horrible interface reddit pushes harder and harder on me.

    To be honest I got initially repelled by significant number of hardcore socialists here, but the community is much more diverse now

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 months ago

      Welcome back! Were you here in the times there were only around 20 active people to talk to on each site?

      • BlackLaZoR@kbin.run
        3·
        5 months ago

        Not as far back as that. I first tried joining here through kbin.social back during the reddit API drama.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    The death of the “.compact” version of the site was the final nail in the coffin for me. I don’t want to install an app, especially not the official reddit app to have a usable mobile experience. Once “.compact” was gone the only option was “old.reddit” which is a horrible mobile experience even though it is a fine desktop experience.

    Lemmy mobile web user experience is VERY close to the “.compact” reddit user experience.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 months ago

      Dunno if I count but I read an article about Fediverse tech in like idk 2020, which lead me to mastodon and lemmy. I created an account on kbin but rarely used it except curiosity before API shit hit the fan.

  • Monster@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 months ago

    Reddit is Fun no longer worked, that was my initial reason for leaving. Then I started to see that reddit was becoming more of a corporate thing that regulated what we could see and couldn’t see. I know it was like that before but now it just seems to be more…sanitized in a way if that makes sense.

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Multiple reasons. I first started on Slashdot as a news aggregator/discussion forum. Also SomethingAwful, then Digg. I’ve moved from platform to platform as the enshittification spreads, until I’ve landed here. I think the fediverse has the best chance to not go down the same holes the others have. The final straw though was the API change and elimination of 3rd party applications.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    They made things worse and invalidated everyone else’s hard work before demanding to be paid for that while they live on the content we produce. Yeah get fucked. It don’t work that way.

  • JesusSon@lemmy.world
    9·
    5 months ago

    Lost Bacon Reader app, Redit’s app is a shit show. I use Boost for Lemmy and it’s got its problems but it’s better than Reddit’s hot pile of garbage. I used reddit mostly to read the news and make snarky comments and I can do that here so…bye reddit.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      I tried to use the Reddit App something like 6 months ago just to see and it was so much worse than I could have imagined.

      • JesusSon@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        I don’t know if it’s the snarkiest but my favorite is “So, would it would be safe to say Donald Trump loves Pecker?” Not because it’s particularly witty or anything but because I am just a 13 year old dude stuck in a 54 year old body lol

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

    I wouldn’t say I switched because Lemmy isn’t perfect and lacks a lot of the smaller communities that Reddit still retains, but:

    1. API apocalypse. I didn’t like Reddit’s upper management at the best of times, but Spez showed how much of a money-grubbing snake he was.

    2. Power mods. Many of them are sociopathic basement dwelling assholes who will banhammer you for breaking hidden rule #273, and then cry ‘harassment’ to the admins when you call them out. To be honest, the only silver lining to come out of the API purge was watching iBleeedOrange and AwkwardTheTurtle finally piss of Spez enough to get the banhammer. Fuck those guys.

    3. Bots. Aside from automoderator being used to effectively censor and shadowban ‘bad words’ on a lot of subs, the fact that 95% of the chat requests I get are from spam accounts and e-girls mindlessly spamming their OnlyFans to every user in existence should say it all.