• beSyl@slrpnk.net
    1·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • 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!

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    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.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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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?

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I felt like Reddit had been in decline for a long time. Then there was the API change and the debacle with the third party apps and I realised it was run by someone with no respect for the users, whose first instinct when something doesn’t go according to plan is to lie and blame someone else. I didn’t like that much, so here I am.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Reddit’s site sucks so bad nowadays. You’re bombarded with the “use the app” shit, it only loads like five comments when you first open the page, and you can’t see NSFW stuff without logging in (despite it totally loading then pretending it didn’t).

  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
    01·
    2 months ago

    The API changes were the last straw; but it had been heavily destroyed by astroturfing for years before the API restrictions finally just pushed me over the edge.

    Technically, the fediverse would be even easier to astroturf. Luckily we’re early enough that astroturfing is foolish on Lemmy.