Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being… goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.
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I run and grew /r/piracy for over 10 years. I took part in the api protests and also urged people to migrate to lemmy publicly. One of my mods went behind my back and asked the admins to demod me and rearrange mods so that they’re on top, and the admins complied. Then the sub went back to business as usual.
Thanks for your work there.
The internet makes picketing impossible, UK union miners used to throw stones at any scabs.
I used to have an iPad, and watching an entire movie on the Netflix app drained the battery by 2-4%. The Reddit app took 15-20% of the battery over breakfast, so I switched to Apollo. Then, I could get through breakfast with the battery still at, say, 95%. Clearly, the official app did something else in the background; since they didn’t disclose what, it was probably nefarious. One day, Apollo stopped working, and that was that.
Personally I would assume bad design over compute vampirism. But I could be wrong.
Nah, the app is pushed so hard because browsers sandbox the site and only provide minimal context about the user. But an app can request whatever permissions it wants. And the Reddit app wants a lot of invasive permissions. It is 100% a tracking and data collection thing.
Full list of trackers/permissions listed here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.reddit.frontpage/latest/#trackers
The day Apollo died I stopped using Reddit altogether (which was probably a good thing).
It was really fun a long time ago; getting gifts/exchanging gifts. Secret Santa. Making artwork and just trading it for stuff, lots of subs. And overtime all of that was gone. It became a hateful festering pile of shit. Once reddit became “old” it was done and it showed. It really became a hardcore data mining trash bin. Getting multiple down votes for things I disagreed with was it for me; not that I care about the down votes, it’s just there was no comments no interaction. Reddit maybe has a few more years left in my opinion, with new users only joining because it was indirectly advertised by the people that made it what it is. It’s like Regr’etsy, wasn’t too bad on launch to hey allibaba or temu is in the house!
was banned when I told a Nazi they should “experience the freedom of Auschwitz” if they were true believers. and to not worry about what others have said because “the work you will do there, will set you free”.
mods didn’t like that and banned me. oh yeah, the Nazi just continued to post white supremacy bullshit.
I moderated a large sub that participated in the blackout. Our mod team was threatened by the admins into reopening, and that’s when I knew I was done with the platform.
Can you give more details?
They basically told us that if we don’t reopen they’ll simply remove us as moderators of the sub and reopen it themselves.
No RIF, no reddit, bye Felicia…
Sync, then later the open source Slide were amazing. Apollo on iOS was ridiculously good.
And now I’m using Voyager and Summit on Lemmy and Piefed and in some regards they might be even better. Summit especially has become so good.
A shame about the Sync version for Lemmy, hit and run the dev took the money and abandoned it. I suppose they were hoping for more growth, but still. Although I’m no dev and probably shouldn’t judge
I cant remember which sub it was, but I posted something along the line of “If Israel doesn’t stop this genocide, they’re gonna find out soon.”
I was perma banned by a zionist mod for inciting violence.
I said that nuclear arms race was just stupid at this point.
“I’ll kill everyone”
“If you kill everyone I’ll kill everyone”
“Well I can kill everyone 3 times over”
“If you kill everyone 3 times over I’ll kill everyone 20 times over”
“Oh yeah? We’re working on a way to kill everyone 200 times over”
Anyway that got me a 3 week ban for inciting violence. When I pressed the appeal button and said “its actually condemning violence, theres context there” it got upgraded to a permanent ban.
That was the 3rd time I got banned. The first time was from typing “genji main btw” into an overwatch post complaining about how theres no people playing support.
3 day ban for “They (here meaning men in the American southeast) hate electric vehicles almost as much as they hate black people.”
It’s funny because it’s true!
For me, it’s the API stuff. I used the Reddit app for a long time until I started seeing the He Gets Us ad everywhere. I hated it because it’s from an anti-equality organization. I blocked the account and I stopped seeing it for a while. Then it started popping up again after I blocked the account, so I started using Apollo to avoid it. Once the API thing happened and Apollo stopped working, I said fuck it, deleted my account, and moved on to Mastodon, BlueSky, and (after a time) here.
If they let me block that stupid fucking ad, I would probably still be there, at least if not for all the other dumb decisions they have also made.
User culture change for sure. The subversive, progressive, smarmy nerds that used to hang out there were “my people” so to speak. The shift to a 50/50 mix of bots and soccer moms made it kinda useless as a forum. Lemmy isn’t quite the same, but I think it’s a good thing. Much less culturally homogeneous, but 100% authentic.
So much of it is people just ditching about things in their lives looking for validation.
Nothing is about anything anymore.
Unfortunately the one place with the most engagement to solving Linux issues are still the Linux subreddits. I was hoping Linux was more prevalent on Lemmy, but it’s not…
I’m not that suprised, lemmy still suffers from there being many choices of instance and their not being a convenient way to compare which ones federate with which other ones.
Reddit just sucks. That’s all there is to it. Bots, trolls, /hailcorporate, forced ads, forced app, bans, the API debacle, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining everything while leaving right wing trash subs brigading other subs, hivemind, karmawhoring, race to be the quip for karma no matter how serious the subject… so many reasons to avoid the place in general.
Got into a thread that was all transphobia. Not the subtle kind, but totally messed up. I was furious nothing was done about it. Glued to my phone, I reported every single one.
Next day I was suspended for abuse of report button. Unfair, but here’s the kicker: It was a report 6 months earlier in a different sub, completely different topic.
So these shithead mods let transphobia bullshit slide, then got mad at me for flooding their mod queue, report me, and someone looked through my earlier reports to find something. The reports in that transphobic threads were legit. Mods should have been punished but it was me.
Permabanned for calling Ann Coulter racist. Appealed, appeal said bam was overturned, account suspension was never lifted. No way to appeal further. 15 years on the platform down the drain. You can’t even look at my comment history anymore.
I was one of the people who they actually unbanned because the bot wrongfully banned it. But because I used a second account during the wrongful ban, again cannot underemphasize so wrong that they admitted it was wrong, it perma banned all of my accounts.
I have a similar story. I was banned, then “unbanned” (as in I got a notification apologizing + stating I was unbanned) but then they never actually lifted the ban
