apicalypse, rip apollo
Never seen the term apicalypse and just had to say it’s fantastic.
That was my fediverse cohort too.
Same. I could only reddit through Boost.
Typing this from Boost for Lemmy :)
Reddit killed third party apps
It wasn’t just that. I used the first party app so the API changes didn’t affect me. It was how bad they handled the whole situation that made me lose faith that reddit was going in a good direction. That thread “addressing” the changes and concerns was brutal.
Yup. I still miss my rif app. It just felt like such a bad decision. Especially limiting NSFW. I needed to try something else.
Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn’t willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.
reddit isn’t fun
Reddit killed third party apps and I refused to use their shit app. It all just stinks of enshitification. So I spun up my own instance of Lemmy and haven’t looked back.
You seem like a high initiative individual. Congrats. I lack technical sophistication to even buy a domain name lol. How much do you pay for lazysoci.al per year (the domain name)?
It’s about £10 a year. I’m lucky though as I run a small side business which has some hosting capabilities. So there is already an enterprise grade set of servers ready to deploy Lemmy. I don’t need to look for hosting costs or be worried about performance as the servers are paid for and are top spec.
What is your Lemmy instance?
Reddit ban for a R1 violation.
Apparently if you say punching a nazi is a form of self-defense they’ll say you’re inciting violence.
because centralized social media eventually leads to ads/monetization etc. your content becomes for profit
Because fuck spez™ and reddit is so large it’s hard to find community
Corporative social media pushed me out, ActivityPub seems a great solution to those problems.
Then Reddit and Communism
I finally got banned from Reddit and by now they have rather effective methods to detect ban evasion.
That is sooooo annoying! Like, ok ban my account. But ban ME for ever? Ridiculous. Sincerely hope Reddit dies
I’ve tried to make a couple of anonymous throwaways (for privacy reasons - I’ve never been banned) and they vanish pretty quickly, seemingly as soon as I share a link. Yes, even when not using a VPN.
Because Reddit is a haven for power tripping white supremacists who ban any opinion they don’t like.
Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid or will get their sign on bonus. And that after 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind the Wendy’s. Apparently that is violation of rule 1 inciting violence. Which is total BS. Other people post much, much worse and actually death threats. Reddit definitely also bend the knee to the US authoritarian regime and any view other than nazisme is banned.
Anyway lemmy feels a much more positive place here except the formula 1 lemmy. That sub is so incredibly toxic.
Same, broke R1 and the last breaking of it was rather vague link. I just upvoted a comment that made fun of R1 under a post showing child abuse. Turns out that goes under it as well.
You got banned from Reddit for making an upvote? No freaking way
I was on my last warning, maybe they ramp up scrutiny then or they have just ramped it up recently.
But yeah that was the post that was linked when they gave the reason for a ban and It was rather fast as well. Less than few minutes after upvoting. I was still in that thread trying to explain other person what R1 was.
Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid
Did you get banned from a subreddit or from the entire Reddit?
Entire Reddit because it’s run by right-wing cry bitches. I almost wanted to say Fuck u/Spez.
I got perma banned from reddit.
I am not sure why. It could have been because I got 200+ downvotes for posting that Guy Ritchie’s Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare looked like a steaming pile of dog shit or because I posted that Pete Hegsbeth needs to die.
Anyway I deserved the Perma Ban.
The only thing I miss about reddit are the sports subs. Those were a lot more active than the ones on lemmy/fedverse.
sports subs
idk iam not that interested in sports, hate sports betting btw. This shows how there are many different niche interests that can not be served by lemmy
There is no reason the sports instances cant be busy on lemmy.
Not associating with as many bots.
I was already no longer posting on reddit through alternative front-ends since around 2018, because I disliked privacy issues with it. I was just lurking via alternate frontends (the precursors to Redlib, there were more before the API fiasco). I was already into the FOSS community and so I forget exactly how I came across Raddle and Lemmy (maybe through /r/piracy or /r/datahoarder, but could have been many other places), and Lemmy was far far far slower then, but when I landed on Lemmy I really wanted it to become a viable alternative to reddit.
