I like platforms that are owned by the users.
Reddit’s been spiraling downhill for years. Been searching for an alternative that’s not the cesspits of Twitter and 4chan. API is getting killed, government and corporations pushing agendas, armchair experts, subreddit bannings, poor UI/UX, echochambers, hardly any OC, and many many other issues that I’m sure others have already mentioned. I’m dumping the site as soon as old.reddit goes down.
There’s nothing but outrage culture on social media. Just looking for a spot to chill really…
Because Reddit plans to kill 3rd party clients. No sync no Reddit
If ljdawson could port Sync to Lemmy, that’d be awesome. Lemme is nice, but the app is kinda meh right now.
I’ve always thought Sync was the best app. But ljdawson has not been so active recently, so I’d be pleasantly surprised if they started a new project now.
Or at least, it would be cool if they could open-source it if he doesn’t plan on continuing development. That way, it could be used as a basis for a new Lemmy app.
Got fed up with anti-consumer behavior of companies. Projects like Lemmy are really the only long term reliable alternative to the communication style reddit showed me
it has a large leftist community and hasn’t been overrun with FBI and CIA just yet
I came for the drugs and hookers. So far, pretty disappointed.
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I haven’t signed up for a Lemmy account yet nor settled on an instance to join, but I’m here through the magic of federation!
When I do probably join, it’ll be because of the Reddit API going away. I use Reddit almost exclusively from my phone, and there’s no way I’m using their official app with all those ads. Mobile web just results in constant nagging to use their app – plus they recently ran an experiment where they logged out some mobile web users to try and force them into their app.
When I joined mastodon during the Twitter Diaspora I learnt more about alternativee, (actually) decentralized social Networks and mostly the Fediverse. I wanted to try something different and know more. Thanks of this I’ve actually realized how fucked up the enveroinment in other commercial social media platforms. I love that the Fediverse is decentralized and maintained by people like me so that companies and the American govt don’t spy on me
At least here people are actually willing to have a conversation without ending up insulting you just because you have a different opinion and you’re not a white bourgeois girl
Reddit is an absolute dumpster fire right now.
I’ve been on Reddit since before subreddits were a thing. With the continuing degradation of the primary UIs the only things that kept it usable were the API and old.reddit.com. With one going away it would be foolish to count on the other staying around. I really thought that Reddit knew better than to go full Digg but I guess I was wrong.
So it’s time to learn a lesson and move on. I’ve been enjoying Mastodon for the past few months but I also like to have a place for topic-focused communities so this is the natural place to come to. Looking pretty sweet so far. With the community-based federation model it seems like the closest thing we have to a Usenet 2.0.
I want to watch the fediverse expand and grow, this seems like a perfect time to join as so many social networks are apparently wanting to milk their users for as much as they can
Also after I switched to linux last year it has given me a great appreciation for Open Source projects
Mostly because of Lemmy spam on reddit intensified 😅 technically it is good alternative, but it lacks content.
Be the change you want to see!
Reddit is burning alive, twitter is burned down, facebook is dead, 4chan sucks, fark is old, and nothing else exists in this capacity.
So Reddit might do away with API. Will that effect RSS feeds too? I look at Reddit but the subs I’m really interested in are tracked in my InoReader. If that goes I’ll be done with Reddit.
Unlikely, because RSS doesn’t count as API, but who knows for sure.
That’s what I would think too. Guess we’ll see. Thanks.
