apicalypse, rip apollo
Same. I could only reddit through Boost.
Typing this from Boost for Lemmy :)
Never seen the term apicalypse and just had to say it’s fantastic.
That was my fediverse cohort too.
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 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.
reddit isn’t fun
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
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.
What is your Lemmy instance?
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.
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 Reddit is a haven for power tripping white supremacists who ban any opinion they don’t like.
I finally got banned from Reddit and by now they have rather effective methods to detect ban evasion.
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.
That is sooooo annoying! Like, ok ban my account. But ban ME for ever? Ridiculous. Sincerely hope Reddit dies
Corporative social media pushed me out, ActivityPub seems a great solution to those problems.
Then Reddit and Communism
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
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.
Someone linked to lemmygrad on r/latestagecapitalism. I looked at both lemmy and lemmygrad (this was pre-federation) and realized that the “hard-coded slur filter” was genius.
Just to get away from Reddit and help make the fediverse successful.
Graduating from “leftist” Reddit, I’m afraid.
Gonna glaze the 'grad specifically - on the whole it’s done wonders for my revolutionary optimism and mental health, which in turn has lead to me actually doing some organizing irl.
Finding places full of people who actually know their shit and aren’t swept up into the lies of neoliberalism and capitalism is a major step up from feeling utterly alone and helpless in the imperial core surrounded by people who at times feel utterly alien and unreachable.
Basically just using this space to say thanks for existing, as well as thanks to such incredibly consistent and well-informed posters like yogthos, cfgaussian, cowbee, rainpizza and others for their constant analysis and discussions that have definitely patched up a lot of holes in my own understandings of leftist history and thought.
