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The app I was using stopped working.

Apollo was rip.

Also out of principle.

It became more and more disgusting. The API changes do not affect me at all but I took the opportunity and deleted my account there. Part out of protest, part out of not liking nowadays Reddit anymore.

I left Reddit due to third-party app issues driven by greed

The app I used stopped working and the official reddit app is garbage that wouldn't stop giving me push notifications for inane nonsense.

No more RIF means I can't use it on the shitter no more.

i am the consequences of u/spez's actions.

They killed third party apps and I’m not letting the official Reddit app within a mile of my phone.

The API changes didn’t really have an effect on me since I had always used the official Reddit app, and only switched to Apollo a week before the blackout. The reason I left is because Reddit’s response was really out of touch and insulting to its users. After coming to the fediverse I realised just how horrible Reddit has become and I don’t plan on going back.

I took a break because of the blackout. I swore the site off forever when I saw Spez's response to the blackout.

Enshitification

Because fuck Spez, that’s why.

I never really liked it much - too many assholes, astroturfers and bots - so I was always open to moving somewhere else, as soon as I found somewhere I liked better. And I liked the threadiverse better.

I'd like to think it was my indignation at the API changes affecting 3rd party developers and horrible abuses of moderator privelige, but I think in my heart I know it was really just because RIF was going to stop working and I hate the official app.

I left before the API fiasco because I was addicted. Had a brief, beautiful couple of months away from platforms like reddit. Now addicted to Lemmy instead.

Didn't want to use their bloated app, really.

I had wanted to quit before then, so their war on third-party developers just helped that along.

The subreddits were becoming more and more toxic in the comments, and any attempts at defending oneself just results in getting banned.

I got attacked for using the wrong terminology, to which I politely told the commentor to go fuck themselves. I got banned for a week. So I made another account and contacted the mods. We argued, they banned me, I made another account, etc.

I was finally contacted by the main moderator of the sub, who actually conversed with me. We reached an agreement and my bans were lifted. However, Reddit Inc. permabanned me and all my accounts, email, everything. I had even contacted the mod of the sub, but unfortunately, Reddit had taken away all the mod tools that allowed the mods to change it.

This wasn't the only time this kind of thing had happened. Anytime I made a post, I would get ripped apart in the comments. I'd eventually tell them to fuck off and then I'd get banned for being mean in the comments. I'm sorry, but if I'm getting attacked over stupid shit like installing a stove in my skoolie or commenting supportively on other peoples posts, I will fully go off on you and call you out PUBLICLY. If it gets out of hand, I turn it over to the mods.

Reddit is an absolute shit show at this point. Good riddance.

I started using Lemmy a bit before the blackout and all that fun stuff. I was using both before the blackout, then just Lemmy during, and I realized I had a lot more free time and was enjoying the posts on Lemmy more, so I just stayed here full time.

Tired of the admins bs.

API shitstorm

They killed my favourite third party app, Apollo. That and Lemmy showed me an even better alternative.

I didn't fully stop using Reddit, but I can safely say I've had about a 95% reduction in total use time there.

After this summer's fiasco, I have a bad taste in my mouth from them (I think many people do) so I am only in a small handful of communities that haven't migrated to the Fediverse. The site in general feels much less busy.

I didn't. I'm still MozartWasARed on there and always will be.

I barely used Reddit at all, but I started using Lemmy as soon as I heard it existed. My reason for not using Reddit is primarily because it has ads but also because I don't want to contribute to a platform that benefits financially with free user content.

Because almost everyone on that site is a toxic piece of transphobic shit. There's only so many kinds of microaggressions you can take every day before you decide to move to someplace else. I wish society would deal with places like that and throw people in jail that enable these assholes to be like that.

People on lemmy really seem to spend a lot of time thinking and talking about reddit. Why is that?

I haven't stopped using Reddit.

I was already looking for the exit for a long time, when the API changes came I saw my chance to escape.