cuz i was banned from reddit
I never had a Reddit account, because my adult son is active there. Obviously I don’t know his username there but even so, I prefer to be here and created an account yesterday.
the api thing that happened 2 years ago
Same - don’t miss it at all.
Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit’s CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).
RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)
Jerboa is pretty close in vibe. I was sad to see the pick tildes over Lemmy too.
I used jerboa for a while back in 2023, but ultimately I’ve settled on Connect. Its slightly different but still pretty similar to rif
Jerboa has improved a lot since then. It used to be noticably buggy!
I left during the API fiasco but also in realizing that everything I was doing and participating in was essentially being used to make other people filthy rich.
That was my same story
no worries, I’m sure lemmy will get there.
call me paranoid, but it’d be super easy for any big tech corp to spin up a federated instance for scraping data to train their AIs. … 😥
at least they probably can’t link your account to the rest of your internet traffic so at least there’s some anonymity. right? right??
Unfortunately, yeah. Re: point one - I’d be absolutely shocked if there isn’t such an instance already, or if the activity isn’t being scraped direct from ActivityPub via some other methods.
Re: point two … idk man, I’m one of those idiots that still has Facebook at the moment, and I’ve seen some shit that makes me suspicious (though whether that’s based on my lemmy activity or any one of a number of other leaky things is anyone’s guess).
I simply don’t know enough to state anything with confidence, but know your Lemmy activity (generally speaking) is very, very public. Anyone want to chime in and call me an idiot (re: this topic, otherwise I already know) with examples? It’d be deeply reassuring :)
Facebook federates with Mastodon through Threads so they may be scraping Lemmy.
Reddit makes profit in part from selling user generated content (posts/comments) to AI companies for training so you are absolutely right.
That was one reason to me, in addition that I got banned from many subreddits from just comments that goes against the narrative of the subreddit, it kills any interesting discussion when it just becomes silos where everyone has to basically agree
Because I want to be in a FOSS & decentralized version of reddit that provides excellent support for 3rd-party apps.
Fuck spez
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The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.
I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.
reddit’s new interface speaks to a total disregard, almost a disdain, for people with accessibility needs. it’s like the only guidance they gave was “put as much material design language into a non-google site as you can”
Because I said fuck it when Reddit screw over people with their API bs and the Fediverse was an ok alternative.
The first few months were like the honeymoon phase every website has. Users stunned by how friendly everyone is. But the petty squabbles and infighting have begun.
The 3rd party API ban that made my favorite app RiF (reddit is fun) go belly up. I went to reddit after digg did the same thing the digg v2.
Same reason here. RiF was the perfect client for me - focused on the text and the comment chains rather than infinite scrolling the headline and photos.
Also realising that all the effort I put in to answering technical questions was just making other people rich, and the platform itself didn’t give a shit about me as a contributor.
I need an alternative to billionaire controlled media.
because /c/196 moved here after the reddit blackout over the api crackdown and I thought it would like, stick, but
Cause they killed my favorite 3rd party app and then banned every account I had except one for “report abuse” (I reported too many ads disguised as posts as spam).
Reddit API changes.
Probably done here soon too.
is there an even more niche alternative?
It was open source, federated and written in Rust!
The Reddit API enshittification event was just what kept me here.
