Apollo for Reddit shut down, and Reddit’s app sucks. Voyager looks identical to Apollo, so I moved to it.

For me, it’s mainly due to the global enshittification of the social networks I was using.

Lemmy is my first try with a fediverse network and I have to admit I love it. After only a few days of use my feed is so good that I already deleted Reddit :')

And also, the fact that Lemmy is not controlled by a single authority makes it even more satisfying to use.

I’m tired of the “hot take” toxic culture that has spread from other social media to reddit. It’s just ragegagement now like everything else. Even my gaming subreddits are hostile in the comments now.

I used to use a 3rd party reddit app, and refused to use the awful 1st party app when they made it mandatory. So I deleted my account, and came here instead!

I left reddit out of principle but I decided I wasn’t done causing brain damage to myself just yet.

I joined during the API blackouts, wanted to show some solidarity by not using Reddit during that time.

Then stuck around because I liked it. Though I’m still on Reddit too.

I’m not on Lemmy though, but I know you mean the threadiverse in general. I’m on Mbin.

I joined Lemmy during the Reddit API controversy, which resulted in my favourite iOS Reddit app being removed from the market.

I’m enjoying it here. It reminds me of Reddit in the early 2000s. You can actually have meaningful conversations here, whereas on Reddit your contributions get lost in all the noise, and the karma system makes conversation less organic. I’m enjoying my time here.

One of the biggest reasons i stick around, is just the slower pace and lack of algorithms. If i check in the morning, there’s a good chance that the same content will be trending in the afternoon or evening so I’m less inclined to scroll.

I stopped laughing everywhere else. Sure there’s bad news but the internet (and Reddit) always found a way to make me laugh in the middle of it. Found my laughs here.

Permanently banned from reddit lmao.

They didn’t even tell me why. I appealed the initial ban, they accepted my appeal, then I was banned again with no stated reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reddit api change and could not use a free app to access the place.

As for why .world specifically I don’t remember. I picked one from the list and it was probably not sorted alphabetically at least.

API change and third party app fiasco.

Never got banned from anything, I just left on principle. Really looking to move on from big tech altogether. It’s gonna take years.

I was never really much of a Redditor, but the API changes what caused me to stop visiting it completely.

The reason I use Lemmy more than I did Reddit is because it has replaced basically all of my other social sites so I visit this one instead of all of the other sites I had in the past.

Got permabanned for making a sarcastic joke on reddit

so. I signed up for reddit because of some mmos I was on. It kinda seemed like a nice slashdot alternative and was a bit more reminiscent of the old internet usenet in some ways. I stopped playing the mmos and it was just sorta a time waster at that point. I had been hearing about decentralized social media like mastadon but I never liked twitter even before it became xitter. when the api fiasco happened there was a lot of mention of decentralized alternatives and since these are setup in a way I more like I went to it. Started on kbin because earnest was way prolific and doing things then when he had life issues and kbin folded went to mbin but with piefed I saw that same gusto so switched to it. I feel I have more control here than I ever did on reddit.