They murdered Apollo.
Yes. This was the end. Hello Lemmy on Voyager.
Voyager is absolutely one of the S-Tier Lemmy apps
Voyager da goat no cap
Arctic > Voyager
since it’s not a web app, but an actual native iOS app written in Swift. Just like Apollo.Voyager does not collect any data.
Having also bailed because of Apollo, I kind of wish some of the iOS adjacent communities could get a decent toehold on Lemmy. 90% of the comments in those communities feel like they’re from people who are not subscribed, or never would.
Traffic from All hits Lemmy communities a lot faster and harder than Reddit communities, and that can make it hard for certain communities to get rooted on this platform
Yeah because the lower amount of content i basically only browse all. And typically don’t visit any communities.
Shutting down 3rd-party apps
RIP RIF
API changes. I hate ads.
Had Reddit wanted to charge a reasonable price for going ad-free I probably would’ve gone for it because I had no idea Lemmy existed at the time.
Of course now I wouldn’t go back because I do know it exists. 🙃
API changes / forcing 3rd party apps to shut down.
I’d been dissatisfied with Reddit for a while due to things like hive mind mentality and jokes repeated ad nauseum. I always enjoyed more when people were just posting their honest opinions or analysis of current events from a perspective that I don’t have. There wasn’t really anywhere else to go as an active “forum based” aggregator, so when the ground swell of people leaving due to the API fiasco came along and enough of a crowd started setting up shop on a different platform I jumped at the opportunity to ditch that place.
Glad to be done with it.
samesies
Same for me. When I go to the big subs, like AITA, I am surprised by the style of conversation the people have and just the overall tone. I’ve asked questions here on Lemmy which go into an AITA direction, and the responses are so much more helpful and kind and respectful - you really notice the difference.
Also, far less bots.
I really don’t like Reddit’s attitude as a corporation. The sense of entitlement from a user driven content aggregator is insane.
They killed the apps.
Yeah, killing off the apps was particularly annoying because they had the worst one and instead of improving it to get more people on it, they killed the other ones off.
Other reasons for me:
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Spez saying that reddit owns all the content and no-one else can have it. No. It’s our content. Spez loosing his shit over apps that made money because he should have all the money because he deserves it for being such a self absorbed narcissist.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Website pushing the app desperately annoyingly hard. Every third post would have a clickaway telling me it was best viewed on the app. Taking away the option that turned that off when you’re logged in.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Making www.reddit.com different in a bad way on mobile, then killing mobile.reddit.com off when it had been OK on mobile.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Tankies taking over my local centre-left party’s subreddit and banning people for suggesting that we should vote for that party. I kid you not.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for protesting, replacing long-standing successful mods.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Shutting down communities for being “unmoderated” when the truth was that he didn’t like the content and disagreed with some of the moderation policies.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Building a commercial empire on top of a lot of user generated content and then turning against the users.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
Nagging me all the time to use the official reddit app.
This commwnt looks better in the Official Reddit App. Download now!
Not just the apps, but the mobile website as well.
They made it more burdensome to use every time to push people to their app.
Switching to Lemmy on mobile was so refreshing. I didn’t even need to switch my browser to display the desktop version.
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Because fuck Spez. Lying, greedy asshat.
Oi!
Oi oi!
When Reddit killed the use of its API for third party clients
Yep, when RIF died I left. I only go there for Google searches now, and only if the info isn’t somewhere else.
Exactly the same situation for me. What I miss most perhaps is play-by-post roleplay communities. A lot of them have straight up died after many of us left reddit, and we never managed to move them elsewhere.
In my opinion I risk to say that part of the internet died with split of Reddit and when they opted to walk in the wrong path selling user data to train AI
Relay Pro was my app of choice. Whenever the 3rd party API usage was set to astronomical prices, i quit in solidarity. Now I am educated about the Fediverse :)
As everyone said, the API change was a big deal. But for me, the cover-up was worse than the crime. I was a 13 year user (came over on the Digg boat) with over 100K comment karma. Reddit’s reaction, and Spez’s “landed gentry” comments, were so insulting I just couldn’t support the site.
I thought they may possibly change in response to the boycott. But when Reddit started replacing mods with unqualified scabs, that meant the site content itself was definitely going to go downhill. It also confirmed that it was no longer a site that valued its users (who, as many have said, were providing the very thing that made the site valuable for free, purely in exchange for not being treated poorly).
At that point, why remain? Niche communities are the only reason I ever check back in. And like others, I’m seeing Reddit devolve into karma-whoring discussions that are just a battle of one-line snarky jokes, a huge amount of bot content, and reposts as a rule, no longer exception.
Conversely, there are people on Lemmy who actually want to read, think and actually respond. Pretty cool. I’m good with this trade.
Yeah, I think if they hadn’t tried to break the boycott / subreddit blackout, I might have stayed. But, reddit had made it pretty clear they didn’t really want me around, since I was holding on to the old interface and RES for dear life, even before they attacked the API.
I’d been fed up with reddit for a while, but the API bullshit was the final straw for me: As soon as discovered the fediverse I was sold.
Connect is a great mobile app btw.
Ha ha exactly the same here!
Connect & Voyager are both nice IMO. I’m just a very ordinary user though
The killing of the API, and the disgusting behavior of Reddit suspending users like me calling out the violence by Trump.
Apparently, Reddit admins LOVE violence and Trump.
The killing of Apollo (and all others) really rubbed me the wrong way, and I refuse to support companies moving in the direction of forcing ads in front of people.
Same. I used Apollo almost exclusively for Reddit. I left the day it shut down and haven’t been back.
I was ready to switch for a long time. When everyone else left, lemmy got large enough to sustain conversation.
Got sick of being sold to, when they got rid of third party apps I bailed.
