Reddit bad.
I got on Reddit because it’s pseudonymous, and the nesting of threads is good. I didn’t appreciate it for a while, but upvote/downvote also provides a useful proxy for what body language does in real life.
Arrived because r*ddit banned Infinity, stayed because I’m a Communist tankie.
I always preferred and liked FOSS stuff anyway but somehow never heard of Lemmy/Graad/Hexbear until the API fiasco. I guess I always avoided the Chapo sub because I never listened to the show and I generally dislike those shows and personalities. I’m an older Commie, I didn’t get radicalized by Bernie or podcasts or steamers or whatever so I kept my distance. Seems like I missed out though. Glad to be here now.
- The r/conservative mods got my main account global banned for using the “report misinformation” button too much. That sub used to have good quality textposts but when the trump cult took over, it changed to nonstop ragebait/lies/propaganda news articles. And on slow news days you’d see articles like “Throwback: Dont forget that Obama did X six years ago” to keep the people furious 7 days a week
- Enshittification
Lol, almost had the same happen to me but it was that stupid anti-vax sub.
So you were just a normal anti-vaxer before the crazies came in?
Fuck no lmao, I guess I put that poorly. They banned me from commenting real quick because I was calling everyone on their bullshit. Then it was reporting me for reporting them too much 🙄
Corporate greed puts me off.
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Because reddit shut down my favorite app.
I’m still using BaconReader thanks to reVanved.
I’m using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.
The reddit community has been reduced to a mob of slobbering children and bots though, so I’m not on there nearly as much. I also avoid contributing because I want to see it slowly die out. Sadly it is still the only source for some information.
I’m using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.
I used to do this, effectively it confused my brain of which platform I was at at the moment lol.
Anyway not anymore since Sync for Lemmy is so busted to me in my instance (not even showing upvotes for example) and the dev has been absent for so long that I am already using another app (my personal favorites are Summit, Voyager and Boost).
For Lemmy, I’m using Boost.
Say what? Bacon reader still works?!
It does on Android with a personal Reddit API key and ReVanced. There are instructions posted over st r/baconreader.
Reddit killed third party apps and their mobile site barely functions, so I wasn’t able to use reddit on mobile without installing spyware/adware.
Lemmy was the best alternative.just lemmy or the federation? im on mbin and I left with the big reddit migration and was pleasantly surprised to find something a bit closer to the old internet I knew. Im one of the few who don’t see the need for it to get popular but its fine to me if it does.
I tried both when I was deciding and liked kbin at the time (I don’t know what happened to earnest and really wish I did). this was due to the web interface though and I only use a laptop so I don’t think the interface matters with smartphone users as much as they I believe have a variety of apps that can change it around.
It started with a distaste for how Reddit was treating developers and moderators, but now I genuinely believe in the future of the fediverse.
i dont have anywhere else to go
I have created different emails and using different ip address form different networks. The moment I use the account on my current ip, I get banned
