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.
Because of the curiosity to know how still many peoples are using reddit. When we looking the reddit users from lemmy it actually so weird to stay at reddit.
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.
I think it’s the best replacement for Twitter if you’re someone trying to build an audience or if you want to be one of the audience. I’ve realized that I’m not either so I don’t really use it much.
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.
Not all third-party apps have stopped working. For example, the Dawn app from F-droid works well. There is also a Stealth application that does not have the ability to log in to your account.
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.
Unfortunately, most people don’t think about such things. They just register in the application where their friends are located, and there is a lot of different content.
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.
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.
Was he better before? Other than changing the API and adding advertising, there don’t seem to be any changes to the web version. But I, as a newbie to this social network, may not know something.
I didn’t quit it completely but in the first place I was never addicted to it, I think I check my favourite subreddits once a month or so. Now I’m not using it that much mainly because the official Reddit app is garbage.
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.
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.