I like the ability to actually see everything from an API standpoint. Reddit is also overwhelmingly negative, and im looking for a place to discuss with people willing to actually do something other than complain.
Saw the whole fiasco of Reddit unraveling and then went to Lemmy. Seriously fuck Spez and how he treated the developer of Apollo.
Came because of the reddit API. Stayed, because I couldn’t stand reddit users anymore.
In the same boat. I stayed because I can’t stand reddits god awful app showing you shit that your not subscribed to, that’s what r/all is for (miss you Apollo)
To spread the word about the ultimate beverage: WATER
but it’s so dangerous; everyone who drinks it dies. lol
This is just one of Big Soda’s lies. Everyone who had drank water and died, had also breathed air. Oxygen is also toxic, so I think, that conclusion is obvious.
you must only consume piss
No one whoever drank piss died because of it
dont fall for Big Phallus propaganda
Big water lobby in this thread rn. /s
Haha makes me think about the old HydroHomies subreddit and what it was originally called
Water N-[Redacted]
Lol yup! That’s the one haha
so… what is it? is it really safe to try?
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.
Found out about it from Reddit, and it seemed better in several ways, so I tried it out.
More friendly, for one.
Reddit made me constantly angry, then the API thing forced me on their app which made me angrier.
Lemmy makes me feel good and the app I use fits my needs near perfectly.
This is a pretty decent group of weirdos we got here.
I’m a bit less extreme about it than many here. But, in short, back when Reddit made sweeping API changes it immediately gave me ‘the ick’ and so I sought less centralised platforms. Lemmy is the closest thing I’ve found to people just hosting their own message boards like back in the early internet.
I’m a big fan of decentralized platforms and I love the concept of ActivityPub.
That said, I still use Reddit and have recently started to really enjoy BlueSky, so I’m not militantly against the corporate platforms or anything.
Finally, I just like the natural selection things like Lemmy and Mastodon have for those who are naturally more techy and nerdy.
Reddit’s API fuckery. That’s it, that’s the whole reason. Fuck spez.
Allows Tor and VPNs
UI is so clean and mobile browser friendly
No “Download Our App” annoying BS
No ads
Federation make it censorship resistant when it comes to discussions, no one person can ban all dissent, while consensus of the instances can ban all the hate speech, and there’s the tool of defederation to stop instances that allows hate speech to go uncontrolled.
Lemmy and fediverse platforms are probably the best examples of “Free Speech” platforms there are that, unlike those other “Free Speech” platforms, this isn’t just filled with hate speech all the time, although it isn’t perfect, and there are still jerks sometimes.
Edit: As to why a “Reddit” type platform with communities and upvote/downvotes, its because I don’t like the “Twitter” style of following people. People become bad all the time. I like to discuss topics, not focus discussions on a person.
I don’t want to advertise Reddit, but I gotta say they do have an onion site.
Although… they fucked it up with rate limiting. Yes, IP-based rate-limiting on TOR network…
Yea the onion site still doesn’t let you make an account.
Nothing beside your real IP would work on their site. Its a shitshow.
Oh, no, this isn’t just about making an account. They won’t even let you log in.
Reddit was reddit. I left when I was forced into using their stupid app and watch ads.
I’ve generally enjoyed Lemmy.
Edit: or to and
Same, used Apollo on Reddit, they made it so I couldn’t so I jumped ship then. Lemmy is where I went, along with mastodon
Yep, I went to Mastodon too.
It’s very upsetting that the way most people know about federated platforms is Meta’s Threads.
Came in support of Apollo; I just couldn’t in good conscience continue to support Reddit (even after 19 years) with how they treated external clients.
Found it similar to Reddit so it scratched the same itch.
Because Reddit is a shit hole from which no intelligent life will ever escape.
But we escaped…
I’m afraid it means, that you are stupid.
all of us
No intelligent life.
Was ready to jump ship from Reddit before the API changes were to come in full effect.
Joined Lemmy after I heard about it and saw Jeroba worked well on my phone.
Completely switched over once ‘Reddit is Fun’ stopped working.
i had trouble with jeborah doing this thing where it would say my account isnt authenticated yet for a full day or so about once a week. using summit now and it works very well
Left Reddit because of the API stuff. Still on Lemmy because it’s not as addictive and has a much higher concentration of leftists.
Same.
