Original question text by @CozyLorraine@lemmy.world

121 points

Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.

Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It’s like a slice of the old web.

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26 points

Same here. Left and never looked back.

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26 points

Shout out to all my ~1 year 9 month old account homies

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6 points

Ayy, same day!

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8 points

Ditto. API thing was transition as well

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Yep. Apollo shutting down is why I created an account, deleted all my content and my Reddit account once things started getting really fucky.

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Same. I couldn’t stand the Reddit app and all the ads loaded in it. I switched the day Apollo stopped working.

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2 points

Same! As soon as I was forced to use the official Reddit app over Sync, I jumped ship

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32 points

I quit reddit and have no intention to go back. Its become total crap and full of boosted ads.

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Yep. Not to mentioned permanently AI astroturfed, and the politics went full on hard authoritarian and Zionist.

I used to mod 2 communities with over 300k members.

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I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.

🖕spez

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hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

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9 points

I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.

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I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there… I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

Lemmy is just so much better quality.

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Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲

My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit… but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.

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I’ll join you somewhere around this statement.

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i got shadowbanned recently on my only account, and the rest was purged in feburary by reddit.

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