Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being… goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.
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I used to have an iPad, and watching an entire movie on the Netflix app drained the battery by 2-4%. The Reddit app took 15-20% of the battery over breakfast, so I switched to Apollo. Then, I could get through breakfast with the battery still at, say, 95%. Clearly, the official app did something else in the background; since they didn’t disclose what, it was probably nefarious. One day, Apollo stopped working, and that was that.
Personally I would assume bad design over compute vampirism. But I could be wrong.
Nah, the app is pushed so hard because browsers sandbox the site and only provide minimal context about the user. But an app can request whatever permissions it wants. And the Reddit app wants a lot of invasive permissions. It is 100% a tracking and data collection thing.
Full list of trackers/permissions listed here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.reddit.frontpage/latest/#trackers
I run and grew /r/piracy for over 10 years. I took part in the api protests and also urged people to migrate to lemmy publicly. One of my mods went behind my back and asked the admins to demod me and rearrange mods so that they’re on top, and the admins complied. Then the sub went back to business as usual.
The internet makes picketing impossible, UK union miners used to throw stones at any scabs.
No RIF, no reddit, bye Felicia…
Sync, then later the open source Slide were amazing. Apollo on iOS was ridiculously good.
And now I’m using Voyager and Summit on Lemmy and Piefed and in some regards they might be even better. Summit especially has become so good.
A shame about the Sync version for Lemmy, hit and run the dev took the money and abandoned it. I suppose they were hoping for more growth, but still. Although I’m no dev and probably shouldn’t judge
My account was suspended sitewide by the admins – not just banned by some mods – for reporting misinformation in r/conservative. Apparently stating the truth is “mod abuse” for those fascist snowflakes and the Reddit admins support them.
r/conspiracy is probably reddits cash cow for engagement on the site, thats why its on the front page alot of the times.
I miss the days when R/atheism was front page. When that got removed the site went to shit
its mostly the Dinnerdiaries, replacing AITA because people caught on to the fake stories, dinner diaries is also likely fake. and mostly India-centric subs for some reason.
Got into a thread that was all transphobia. Not the subtle kind, but totally messed up. I was furious nothing was done about it. Glued to my phone, I reported every single one.
Next day I was suspended for abuse of report button. Unfair, but here’s the kicker: It was a report 6 months earlier in a different sub, completely different topic.
So these shithead mods let transphobia bullshit slide, then got mad at me for flooding their mod queue, report me, and someone looked through my earlier reports to find something. The reports in that transphobic threads were legit. Mods should have been punished but it was me.
Reddit just sucks. That’s all there is to it. Bots, trolls, /hailcorporate, forced ads, forced app, bans, the API debacle, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining everything while leaving right wing trash subs brigading other subs, hivemind, karmawhoring, race to be the quip for karma no matter how serious the subject… so many reasons to avoid the place in general.
I said that nuclear arms race was just stupid at this point.
“I’ll kill everyone”
“If you kill everyone I’ll kill everyone”
“Well I can kill everyone 3 times over”
“If you kill everyone 3 times over I’ll kill everyone 20 times over”
“Oh yeah? We’re working on a way to kill everyone 200 times over”
Anyway that got me a 3 week ban for inciting violence. When I pressed the appeal button and said “its actually condemning violence, theres context there” it got upgraded to a permanent ban.
That was the 3rd time I got banned. The first time was from typing “genji main btw” into an overwatch post complaining about how theres no people playing support.
Made an account here on Lemmy in 2023 after the API stuff.
Then, a year later I got permbanned on reddit for being mean to Nazis, talking shit about Elon Musk, and saying Hans Kristian Graebner (the Neo-Nazi who makes the Stonetoss comics) deserved to have his name leaked on the Internet.
New account was banned a year after that for evasion.
Said fuck it, stopped using reddit and started being active here instead.
2025, was basically ban-apocalypse. definitely around time, i noticed quite alot of people being reported, and ban around eleciton time, so it happened quite alot before nov 5 too.
I cant remember which sub it was, but I posted something along the line of “If Israel doesn’t stop this genocide, they’re gonna find out soon.”
I was perma banned by a zionist mod for inciting violence.
No story, just dozens (hundreds?) of wasted hours reading slop (the human kind at first, but increasingly also the bot kind later)
not all was slop.
I had shared a few tifu posts that actually did really well you probably read if you frequented that board. I think one of them got around 17k upvotes and was featured on some prominent YouTube channels.
User culture change for sure. The subversive, progressive, smarmy nerds that used to hang out there were “my people” so to speak. The shift to a 50/50 mix of bots and soccer moms made it kinda useless as a forum. Lemmy isn’t quite the same, but I think it’s a good thing. Much less culturally homogeneous, but 100% authentic.
So much of it is people just ditching about things in their lives looking for validation.
Nothing is about anything anymore.
Unfortunately the one place with the most engagement to solving Linux issues are still the Linux subreddits. I was hoping Linux was more prevalent on Lemmy, but it’s not…
I’m not that suprised, lemmy still suffers from there being many choices of instance and their not being a convenient way to compare which ones federate with which other ones.
I got banned for making fun of elon. (I posted a pic of a ken dolls non-existent genitals and said, Elon post penis surgery.)
Elon is very aware of reddit posts about him, everytime he tells spez to ban people, spez triggers a ban wave,.
In therir defense, that’s just body shaming and not criticism against his behavior/wrongdoings/actions.
No place to spit in a rich mans house but his face
he has an Attack on titan body features.
It was really fun a long time ago; getting gifts/exchanging gifts. Secret Santa. Making artwork and just trading it for stuff, lots of subs. And overtime all of that was gone. It became a hateful festering pile of shit. Once reddit became “old” it was done and it showed. It really became a hardcore data mining trash bin. Getting multiple down votes for things I disagreed with was it for me; not that I care about the down votes, it’s just there was no comments no interaction. Reddit maybe has a few more years left in my opinion, with new users only joining because it was indirectly advertised by the people that made it what it is. It’s like Regr’etsy, wasn’t too bad on launch to hey allibaba or temu is in the house!
The mod for r/AdultChildrenofNarcissists disappeared, and replacement essentially admitted that they were running an experiment and couldn’t give more details because it would ruin the experiment. They also said they were going to try to remove the anti-parent bias in the subreddit. So much for that support group.
So anyway, r/AdultKidsofNarcissists was created, but there’s no reason to think that same sort of thing didn’t happen to a bunch of other subreddits. They will eventually sell the comment database to someone who’ll run a poorly thought out LLM and find red flags by cross referencing a support group subreddit with other subreddits and cause real world consequences. It isn’t enough to stop using reddit now; they already have the posts and will have them forever.
something tells me that is r/adultchildrenofnarcassist new mods are right wingers, trying to say parents are not at fault for causing children to hate him, are unemployed, unable to move out of the house, or refusing to house the parents when they retire. it sounds convoluted but alot of stories like this, have a very boomer center to it. why is the 30-40yo woman not having a job, or moving out, or whatever(usually its the sibling complaining)
Permabanned for “threatening violence” because somebody asked what everyone was planning for retirement, and my answer was a sturdy rope. So I guess suicidal ideation is verboten
i assume it was only referring to yourself, and not someoneelse. i do visit a bunch of subs talking about retirement, because i was curious(one was about children not wanting to retire thier parents into thier homes)
