I barely use reddit anymore save for porn and niche subs but after that glorious app I had used for ages finally died a few days ago I felt devastated. it was like losing an old friend. I hope reddit dies an even slower and more painful death

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thanks to everyone who left reddit because they killed the useful mobile apps, lemmy is becoming a viable alternative.

    I’ve been waiting for a viable alternative that isn’t as toxic as reddit for some time now. I hope they kill off old.reddit soon.

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      1 year ago

      I mostly left because I saw an abundance of bootlicking posts and comments, people dunking on mods for continuing the protest and saying that it doesn’t concern them cause they don’t use third-party apps. Granted, some of them might’ve been bots or payed, but a lot of frustration seemed genuine and fron real accounts, and it rubbed me the wrong way.

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        1 year ago

        I really don’t get it. I also used official app for years now and now I’m here and reddit is becoming a memory because how they treated it.

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          Same. I hadn’t used a 3rd party reddit app in years, and I slowly watched as my reddit experience got worse and worse, but when they mishandled the whole situation it made me wonder why I’m sticking around.

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            1 year ago

            Same. The app was shit, but I didn’t want to bother with finding something else. I supported the protest but it was not enough for me to leave - their reaponse though, the strongarming of the mods and all the shitshow around me just made me snap. I was aware reddit is going down a bad path, but I was a frog being boiled. This made me realize it and thank god for that one guy on r/lotrmemes mentioning Lemmy as an alternative.

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t been to Reddit since mid June, wondering what portion of the posts you saw complaining about protests and the blackouts were real and what portion were made by bots / ai / etc? 🤔