Reddit killed third party apps
It wasn’t just that. I used the first party app so the API changes didn’t affect me. It was how bad they handled the whole situation that made me lose faith that reddit was going in a good direction. That thread “addressing” the changes and concerns was brutal.
reddit isn’t fun
I HATE REDDIT CENSORSHIP, seriously, it’s a weird politically biased censorship, you need to constantly adjust what you have to say/not say at all depending on the sub-reddit, leads to idiotic echo-chambers and self-righteous people who are just in a bubble, idk
Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn’t willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.
Reddit killed third party apps and I refused to use their shit app. It all just stinks of enshitification. So I spun up my own instance of Lemmy and haven’t looked back.
You seem like a high initiative individual. Congrats. I lack technical sophistication to even buy a domain name lol. How much do you pay for lazysoci.al per year (the domain name)?
It’s about £10 a year. I’m lucky though as I run a small side business which has some hosting capabilities. So there is already an enterprise grade set of servers ready to deploy Lemmy. I don’t need to look for hosting costs or be worried about performance as the servers are paid for and are top spec.
What is your Lemmy instance?
because centralized social media eventually leads to ads/monetization etc. your content becomes for profit
I finally got banned from Reddit and by now they have rather effective methods to detect ban evasion.
That is sooooo annoying! Like, ok ban my account. But ban ME for ever? Ridiculous. Sincerely hope Reddit dies
I’ve tried to make a couple of anonymous throwaways (for privacy reasons - I’ve never been banned) and they vanish pretty quickly, seemingly as soon as I share a link. Yes, even when not using a VPN.
Reddit ban for a R1 violation.
Apparently if you say punching a nazi is a form of self-defense they’ll say you’re inciting violence.
fuck that, we need guns to enforce our rights, even communists know that. I mean whatever.
Because fuck spez™ and reddit is so large it’s hard to find community
Reddit’s bot detection bot banned me for being a bot. The irony was too much.
I guess that happened because you had your VPN on
I got perma banned from reddit.
I am not sure why. It could have been because I got 200+ downvotes for posting that Guy Ritchie’s Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare looked like a steaming pile of dog shit or because I posted that Pete Hegsbeth needs to die.
Anyway I deserved the Perma Ban.
The only thing I miss about reddit are the sports subs. Those were a lot more active than the ones on lemmy/fedverse.
sports subs
idk iam not that interested in sports, hate sports betting btw. This shows how there are many different niche interests that can not be served by lemmy
There is no reason the sports instances cant be busy on lemmy.
Because Reddit is a haven for power tripping white supremacists who ban any opinion they don’t like.
Graduating from “leftist” Reddit, I’m afraid.
Gonna glaze the 'grad specifically - on the whole it’s done wonders for my revolutionary optimism and mental health, which in turn has lead to me actually doing some organizing irl.
Finding places full of people who actually know their shit and aren’t swept up into the lies of neoliberalism and capitalism is a major step up from feeling utterly alone and helpless in the imperial core surrounded by people who at times feel utterly alien and unreachable.
Basically just using this space to say thanks for existing, as well as thanks to such incredibly consistent and well-informed posters like yogthos, cfgaussian, cowbee, rainpizza and others for their constant analysis and discussions that have definitely patched up a lot of holes in my own understandings of leftist history and thought.
Thanks for the kind words, comrade! Glad you’re here! 🫡
Someone linked to lemmygrad on r/latestagecapitalism. I looked at both lemmy and lemmygrad (this was pre-federation) and realized that the “hard-coded slur filter” was genius.
Corporative social media pushed me out, ActivityPub seems a great solution to those problems.
Then Reddit and Communism
Just to get away from Reddit and help make the fediverse successful.
