Reddit api change and could not use a free app to access the place.

As for why .world specifically I don't remember. I picked one from the list and it was probably not sorted alphabetically at least.

I joined Lemmy when Reddit made the API pricing changes and effectively killed off third party apps. I was a "RIF is fun" user. Formerly "Reddit is fun" and formerly just "Reddit." I'd been using that app for so so long. It literally used to be called Reddit.

I gave the official app a try. It was shit. I've fiddled with it since and it's marginally better now (some specific bugs are gone).

The big reason for me, and why I don't* use Reddit now is because Spez (the CEO) lied about a conversation with the developer of (I think) Apollo, a different third party app. If you wanna look into it you can, others can share a link if they feel inclined. The dev recorded the conversation. Basically Spez misunderstood something that the dev said as a small joke to lighten the mood. The misunderstanding was quickly corrected. But Spez said it as if it was something real and a threat. Basically saying the dev was saying they could buy their app out if they wanted them to go away. Really twisted their words. Even in the recording you can tell it's a joke, it's said light heartedly and with different words that didn't make it sound like a threat.

So fuck 'em.

*: I have used it, but like less than 1‰ what I did before. It's a last resort, not a go-to. Plus, I avoid reddit.com links in search results now because so many subreddits you just can't view from the mobile site without logging in or they reject incognito/VPNs... It's insane.

Because reddit cutoff API access to third-party apps.

I used to use a 3rd party reddit app, and refused to use the awful 1st party app when they made it mandatory. So I deleted my account, and came here instead!

Anybody on here with an account age of roughly 2yr 10m is probably here because of the API changes lol

API change and third party app fiasco.

Never got banned from anything, I just left on principle. Really looking to move on from big tech altogether. It's gonna take years.

I joined Lemmy during the Reddit API controversy, which resulted in my favourite iOS Reddit app being removed from the market.

I'm enjoying it here. It reminds me of Reddit in the early 2000s. You can actually have meaningful conversations here, whereas on Reddit your contributions get lost in all the noise, and the karma system makes conversation less organic. I'm enjoying my time here.

Though this account is only a few months old, I’ve been on Lemmy for a few years under various accounts.

I joined because of the API changes. Fuck Reddit and fuck spez

i never used Reddit, but came from 9gag here in the search for something where you can actually filter the content. being foss and decentralized (both of which I'm a huge fan) was an added bonus

The Reddit APIcolypse of 2023. I came crawling back to Reddit a few weeks ago though. Lemmy doesn't have the size to support the kind of niches that Reddit has, and Reddit has a much broader user base as well, so conversations are more interesting because I can't predict what 80% of the responses to any topic will be.

Got banned for expressing compassion for Palestinians. I suspect they're using AI to moderate and it's making mistakes, as it is everywhere else. Also they only want bots over there now. Humans just cause problems. I'm pleasantly surprised to find the average IQ over here to be significantly higher. You guys are better company.

Apollo for Reddit shut down, and Reddit's app sucks. Voyager looks identical to Apollo, so I moved to it.

Suggesting on reddit worldnews that Gazan deserved basic human rights.

I got the warning for supporting Luigi Mangione. I immediately looked for an alternative.

For me, it's mainly due to the global enshittification of the social networks I was using.

Lemmy is my first try with a fediverse network and I have to admit I love it. After only a few days of use my feed is so good that I already deleted Reddit :')

And also, the fact that Lemmy is not controlled by a single authority makes it even more satisfying to use.

The Reddit website began stopping me from browsing on mobile

too many people got banned , by thier AI moderation.

I was banned from Reddit for posting NSFW pics of my own body in the right adult subs, and appealed and they still did not unban me, so here I am! I miss the friends I made there but I don't miss the site... they are too ban happy over there and it was becoming buggy.

disagreeing with Reddit policy change, a few years ago. Appreciating Lemmy/Piefed being algorithm-free, and allowing me to filter out whatever content I would consider noise.

Got banned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back into their hole because they were defending circumcision while saying female genital mutilation was disgusting and abhorrent.

I was on my way out anyway but getting banned for thinking infants shouldn't have their genitals mutilated at all was the final nail that made me jump ship.

I still use it occasionally anonymously for porn but I've noticed a lot of the porn subs are shutting down so I'll eventually quit using it altogether.

I miss lemmynsfw. Fedinsfw isn't even remotely as good and as far as I'm aware there's no app for it so I'm forced to open it in my browser and it's not very optimized

The apicalypse

I joined during the API blackouts, wanted to show some solidarity by not using Reddit during that time.

Then stuck around because I liked it. Though I'm still on Reddit too.

I'm not on Lemmy though, but I know you mean the threadiverse in general. I'm on Mbin.

Reddit exodus. Started on lemm.ee but it is not existing anymore, so here I am at /0.

I came because of the Reddit API closure. I stayed because of the huge anarchist and communist communities.

I stopped laughing everywhere else. Sure there’s bad news but the internet (and Reddit) always found a way to make me laugh in the middle of it. Found my laughs here.

Bots, and because Reddit admins don't do shit, and fuck Spez

I left reddit out of principle but I decided I wasn't done causing brain damage to myself just yet.

bots and toxic behaviour

This. I wouldn't be surprised if its 85% bots and paid posters now. Sucked all the fun out of it. You have to wade through the slop and propaganda to get to the real, quality shitposts.

As I'm interacting from a non-Lemmy (Catodon) instance, I'll interpret the question as a broader "What made you join the Fediverse?".

In a nutshell, the open-source nature, the possibility of having choices (I can choose between instances and platforms), decentralization, distance from capitalist interests and from enshittification, the shared resonance to some of my principles, among other reasons.

I used to have a Lemmy account (The Lemmy Club) but I'm fond of a platform where I can have both a personal microblogging feed alongside the interactions with the communities on the threadiverse (Lemmy, Piefed, mbin, etc), and Misskey/Sharkey/Catodon is this platform. I also have accounts on other platforms, namely Mastodon, PixelFed, Friendica and tootik (Fediverse platform for geminispace/geminiprotocol, which has nothing to do with Google despite the name), but Catodon is the platform I've been using the most.

Also, I didn't come from Reddit, I didn't even use to use Reddit despite having had an account there many years ago. I don't even how who exactly is this "spez" y'all talk about. I mostly used from Orkut (back when it existed in 2010s) all the way to TikTok (up to a few years ago) before I ditched it all and pivoted to decentralized platforms. Nowadays, the only mainstream social platform I still have (against my own values, I eager to ditch it) is the damn WhatsApp because Brazilians around me use it as their must-have instant messaging, otherwise I'd have exclusively decentralized platforms.

!asklemmy@lemmy.world

Got banned from Reddit eventually, they seem to have ramped up their detection abilities and banning.

Looked for similar alternatives and lemmy popped up.