Boost was Reddit for me

I don’t like how reddit it shifting to be a corporate monitored discussion site. I’m okay with reddit being a company, it takes money to run the servers, but they have begun to hinder the accessibility of the users for their own benefit. I’m sure they have done it in the past, but this time shows how little they care about us and how much they are in it only for the money. Now they are censoring and manipulating posts to look better. I don’t stand by that.

API changes will probably kill Relay. Even if they don’t, want to quit out of principal (principle?).

Anyway, nice to meet y’all. Hope this takes off.

They were stupid and thought they could fuck with 3rd party apps. Infinity actually still works but I already switched.

Baconreader or bust

I’m witnessing a slow death of my beloved RIF. If they’re killing it, I’m going down with that ship. I think spez solidified my choice with the Q&A.

I went back to see who was participating in the blackout and who wasn’t. A lot of subreddits aren’t that I had followed. I have been slowly but surely unsubcribing from all subreddits that still have posts barring things like the Ukraine subreddit where it’s obviously really important for that one to still be active.

Once all that is done… I’m not going to have a reason to go back. I think this is the best way. I may salvage some of my old posts and repost them here where relevant. Then deactivate my account forever.

I don’t agree with the direction of the internet. I think I need to practice what I preach and this in my opinion is the right way to go about it.

Like many others in the past few days, because of their recent decisions. Plus i am a huge fan of FOSS, so knowing that Lemmy is a good federated open source alternative, it is a big plus compared to Reddit.

Haven’t fully left yet, just waiting for data request exports to come in then I’m out since I already got the communities I’m in setup and wiped my posts, but pretty much what you’d expect.

I used Infinity as opposed to Apollo but same idea applies, I only ever used that or old.reddit, never the new site, so those going away was already a deal breaker for me, but their recent actions beyond that just further motivated me to go full speed ahead on this.

I’m still lurking in case of any interesting communities that could go here, I spotted about 5 different cat sub’s I can list for that, and I’m still waiting on my data to get sent over, but after that then I’m gone for good.

Because we shut it down.

i like being at the forefront of new things

Knew this was coming, so hopped over here for an alternative. Have had a bunch of communities been following for a couple years. I hope this takes off, love seeing all the different opinions people have on topics. This is my first post!

After 15 years of using Reddit, I was finally getting comfortable with Boost.

I knew this time would come, because corporations got to corporate… but it’s still annoying.

I hope enough people come over to give Lemmy critical mass.

I haven’t left yet. I am sticking til the end of the month. My favorite 3rd party app is going to be no, so fuck Reddit. I am not going to be using their app. Maybe the website at first, but I am 99% sure that I am going to bounce on the end of the month.

Haven’t fully left yet, but I’m definitely starting to look for alternatives with the ongoing shitstorm.

Less time on Mobile Reddit will likely be a good thing for me anyway.

It’s apparent that the Reddit CEO doesn’t appreciate that most of their content is produced by users and moderated by unpaid mods. I fully think Reddit deserves to be paid for API usage somehow, but stubbornly asking 24 cents per 1000 requests is ridiculous.