Came from reddit like many others. I had been unhappy with the artificial and corporate-sterile feel of reddit for a while. And second to that, the way subreddits were set up made it rife with powermod agendas and no good alternatives to escape them.
I much prefer the “interconnected islands” of lemmy that reduces the ability of anyone to advertise, astroturf, or have ownership of the whole system. It feels looser and puts more control back in the hands of users, which is refreshing.
Ads, ads, and more ads. Especially once my feed got flooded with that “He Gets Us” bullshit every other post. I finally found out about Apollo only about a month before the APIcalypse happened, and the thought of going back was draining. I participated in r/place as a last hoorah before deleting Reddit, and that’s where I saw the Lemmy ad… Haven’t looked back since
The reason for the Reddit protests could have been justified, but the CEO’s response couldn’t.
He messed up, doubled down, and then continued to mess up. I don’t know why the rest of the team let him keep talking
That is capitalism man 🤷🏽♂️. The CEO is emperor.
Reddit forcing me to use their shitty app
Which app do you use for Lemmy?
I’m personally using Voyager and so happy with it so far
I like Voyager, I just wished that I could see my avatar or other people’s avatar
Because spez killed Apollo.
Who is Spez?
The Free Software
Did you have to pay for Reddit?
when people say free software, they usually mean free as in free speech, rather than free as in free beer, as the saying goes. it’s not about money, it’s about if you have a piece of software, having the freedom to use, modify and share it how you’d like.
“Free Speech” as to what racist say they are using when people call them out for being racist?
Ex-Apollo user. I’ve witnessed how centralized systems are inherently fragile. One asshole in the c-suite (e.g. spez) can fuck the whole thing up.
That is Capitalism. CEOs are emperors.
The API pricing change and the closing of r/ProgrammerHumor.
It is still active
The original plan was to close indefinitely. It became active again after Reddit’s threats to change the moderators of big protesting subreddits.
They threatened with changing moderators?! Source please!
Permanent Reddit ban
Why?
I was brutally honest on a political thread and got a suspension. Made another account and got the lifetime ban for subverting a suspension
You are right wing, aren’t you?
Any opinion left of the democratic party will get you banned as well, don’t be presumptuous
If you would have met as many right wing people as I have who use covert language like that , you would also jumped to the same conclusion I did.
Lol. No. I was calling out Trumpers on their racism and hate in non politically correct terms
Oh, my bad.
