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What made you join Lemmy? (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Bullybeard@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It's just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there's no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don't even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it'll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there's a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I'll find them here or more people will join and it'll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

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[โ€“] Bullybeard@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It seems like most people joined Lemmy for the 3rd party apps. I admit I am not familiar with reddit 3rd party apps and what they do in terms of functionality, I'd love if someone explained them to me

[โ€“] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 18 points 5 days ago

They're just apps not made by Reddit, but made by Reddit users, some of which were paid. And many which were significantly better and more reliable than Reddit's.

A quick example on Lemmy just with the web, these are all lemmy.world but different UIs:

And that one too: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/

And that's just the web browser ones, there's a bunch for iOS and Android too. Reddit had even more.

A good app that matches your style of scrolling really makes a difference.

[โ€“] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The Official client was mid at best and hundred of thousands of people where on various third party apps.

Then Spez wanted to sell API access to train AI so it became prohibitively expensive for most third party reddit clients to continue.

So I didn't want to use their app and on top of that it was to sell my data to AI businesses.

I actually wanted to nuke all my comments to be sure they couldn't use them but didn't manage to do it reliably.

But yeah the fact that they completely killed the reddit client I used just to sell my data for AI training was the last straw for me.

Also reddit was getting quite toxic especially in some subreddits IMO.

[โ€“] Resol@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They literally acquired the Alien Blue client, which at the time was the best Reddit client according to many people, and used it as the base for their official client. How on earth did they fuck it up this badly??

I never used Apollo since I was stuck on Android. But I still wish I had the chance to use it while it was available.

[โ€“] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's nothing left of AlienBlue with their redesign, it's basically a glorified web wrapper like many other apps at this point.

[โ€“] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

What a shame. It's almost like the biggest companies make the worst crap or something.

[โ€“] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The goal of 3rd party apps is to do what's best for the user so they continue to use their app

The goal of Reddit's official app is to do what's best for Reddit

It's possible to expand on the functionality but that's the fundamental misalignment on priorities regarding users