or any other reason… im curious.
Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.
Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking “How many assholes we got on this ship”.
Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don’t miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)–but I don’t know that for sure, maybe I’m just being cynical.
Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn’t delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that’s cool.
And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a “clean” version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits. 😌
I left over the API bullshit.
Same it was the bridge too far. Reddit was something I was willing to deal with on my terms. They decided that wasn’t good enough and I’m smart enough to walk away from a toxic relationship.
Same
Yup, once they wanted to force their garbage app on me, I quit.
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I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn’t even aware Reddit was banning people.
I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.
Wish I was so bold. It took me actually getting banned to migrate.
Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
I left when I couldn’t use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again
I escaped when they killed their API.
I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.
you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, “boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account”
im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.
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Likewise. Then I realized how much better lemmy is than reddit and never looked back. Way higher quality content and discussions here
I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
Same. Rip RIF is fun
That sucks. I’m on Eternity for Lemmy thanks to Infinity for Reddit’s nice community forking the project for Lemmy
RIF ly beloved 😭
I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.
I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.
Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.
Same. The moment Apollo shut down I quit reddit and started using lemmy on the voyager (pretty much an Apollo clone for lemmy)
apollo devs making digg, but digg will prob be just as bad as reddit lol, at least im not perma banned there yet
Farewell Apollo (the API fiasco), and thank you Voyager (my lemmy app)
exactly why I came here. I was hardly using Reddit anymore as it was because it felt off. it still does feel off when I go back to visit, a lot of the posts are formatted in a very machine like way. when I found out about that r/changemyview AI comments thing I knew I wasn’t crazy for thinking this.
left reddit in 2023 during the API debacle, funnily enough it’s what made me aware of other social platforms so I guess it all worked out for the better
2023 refugee reporting in. Couldn’t give up the Sync life.
Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years’ worth of content on my 250k karma account with “fuck spez” and left it all there to rot.
