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I came over about a year ago. Reddit has had big issues for a while, so I was lurking through alternative frontends, and when I learned a Fediverse alternative was getting pretty decent, I felt an obligation to help make it happen. I might have come from lurking on /r/piracy when they started banning piracy more actively.
Ultimately reddit is a for-profit capitalist venture. Has been from the very start, and that profit motive has directly driven it further from the userbase year after year. Advertising, badges, money-grabs, abusive staff, blocking high-quality communities, API blockages, all this was basically inevitable and it's only going to get worse.