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submitted 3 days ago by Up_dog@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Reddit is a cesspool

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[-] XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

I came here before AI was a thing. I make new accounts every now and then, but I've been here for years.

[-] Corgithellama@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Reddit when it started enforcing ID verification

[-] Up_dog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They’re doing that now?

[-] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

Reddit when they started charging exorbitant prices for API access and killed off the third party app ecosystem.

RIP Apollo

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

one of the bigger waves that came here. i bet the official the reddit app still sucks that bad.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They have no incentive to improve it for users, the competition is gone. I think that was the primary goal.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

that's why so many people came here at once back then

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 27 points 3 days ago

Reddit, but before AI was much of a thing.

[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago

I first migrated when the API price debacle hit, and failed. It just didn't click with me and my ways.

Then later I tried again thanks to the r/buyeuropean movement. I found my app of choice (Summit) and got a hang of things much better with it.

However I still go check reddit every few days due to a handful of small niche subreddits that don't exist here. They are luckily small enough to not be full of bots.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

Didn't leave reddit, instagram and facebook because of AI, but because trump threatened to invade my country. The only american platform I still actively use is youtube.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago
[-] hanabatake@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

When I joined lemmy, chatgpt didn’t exist 👴

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I haven’t used social media for years, as others I came to Lemmy after the Reddit API bullshit

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

Lemmy is social media

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

What migrate? This is the internet. I use reddit and Lemmy. Sometimes even in the same day!

[-] aim4harmony@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago
[-] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The c/Asklemmy AI ridden banner is making the BLOCK COMMUNITY button much sexier.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

AI didn't cause me to leave any platforms, but I do hide the accounts that just do AI content whenever I find them on YouTube or other social media platforms

[-] Nonprophet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

All of them!!! (But mostly Reddit. And it was overbearing mods and auto bans that made me seek refugee status more than AI Slop)

[-] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I had it for a while due to reddit but only transitioned to being a regular user after deleting insta. Insta is defo wayyyyy worse than reddit, for all of reddit's faults

this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2026
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