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- Moderator Crackdown (I have experienced this first hand): Aggresively targeting those who protested Reddit's changes by making their communities restricted or private temporarily by removing long-standing moderators who have invested their personal unpaid time to this platform and reopening subreddits without their consent. * Increasingly intrusive ads: Introduced an overwhelming number of intrusive ads, including ones disguised as posts, cluttering the user experience and prioritizing engagement over usability. * Degrading old reddit: Progressively sidelining old reddit in favor of the new design that is slower, more bloated and less user focused. * Forcing the offical app: Often more buggy, less functional than the third-party apps people loved. * Profits over community: Reddit has simply stopped, completely stopped listening to the users, all of their changes are mere announcements to let us know of the changes, like it or not, their primary focus is to appeal to investors and their revenue/profits, and our options to speak against it is continuing to decrease, we are silently slowly being oppressed/controlled. * Algorithm: increasingly prioritizes "algorithmically recommended" posts over the chronological, user-selected content that is focused on the user, similar to other platforms like Facebook or Twitter. * Censorship/lack of transparency: Do I even have to explain here? # It's time to move to Lemmy, the biggest, most mature alternative to Reddit without it's fundemental flaws. Lemmy benefited a lot from Reddit's changes and continues to as Reddit goes on a downward trend, the last temporary migration that happened last year also tested Lemmy's ability to handle mass-influx and it's the strongest it has been. It's an open source project that is community-funded, and it does not answer to investors or VCs, but to the user. It is in no way perfect, nothing in this world is perfect, but Lemmy has thrived as the best better reddit alternative, as I mentioned in the post here. In Lemmy, thanks to what it's powered by, the Fediverse (ActivityPub), anyone can create another instance and no central admin can ever censor something or control the people across all servers. There are no "overlords". Every major social media platforms in the world are now corporate owned, we have the chance to change this, reddit is one of the few places we can gather as a community and it makes a migration a lot more possible, for other platforms like Twitter, unless someone like Elon comes in and really screws things up, it's really hard to move mass-amounts of people or reach a lot of people like here on Reddit as a normal person and not a celebrity/journalist. Even in the microblogging world, rather than Mastodon or an open source community-run alternative, it's looking likely that bluesky would be the alternative platform to success Twitter if the exodus is successful, and while it's still far better that what Twitter is today, Bluesky is still proprietary that is VC funded. We have the chance to save the last part of the internet that still somewhat continues to be people powered despite Reddit becoming more and more controlling here, it's time to give back to the open source community and save forum-style social media from going down the same pit the others have long gone to. # Third party apps on Lemmy and Moderation tools, Lemmy's development and progress. Remember the reason we all striked and protested against reddit a while back now? 3rd party app ecosystem, it's destroyed on Reddit now, but flourishing with new life in Lemmy. Boost, sync, mlymem (that literally brings old reddit UI to lemmy), lemmyBB (based on the traditional phbb) and many more thrive in Lemmy's new third party ecosystem, developers don't have to pay a dime or expensive fees and have the freedom they deserved. Thanks to open source and Lemmy's community-run nature, things like old reddit UI is made possible. We also now have moderation tools for Lemmy such as Auto Mod, tools to fight against spam and more. Lemmy has progressed a lot and continues to with the user in mind, while Reddit is focused on putting more intrusive ads that look like posts on their supposedly "improved new reddit UI". # Join Lemmy today Go to https://join-lemmy.org/, and choose one of the servers, if you're not sure, some good options are: lemmy.world, lemmy.ee, sh.itjust.works Just signup using your email and a password. Search up communities you would follow here on there, and subscribe (Note: some communities may have considerable less amount of people and activity, this should be expected and understood, we need to contribute to that). And if you can't find a community you'd want, start it yourself and advertise it on the bigger communities, people are very chill there and eager to help each other, you are free to advertise even if its off-topic as long as it's valid and not spam. If you are someone easily confused by how Lemmy and the Fediverse works, it's pretty simple once understood. Servers here act like email providers, hence if you use gmail, you can still send an email to someone using outlook, icloud or yahoo mail and vice verse, in the same way each server is able to communicate with each other using the ActvityPub protocol similar to the Email protocol. # Opening back r/LemmyMigration I am also glad to announce that we are opening the community for Lemmy Migration on reddit, I ask everyone to crowdsource information and gather there to work together on this migration.