I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.
hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.
I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there... I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.
I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don't want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I'd look back at what I've posted and commented more often, but I haven't much at all.
I haven't been on reddit for a long time. When you say "offered stock options", do you mean they offered you the opportunity to invest in stock, or discounted stock, or free stock?
I got perma banned for saying that Elon Musk should get "burned" in Canada for fraudulent sales numbers posted by Tesla in order to qualify for Federal subsidies.
They took me literally, and claimed I was promoting violence. My appeal got shut down in less than an hour. They "burned" my 8 year old account, for saying that Elon should get "burned" in Canada. The irony is real.
First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.
But that was moot, because two days after that
I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.
So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.
I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.
I never used Reddit properly, Lemmy was also open source, I get no replies, no interaction on Reddit, nearly every comment and post I make on Lemmy gets someone to reply, it's almost impossible to go back to Reddit once you get used to you always getting some form of attention
Reddit is really fucking passive-aggressive about hiding/not posting stuff and not telling you. If I'm banned or a comment/post is removed, have the fucking balls to tell me. And no, I don't buy the argument of shadowbanning...it's really easy to figure it out simply by logging out.
I had numerous accounts, some throwbacks going back 11+years, almost all were purged in feb12-13, due to them trying to eliminate and astroturfing any anti-right wing talking points. now they are assuming almost anyone is a bot. and the last one i thought was safe, was just shadowbanned recently
It's damn bullshit, you write something in Reddit, the stupid system thinks you're a bot and bans you... good luck appealing this shit, you'll be sitting there for months begging for a unban. Screw these lazy assholes.
I've still got an account. But I jumped over during the API debacle. I'm sure if I stayed I would have been banned for commenting on the Luigi situation, or calling Musk and Trump out for the dimwitted little Nazi fucks they are.
But I'm here! A proud little lemming just feeling blessed AF to be here with all you nerds!
I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn't use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.
I left reddit during the api drama last year (more than a year?). I did it on principle. The content on lemmy is not comparable to the niche communities on reddit. Yeah, Steve Huffman is a little pissbaby or whatever the current meme is. But lemmy doesn't have the art communities or the weird goofy shit that reddit did, and as a chronically online loser, my life is a little emptier without it. And I know how stupid and unimportant that is, which is why I'm here and not there.
Plus the porn on lemmy is just like... so disappointing and sparse.
Unrelated- I'm ready to switch to Linux, but do I really have to learn what a distro is and how to build my own PC? Can't I just buy a Linux PC ready to go? Please?
Hey stranger! I switched for the same reason from reddit to lemmy and while I can't help you with the porn problem... you may want to look into Linux Mint.
There are very easy to understand guides online (e. g. on itsfoss.com you can find an installation guide, recommended first steps after installation, ...) and there are communities here on lemmy as well. So this may not be the same or a replacement for the communities you miss from reddit but maybe something new to focus on and a way to get in touch with other more or less chronical online people :)
Switched for the same reason. I have the feeling that in the last couple of weeks lemmy got a lot more interactions, especially after Elon tried to ban posts on reddit, but maybe it is just a feeling. Initially I really missed Reddit. Some inside jokes where missing for my communities. Having this girl show up in everyone’s inbox felt like the first kind of sitewide memory to look back onto.
I don’t miss the porn. Having to see crazy attractive people all the time made me feel bad. Would prefer fair trade porn if I seek it.
I can build you one that has Linux ready to go. That's literally what I do, IRL. I build custom PCs for university students and professors, foster dogs, and grow marijuana. The real issue is that I cannot recommend any particular distro over another. I personally would suggest Linux Mint for most users, but if you are using your computer for more high end stuff, like 3d rendering, AutoCAD, or AAA gaming, there are other distros that are more finely tuned for those purposes.
Try out mint. Throw it on an older machine and use it instead of your daily driver. When you encounter issues, just ask in c/Linux. Most of us are friendly and will help even the newbiest of newbs, because we were all there once as well.
After a few months, you should feel comfortable enough to either totally nuke windows, (how I did it because I am lazy,) or set up a dual boot partition on your drive so that you can choose to boot into windows if you really need to do so. Warning. Windows will overwrite your boot sector every single time it updates, killing the ability to dual boot until you fix the sector.
I am grateful that you and others took the time to respond. I fear that even these really simple answers are still beyond my understanding. It's good to know there are people that build pcs on commission, i guess i probably knew that was an option.
Anyway, it's all beyond me knowledge and finance wise at the moment, but I will save your response. I want to de-google and de-microsoft for the same reason I de-reddited. Not cuz it really matters to my life, but because idk i think it matters to the world and even if I'm just one small drop in the bucket, enough of us are a tidal wave.
Hope you're having a peaceful day xx
ETA: I foster cats and grow weed too, let's go get ice cream be best friends
most "location" related subs have overtaken by right wingers, its a ban waiting to happen to most people. my blue area subs was taken over by RWers for a while.
Never been on Reddit. I tried Masto as a Twitter alternative, figured Masto is a bad Twitter alternative but found this. It doesn't feel much like Reddit, but it *does* feel like old 90s forums, which I consider a feature, not a bug.
I got a 7 day ban from Reddit and decided if they denied my appeal they were a lost cause. Tried blue sky, mastodon, a news app with comments, gave up on that. Then in an article about open source platforms asked if Reddit had one and someone replied Lemmy.
Reddit has been getting worse and eventually they just stopped showing people my comments so I deleted my account. Pretty much the next day the warnings for upvotes started coming in.
sounds like you got shadowbanned to me, when people stop responding to you, or nobody can see your comments thats what happens. you can check your profile while logged out, you know its shadowbanned if its says "cant find this user info:
I left reddit and deleted my accounts, post and comment history. I had modded a couple high sub communities there and felt it had become less friendly over the years. I initially joined in 2011 but only really started using it during the Digg exodus.
Lemmy feels like old school reddit. So I use it 99% of the time and only check some very specific subreddits when I need to look up something for work.
That is one of the things that makes lemmy unique - if you want to, you can spin up your own instance and make a community. It can even be the same name!
I am all in on decentralized social media at this point. I really dislike the ads, astroturfing, and fake accounts meant to boost brands.
I'm currently trying out Lemmy because reddit is killing the Old Reddit interface and I refuse to use their shitty app or new interface website. Plus after using it I think it's kind of fun to have reddit but smaller and more curated. It's like Reddit used to be back in like 2012.
I had been though it all, having joined about a year after the site first launched. I have witnessed multiple evolutions of the broader community and management. I could no longer support what I knew was coming next, so I bailed after 17 years due to the API fiasco.\
Now I visit only by chance on searches and RSS subscriptions to a couple super niche subreddits that are more likely to disappear than migrate anywhere else.
I'm definitely banned permanently, I'm pretty sure I've got one of those evercookies somewhere that will make sure I stay banned, whether it's outright or a shadow-ban.
And it is mainly because of having engaged with some of the lowest of the low, deformed individuals that somehow inhabit there untouched. It had gotten so bad to where they would bombard my posts when I was ranting about things like my shitty job and they just dogpile on you for no reason other than they can because the mods aren't active enough.
I can't imagine what it is like now being there and trying to criticize Musk or something since he's apparently having a say now on it and Spez will bend over for his daddy.
I left reddit during the API scandal. I had the energy and time to move platforms and so I did. Open software, FOSS, non-for-profit digital solutions are all things I'm trying to support more at the cost of not using those paid or private services. Every dollar out of their pockets (the rich) is another dollar in ours.
wish i knew about api, im guessing it also allowed you to remain "hidden" so its harder for reddit to ban accounts? its probably one of the other reasons they wanted it gone, aside from the money from ads, and not being paid by those APIS.
An API is like a question a service provides that it will programmatically answer. So reddit provided questions for getting all of its content for free. People built front end apps for viewing the content to match their preferences, provide anonymity, avoid ads, etc.
There were a lot of good reasons for reddit to stop providing that service free of charge, but they went full Corporate enshittificatioon where they made the pricing so awful it forced most of the apps to shut down.
Couple that with the protecting of /r/theDonald and other non-humanist political subs and, for me anyway, it was clear that the company wasn't run by good people but by greedy people and things would only get worse.
So I received a 1 week ban from the JusticeServed sub because I made a comment shitting on Elon Musk in r/joerogan from r/popular. Yeah these people will auto ban you from their sub if you comment in r/joerogan if you're not even subscribed to either subs, I guess it's some bot they have for that. When I messaged the mods telling them that's just lame, the *admins* banned me from Reddit for 7 days and then I understood that Reddit isn't a place where actual discussion is allowed to take place. I also like how Lemmy doesn't entice doomscrolling as much as Reddit since (for now at least) it's slower with updating content and honestly I spent way too much time on Reddit anyway. Also I like open source stuff so there's that.
i banned from the same sub too, yea crossbanning occurs if controversial subs are commented on. jrogan sub doesnt even support the dude. i suspect alot of these "law related" subs are owned LEOs.
I was briefly perma banned but it was bullshit so it was lifted on appeal, but it was wake up call. Reddit admins are getting kinda fashy so I decided after 14 years it was time to leave.
During the whole API issue, I got a permanent ban from one of my favorite subs over a random and unimportant comment that included a stream of insults from the mod. It was completely unwarranted and pretty obviously was reactionary behavior by someone projecting their bad mood against the world. I sort of looked at my hands and wondered why I would ever want to spend more time on that toxic cesspool. I immediately stopped using the service entirely and moved fulltime over to Lemmy (had an account already, but I was only dabbling prior). I do miss some aspects of Reddit, but that Reddit started its painful death somewhere around Lockdown.
I was enjoying it till a post I randomly clicked on showed a screenshot of a post I made here and that post was apparently removed by mods...
Assuming it was the one I said everything is going to Putin's plan--- tank the economy, billionaires lap it up, the US lose allies, and the next step is just taking orders right from Russia. Apparently that was "controversial"? Lol
I was a bit passionate in my support for Luigi so it wasn't an unfair ban unless you count the fact that it's unfair to be punished for supporting violence against dealers in death.
Fed up with Reddit's owners, so I stopped my daily use. I did like Reddit more because of some well moderated and active subreddits, and I do occasionally pop my head in over there once a week or so to stay informed, but I spend almost all of my time here and on mastodon now.
I had a similar relationship with Facebook around 2015. Stopped pretty much entirely except for when I need to engage with Facebook marketplace, and I generally try to use Craigslist first.
Not banned but I like here more. I left during the Exodus/ blackouts/shutdowns. In another life I was a mod for a moderately successful sub and after going into the rabbit hole and seeing the app timer increase to hours a day, I felt they could at least gift mods premium and they could skip ads. After some drama and a high caliber mod left the sub, I followed shortly after as the community has grown and changed.
I'm on mbin mostly. The japan-focused subreddits for legal, finance, etc. have so far refused to move. Once they move, I will be done with reddit entirely
With the recent US autocratization, its a good idea to keep a maintream profile (such as reddit) without any politics on the account (a decoy). Just in case the authorities start asking for social medias. No social media would make you look "suspicious". And since Lemmy is only used by leftists, you're gonna look guilty by association.
I'm honestly not surprised if EU countries start to ask for social medias in the future, authoritarian surveillance behaviors is not limited to fascism, even "liberal" countries use mass surveillance. I have a bad feeling "Chat Control" is gonna pass, it only goes downhill from there.
I left briefly to go on Kbin.social first, but went back to Reddit when the instance got flooded with spam and then started to go down more often than not. I had fun customizing how my communities/magazines looked when I was on there.
After the stupid decisions like making upvotes bannable which have worse implications longterm, I went back to the Fediverse. I decided just change instances if shit hits the fan instead of allowing myself to get back into Reddit. It sucks because I’ve used Reddit since around 2010. That being said, Lemmy feels more like how Reddit used to when I started using it.
Like many here, I left reddit during the whole API debacle, and I was doing really good about avoiding reddit for a while, but there's way less people here, way less communities, and while yes, I could start the communities I'd like to see on Lemmy, I just don't think there are enough users to have engaging conversations yet. For that reason, I maintain my reddit account, so that I can have those conversations and connections that I can't get here. I hope it changes some day and we can grow our numbers here.
Lemmy more. The default comment sorting means there's a chance that my comment will be at the top and therefore discussion can happen. On reddit, past a certain amount of comments, I don't bother. No one will see it.
I like Lemmy more, especially since it’s not corporate owned. The Reddit admins turned the site to shit purposely to push their greedy agenda, they instilled moderators that acted in bad faith for many subs, they allowed misinformation bots and other bad faith actors to run rampant, and they hosted ads to bet on US elections for months up until the day of the election itself. Truly and utterly disgusting behavior from Reddit.
Ellen Pao deserved better, Spez taking over is what enshitified the site.
The preponderance of flagrant double standards in moderation policies did it in for me. I deleted a 14 year old account when it became clear that there was going to be a clear effort on behalf of reddit's corporate leadership to push bullshit narratives and purge anyone who spoke up about it. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone invented a reason to ban me.
I noticed this first with AITA when it became clear that the mods were manipulating the sub for their own purposes. They would let obvious fiction in and ban people for calling it out. They also very selectively enforced standards and would only go after very specific comment types while ignoring very obvious abuse. Then I started seeing this behavior happen in pretty much all of the ask or story subs. Now you see it on Tik Tok and YouTube shorts--bots reading all these fictional posts into video shorts. It's bizarre.
I use both. I've attempted to replicate the subreddits I was subscribed to on Lemmy with very limited success. I'm not sure if I just need to subscribe to more instances or if my expectations are off.
Left when 3rd party apps were killed, stayed because I believe in the concept of the fediverse.
Still have my Reddit accounts, but just hardly use them. There is still a much larger active user base there for a bunch of stuff so I haven't gone scorched earth yet, but Lemmy is my social media home now.
I'm banned off reddit. It was only a generic message i got saying I violated multiple rules. First it was my alt and then my main hours later. I have no idea what happened. Maybe me being on a public wi fi at a hotel and then someone there logged in two weeks later with a banned account so it got connected to mine.
With lemmy was active as reddit. Now it's just a read only site for me.
I still have my reddit account for niche stuff, but I overwrote all my comments with gibberish so they couldn't use my words to train anything. I could definitely give up my reddit if push came to shove.
Left due to the crowd amassed for my country's sub. I became friend with a few regulars there when the sub is small, but these day they're significantly more and more people with a lack of common sense and logical thinking gathered there it's hard to find new friend, to the point the friends i met just decided to lurk or quit. No more fun.
Then API fiasco happened and since i hate the official app so much as it's significantly slower with horrible UI, it's a final push for me to make the jump.
I wouldn't say i like lemmy more, but it's the one i tolerate now. If the main dev became unbearable then i jump again.
Every time I add a comment or post on reddit, I get banned all the time, I don't even know why, I tried to appeal the ban, but no one gives a shit. Anyway, I like Lemmy better, it's faster, lighter, and doesn't have any dumb karma thing. So I deleted my last Reddit account, told the Reddit administration to go screw themselves, and I have no regrets.
Not yet. I did get a comment removed but successfully appealed for saying what citizens do to kings. The appeal was me saying it was in a historical context, of course ;)
Both. It's actually funny. Someone posted that image of alternatives to things like Reddit and Whatsapp and Google, etc, and it had Lemmy on it. I was at the point where I was getting sick of Reddit and had one account banned already. I joined Lemmy, and a few days later my other account got banned for up voting a comment that was just the gif of Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. I had already decided I liked Lemmy more at that point, so whatever. The one thing that sucks is that I had my own little sub with a couple thousand members where I posted my writing, and people seemed to like it. I enjoyed sharing my stories with all those weirdos, and now I can't.
I'm not permanently banned, I was temporarily banned for a bullshit reason and when I got my account back I went scorched earth then closed my account. Fuck reddit
Lemmy as a platform speaks to me on a philosophical level when it comes to the kinds of technology I use when I have the choice. I like that it is not at the mercy of the need to turn a profit to exist.
I'm banned on enough accounts they auto ban me when I make new ones. I went off the rails on a lot of political topics. I never threatened anyone, but I did wish them unspecified harms, use the words of naughtiness, and made myself a target of a few pro Trump mods and that was it. Anyway, I'm fine here, I also didn't start using this until years after the ban so, not very related.
Yea i usually created new accounts, or made accounts just in case one gets banned on too many subs, the new one i just avoid the subs i was banned in. but this time once they banned people for anything, even if its temp they just rout all your connected accounts. Oh and they do shadownban people if you make another account if your previous accounts were sitewide banned or shadow banned. i think the shadowbanning is alittle worst than the outright site-wide bans. i was visiting the "shadowban sub" recently and people are getitng the axe the moment they create an account.
Israeli IOF Hasbara in worldnews got me banned from everything.
I have 5 fully shadow banned account. basically and effectively perm bans. Your page says "no user exists" and your posts and comments cannot be seen by any user nor any viewer in the world.
Last time I tried to make an account it was instantly shadow banned. Maybe they don't like my email address, who knows. It's kind of a dump over there anyway
if you go on the shadowban sub, where you are allowed to post there, yea it seems alot of people are getting shadowbanned the instant they create the account, or soon after commenting. they are assuming many people are creating multiple accounts to evade bans. Im in another forum where people are making dozens of accounts, they use it for OF and referall link purpose to earn money, and its been happening to them too, but they have methods to evade reddit , but its a cat and mouse game.
i had like 5+ accts that were all hit with sitewide ban in early feb, because one of my accounts was temp banned, so it decided to ban all of them, except one, that got shadowbanned now. thier bans made less and less sense, if your not aware reddit went public and is trying to sell the site at some point, hence the accounts apocalypse, also Musk had a hand the recent purges too, he complained on 2 occasions that subs were making him look bad, so reddit started purging accounts criticizing most right wingers.
I crosspost what I can from .ml comms to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm as part of ongoing efforts to boycott and reduce .ml's influence on the wider Lemmy-verse because of the Tankie ideology the admin team of that instance enforce through censorship of views critical of Authoritarian regimes and allowing known propaganda outlets (such as RT) to fester (see [email protected] for what evidence and documentation has been gathered thus far)
That being said, everything else I crosspost is still visible as a crosspost via the crosspost icon that shows on posts.
Text posts like this are tricky since there's no URL for the crosspost system to track and I don't want to leave the link in place because that would make things too easy and possibly work in counter to my efforts. So to that end, I feel tagging the user is sufficient credit. People still know it's some form of a crosspost, I'm not the OOP, and they know the name of the OOP should they really want to go to the original post
we were forced out, and it was clear musk was influencing the bans too, and so much astroturfing against "left leaning comments, over right wingers" is astounding, i pointed out how many of those posts are just ragebaits.
some subs are actually owned by former and current LEO, it make sense. the most famous one being legal advice, and i suspect almost all the video subs are owned by them(the ones usually do with crime related videos)
I use both. I like some aspects of each better. Reddit mostly has some specific large communities I can't find on lemmy due to size, or lemmys demographics just not enjoying that topic.
Neither, but the hope still remains that Lemmy grows to be better. Right now I just see too many weird takes here, but its the best alternative currently.
After leaving Reddit due to the whole API scandal, I noticed that that decision was really a wake up call to take a break off the internet. Actually, it made me delete every "traditional" social media application, with the obvious exception of YouTube. I've never felt better. Being addicted to social media for this long can have some pretty serious issues.
Lemmy is pretty great, so much so that it's a part of my username now (it's more of a pseudonym now). In fact, it being small kinda encouraged me to take breaks off the internet. I've had one for like... 2 months perhaps?
I was shadowbanned, so I signed up for Lemmy for the long term, and made another account on Reddit because who gives a shit about "ban evasion".
Will keep using both till I'll be permabanned; Reddit still has more of the communities I'm interested in. I hope Reddit fucks up even more so there'll be another exodus to Lemmy.
I halted all of my posting to reddit during the API fiasco. Lurked on Lemmy until I needed to start blocking communities and then created an account to do so.
Most of the niche and local communities (most notably r/IWantOut) are still on that sinking ship though, and not here :(. I only visit to see what those niche communities are up to from time to time, but do not post or get any news from there.
Of the communities that are highly active on Lemmy, I do think the content is pretty good and is enough to replace reddit. I feel like I get to hear what's going on without the censorship on that sinking ship. There's just enough activity such that the more general communities have enough new content to look at by browsing the "all" tab on the homepage and in the communities, but there's still not enough activity or users for me to browse through "local" or "subscribed" yet.
you get censored on reddit for discussing bans, outside REDDIT approved subs. i went on r/shadowban and alot of people are getting shadowban out of the blue. from what ive gathered, if you made an account havnt posted in a long time and then you suddenly post you can get shadowbanned so fast, because it automatically thinks your a bot in some cases.
Well, Reddit was a bunch of Democrats circlejerking each other for Internet points to benefit a massive corporation, whereas Lemmy is a bunch of Democrats circlejerking each other for internet points.
So… I guess I like both because it helps reinforce that all social media is a waste of time and a blight on society and culture as a whole
I left reddit one December (think it was 2023). They showed off thier Reddit Recap. Realised I switched from windows to linux to AVOID data collection, then use an app that gladly showed off all the data they collect.
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Haven't had a reddit account since ~2015. Saw no value for a long time. Here is different.
I just like Lemmy more
Never been banned on reddit but I prefer how there is less of a moderation here for my searing hot takes when I feel like shitposting
reddit is banned in my country (ofc VPN will bypass it) but why bother use more effort if i got something legally available?
Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.
Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It's like a slice of the old web.
Same here. Left and never looked back.
Shout out to all my ~1 year 9 month old account homies
Ayy, same day!
Ditto. API thing was transition as well
Same. I couldn’t stand the Reddit app and all the ads loaded in it. I switched the day Apollo stopped working.
Yep. Apollo shutting down is why I created an account, deleted all my content and my Reddit account once things started getting really fucky.
Same! As soon as I was forced to use the official Reddit app over Sync, I jumped ship
I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.
🖕spez
hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.
I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.
I quit reddit and have no intention to go back. Its become total crap and full of boosted ads.
I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there... I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.
Lemmy is just so much better quality.
Not banned. I chose Lemmy because I’m a big believer in the ideas of the fediverse and I want it to succeed.
I do still have to use Reddit occasionally to look up info that hasn’t made it here yet, but I don’t post or comment there.
I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn't like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.
Edit: damn it's almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride
Edit: did you really just copy the same post as? There's no karma like on reddit you know that right?
https://lemm.ee/post/60400188
2 years?? Holy shit! Time flies...
Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲
My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit.. but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.
I'll join you somewhere around this statement.
i got shadowbanned recently on my only account, and the rest was purged in feburary by reddit.
I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don't want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I'd look back at what I've posted and commented more often, but I haven't much at all.
My main and my alt still exist on reddit and have enough karma that I was offered stock options on both accounts.
Not going back because of the API fuckery. Coming up on 2 years on lemmy. Haven't looked back.
I haven't been on reddit for a long time. When you say "offered stock options", do you mean they offered you the opportunity to invest in stock, or discounted stock, or free stock?
All of the above.
I got perma banned for saying that Elon Musk should get "burned" in Canada for fraudulent sales numbers posted by Tesla in order to qualify for Federal subsidies.
They took me literally, and claimed I was promoting violence. My appeal got shut down in less than an hour. They "burned" my 8 year old account, for saying that Elon should get "burned" in Canada. The irony is real.
Welcome to lemmy.
What's your favorite molotov recipe?
I left after the API price hike.
Same. And it didn't impact me directly but clearly demonstrated the value of a distributed platform.
I mostly switched to lemmy because the mobile reddit app i used finally broke after the api changes.
I refuse to use that shitty reddit app and the creator of the app i used made a lemmy app so here i am
I like swiping to switch between home and all
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I like the fediverse more. I left during the api thing and think that the fediverse is the next step in social networking.
I did the same when the API changes were introduced and my app didn't work anymore. Open source is the way to go.
I'm just stubborn, left during the blackout and didn't want to go back.
I am.
First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.
But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.
So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.
I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.
I left Reddit on principle.
I still have functioning accounts over there.
The only time i go there is if I'm linked there when searching for info.
I never used Reddit properly, Lemmy was also open source, I get no replies, no interaction on Reddit, nearly every comment and post I make on Lemmy gets someone to reply, it's almost impossible to go back to Reddit once you get used to you always getting some form of attention
Nice comment!
Reddit is really fucking passive-aggressive about hiding/not posting stuff and not telling you. If I'm banned or a comment/post is removed, have the fucking balls to tell me. And no, I don't buy the argument of shadowbanning...it's really easy to figure it out simply by logging out.
No, Reddit is permanently banned from me.
I have banned myself from Reddit.
Same. Also removed what content I had put there, to the extent that I could. Account is still there.
I had numerous accounts, some throwbacks going back 11+years, almost all were purged in feb12-13, due to them trying to eliminate and astroturfing any anti-right wing talking points. now they are assuming almost anyone is a bot. and the last one i thought was safe, was just shadowbanned recently
It's damn bullshit, you write something in Reddit, the stupid system thinks you're a bot and bans you... good luck appealing this shit, you'll be sitting there for months begging for a unban. Screw these lazy assholes.
I just like Lemmy more.
I've still got an account. But I jumped over during the API debacle. I'm sure if I stayed I would have been banned for commenting on the Luigi situation, or calling Musk and Trump out for the dimwitted little Nazi fucks they are.
But I'm here! A proud little lemming just feeling blessed AF to be here with all you nerds!
I barely use Reddit now. I’ve unfollowed any sub that has an equivalent here.
The main one holding me back is that native speakers of my language are there.
Never banned. Just moved over here after it was even more clear that they don't have our best interests in mind. And never did.
Same for Xitter.
I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn't use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from
/r/DaystromInstituteto startrek.website.hopefully its not to nutrek super-fans, those are the worst kind of trek fans.
I left reddit during the api drama last year (more than a year?). I did it on principle. The content on lemmy is not comparable to the niche communities on reddit. Yeah, Steve Huffman is a little pissbaby or whatever the current meme is. But lemmy doesn't have the art communities or the weird goofy shit that reddit did, and as a chronically online loser, my life is a little emptier without it. And I know how stupid and unimportant that is, which is why I'm here and not there.
Plus the porn on lemmy is just like... so disappointing and sparse.
Unrelated- I'm ready to switch to Linux, but do I really have to learn what a distro is and how to build my own PC? Can't I just buy a Linux PC ready to go? Please?
Hey stranger! I switched for the same reason from reddit to lemmy and while I can't help you with the porn problem... you may want to look into Linux Mint.
There are very easy to understand guides online (e. g. on itsfoss.com you can find an installation guide, recommended first steps after installation, ...) and there are communities here on lemmy as well. So this may not be the same or a replacement for the communities you miss from reddit but maybe something new to focus on and a way to get in touch with other more or less chronical online people :)
Switched for the same reason. I have the feeling that in the last couple of weeks lemmy got a lot more interactions, especially after Elon tried to ban posts on reddit, but maybe it is just a feeling. Initially I really missed Reddit. Some inside jokes where missing for my communities. Having this girl show up in everyone’s inbox felt like the first kind of sitewide memory to look back onto. I don’t miss the porn. Having to see crazy attractive people all the time made me feel bad. Would prefer fair trade porn if I seek it.
Nicole never messaged me and I miss the ol' switcharoo and beetlejuicing and r/catsstandingup :,(
I can build you one that has Linux ready to go. That's literally what I do, IRL. I build custom PCs for university students and professors, foster dogs, and grow marijuana. The real issue is that I cannot recommend any particular distro over another. I personally would suggest Linux Mint for most users, but if you are using your computer for more high end stuff, like 3d rendering, AutoCAD, or AAA gaming, there are other distros that are more finely tuned for those purposes.
Try out mint. Throw it on an older machine and use it instead of your daily driver. When you encounter issues, just ask in c/Linux. Most of us are friendly and will help even the newbiest of newbs, because we were all there once as well.
After a few months, you should feel comfortable enough to either totally nuke windows, (how I did it because I am lazy,) or set up a dual boot partition on your drive so that you can choose to boot into windows if you really need to do so. Warning. Windows will overwrite your boot sector every single time it updates, killing the ability to dual boot until you fix the sector.
I am grateful that you and others took the time to respond. I fear that even these really simple answers are still beyond my understanding. It's good to know there are people that build pcs on commission, i guess i probably knew that was an option.
Anyway, it's all beyond me knowledge and finance wise at the moment, but I will save your response. I want to de-google and de-microsoft for the same reason I de-reddited. Not cuz it really matters to my life, but because idk i think it matters to the world and even if I'm just one small drop in the bucket, enough of us are a tidal wave.
Hope you're having a peaceful day xx
ETA: I foster cats and grow weed too, let's go get ice cream be best friends
Installing Linux is super chill. Unless it is like cubes OS or arch. Maybe try pop os
Fuck reddit, I left as soon as I could and deleted my accounts.
I'm not banned, I was banned in r/Korea for posting a link to my own peertube instance but nowhere else.\
I just don't feel that me trying to make some rich guy even more rich makes a lot of sense when they behave so shitty to us.
most "location" related subs have overtaken by right wingers, its a ban waiting to happen to most people. my blue area subs was taken over by RWers for a while.
I over-wrote and then deleted my nearly 20 years of posts/comments and then deleted my account.
Banned from reddit for calling violence on Musk.
Frankly, I'm not impressed with Lemmy either, especially because personal interests are just so much harder to find engagement on.
So, whatever that answer amounts to.
I came here during the API thing then went back because it’s quiet here. Then I came back because I got into selfhosting and now I’m more dug in.
Idk why I would get banned from Reddit
Never been on Reddit. I tried Masto as a Twitter alternative, figured Masto is a bad Twitter alternative but found this. It doesn't feel much like Reddit, but it *does* feel like old 90s forums, which I consider a feature, not a bug.
I got a 7 day ban from Reddit and decided if they denied my appeal they were a lost cause. Tried blue sky, mastodon, a news app with comments, gave up on that. Then in an article about open source platforms asked if Reddit had one and someone replied Lemmy.
Reddit has been getting worse and eventually they just stopped showing people my comments so I deleted my account. Pretty much the next day the warnings for upvotes started coming in.
sounds like you got shadowbanned to me, when people stop responding to you, or nobody can see your comments thats what happens. you can check your profile while logged out, you know its shadowbanned if its says "cant find this user info:
They could see everything prior to like 3 days before I deleted the account. It was the last straw for me.
I like lemmy more and decided to get my accounts banned in reddit after I started using lemmy.
I left reddit and deleted my accounts, post and comment history. I had modded a couple high sub communities there and felt it had become less friendly over the years. I initially joined in 2011 but only really started using it during the Digg exodus.
Lemmy feels like old school reddit. So I use it 99% of the time and only check some very specific subreddits when I need to look up something for work.
i heard its significantly harder to become a mod, or make a sub now, now that even regular accounts are getting ban after its made.
That is one of the things that makes lemmy unique - if you want to, you can spin up your own instance and make a community. It can even be the same name!
I am all in on decentralized social media at this point. I really dislike the ads, astroturfing, and fake accounts meant to boost brands.
I nuked my 11 year old account when I moved here.
Wave of the future!
Lemmy is a much nicer environment overall, so i moved here
I'm currently trying out Lemmy because reddit is killing the Old Reddit interface and I refuse to use their shitty app or new interface website. Plus after using it I think it's kind of fun to have reddit but smaller and more curated. It's like Reddit used to be back in like 2012.
I'm perma banned for spreading Luigi related posts.
Boycotting US stuff
Just Yeah. I canceled my Amazon subscription yesterday. I should have do so long time ago.
I had been though it all, having joined about a year after the site first launched. I have witnessed multiple evolutions of the broader community and management. I could no longer support what I knew was coming next, so I bailed after 17 years due to the API fiasco.\
Now I visit only by chance on searches and RSS subscriptions to a couple super niche subreddits that are more likely to disappear than migrate anywhere else.
falsedichotomy
I'm definitely banned permanently, I'm pretty sure I've got one of those evercookies somewhere that will make sure I stay banned, whether it's outright or a shadow-ban.
And it is mainly because of having engaged with some of the lowest of the low, deformed individuals that somehow inhabit there untouched. It had gotten so bad to where they would bombard my posts when I was ranting about things like my shitty job and they just dogpile on you for no reason other than they can because the mods aren't active enough.
I can't imagine what it is like now being there and trying to criticize Musk or something since he's apparently having a say now on it and Spez will bend over for his daddy.
Banned across all accounts
I said "bad bot" to a nazi apologist, and apparently that's "violence"
It's a shame. I had quite a cult following for my "performance art"
report abuse on r/tech for reporting actual violaters, temp ban, triggered a full ban on 5+years accounts.
Lmao that fuckin name. Love it.
Well, I quite enjoy fisting, and I'm *really* good at it...
I'm sure lol. Is that your performance art? I was assuming it was what you meant.
Nah,
Things like this
And this
Lol damn dude, that's wild. That's gotta make peeing while standing a trick. 😂
Oh, I sit...
I went scorched earth on reddit
I left reddit during the API scandal. I had the energy and time to move platforms and so I did. Open software, FOSS, non-for-profit digital solutions are all things I'm trying to support more at the cost of not using those paid or private services. Every dollar out of their pockets (the rich) is another dollar in ours.
wish i knew about api, im guessing it also allowed you to remain "hidden" so its harder for reddit to ban accounts? its probably one of the other reasons they wanted it gone, aside from the money from ads, and not being paid by those APIS.
An API is like a question a service provides that it will programmatically answer. So reddit provided questions for getting all of its content for free. People built front end apps for viewing the content to match their preferences, provide anonymity, avoid ads, etc.
There were a lot of good reasons for reddit to stop providing that service free of charge, but they went full Corporate enshittificatioon where they made the pricing so awful it forced most of the apps to shut down.
Couple that with the protecting of /r/theDonald and other non-humanist political subs and, for me anyway, it was clear that the company wasn't run by good people but by greedy people and things would only get worse.
Perma banned for saying child rapists should get a taste of their own medicine.
So I received a 1 week ban from the JusticeServed sub because I made a comment shitting on Elon Musk in r/joerogan from r/popular. Yeah these people will auto ban you from their sub if you comment in r/joerogan if you're not even subscribed to either subs, I guess it's some bot they have for that. When I messaged the mods telling them that's just lame, the *admins* banned me from Reddit for 7 days and then I understood that Reddit isn't a place where actual discussion is allowed to take place. I also like how Lemmy doesn't entice doomscrolling as much as Reddit since (for now at least) it's slower with updating content and honestly I spent way too much time on Reddit anyway. Also I like open source stuff so there's that.
i banned from the same sub too, yea crossbanning occurs if controversial subs are commented on. jrogan sub doesnt even support the dude. i suspect alot of these "law related" subs are owned LEOs.
I was briefly perma banned but it was bullshit so it was lifted on appeal, but it was wake up call. Reddit admins are getting kinda fashy so I decided after 14 years it was time to leave.
musk has been pressuring reddit to "ban anti-musk and trump" content.
Yeah I know, but that didn't come out 'til I'd left.
During the whole API issue, I got a permanent ban from one of my favorite subs over a random and unimportant comment that included a stream of insults from the mod. It was completely unwarranted and pretty obviously was reactionary behavior by someone projecting their bad mood against the world. I sort of looked at my hands and wondered why I would ever want to spend more time on that toxic cesspool. I immediately stopped using the service entirely and moved fulltime over to Lemmy (had an account already, but I was only dabbling prior). I do miss some aspects of Reddit, but that Reddit started its painful death somewhere around Lockdown.
I still have my reddit account, but I nearly exclusively use it for a closed, non-public group I am in for nearly a decade.
But I have moved my focus to Lemmy.
I was enjoying it till a post I randomly clicked on showed a screenshot of a post I made here and that post was apparently removed by mods...
Assuming it was the one I said everything is going to Putin's plan--- tank the economy, billionaires lap it up, the US lose allies, and the next step is just taking orders right from Russia. Apparently that was "controversial"? Lol
Banned. Lol.
I was a bit passionate in my support for Luigi so it wasn't an unfair ban unless you count the fact that it's unfair to be punished for supporting violence against dealers in death.
Fed up with Reddit's owners, so I stopped my daily use. I did like Reddit more because of some well moderated and active subreddits, and I do occasionally pop my head in over there once a week or so to stay informed, but I spend almost all of my time here and on mastodon now.
I had a similar relationship with Facebook around 2015. Stopped pretty much entirely except for when I need to engage with Facebook marketplace, and I generally try to use Craigslist first.
now subs are too moderated, the slightest comment removal will trigger a ban filter, most of the time.
Not banned but I like here more. I left during the Exodus/ blackouts/shutdowns. In another life I was a mod for a moderately successful sub and after going into the rabbit hole and seeing the app timer increase to hours a day, I felt they could at least gift mods premium and they could skip ads. After some drama and a high caliber mod left the sub, I followed shortly after as the community has grown and changed.
Haven't been on there in like 10 years, glad all of you finally saw the light. Sad it requires being forced off though.
I used a script to delete my comment history and no longer know my password not care to recall it. I don't log in anymore, only lurk.
I'm on mbin mostly. The japan-focused subreddits for legal, finance, etc. have so far refused to move. Once they move, I will be done with reddit entirely
With the recent US autocratization, its a good idea to keep a maintream profile (such as reddit) without any politics on the account (a decoy). Just in case the authorities start asking for social medias. No social media would make you look "suspicious". And since Lemmy is only used by leftists, you're gonna look guilty by association.
I'm honestly not surprised if EU countries start to ask for social medias in the future, authoritarian surveillance behaviors is not limited to fascism, even "liberal" countries use mass surveillance. I have a bad feeling "Chat Control" is gonna pass, it only goes downhill from there.
Seriously, is it suspicious to have none? Do you have to post?
https://apnews.com/article/social-media-immigration-applicants-handles-dhs-f67b480abebff7e451056be17572593d
I got perma banned so Im here now! And now I like it better
I left briefly to go on Kbin.social first, but went back to Reddit when the instance got flooded with spam and then started to go down more often than not. I had fun customizing how my communities/magazines looked when I was on there.
After the stupid decisions like making upvotes bannable which have worse implications longterm, I went back to the Fediverse. I decided just change instances if shit hits the fan instead of allowing myself to get back into Reddit. It sucks because I’ve used Reddit since around 2010. That being said, Lemmy feels more like how Reddit used to when I started using it.
its not even safe to comment as a new person, or certain subs anymore.
Just trying it out. Not yet banned anywhere
I left Reddit because the algorithm *really* wanted me to be angry and afraid.
The world is a shitty enough place. I don’t need the advertisers stressing me out even more.
Shit you ain't need an algorithm for that.
Like many here, I left reddit during the whole API debacle, and I was doing really good about avoiding reddit for a while, but there's way less people here, way less communities, and while yes, I could start the communities I'd like to see on Lemmy, I just don't think there are enough users to have engaging conversations yet. For that reason, I maintain my reddit account, so that I can have those conversations and connections that I can't get here. I hope it changes some day and we can grow our numbers here.
Lemmy more. The default comment sorting means there's a chance that my comment will be at the top and therefore discussion can happen. On reddit, past a certain amount of comments, I don't bother. No one will see it.
I like Lemmy more, especially since it’s not corporate owned. The Reddit admins turned the site to shit purposely to push their greedy agenda, they instilled moderators that acted in bad faith for many subs, they allowed misinformation bots and other bad faith actors to run rampant, and they hosted ads to bet on US elections for months up until the day of the election itself. Truly and utterly disgusting behavior from Reddit.
Ellen Pao deserved better, Spez taking over is what enshitified the site.
Just like Lemmy more. Reddit has become to enshittified for me to use it anymore, except for some niche stuff due of Reddit's larger traffic volume.
I'm on both, I like both. Been liking Reddit less and less over the years, I expect at some point I'll stop going, but for now it's still okay.
i was trying to becareful on reddit, in niche sub, only took 1 mod to remove my comment to get shadowbanned.
I'm not banned, I just won't go there anymore.
The preponderance of flagrant double standards in moderation policies did it in for me. I deleted a 14 year old account when it became clear that there was going to be a clear effort on behalf of reddit's corporate leadership to push bullshit narratives and purge anyone who spoke up about it. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone invented a reason to ban me.
Turns out I don't even miss it.
I noticed this first with AITA when it became clear that the mods were manipulating the sub for their own purposes. They would let obvious fiction in and ban people for calling it out. They also very selectively enforced standards and would only go after very specific comment types while ignoring very obvious abuse. Then I started seeing this behavior happen in pretty much all of the ask or story subs. Now you see it on Tik Tok and YouTube shorts--bots reading all these fictional posts into video shorts. It's bizarre.
I use both. I've attempted to replicate the subreddits I was subscribed to on Lemmy with very limited success. I'm not sure if I just need to subscribe to more instances or if my expectations are off.
the bulk of the communities are still on reddit, like not the onion, cats,,,,,etc.
Not banned. I think it's great that when you copy posts from .ml, you mention the author now.
Left when 3rd party apps were killed, stayed because I believe in the concept of the fediverse.
Still have my Reddit accounts, but just hardly use them. There is still a much larger active user base there for a bunch of stuff so I haven't gone scorched earth yet, but Lemmy is my social media home now.
Banned on some subs. Mostly just left because I saw it enshittifying.
I never really got into reddit.
Getting in on Lemmy (relatively) early made it feel more specifical so I actually do more than search it for answers
I'm banned off reddit. It was only a generic message i got saying I violated multiple rules. First it was my alt and then my main hours later. I have no idea what happened. Maybe me being on a public wi fi at a hotel and then someone there logged in two weeks later with a banned account so it got connected to mine.
With lemmy was active as reddit. Now it's just a read only site for me.
I still have my reddit account for niche stuff, but I overwrote all my comments with gibberish so they couldn't use my words to train anything. I could definitely give up my reddit if push came to shove.
Left due to the crowd amassed for my country's sub. I became friend with a few regulars there when the sub is small, but these day they're significantly more and more people with a lack of common sense and logical thinking gathered there it's hard to find new friend, to the point the friends i met just decided to lurk or quit. No more fun.
Then API fiasco happened and since i hate the official app so much as it's significantly slower with horrible UI, it's a final push for me to make the jump.
I wouldn't say i like lemmy more, but it's the one i tolerate now. If the main dev became unbearable then i jump again.
Every time I add a comment or post on reddit, I get banned all the time, I don't even know why, I tried to appeal the ban, but no one gives a shit. Anyway, I like Lemmy better, it's faster, lighter, and doesn't have any dumb karma thing. So I deleted my last Reddit account, told the Reddit administration to go screw themselves, and I have no regrets.
Not yet. I did get a comment removed but successfully appealed for saying what citizens do to kings. The appeal was me saying it was in a historical context, of course ;)
Both. It's actually funny. Someone posted that image of alternatives to things like Reddit and Whatsapp and Google, etc, and it had Lemmy on it. I was at the point where I was getting sick of Reddit and had one account banned already. I joined Lemmy, and a few days later my other account got banned for up voting a comment that was just the gif of Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. I had already decided I liked Lemmy more at that point, so whatever. The one thing that sucks is that I had my own little sub with a couple thousand members where I posted my writing, and people seemed to like it. I enjoyed sharing my stories with all those weirdos, and now I can't.
I left and blocked reddit on my network after the landed gantry debacle. I'm not banned but I might as well be.
Steve Huffman is a greedy piss boy
I'm not permanently banned, I was temporarily banned for a bullshit reason and when I got my account back I went scorched earth then closed my account. Fuck reddit
Lemmy as a platform speaks to me on a philosophical level when it comes to the kinds of technology I use when I have the choice. I like that it is not at the mercy of the need to turn a profit to exist.
I'm banned on enough accounts they auto ban me when I make new ones. I went off the rails on a lot of political topics. I never threatened anyone, but I did wish them unspecified harms, use the words of naughtiness, and made myself a target of a few pro Trump mods and that was it. Anyway, I'm fine here, I also didn't start using this until years after the ban so, not very related.
Yea i usually created new accounts, or made accounts just in case one gets banned on too many subs, the new one i just avoid the subs i was banned in. but this time once they banned people for anything, even if its temp they just rout all your connected accounts. Oh and they do shadownban people if you make another account if your previous accounts were sitewide banned or shadow banned. i think the shadowbanning is alittle worst than the outright site-wide bans. i was visiting the "shadowban sub" recently and people are getitng the axe the moment they create an account.
Israeli IOF Hasbara in worldnews got me banned from everything. I have 5 fully shadow banned account. basically and effectively perm bans. Your page says "no user exists" and your posts and comments cannot be seen by any user nor any viewer in the world.
Last time I tried to make an account it was instantly shadow banned. Maybe they don't like my email address, who knows. It's kind of a dump over there anyway
if you go on the shadowban sub, where you are allowed to post there, yea it seems alot of people are getting shadowbanned the instant they create the account, or soon after commenting. they are assuming many people are creating multiple accounts to evade bans. Im in another forum where people are making dozens of accounts, they use it for OF and referall link purpose to earn money, and its been happening to them too, but they have methods to evade reddit , but its a cat and mouse game.
i had like 5+ accts that were all hit with sitewide ban in early feb, because one of my accounts was temp banned, so it decided to ban all of them, except one, that got shadowbanned now. thier bans made less and less sense, if your not aware reddit went public and is trying to sell the site at some point, hence the accounts apocalypse, also Musk had a hand the recent purges too, he complained on 2 occasions that subs were making him look bad, so reddit started purging accounts criticizing most right wingers.
Banned I don't know how to behave online.
I like Lemmy better. There's a lot more effort to have value when you post and have conversations rather than arguments.
But the porn collection over here isn't great yet.
Why not use the cross-post function? Original post is at [email protected] btw
I crosspost what I can from .ml comms to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm as part of ongoing efforts to boycott and reduce .ml's influence on the wider Lemmy-verse because of the Tankie ideology the admin team of that instance enforce through censorship of views critical of Authoritarian regimes and allowing known propaganda outlets (such as RT) to fester (see [email protected] for what evidence and documentation has been gathered thus far)
That being said, everything else I crosspost is still visible as a crosspost via the crosspost icon that shows on posts.
Text posts like this are tricky since there's no URL for the crosspost system to track and I don't want to leave the link in place because that would make things too easy and possibly work in counter to my efforts. So to that end, I feel tagging the user is sufficient credit. People still know it's some form of a crosspost, I'm not the OOP, and they know the name of the OOP should they really want to go to the original post
thats why it had a feeling of a conservative thing going on.
Ok that makes sense, I just figured you didn't know how or forgot to do it. But I can understand if you want to reduced lemmy.ml influence, carry on
Both. Getting banned from reddit did me a favor, really.
we were forced out, and it was clear musk was influencing the bans too, and so much astroturfing against "left leaning comments, over right wingers" is astounding, i pointed out how many of those posts are just ragebaits.
I Was banned a while ago for hate speech against cops. I lurk sometimes with libreddit
some subs are actually owned by former and current LEO, it make sense. the most famous one being legal advice, and i suspect almost all the video subs are owned by them(the ones usually do with crime related videos)
Wanted to quit Reddit and the censoring of anything critical of Elon game me the impetus.
I use both. I like some aspects of each better. Reddit mostly has some specific large communities I can't find on lemmy due to size, or lemmys demographics just not enjoying that topic.
Neither, but the hope still remains that Lemmy grows to be better. Right now I just see too many weird takes here, but its the best alternative currently.
After leaving Reddit due to the whole API scandal, I noticed that that decision was really a wake up call to take a break off the internet. Actually, it made me delete every "traditional" social media application, with the obvious exception of YouTube. I've never felt better. Being addicted to social media for this long can have some pretty serious issues.
Lemmy is pretty great, so much so that it's a part of my username now (it's more of a pseudonym now). In fact, it being small kinda encouraged me to take breaks off the internet. I've had one for like... 2 months perhaps?
I was shadowbanned, so I signed up for Lemmy for the long term, and made another account on Reddit because who gives a shit about "ban evasion".
Will keep using both till I'll be permabanned; Reddit still has more of the communities I'm interested in. I hope Reddit fucks up even more so there'll be another exodus to Lemmy.
I tried to get banned with my last couple posts but they ignored them I guess. Account is still there.
I was here when Lemmur was still maintained, under a different username off course.. same thing with Friendica, I'm waiting for Facebook to fuck up..
I halted all of my posting to reddit during the API fiasco. Lurked on Lemmy until I needed to start blocking communities and then created an account to do so.
Most of the niche and local communities (most notably r/IWantOut) are still on that sinking ship though, and not here :(. I only visit to see what those niche communities are up to from time to time, but do not post or get any news from there.
Of the communities that are highly active on Lemmy, I do think the content is pretty good and is enough to replace reddit. I feel like I get to hear what's going on without the censorship on that sinking ship. There's just enough activity such that the more general communities have enough new content to look at by browsing the "all" tab on the homepage and in the communities, but there's still not enough activity or users for me to browse through "local" or "subscribed" yet.
you get censored on reddit for discussing bans, outside REDDIT approved subs. i went on r/shadowban and alot of people are getting shadowban out of the blue. from what ive gathered, if you made an account havnt posted in a long time and then you suddenly post you can get shadowbanned so fast, because it automatically thinks your a bot in some cases.
After Apollo stopped working I learned I liked nice UI and no ads more than I tolerated vanilla Reddit.
my first account was banned because I was critical of Christianity and it hobby of murdering people
Well, Reddit was a bunch of Democrats circlejerking each other for Internet points to benefit a massive corporation, whereas Lemmy is a bunch of Democrats circlejerking each other for internet points.
So… I guess I like both because it helps reinforce that all social media is a waste of time and a blight on society and culture as a whole
whats the matter, reddit banned you for vitriol and divisive comments? lemmy will do that too, stay in your own lane.
So... You're leaving then and going cold turkey?
Like lemmy more.
I left reddit one December (think it was 2023). They showed off thier Reddit Recap. Realised I switched from windows to linux to AVOID data collection, then use an app that gladly showed off all the data they collect.
Reddit Refugee. Thanks!
I've been trying to use Lemmy more for general and political content but I still use Reddit for niche fandoms and hobbies.
Yes except for niche subs. I visit reddit about once a week now instead of daily. Can't wait for the day to come when I can leave for good.
I like lemmy more because it feels like I get more interaction when I post here. Smaller communities are just better for meaningful discussion.