I found Lemmy thanks to a guy on reddit wich answered to my comment. I said that we leftists generally lacked a place where we could express some opinions without te fear of being banned. infact Reddit moderation (both admins and mods) suck and doing their “job” and there are instances of people being banned just for saying something completely normal or just some bugs. I am still active on Reddit but would like to make the Lemmy community grow so mabye it can become and actual alternative.
Sorry for any disturb, bye :3
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Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.
I left when they blocked third-party APIs to force people to use their app
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Thanks to Reddit is Fun for all the years. I didn’t want to leave. Reddit kicked me out
This was my path too
Samsies
Hard same. Precisely the same path. Enshittification at work.
Same here.
I considered it, but didn’t because of the communities I was still a part of.
I finally left when they IP banned me for saying stuff like “I’m surprised nazis aren’t being attacked tbh”
the third party API thing is when I pretty much completely stopped contributing quality content, though. to anywhere - I don’t really do that anywhere now. touched some grass, y’know?
same. I was talking to a friend who regularly used reddit during the time all that was going down. Was pretty sure he was gonna migrate to lemmy with me.
He still posts reddit threads regularly in our group chat
I’m here for the same reason. Interestingly enough I figured out how to make the app I use work again, but by that point reddit had gone to AI slop hell.
I was an avid redditor. It was my main filler activity.
I quit cold turkey with the API debacle and have never been back.
It was really rough at first, but I like it here.
Ditto
Same. Although I do lurk a bit with rdx. But I won’t touch Twitter or any Meta products with a 10 foot pole.
Same. I was constantly on Apollo. I loved the dev and how active they were. I got all the fun in jokes and considered it a very nerdy activity to scroll Reddit. Swapped to a new instance after a while, so this account isn’t as old as that.
Now I’m on Voyager and have swapped to Linux, so I guess the hive mind here is strong too!
I was using RIF, it was doing the job
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And me
Reddit shadow banned my account for posting this diy candle idea on witches vs patriarchy. They won’t respond so I guess I’m barred from participating forever.
They banned you for legendary Luigi Mangione candles, so sad.
btw great job camarade ;)
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The day the API changes went into effect, I logged in here and never looked back.
Same
Lemmy is a federated clone of Reddit, and Reddit has more users, so most likely, everyone here has either rejected Reddit, or been banned by Reddit, or they are using both platforms at once to reach a bigger audience.
I am here because I was very dissatisfied with Reddit’s administration and moderation and with the way they screwed app devs.
I’m concerned that Lemmy uses the same basic moderation techniques as Reddit, and so it could fall into the same ruin as Reddit. But for now, the moderators I’ve interacted with here have been straight up legit good people. So I stick around.
me too, i hope it doesnt become like the same thing it swore to be an alternative too
I opened my first account in 2012 and I used it for the rest of the decade, then reddit went to shit and I went through another three accounts only lasting several months each for I gave up. Sometimes I still want to go back but everything I see suggests that would be a mistake.
R-word emigrant, checking in.
My rigga
lmao
10+ years on Reddit. Never banned on any subreddit or Reddit itself, ever. First came here during the 2023 API controversy. Went back to Reddit since the anime community was pretty small here, and I could still use my own API key for 3rd party apps.
Came back to Lemmy a week or two ago due to this bullshit. I’m not affected yet as I still have my own API key, so I’ll be hopping back and forth between Reddit and Lemmy. But I know my time on Reddit is limited.
I just hope Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse is polished up by the time of the next Reddit exodus. But based on the most recent API change, I think Reddit has learned to make smaller changes over long periods of time over one major change that angers everyone all at once.
I left when they fucked over 3rd party apps.
Same here. But it was just a matter of time really.
Not me, I’m here since the reddit API disaster, and Lemmy is my replacement for reddit. I deleted my reddit account. I’m happy to have left. I feel like this is a nicer place. Healthier discussions. Calm. Not as much heated name calling.
Although some people have been rather rude as of late, so I try to remind them of how to act. But obviously there will be people who are still going to be assholes for no reason.
Everything you said is how I feel. I was enjoying reddit until the Brexit referendum, which was when it felt like it got taken over by the alt right. When the API thing came, I realised that money was the only thing that mattered and they were selling my discussion space to whoever would spend, and the alt right was spending big. We didn’t matter, so like you, I left.
I was delighted to find people talking again here on lemmy.
Here’s to a fun time and a healthy, safe space. 🥂
left when reddit went public. nothing good happens when you have to answer to stockholders….
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Here since deleting Reddit post history at the time of 3rd party app api. I only go back (via RedLib) for niche communities.
Used to love Reddit but the drop in quality over there is shocking, the same shit reposted ad nauseum & bots galore. Much prefer it here, though still hoping niche communities will grow & become sustainable.
A small number of communities here have got a foothold & i find them better than the Reddit equivalents dispite far fewer posts so there’s hope.
Yeah reddit has a lot of reposting, wich for some things i actually like, for example shitpost wich i think Is lacking here but It Will Just drop the quality here.
Yeah here its much smaller than reddit and i like It since i think It Will happen that you encounter the same people over and over again and i find that very funny
I wasn’t banned, I just hate the official app and the overwhelming number of bots and ads. So I gave it up, and Lemmy fills that commenting niche for me. My account is still live on reddit, though. There’s like 12 years of old comments and sometimes I like reading through them to see how stupid I used to be.
I have been working through deleting reddit comments. Then reddit repopulates them because they are hit by a Google search. So so I go through and delete them again.
When reddit blocked my favorite mobile app, I bailed. So I am now on connect for Lemmy. It works almost seemlessly now with a few bugs. It’s basically the same user experience as the old Tapatalk for forums that they made almost 20 years ago now. A good user interface is a good userinterface.
I never bothered deleting any of my comments, but my understanding was that the best way to get rid of them was to use a script to automatically edit the text content to some static message like “This comment has been removed by the user in protest.”
Isn’t everyone on here as an alternative to reddit?
You could consider the question of whether there is still something about reddit that you value. Seeking an alternative usually means you’re trying to fulfill a value or need the previous option provided. While that was true when i first landed on Lemmy there’s simply nothing i value about reddit anymore. So i no longer consider it an alternative.
There’s also the alternative motive of valuing/supporting FOSS/federation.
Not everyone but most
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Reddit has become unusable for me at this point. I will see 2-3 posts from my local subreddits and then everything else is “because you’ve shown interest in a similar community” of random cities I’ve never been to/ never will visit. It also won’t stop showing me trainwrecks. I don’t look for this content, and I mute every community it promotes and as someone who commutes by train everyday I really don’t want to see that shit.
To add with this as well there are a lot of subreddits I seem to not be able to see comments on if it’s a newer thread but it will gladly show me content from 3 weeks ago with botted comments
Anyone else have this issue?
One of my reddit accounts was perma-banned for commenting “good” under the announcement that the queen died. Another one was banned because I said I dislike theocracies in a thread about Israel.
Humanity will never be free until the last king is strangled with the intestines of the last priest.
Indeed comrade
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Yes here its much Better and users are actual users
