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
P.S.
Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.
I left reddit because they’re pro Nazi, no, I’m not kidding. They will perma ban you for saying “I should be allowed to punch nazis” you know, in an Indiana Jones/Captain America kind of way
Yeah
Good to see you like Lemmy! It’s been nice seeing your comments around here
PS. I’m that guy on reddit :) glad you enjoyed it.
Ah you again, still, thank you very much
Fuck reddit. They deleted my nsfw content even though it was not breaking any rules.
Not even sure what their problem was since they don’t give a reason - just banned!
Oh well maybe Lemmy is a better place for me.
Hope you all enjoy me over here!
Pics and erotic fiction on my profile.
they actually go very hard on NSFW/OF content. because alot of people who use OF will try to spam bot the nsfw subs to peddle thier ACcounts, or OF group.
Came here after I got permabanned for reporting a user that followed me from subreddit to subreddit to call me slurs, and hopped on alts so I couldn’t even just block them. Not wanting to be harassed is a grievous crime, I know.
Also another reason to leave reddit is age verification!
i think people shouldve left once they started banning people for the slightest thing or nothing at all. reddit is really pushign for a future, where only bots/spam exist with AI engagement pervading the site. they really only want people to doomscroll politics mostly and exposing them to ads, without logging in. Reddit is in cahoots with GOOGLE or OPENAI to achieve that end(income is probably sustained by google anyways)
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
Same. Their app is garbage, their moderation is unhinged, and their CEO and advertisers are right-wing MAGA freaks. I won’t be back…
The correct term is Maga bots. And you ca tell they haven’t discovered Lemmy yet. I also came for those reasons. The bots too. I still use Reddit here and there but mostly Lemmy only.
Hard same. Precisely the same path. Enshittification at work.
Samsies
Same here.
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 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?
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.
Ditto
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.
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
🙋🏼♂️
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 ;)
😍😍😍
I’m not banned, but I’m here because Reddit essentially in active decay. It’s old. All the community names are taken. Some taken years ago. The site is too big to be effectively maintained by admins, leaving many communities badly-run, half-abandoned and being swamped by bots, trolls and whatever else. You can’t grow anything there.
You can on the Fediverse. Community discoverability is by far much better on here, and the federated structure of it means that no-one can camp on communities to stop others from making it. You can just be replaced by someone else if you run it poorly.
There are many other problems too such as the site using AI to ban people, buggy notification system etc.
Indeed
most of its bots anyways, outside of niche communties, most of the post are more less talking about trump, or trump adjacent in some form another, the only problem with that you are more likely to get astroturfed there.
naaah reddit works fine and many well modded communities are thriving
lemmy on the other hand is slowly losing users
i use old.reddit.com and RedReader. no ads, all free
Been here since the Reddit API shutdown in July of 2023.
Same
Yes, that is why I came to Lemmy, but since I haven’t used Reddit in two years and probably not thought about it much at all since then, I don’t really consider Lemmy a Reddit substitute anymore. It’s just Lemmy.
checked my account date and yeah, pretty much.
Same.
Gees was that 18 months ago?
I think it’s been 2.5 years, not 1.5
Fuck, turns out I do need excel to do maths
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
If nothing else, Lemmy moderation doesn’t have the corporate input that Reddit has, and currently Lemmy moderators seem to be more likely to perma-ban a real person for being a bot than to let malicious bots exist. Plus it’s pretty hard to get banned for “ban-evasion” on Lemmy unless you’re an obvious troll.
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.
thier recent filters and AI moderation makes it hard to say what you want on there.
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.
yea i noticed that too, reddit did multiple massive purges this year alone all the way from election day. they saw to many people being purged, so now they make smaller background moderations. like deleting comments/posts unilateraly, shadowbanning instead.
im not surprised that reddit had to replace IRL engagement with fake bots posts.
The day the API changes went into effect, I logged in here and never looked back.
Same
as soon as reddit went public is when shit starts to hit the fan, spez was and is more susceptible to outside pressure, like from MUSK complaining, thats actually what triggered the purges this year.
There are purges this year?
Big Time.
I got banned a couple of months ago over a metaphorically framed post. Was recenly talking to a co worker who’s gotten back into No Man’s Sky since the last update that added ship building and he hit the NMS sub on Reddit looking for help and was shocked to see how many posts and users had been deleted - from a decidedly non-political sub with some of the lowest drama out of all the gaming ones.
Reddit seems to be purging the oldest members with over a decade of being on the site the most aggressively.
Also, I tried to delete my account and it would not do it. So it seems it’s banning users but not removing the accounts as some way to pad the site’s user base numbers.
I had a hell of a time getting my unarchived posts deleted. The site kept kicking me out and refusing to let me at my posts and comments. Took me logging in with different computers to get everything I could delete, removed.
They are definitely gaming numbers and hoarding user’s data.
Bad form, that.
R-word emigrant, checking in.
My rigga
lmao
Reddards
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.
Chiming in to say: same, though it took a step further for me before I quit in disgust. I was ready to accept the api costs argument in good faith until I learned that a dev could not make a reddit client that would use my own api token. Which meant they didn’t (only) care about the api load, they care about ensuring that I see as many ads instead of posts that they can get away with.
Sadly, Google worsening their search results to juice their own (ad) numbers not long afterwards led to the general public learning about searching Reddit as a way to land on actual human-vetted info. Just as the core user base splintered and left in greater numbers than ever before, a tidal wave of new users joined and enthusiastically picked up the torch – without even realizing what they were contributing to.
Here’s to a fun time and a healthy, safe space. 🥂
i dont report people here, only rarely. on reddit i did alot because of so many misinformation, and trolls, and that ended up rubbed me the wrong way since reporting is a double edge sword on there,sometimes it works to get that troll off the sub, but sometimes the report, if the MOds dont agree with it you can get banned if they think your report doesnt actually have any violaiton on the reported.
I’ve reported a couple people recently. One person got banned from a community, which was rewarding. They were telling people left and right to kill themselves and shit.
But yeah that situation is not nice. A report shouldn’t take in you getting banned, unless they find out you were the antagonist somehow. Reporting in itself shouldn’t be considered abuse unless it happens very frequently by the same person. My two cents.
I’m here since the reddit API changes, which lead to the app I used being shut down (I don’t remember the name anymore).
Im still lurking on reddit, but haven’t logged in ever since.
Me too. RIP rif.
