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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.