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[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.

Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking "How many assholes we got on this ship".

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 313 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 78 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago

That's a LOT of dozens!

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[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 days ago
[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 days ago

In hindsight, I'm really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it's just not the same.

[–] Thrife@feddit.org 22 points 5 days ago

Same here! My app stopped working (rip rif.... You will be missed...!), I thought I give the official reddit app a try, it wouldn't let me log in no matter what I tried and then I heard of lemmy via feddit. Only went back once to delete all my data and to close my account.

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[–] blobchoice@feddit.uk 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn't even aware Reddit was banning people.

I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I left over the API bullshit.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Same it was the bridge too far. Reddit was something I was willing to deal with on my terms. They decided that wasn't good enough and I'm smart enough to walk away from a toxic relationship.

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I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 66 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.

It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.

I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.

Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.

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[–] jimrob4@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years' worth of content on my 250k karma account with "fuck spez" and left it all there to rot.

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 79 points 5 days ago (14 children)

I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there's just too much useful info to ignore it. But I'm not going there directly

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, "boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account"

im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

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[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago

I escaped when they killed their API.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.

We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was "fired," it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.

Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.

[–] Ketchup@reddthat.com 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Farewell Apollo (the API fiasco), and thank you Voyager (my lemmy app)

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[–] gonf@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.

[–] l3enc@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

left reddit in 2023 during the API debacle, funnily enough it's what made me aware of other social platforms so I guess it all worked out for the better

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[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Wasn't banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.

Like... I genuinely can't use words like "incel", "cuck", "snowflake", "Trump", "Andrew Tate", etc without having my comment removed on most subs.

[–] win95@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

When they killed third party apps while disregarding the need for accessibility completely - their own app doesn't even let blind people manage their own subreddit because of that.

So yeah, because I left reddit.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I'm pretty active.

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[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Got banned for calling an antivaxxer a waste of oxygen :3

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Lol I rememebr reporting some ppl telling ppl to kill themselves post trump getting elected, like they were sucidal and the trumpies were encouraging it, reported them and got like a 3 day temp ban for abusing the report system

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

The ban waves were to lower the leftist presence, not to actually stop talks of violence.

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[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Left reddit during the API controversy a few years ago. Never been banned or anything, just disagreed with the decisions being made.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I got banned for being unhinged towards users who were doing (IMO) obvious nazi dogwhistles and the mods sided against me. Fuck them mods and fuck the users who accept that shit. The posters knew exactly what they were signaling.

[–] fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I joined Reddit thanks to 3rd party apps, and when they turned their back on them I was out too.

I used one of those automated programs that used the old.reddit API to overwrite all my comments. I took a break for lunch, thinking to delete my account afterwards, but when I came back my account had been permanently banned.

So it was definitely like one of those "You can't quit, you're fired" type of situations.

From time to time I visit the site because of search results, but from what I can tell, all the main subreddits are filled with bots reposting the same content from 5 years ago.

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[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

I was banned from Reddit as a "security precaution" which I assume means they didn't like the fact that my browser was always security hardened thus they couldn't track me to feed me ads.

I was already considering leaving for Lemmy, but when they straight up banned me for doing nothing wrong other than protect my privacy, that was the final straw. Mind you, I didn't even use Reddit that frequently anyway, which made me all the more baffled by their sudden decision with no warnings at all.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 26 points 5 days ago

I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Came during the initial revolt. Increased attention after getting banned from Reddit because I joked I'd like a guy with a bunch of guns to give me one cause he had too many. They tried to say I was soliciting for the purchase of firearms, and when I said there was no way any serious person could have thought I was asking to buy a gun, they told me the lifetime ban was in place and if I ever came around again they'd ban me for ban evasion.

Lul. That place is a total fucking hellscape.

[–] jimrob4@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I think it's dumb that /r/cigars and /r/pipetobacco are monitored like a frickin' anti-communist group in the Soviet Union, but /r/trees talks about weed like it's cotton candy.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

I already know you're pretty far left given they banned you for that. Right wingers im sure still say all of their unhinged shit there.

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[–] Dellpeanuts5@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 days ago

I also left after the api access changes. I am so glad I switched, this a much more ethical model of operation.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.

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