Reddit

Huh?

I left when they blocked third-party APIs to force people to use their app

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.

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.

Been here since the Reddit API shutdown in July of 2023.

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.

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.

R-word emigrant, checking in.

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.

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.

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.

left when reddit went public. nothing good happens when you have to answer to stockholders….

I left when they fucked over 3rd party apps.

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.

I did use to be a Reddit user. Now I'm a bot on Lemmy, according to the admins of ttrpg.network.

Like many others, my journey was Digg --> Reddit --> Lemmy.

Hopefully the federated design of Lemmy means I never have to update the graphic above.

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.

I got banned, for evading a ban. (I didn't know I was banned, was just using one of my 3 alts for different hobbies and made a comment, instantly banned all 3, no appeals)

Not banned. I just like the idea of the fediverse. And also to have more "real people" in the comments.

I am not here on lemmy/the fediverse just because it is an alternative to reddit, I am here because I intend to contribute as much as possible to destroying reddit by being here and contributing.

It makes me sad seeing the blanket cynicism people have towards the potential of social media as if we tried everything and social media is just inherently toxic when all we have tried is for-profit social media run by massive corporations full of sociopathic ultra rightwing upper management that demand endless growth.

Reddit has to go, it is far too centralized a replacement for forum/message boards, but the good news is every meaningful contribution we make here on Lemmy/the fediverse pushes the knife deeper into reddit's chest :)

Reddit can only win at forming an unavoidable corporate silo we are compelled to endure if it projects an inevitability to it, we are here to destroy that inevitability.

Isn't everyone on here as an alternative to reddit?

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.

I used to be here because reddit sucks, but now I'm here because lemmy is so much better. Yes, there are memes, but there is also a LOT more genuine conversations to have.

Ever since Apollo shut the doors I’ve not had a user there. I still keep tabs on a few communities that don’t really have a presence here, but only lurking, no participation.

I'm totally banned so here we are.

I joined when Apollo for reddit died.

I think social media should not be connected to big tech billionaries. Call me crazy. :)

Was perma banned in Reddit a few years ago for discussing ACA compliance. I saw it coming for awhile, the any comment I made no matter how inauspicious was flagged over the course of a few weeks.

After banning I was unable to post on any of my accounts. But I could change prior comments so I used an app to generate AI gibberish and replace years of comments and participation with AI bullshit to salt the earth for Reddit.

Before you leave I recommend doing the same.

I came with the mass exodus in the spring of 2023 (used a .world account for a while before making this one). The handling of app developers was just a final straw for me; I had been a pretty prolific commentor, but the experience was getting worse and worse over the years. I started thinking about finding another place after that time Russia disconnected the country from the Internet for a day and Reddit was wonderful. Political discussions were friendly, trolls largely disappeared, and the whole site became much more left-leaning. I hate the feeling of being manipulated.

I'm here because I got perma banned for saying trump needs punched dead in his shit.

Fuck spez the 2023 canvas was the last time i used a account over there and when a search engine leads me there it makes me sick to see the new ui and overall culture.

Lemmy is lacking content badly, but noway I'm going back there.

Bot infestation at Reddit is out of control, with no real way to fix it. Many Mods are high on "authority" and ban for incredibly asinine reasons, then make you susceptible to the dreaded (not so much) "Ban Evasion." Oh man, F off. Way too many rules now. Jumped the Shark long ago.

I left Reddit for good a few weeks ago when I got a 3 day autoban for directly quoting Worf from Star Trek…in response to a post asking for quotes. I think it was an autoban because a couple years previous I got an auto-warning for quoting a punk song in a punk sub…appeal rejected.

I appealed the 3 day ban…but no idea if it would have been accepted because I deleted my account and the Reddit app after 2 days when I snapped out of my Reddit addiction and finally realized how enshitified it’s become.

I used to exclusively browse Reddit via apps. I retired relatively young, and as such, no longer sit in front of a computer all day. Being able to browse Reddit from my phone or tablet was essential.

Then the whole API thing happened a couple years ago. Reddit started charging app developers for every use of their data, which would cost the larger apps millions of dollars for something that was previously free. It was Reddit's attempt to squash all mobile apps, so they could push their ad-riddled garbage app. Or make tons of money off any third-party apps that were too stubborn to quit hosting Reddit content. Win/win for Reddit.

I'm extremely anti-advertisement and am not going to be forced to use an app that shoves ads in my face every few posts or comments. I immediately started looking for alternatives, and Lemmy was the most common suggestion for an alternative to Reddit.

I made an account here and spent some time poking around. It was like Reddit, but not as many people, so the content seemed more focused. I could actually comment here and not be drowned out by thousands of other comments. Even if I was late to a thread, I'd still get noticed and be able to share in a conversation, not just shout into the void.

People were generally nicer here too. On Reddit, there were always haters in every thread. Always contrarians who had to argue with everyone. I rarely see people being assholes here. Not to say they don't exist, but they're more rare.

I started subscribing to communities here (the Lemmy version of subreddits), but eventually decided to just keep browsing by "All," since there wasn't as much regular content. That means I still have a full news feed, but I also don't get stuck doomscrolling forever.

It seems jumping to Lemmy was a good choice because soon after I left, subreddits started losing their mods if they spoke out against the CEO or fought against site-wide changes. They were replaced by Reddit admins or bots, who did a terrible job moderating. Lots of communities started crumbling, especially the popular subreddits whose mods were replaced by bots.

I've fully abandoned Reddit now. I wouldn't be surprised if my account got auto banned from a bunch of subreddits at some point for some innocuous comment I made years ago. I still get emails every now and then stating that someone found an old comment and replied, but besides people asking for help or advice, I just ignore it. Reddit is dead to me.