Asklemmy

I left because they got rid of 3rd party apps, was never banned.

banned from reddit for "threatening to kill reddit staff". the post: pedophiles should be executed.

it's very telling.

I've never been banned from reddit (that I know of).

I left reddit three years ago next month duringsthe API drama. Since then the only time I've been to reddit (not logged in) is when it comes up in a search result.

I used Reddit for years as a reader without ever posting or commenting. When alternative front ends were ditched, I switched to Lemmy which I really like. Was never banned.

When they closed down the API for third party apps I packed my things, I thought reddit would be different, but to me, at that moment they proved they were not different.

Lemmy is not perfect and the whole dev team has some pretty insane views. But you know, it's FOSS, so it's not about the devs as much. Perfect is the enemy of great, and Lemmy is a healthier choice then Reddit imo.

For anyone who still wants to access Reddit just to browse favorite (niche) subs which won't ever get traction here, some third-party apps still work.

My favorite is cygnusx's Slide for Reddit fork (they picked it up after it was abandoned). You can use it logger in or anonymously - without an account logged in:

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide

^ you can see my Slide app with the frontpage showing regular subs, and it doesn't use the dumb new reddit algorithm which shows you posts from like a week ago.

The other option is Morphe who patch the official Reddit app. It will require an account but you can change a heap of things, block everything you dislike too. The patching app does YouTube and YouTube Music or whatever they call it, but it also patches Reddit:

https://morphe.software/

^ here's an example of some of the things you can change in a Morphe patched Reddit's settings

Also sorry for the pictures, I wrote and uploaded this while steaming milk for my coffee!

I used it before, but got banned by Reddit a couple of months ago for a genuinely ridiculous post. My account was 14byears old. I couldn't care less about being banned. The place has been a burning dumpster fire for the last few years. If they want to implode that's their business.

Neither, but I'm fed up with Reddit regardless. Open Source and self hosted is something I prefer.

And if everybody praises the alternatives, but nobody is using it, we'll never get shit done.

I had 4 accounts and they banned all of them for inciting violence. I said Donald Trump is a pedophile and deserves to be in prison.

They don't like anti trump people.

I got banned twice and decided to just give up.

I was temp banned from reddit for honestly I forgot why (something to do with me being antizionist), I realized I was gonna get banned anyway so I deleted my account and left on my own terms.

My account of like 20 years got banned and I never received any reason why.. still to this day have no idea. no messages or anything. I tried making a few more accounts but was using alias emails and VPNs and such and they all got banned. After that I figured why do I try to hard if they don't want me so I jumped ship...

never looked back

I got permabanned for wishing death on billionaires too many times.

I was never banned. I left recently because the app got updated to keep sound on ads always on, even if you turned them off, the next time you used the app, the sound was back on.

This happened a few times to me and I deleted the app

Not banned yet, but they recently removed my API key I was using to work with sideloaded Apollo. I'm now using an alternative method again, but I wonder when they'll just end up banning all users trying to keep Apollo alive?

I left 3 years ago, when they killed RiF

Why are new lemmy users thinking this is a refuge for the reddit banned? To my knowledge my account is still usable, but I just don't want to log in since the API cash grab. What bullshit is reddit doing these days?

I feel like the way the question is phrased is going to select for people who were banned. Personally I wasn't but saw the upcoming IPO and wanted to dip before the platform was totally enshittified.

The only reason Lemmy was started in the first place is because Reddit banned communists and their communities. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy

I have been a Reddit user for 15yrs and got banned 48hrs ago for for suggesting that some dog owners should die because of their deliberate inbreeding to create dogs with traits that are ultimately bad for their health.

For context I am in the UK and we have a deeply ingrained love for dogs over here so seeing a picture of some Americans that are gushing over their inbred dogs made me angry and emotional.

I use this site because the community is genuinely better and reminds of me reddit from the early days. Reddit bans are easy to get around

I left Reddit when they threatened to remove 3rd party apps and started closing down sub-reddits that weren't advertiser friendly.

I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.

The ones with their cake day around may and a bit later in 2023 are most likely here because of the API changes. After that its mostly alt accounts on a new instance, privacy reasons and bans

I joined hexbear almost 4 years ago after being banned for suggesting a that a brick would be a far cheaper solution than a guillotine for dealing with the British royal family.

Buddy I'm shadowbanned from LEMMY

Shadow banned, never knew why, not even moderators, and never got an answer, so I figured it was better to just leave the place to somewhere with more humans at the helm

I came here because I didn’t like the censorship (of others, not me) on Reddit. I stayed because I love the lack of advertising.

ive been on lemmy for almost 6 years, jesus christ, i feel old

I hadn't been. I just wanted an open-source alternative; as with all aspects of my life.

I got shadow banned (seemingly site-wide) after pointing out that the Biden and the Democrats’ messaging shifted from “Trump is a fascist” to “we have to think about unity!” after Trump got shot in the ear, which proved to me Biden et al. were either allied with fascists by protecting them from harm or never believed Trump was a fascist to begin with, which pointed to Biden (and his team and the whole democratic news media) being more closely aligned with Trump than they wanted people to know.

The tipping point for me was probably the line “if Biden actually thought Trump was a fascist and had an actual problem with that, he would’ve shot him on stage”