Basically what I mean is, did you also come here from reddit?
I came here after I got my Reddit account banned permanently. And the thing is, I don’t exactly know why I got banned. Nor what I did wrong. I always tried to follow the rules, post and comment appropriately and nicely, but on New Year’s Day last week, I got a message simply saying "Your account have been permanently banned for violating the rules.
But when I replied asking what rule or rules I unknowingly broke, they just messaged me back saying “you got banned because you violated the community guidelines”. So now I’m here.
What about you? Are you also a Reddit Refugee?
… Every single person on Lemmy is a Reddit refugee. You’re not going to find a single person here who has not used Reddit before.
Yeah, same here
Same here. Permanently banned from all of Reddit, and I was never told why. I suspect it was my criticism of the Orange One. I appeal every day, just to give them a little more paperwork.
Yeah, I’m banned from Reddit too
Truth is, regardless of how fucked that platform is, I still resent being banned and the insane extent to which they prevent you returning. The use of throwaways was entirely normal back in the day, now it’s called ‘ban evasion’. It’s nearly impossible (or at least super-tedious) to get back on once they kick you off. It just seems like such an extreme over-reaction. Permanent bans are insane. I’ve seen people get barred from pubs after drunken violence, but that’s usually only for a year or so. This is basically forever.
I was on there for over a decade and posted in multiple communities all the time. Had a load of karma and rarely got into any aggressive arguments. Then one day I upset a mod for complaining about a removed post, that apparently contravened some petty rule. I’m banned from the sub. I use another account, they found out it was me I’m permanently banned. 12 years of contribution just forgotten, all because of some vindictive little basement dwelling prick.
I came here and leave Reddit forever because I am trying to use less US products and services. Right now I don’t know how to bypass Microsoft and Google. Everything else is easy (like forgetting about Reddit or not drinking Coca Cola).
If you can afford and are not relying on games get a mac. I mean it’s still US but it is soooo much better and less enshitticated than windows. Regarding Google you can switch to a European cloud use duckduckgo or stuff for search, there are plenty foss alternatives to maps and for YouTube you can check out grayjay. It’s a bit tedious but it’s possible and as convenient as big tech products
It’s also really nice not to have a continuous doom scroll. You can really only go for like an hour on the front page here until the places start becoming really esoteric. I’m which case not interesting or very interesting. But it’s not active enough to provide you with a whole day of gloom. And I kinda like that.
I’m also here from the API thing. This scratches the itch for me and that’s more than enough in this day and age.
I got banned for low key implying there’s a genocide going on in Gaza.
Not even stating it.
Just implying it.
“antisemitism, permaban”
That was in 2023 iirc
one of my accounts got banned for offering an explanation of somebody else’s thought process. I was “advocating violence” or some shit like that, apparently
because I offered my best take at what might have been going through this person’s head for why they took a particular action.
mods & admins are all dumb cunts. not my subs, though, my mods were cool, obviously
because I offered my best take at what might have been going through this person’s head
Empathy…?
Dozens of us!
They killed 3rd party apps, I didn’t wanna use their app, so I switched to something else and that something else happened to be Lemmy. Turns out, Lemmy is even better than Reddit in many ways.
Exactly the same for me. As soon as RIF was done, I was done.
When Reddit killed Apollo, I no longer had the means to use Reddit— I’d rather not have Reddit than use the Reddit app.
Unlike so many people here, I have nothing against centralized social media, and I actively miss it— I miss having a large user base to talk with, I GREATLY miss all the specialize niche communities I followed. But it’s not good if I can’t access them.
Yes, the centralized nature of Reddit means that one person can fuck up the entire community… but decentralization means I have no one to talk to about the things I want to.
Anyway. I’m here hoping that enough people will eventually join that I can have MY Reddit back. I’m frustrated that the place is so tankie infested though, and fear that’s greatly holding it back.
They killed 3rd party apps. I left when my app stopped working and lemmy conveniently worked with some of the same clients that reddit was breaking.
I quit the big R when they killed third party apps.
Would have paid them a monthly fee to use my app,but the way they killed them really soured me on Reddit. Burned my account, and moved on
Banning third party apps was the symptom. The root cause was Reddit going public. The lust for cash ruined Reddit for a lot of people.
Same (I wouldn’t have paid Reddit, but I did donate to boost), but this comment was funny because “The Big R” is what my friend and I call Roblox.
Another one here for the API exodus 👍
Yes, I’m a Reddit refugee.
The site changed so much over the ten years I used it. When I started, there was plenty of good discussion and the most informative comments got voted up. Then power users started playing the same games with karma that rich people play with money. Near the end the negativity and superficiality were overwhelming. Then the API business happened and I realised Reddit was in the last few stages of circling the drain. I learned about Lemmy from a comment by someone who announced they were leaving for good, and I followed them.
If you look at Reddit today… the posts and comments share the same quality regardless of whether they’re human or AI slop.
Yes and no, I was on Mastodon long ago, peaked into Lenmy, watched other Fediverse prokects with interest.
I’d not used Reddit for many years, before I actually made a Lemmy account, then when I saw Boost was available for Lemmy, I started using that.
I am odd though, old and have a differnt view of the internet based around it being a space for enthusiasts and tinkerers and corporate can and will only ever eventually enshitifiy whatever their fingers touch, so I dont use things like FB, Reddit, Apple products, Microsoft products, WhatsApp, Insta, Light room etc
Same here. My reddit account kept getting banned without any warning and i didn’t even do anything lol. Honestly reddit has been really weird now. If you had an account which is more than 4-5 years old, then they won’t do anything. But they basically just ban all new accounts if you post or comment anything. I am still new here so i am having a hard time understanding this platform. If anyone can help mei navigate it better, i would be grateful.
