Good to see you like Lemmy! It's been nice seeing your comments around here

PS. I'm that guy on reddit :) glad you enjoyed it.

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

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

Fuck reddit. They deleted my nsfw content even though it was not breaking any rules.

Not even sure what their problem was since they don't give a reason - just banned!

Oh well maybe Lemmy is a better place for me.

Hope you all enjoy me over here!

Pics and erotic fiction on my profile.

The day the API changes went into effect, I logged in here and never looked back.

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 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.

Came here after I got permabanned for reporting a user that followed me from subreddit to subreddit to call me slurs, and hopped on alts so I couldn’t even just block them. Not wanting to be harassed is a grievous crime, I know.

I was using Reddit Sync. When the API nonsense went down, the Dev announced that they were switching to Lemmy. I've stayed on the app and now feel like I'm part of a much richer community. I'm glad to be here.

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.

Also another reason to leave reddit is age verification!

I can’t straight up “quit Reddit” for Lemmy yet. There’s not enough of the content I want to see here, yet.

A while after Reddit practically blocked the Apollo app, I realized just how much I loved that app. It was the perfect Reddit interface. Not long after, I discovered how great Voyager did of replacing the experience, and that’s what ultimately brought me here “permanently.”

So, Reddit has lost browsing time from me big time, and that time is now shared with Lemmy.

Also, I love a good Rust project 🦀

The answer to your question is "essentially everyone". Either hated Reddit, hated the changes, hated the app restrictions, and/or got Permabanned over nothing.

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?

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

I left when they fucked over 3rd party apps.

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.

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 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.

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.

Not as an alternative, but as a supplement. Both experiences have massive problems, some shared, some not.

I mostly don't use Reddit anymore. I can speak my mind on Lemmy, which is refreshing.

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.

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

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

My current Reddit account I carefully curated and built is unbanned but associated to a different email, but my primary email is actually receiving new emails as of this week that my old accounts are permabanned. That alone is not noteworthy, but over the past couple months some of my other alts have had their passwords reset at random, with emails asking me to verify. These are not phishing emails, but actually from Reddit. I think they're on to me and trying to get a confirmation, but not clicking those links so they can do their IP identification. Sociopathic, vindictive, people run Reddit apparently. Like sorry for dissenting and calling out specific employees that have bullied me, your operation is surely not corrupt. /s

I'm here since the API stuff on Reddit, haven't posted a lot there, haven't posted a lot here but at least I'm not supporting Reddit through my daily use anymore. Though when I really need some information that I can only find on Reddit I'm not gonna not use it.

I joined when Apollo for reddit died.

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 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)

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