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.

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.

yeet reddit

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.

Am I the only one on Lemmy who isn't from Reddit

I'm kinda young, won't specify more than "teen"

I sometimes browse Reddit without an account (some more niche meme/funny subreddits), but have never had an account.

I don't actually remember how I originally heard about the fediverse. (adhd be like)

I'm sure at least 25% of us are here because all of our years old accounts were permabanned for "inciting violence" which they use as a blanket term for posts they don't like against the administration.

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

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 was banned on Reddit in June of 2024 for saying that I hoped that the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus. I found out about lemmy at the end of last year and I’m still happy to be here.

I am. Was super optimistic too until October 7 made it clear that this place is just quinoa reddit.

For what it's worth, the start of my bans were bans from leftist subs for moderate positions. I used up one strike for joking that Trump supporters would voluntarily bury themselves with Trump to guard him in the afterlife ("inciting violence"), then i got simultaneously banned from r/workersstrikeback and r/latestagecapitalism because i said something to the effect of "voting against fascism shouldn't be seen as a loss, and it was a perfectly fine way to spend a tuesday ("neoliberal propaganda"), and then finally i posted on r/unpopularopinion that: "as bad as shit can be sometimes, i still don't think i'd do all that much differently", and then when people commented on it, if it was insulting, i insulted them back ("harassment").

The truth is, organizations just have a way of getting all fucked up, and you rise and retain your position by being fucked up. So, yeah, once something like reddit becomes a hot commodity, run by people with too much to lose, they wind up strangling the thing to death. (I hope that phrase isn't "inciting violence").

Oh, that reminds me of another of my list of repeated violations (12 years without any, then all of that shit in like 6 months).

I used the term "lame duck" in describing what you could reasonably expect from Biden when Israel started going after Biden, and i got a bsn for "ableist language".

Now, whether that one was a false flag?... i mean, it could go either way. I've definitely encountered that type of crap with leftists before as well...

For what it's worth: i'm pretty far left. I probably occupy a similar space as Bernie Sanders (in the sense that he's probably even farther left than he says, but he knows that nobody is going to completely dismantle the whole system just because he hot on a podium and told them to.)

I'd argue it already is an actual alternative so long as you're following more general technical content rather than niche local stuff. Most of us the people here have Reddit's API shutdown for third party apps to thank including myself. At least for me the last time I tried using the first party app it had major issues playing gifs on my Galaxy A52. Combine the bugs with the general closing of the platform and it was quite an easy switch. Lemmy is certainly smaller, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I waste less time on it than I used to on Reddit which feels more healthy.

Im here from reddit after being wrongfully banned . Loving lemmy lot more

I moved from reddit to hexbear a while back, spent a month or two lurking and occasionally commenting then decided it was time for a social media detox. A year later I signed up for db0, knowing reddit was absolutely not the place, and liking what I saw as far as admin politics and moderation style.

Its been almost a year, I haven't caught any bans or had any particularly toxic interactions, so either I'm in the right place or I've become increasingly good at self censoring.

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 as an evolution from Reddit. I still use that for a web search result source if needed, but I don't really find myself wanting to go back there.

Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit to me the same way a smoked turkey and pepperjack with tomato and lettuce on lightly toasted sourdough is an alternative to a cigarette for lunch.

I'm totally banned so here we are.

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.

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'm here after Reddit perm banned me for no reason and ban evasion failed. I submitted a ban appeal before discovering here but now that I have, I don't think I'll go back to reddit even if I get unbanned, this place is so nice.

I'm too "violent" for spez.

FUCK YOU SPEZ.

Never banned but I disliked the corporate capture and astroturfing that infested Reddit. I moved here so no corporation could own my community.

My account appears to have been blocked instantly from the public eye just because I intermittently shared in /r/Milwaukee a weekly board game group that I run, so, yeah, this is a nicer place.