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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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 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 totally banned so here we are.

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 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.

We also have bans here. And they're also rather arbitrary. Just never defend europeoids (they are guilty by default, no matter what happened) and always defend minorities of any kind (they are always right in their rightful rights). Simple? Not quite. You will still be banned from time to time even from the communities you never heard about(local moderators love that).

But overall, it is much nicer here. Moderators are fewer and lazier, and some people can sometimes even read your arguments before calling you a racist or something.

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.

I stopped using entirely a few years ago, I kept getting banned (esp after 10/7) and spinning up new accounts just felt like a waste of time. Now this is pretty much my only social media aside from XHS.

I much prefer temp bans, but it does depend on the context

banned.

I'm also initially here because of a reddit temp ban for speaking ill of Israel, and I've been followed here, and when I joined lemmy, record setting ddos attack on cloudflare occurred, so I have to be careful what I say here as well. I've also gotten really sick of the reddit algorithm and I always felt like I was baited into bad conversations. I do wish lemmy was more active and spread out though. Right now, it's really only scratching my political talk itch, so I guess I'm thankful I don't have to take it elsewhere.

I joined Lemmy after the API fiasco in 2023. Was hoping more would follow but they did not. I still maintained an account here and on reddit for a while.

Then, my original reddit account of 12 years got banned for saying mean things about Nazis. Reddit admins really don't like when you are mean to Nazis. I made another account which miraculously lasted for another 13 months before getting whacked for ban evasion.

I continued to scroll on my banned account via Infinity because fuck the official garbage app. Now that reddit has quietly changed API privileges again, no more new accounts can request an API key so my read-only forays there will likely come to an end soon, when my banned accounts key stops working. I'm done with reddit after that. I'm fine with chilling here waiting for others to figure out they're in a cycle of abuse, and making the right choice by leaving reddit in the dust.

I am, but there's such a strong focus on American news and politics that I still jump back to Reddit a lot though

I use both for different reasons, different communities

I gradually weaned off my Reddit usage and fully stopped by 5 months after I opened my Lemmy account.

There are echo chambers, there are ideologues, and there are jerks, compulsive contrarians and trolls, but I really do loving having more indepth conversations with people on Lemmy, even with whom I disagree.