When RIF shit down, talklittle sent people over to lemmy.world as a replacement for reddit (even though he himself went to tildes). The signup page was laggy so I signed up for a different instance instead.

Accessibility options of different apps then reddit app.

Banned from Reddit for taking the piss out of the far right.

Deleted from ml for taking the piss out of the far left.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Paywalling subreddits was the last straw for me

Since I am here for near 5 years, maybe I just like to replace greedy-shitholes with fediverse alternatives as soon as possible.

When the 'fun' side of reddit became unrecognizeable, then gradually after using Lemmy all I really do on Reddit is post in more useful places where I can share advice on chronic illness, and its really unfortunate there's not much in comparison for communities here otherwise Reddit would be deleted already.

Political comments shouldn't turn into vaguely threatening DMs, so many people on there nowadays need their teeth knocked out like some airpods for that shit.

liberal left

Terrible Reddit experience; I still wanted to answer questions because of boredom just not on Reddit. Long story short, I experienced a romance scam/sextortion where a Reddit user manipulated me into sexting him by being my "friend" and he knew I was at a vulnerable place in my life because I told him that I was healing from a breakup since I genuinely thought he wanted to help and get to know me---he figured that I was lonely and hurt. Thankfully, I was quick enough to stop the convo before he threatened me to send him money or other things. Lesson learned.

Well I got banned off Reddit for no reason, but I think it was using a VPN. I was also in the process of trying to degoogle and increase privacy, so I figured Lemmy was the best option to solve getting banned off reddit and increasing privacy

i was temp banned initially, thought i would use another account that was untouched avoiding the sub, then i was getting multiple emails, found out they banned all the accounts i even forgot about too. then the wierd shadowban came for final account, appealed for a few months with no luck, while already made an account on lemmy.

this happened to loads of other users too, im also in another forums where they tracked the shadowbans more clearly. had to navigate throught he tankie instances for a few months without knowing that i was participating in, then found out i could block them, plus having do deal .world politics users too.

Banned for no reason I could figure out. Never got any response from mods when appealing. Pissed me off that an account that I had for 12+ years with no warnings of any kind was shadow banned.

I left Reddit because I didn't want AI scraping my lackluster comments. 

I gravitated to lemmy vs Mastodon or Blsky because the community seemed more "based" instead of biased. 

And it's great. When I'm wrong, the ~~lemmings~~ folks here rip me a new one.

I suspect as with many here it was Reddit's API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.

i was attracted to the rust implementation as i have a general interest in rust usage

shame they turned out to be lunatic commies

I came when they took away 3rd party apps. Though to be truthful ive been leaning towards making a return because the communities here are just so small and mostly dead. Even popular topics have almost no presence here.