That's exactly what drove me over here a few days ago. After they locked the API up and boost stopped working I was just browsing the website occasionally. Lemmy is cool so far, just running into a worrying amount of pro-Russian propaganda mental gymnastics. And of course not as many speciality subs yet. I wanna chat about project cars but the largest car community here are those fuckcars loons. Not fun people to be around.

I’m a former redditor as well, a few years back. Lemmy is a very nice place. It’s like Reddit back before Reddit went to shit (~15 years ago).

This year, we’ve had a big influx from Reddit. This is great that people are finally abandoning ship.

I’m pleading with you that are new here…please don’t bring the nastiness here. Start afresh!

I say that because I’ve noticed a sharp increase of shitty attitudes all of the sudden. It’s a direct correlation with the new influx of redditors. I had someone, just two days ago, accuse me of acting like an r/atheist whatever-the-fuck. He was trying to insult me because I disagreed with his view on something.

It doesn’t matter if we agree or disagree…respect and latitude is what makes Lemmy a great place. Let’s not turn this platform into Reddit 2.0 ❤️

You can use the old version by changing the URL to use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. It removes the banner.

This whole shitstorm started three years ago. Welcome!

Welcome.

Isn't it amazing how Reddit was this beautiful community, genuinely useful and welcoming to millions, and now it's being thrown away, soiled, emptied out, on the pathetic whims of some selfish billionaire owner?

Just activate desktop mode. That works for me whenever i have to visit reddit.

I actually find Lemmy to be kind of refreshing. While it doesn't have nearly the depth of content or the traffic of new posts on things I'm interested in, the fact it doesn't send my adblocker into over drive or have mods that seem to spend a lot of time trying to police their communities like they are being paid for it is nice.

Gives me a small taste of what the old days of individual blogs with comment sections and forums was like.

The technical problem (reddit UX is shit/app is shit) has various solutions. Eg:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/

The bigger problem of reddit being reddit is ... why Lemmy exists.

Let's each do our best not to turn Lemmy into Reddit.

Change the URL to old.reddit.com, you'll never get that pop-up

I left because I got banned twice. One for three days for telling a story about my trainer Mark (whos name I changed) and how I didnt like him. 3 day ban for inciting violence. A week later, I was commenting on a post about someone saying getting punched in the face turned out to be a good thing for him. I replied, "Yeah man, a punch to the mouth can be great for behavior correction." Banned for 7 days.

It is important to mention that I was banned the literal second I hit post. No human saw my posts. Both times, I was autobanned by the AI moderators. It just disgusted me, so I deleted my account. I had that account since 2011, too.

One problem I had with Reddit is that the world is falling apart, and every post about serious shit always has people thinking they are hilarious. American missile blows up a school, "Guess the US found oil under that school huehuehuehue" It got so annoying.

TLDR: AI Moderation is getting super strict to prepare for their IPO, all the posts felt like bots anyways.

Maybe its time to say godbye to Reddit.

Reddit has IP shadowbanned me for some reason. All new posts on my main account are invisible, and new accounts are the same. I’ve appealed, multiple times, to no response.

And not “some reason” being “I made edgy political posts they’d obviously dislike.” No, I did two things on Reddit:

• Nerd out about lore on /r/thelastairbender and some other fandom subs

• Nerd out about ML in /r/localllama, before the tech bros came for it.

Doesn’t seem like anything to ban me over.

…Funny thing is, it seems like I’m not alone?

I noticed many experts missing in /r/localllama. Honestly it feels like all the technical knowledge has been sucked out of the sub, and people there don’t even know the basics of how stuff works.

Same with my preferred fandoms. They’ve gotten more “culty,” less knowledgeable, less interested in deep lore and speculative theory/stories.

welcome here, over here is chill

I had an acc with generic name and no picture that sometimes I'd use to ask stuff on big communities when needed, but some time ago I tried to open it to check if I had replies on a thread and they wanted to do the age verification shit, so now I don't use Reddit at all, RIP New_Spring471

Use browser, Firefox and ublock origin, then the old reddit plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/

I got shadow banned on Reddit for posting my diy Luigi prayer candle idea on a few different pages. I’m not allowed to post comments on facebook because of my anti Israel , anti billionaire and anti pedophile belief’s.

Settings -> Preferences -> Default to old Reddit -> turn it on

It's a per-device setting, so this needs to be done on the phone. But there's no such message anymore if you do that.

took you long enough XD, IDK of anyone has already told you but there's a tool to migrate all your subreddits to similar communities, and a script to overwrite all your comments for privacy's sake.

There's also a great community finder tool you should check out, on this side any lemmy instance can sub to any community on any other lemmy instance so you may want to subscrive to several communities with the same theme in more than one instance.

This is one of them

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

This is another: https://sub.rehab/

They are pushing that pop-up to the users who visit the site most so if you delete cookies (not sure if logged in / out matters) you will not get that pop-up... until you do again.

They still have this paywall? I assumed they immediately stopped due to the incredible bounce rate from all the lurkers

You're about to feel so much better

Welcome!