or any other reason… im curious.
I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there’s just too much useful info to ignore it. But I’m not going there directlyDitto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast
Is it just me, or does r/all seem like it’s getting more conservative?
imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.
I’m center-right and I was witch hunted off of reddit. I’m sure the fact that I approved of Luigi didn’t help.
oh they hate when you say that there lmao
TBF, I am critical of Luigi and find myself having to tread on thin ice with my opinons
What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.
A lot of it is literal chat bots and not even real people
How long do you think it’ll be before it’s a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
Yep. Also left digg during their ad push fiasco to go to reddit.
This is/was the way. I mean, not that people are not welcome here now but still supporting reddit that long is like supporting Elon after he went mad or Trump after the first time around…
I never paid for any of their products but now that I’m banned I see how much the profit off of everyone’s knowledge. It’s really such a scam. Convince everyone to contribute tons of useful information that when the rest of the Internet does searches it leads directly to Reddit where they get ad revenue for every click. Pretty unscrupulous if you ask me.
There are DOZENS of us!
…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.
That’s a LOT of dozens!
Same. Reddit without Relay isn’t worth it
In hindsight, I’m really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it’s just not the same.
Saaame.
I used the reddit app many many moons ago, but then discovered Boost. Once it quit working flawlessly, Lemmy became home. And Boost for Lemmy is wonderful :)
Same here! My app stopped working (rip rif… You will be missed…!), I thought I give the official reddit app a try, it wouldn’t let me log in no matter what I tried and then I heard of lemmy via feddit. Only went back once to delete all my data and to close my account.
Me too
I wasn’t banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up “the grass is greener where you water it,” so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it’s just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!
Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.
It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.
I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.
Same here. Lemmy at this stage feels a lot like Reddit did when I joined back in the early 2000s.
I’m glad I made the switch, because things are just generally nicer in a smaller community.
This is exactly what happened to be. I tried Mastodon for a bit but it was kinda boring? So now I’m here.
This is my exact answer. Thank you for writing it all for me.
Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.
Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking “How many assholes we got on this ship”.
Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don’t miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
I lived through Livejournal choosing to destroy itself and saw Reddit doing the same things and worse and walked away. Choosing short term profits over people makes me NOPE out. No bans or warnings for me. I guess I just don’t type “dangerous” stuff even though I consider myself pretty opinionated.
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Yup. Then I forgot what community I was on and had to start over again.
Yes this is me, I had like 8 or 9 accounts, I commented something “political” (I said health insurance is horrible and a joke in this country, and that it should be Medicare for all) in r/genx, sorry wasn’t paying attention to each subreddits rules every time I posted a comment. My bad didn’t realize how serious that was. Then got a 7 day ban will I accidentally (not on purpose at all, was not trying to evade a ban or anything I was just not paying attention) commented again on a gen x comment got instantly banned. I freaked out like what the hell. I asked for an appeal, got denied So a little while later I turned on my VPN (now I know how stupid that was) instantly I started getting notifications from all my accounts that they were banned for ban evasion. WTF stupidest thing is that I didn’t know that I would be “forever banned” you know they could just say like you have a year or something. But really banning people forever seems fucking stupid. I didn’t purposefully try to evade a ban from one subreddit, I was logged in with my other account and didn’t even think to look at what Reddit I was posting to, I just commented while reading and bam almost 10 years of contributions, community building, good faith arguments all gone, but fucking horrible subreddits taking about how to r*pe lesbians can still fucking be on there. What a cesspool. I’m sad I’m banned but at the same time I think maybe it was for the best seeing just how addicted I had become to scrolling and commenting. I just miss my communities. I hope I can build some new and better relationships here.
Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.
I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there’s also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.
Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion
This is true. For that I just browse anonymously with an ad blocker
Me, arbitrary ass ban while using an alt trying to gain karma on the front page so I could post with it, my first comment insta banned all accounts permanently because I guess I was banned from that sub on my main/og account.
I can create a new accounts if I wanted to. I just gave up on Reddit. They banned me for posting about how a local Nazi. Tried to get a youth center burned down because it had a LGBTQ flag up for pride month. The guy is a captain at a county jail to.
Wasn’t banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.
Like… I genuinely can’t use words like “incel”, “cuck”, “snowflake”, “Trump”, “Andrew Tate”, etc without having my comment removed on most subs.
you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, “boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account”
im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.
Banned twice. They don’t much like when I call for throwing bricks at cops.
They didn’t like it when I was calling for the same against Nazis. Personally I don’t want to be part of a community where its wrong to throw a brick at a Nazi…beating up on Nazis is as American as Apple Pie.
