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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 minutes ago

Just like Lemmy more.

Reddit gave me a temp ban, but I declined their generous offer to return after a week.

I had reported a post by some far-right religious fundamentalist for promoting political violence. Reddit told me that reporting ToS-breaking content is a bannable offense, perhaps because the far-right owners of reddit feel like kindred spirits to the uber-conservative terrorist sympathizer that got reported.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 50 minutes ago

~~47~~ 0 days since seeing a post from someone who still cares about Reddit for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

Temporary ban but Reddit is becoming less and less fun. Less interesting.

It’s time to move on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

I like Lemmy more because it is more aligned with my interest, notably Tech and Linux. I also like to have smaller communities in which your interaction have impact and are being read instead of being lost in thoudands of comments.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 minutes ago

Im not reddit, im prefer something more clean: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

I just switched when the API nonsense shat all over the actually good reddit apps, since I primarily used reddit on my phone.

I saw lemmy touted as an alternative and figured why not?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Perma banned from Reddit cause I compared Clarence Thomas to Stephen Candie from Django Unchained.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I had an account on reddit, about five years old until I finally decided to leave it because i spend an ungodly amount of time there. Knowing myself and my habit to flake on self set goals I thought out the ultimate strategy to keep me from coming back: Over a couple of weeks I intentionally posted atrocious stuff on my main and my two alt-accounts to get me permabanned and burn every single bridge.

For now it has successfully stopped me from wasting time there any longer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

No, I had a reddit account in good standing that was around a decade old, I switched to Lemmy when it became clear that Reddit was being run by the regressive conservative tech world, eventually I also deleted my reddit account as part of a purge of my online identity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I deleted my own Reddit accounts after They started censoring posts and subreddits.

There was all too many fuckups in the last few years.

  • The API scandal
  • The wallstreetbets scandal
  • Spez and Fuck Reddit
  • the Antiwork community scandal
  • the Luigi censorship LGBT and EDI

They have no control of that platform their hands are tied. They are sold.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

reddit was better simply because it has more people. but it's unusable without api access and alternative clients like sync and boost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

If you are on Android, there are ways around the API thing. I was able to get my favorite Reddit app, RiF (Reddit is Fun) to continue to work after they took away API access.

https://revanced.app/ Can be used with various Apps as it patches them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

I nuked my own accounts. Fuck reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Still on both but I'm not actively going on Reddit anymore. Only when Lemmy World can't be reached by my Sync app (which has usually more to do with my connection than Lemmy) or when I click links from people. I've refrained from commenting there anymore and will likely wipe it soon enough, after I get around to wiping my Meta posts (can't delete my whole account since I have friends and family still using it, but I definitely want to "hollow it out" if that makes sense).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I like Lemmy since its mostly about Tech but even the small communities over on Reddit can be more engaging then communities over here. I am involved in Trading cards and there just not the same community over here for it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I got a perma ban from reddit. Ive said this in other comments but I’ll add it here: A mod locked a post I was looking at and said something about how the post wasn’t good (I can’t remember exactly what the mod said). I responded by telling to the mod β€œget lost”. I got perma banned from that subreddit. Then like 5 months later I smoked some weed and, for whatever reason, felt the need to message the mod and say β€œspank spank spank. Thats the sound I make as I spank you. Yes yes yes. Thats the sound you make as I spank you”. Thats when I got a phat perma ban from the admins. I made another reddit account on a vpn. All seemed well until I launched reddit with the vpn off by accident. My new account was banned shortly after this. Either way, after the first ban I was looking at alternatives. I found the lemmsters. I still have the reddit app with my perma banned account. I can browse reddit all I want but I don’t use it for anything other than porn or when I google something and a reddit link pops up where my question is being answered. There are things I miss about reddit. Primarily I miss the large chess community there. It is far more developed than the chess community on lemmy. I wish I could get the chess community going here. I don’t really miss reddit for anything else. This is evident by the fact that I could’ve been on reddit right now, but instead I prefer to browse lemmy. I really like the fediverse idea. It interests me greatly and I hope to see it grow! One thing that is exciting that I missed out on with reddit is being there from the beginning. I know lemmy/fediverse is newer so I am happy to join during the more early stages and see how the fediverse as a whole grows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

You can get banned on Reddit? I thought you can only get banned by those sweaty mods.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

I liked Reddit but I couldn't ignore what's happening there anymore. Anyway Lemmy is cool too, not missing it that much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

I just like Lemmy more

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I left when RIF was disabled, 2 years ago now or close

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

As I mentioned in another reply, there are ways around that limit. I was very happy when i was able to use RiF again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

After spending some time on Lemmy, I have a feeling that if I were to say anything is get banned. I made a meme of that screaming seagull saying, "Luigi!!!" That I want to post from my main. I just can't bring myself to go back. It seems pointless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

My main and all my alts except one was banned cause I kept reporting blatant ads disguised as legitimate posts as spam. Happened around the same time they killed off 3rd party apps, so I needed a good excuse to try Lemmy anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Same here, reporting trolls and bots of right wingers, bam temp ban for report abuse. And then all my accounts except one got Nuked in February 13, finally after a comment removal from a game sub, because the mod thought my comment wasn't going along with the joke)meme of the thread, instant shadowban. After going on the shadowban sub to report my shadowban. I noticed a lot of people like me were shadow banned for no reason at all. Some were getting instantly banned for creating an account

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Never used reddit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I just use both. I don't like what Reddit as a company is doing, but they have a larger amount of content

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

Lemmy has good apps. Reddit does not. Easy as.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

just left and haven't looked back, I'm not using the stupid default reddit app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Permanently banned for asking a really stupid question. I was having a big self-hate episode, and asked the question to affirm that I deserve something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Going cold turkey. Bizarrely I like lemmy more as there's less content so I don't scroll as much.

I nuke my accounts pretty regularly for data security so didnt really have any value in my account (none of this "I had 1500 karma coins" or whatever)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What did the karma coins actually do? Never understood that part of Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

I'm not sure, I think they were worthless (like, beyond respect from your peers which is naturally bs).

I think they also introduced awards which I know cost real money to buy but intriguingly were valueless to the receipient

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

Not banned, was never active. Just lurked on certain subreddits. I've engaged way more here than I ever did there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I'm not angry when I use lemmy. So, I like it here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Well I’m queer, and apparently the ceo is MAGAt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I like lemmy more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

no they just closed the api for 3rd party apps. I wasn't going to use their shitty app. the official app was literally the worst of all of them so this was the only way they were going to get users but fuck that. I don't need reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Their app is actually more intrusive, apparently ban wise it would be easier to identify you try other evasion methods that can't be detected easily.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was on Reddit from mid 2012 to mid 2023, across a few accounts and with a hiatus of a few months here and there. I had been passively looking at less centralized forms of personal interaction on the web, trying to find traditional forums to replace the subs I frequented. Like a lot of people here, the API issues and the news of Reddit courting investors left a bad taste in my mouth.

I deleted my account, but I still lurk on a few subs, and my IT job means I have to dig through reddit posts on a regular basis for troubleshooting purposes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

When reddit went public, and now they want a buyer, they are banning as much accounts as possible to look good to investors, they dint care if the bans were legitimate or not.

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