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I had numerous accounts, some throwbacks going back 11+years, almost all were purged in feb12-13, due to them trying to eliminate and astroturfing any anti-right wing talking points. now they are assuming almost anyone is a bot. and the last one i thought was safe, was just shadowbanned recently

I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.

🖕spez

Haven't been on there in like 10 years, glad all of you finally saw the light. Sad it requires being forced off though.

I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn't like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.

Edit: damn it's almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride

Edit: did you really just copy the same post as? There's no karma like on reddit you know that right?

https://lemm.ee/post/60400188

I like the fediverse more. I left during the api thing and think that the fediverse is the next step in social networking.

I'm on mbin mostly. The japan-focused subreddits for legal, finance, etc. have so far refused to move. Once they move, I will be done with reddit entirely

Left due to the crowd amassed for my country's sub. I became friend with a few regulars there when the sub is small, but these day they're significantly more and more people with a lack of common sense and logical thinking gathered there it's hard to find new friend, to the point the friends i met just decided to lurk or quit. No more fun.

Then API fiasco happened and since i hate the official app so much as it's significantly slower with horrible UI, it's a final push for me to make the jump.

I wouldn't say i like lemmy more, but it's the one i tolerate now. If the main dev became unbearable then i jump again.

Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.

Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It's like a slice of the old web.

My main and my alt still exist on reddit and have enough karma that I was offered stock options on both accounts.

Not going back because of the API fuckery. Coming up on 2 years on lemmy. Haven't looked back.

Reddit has been getting worse and eventually they just stopped showing people my comments so I deleted my account. Pretty much the next day the warnings for upvotes started coming in.

I left and blocked reddit on my network after the landed gantry debacle. I'm not banned but I might as well be.

I quit reddit and have no intention to go back. Its become total crap and full of boosted ads.

I left Reddit on principle.
I still have functioning accounts over there.

The only time i go there is if I'm linked there when searching for info.

I just like Lemmy more.

I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there... I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

Lemmy is just so much better quality.

I had been though it all, having joined about a year after the site first launched. I have witnessed multiple evolutions of the broader community and management. I could no longer support what I knew was coming next, so I bailed after 17 years due to the API fiasco.

Now I visit only by chance on searches and RSS subscriptions to a couple super niche subreddits that are more likely to disappear than migrate anywhere else.

I'm just stubborn, left during the blackout and didn't want to go back.

Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲

My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit.. but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.

I got perma banned for saying that Elon Musk should get "burned" in Canada for fraudulent sales numbers posted by Tesla in order to qualify for Federal subsidies.

They took me literally, and claimed I was promoting violence. My appeal got shut down in less than an hour. They "burned" my 8 year old account, for saying that Elon should get "burned" in Canada. The irony is real.

I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don't want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I'd look back at what I've posted and commented more often, but I haven't much at all.

I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn't use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.

I nuked my 11 year old account when I moved here.

Wave of the future!

Not yet. I did get a comment removed but successfully appealed for saying what citizens do to kings. The appeal was me saying it was in a historical context, of course ;)

I've still got an account. But I jumped over during the API debacle. I'm sure if I stayed I would have been banned for commenting on the Luigi situation, or calling Musk and Trump out for the dimwitted little Nazi fucks they are.

But I'm here! A proud little lemming just feeling blessed AF to be here with all you nerds!

I left Reddit because the algorithm really wanted me to be angry and afraid.

The world is a shitty enough place. I don’t need the advertisers stressing me out even more.

I like lemmy more and decided to get my accounts banned in reddit after I started using lemmy.

I was briefly perma banned but it was bullshit so it was lifted on appeal, but it was wake up call. Reddit admins are getting kinda fashy so I decided after 14 years it was time to leave.

I over-wrote and then deleted my nearly 20 years of posts/comments and then deleted my account.

I came here during the API thing then went back because it’s quiet here. Then I came back because I got into selfhosting and now I’m more dug in.

Idk why I would get banned from Reddit

I'm not banned, I was banned in r/Korea for posting a link to my own peertube instance but nowhere else.

I just don't feel that me trying to make some rich guy even more rich makes a lot of sense when they behave so shitty to us.