• char_stats@lemm.ee
    1·
    20 hours ago

    I was shadowbanned, so I signed up for Lemmy for the long term, and made another account on Reddit because who gives a shit about “ban evasion”.

    Will keep using both till I’ll be permabanned; Reddit still has more of the communities I’m interested in. I hope Reddit fucks up even more so there’ll be another exodus to Lemmy.

  • Vazz (He/Him)@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been trying to use Lemmy more for general and political content but I still use Reddit for niche fandoms and hobbies.

  • Narauko@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Left when 3rd party apps were killed, stayed because I believe in the concept of the fediverse.

    Still have my Reddit accounts, but just hardly use them. There is still a much larger active user base there for a bunch of stuff so I haven’t gone scorched earth yet, but Lemmy is my social media home now.

  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
    14·
    3 days ago

    Not banned. I chose Lemmy because I’m a big believer in the ideas of the fediverse and I want it to succeed.

    I do still have to use Reddit occasionally to look up info that hasn’t made it here yet, but I don’t post or comment there.

    • Billegh@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      Same. Also removed what content I had put there, to the extent that I could. Account is still there.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    After leaving Reddit due to the whole API scandal, I noticed that that decision was really a wake up call to take a break off the internet. Actually, it made me delete every “traditional” social media application, with the obvious exception of YouTube. I’ve never felt better. Being addicted to social media for this long can have some pretty serious issues.

    Lemmy is pretty great, so much so that it’s a part of my username now (it’s more of a pseudonym now). In fact, it being small kinda encouraged me to take breaks off the internet. I’ve had one for like… 2 months perhaps?

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1211·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    I left reddit during the API scandal. I had the energy and time to move platforms and so I did. Open software, FOSS, non-for-profit digital solutions are all things I’m trying to support more at the cost of not using those paid or private services. Every dollar out of their pockets (the rich) is another dollar in ours.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      wish i knew about api, im guessing it also allowed you to remain “hidden” so its harder for reddit to ban accounts? its probably one of the other reasons they wanted it gone, aside from the money from ads, and not being paid by those APIS.

      • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        An API is like a question a service provides that it will programmatically answer. So reddit provided questions for getting all of its content for free. People built front end apps for viewing the content to match their preferences, provide anonymity, avoid ads, etc.

        There were a lot of good reasons for reddit to stop providing that service free of charge, but they went full Corporate enshittificatioon where they made the pricing so awful it forced most of the apps to shut down.

        Couple that with the protecting of /r/theDonald and other non-humanist political subs and, for me anyway, it was clear that the company wasn’t run by good people but by greedy people and things would only get worse.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
    3·
    3 days ago

    Like MySpace, Reddit, as we knew and loved it, died a long time ago (arguably long before the API scandal). The API scandal was just the straw that broke the camel’s back for many of us.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      reddit when downhill the moment trump as elected the first time, i noticed they started to ban increasingly more, and easier, very sensitive filters, partially due to the rise of trolls and bot farms. then social media so increasingly lucrative revenue from right wings trafficking to thier platform through ads, thus the allowance of astroturfing, and banning of alleged “violence, or threats”

    • xorollo@leminal.space
      4·
      3 days ago

      Same. And it didn’t impact me directly but clearly demonstrated the value of a distributed platform.

  • ghewl@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 days ago

    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

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

  • weremacaque@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    I left briefly to go on Kbin.social first, but went back to Reddit when the instance got flooded with spam and then started to go down more often than not. I had fun customizing how my communities/magazines looked when I was on there.

    After the stupid decisions like making upvotes bannable which have worse implications longterm, I went back to the Fediverse. I decided just change instances if shit hits the fan instead of allowing myself to get back into Reddit. It sucks because I’ve used Reddit since around 2010. That being said, Lemmy feels more like how Reddit used to when I started using it.