I came here as a result of them fucking over 3rd party app developers. Never once have been banned by Reddit.

Reddit is repetitive and tiresome on the main subs. It’s so bot driven. There are so many ads. Spaz is a dipshit.

That said Lemmy still lacks the small, niche subs, which are still ok over there due to small numbers.

That said Lemmy will get the numbers for those niche subs if we all join and contribute.

I only tolerated watching reddit using the slide app, so no app = no reddit.

I deleted all my posts.

One day when browsing from a VPN they said if you want to see this page you need to login. I reluctantly login, to get an email a few hours later “your account has been permanently banned for suspicious login”

Banned for absolutely no reason, no reason was given. I tried to get a response multiple times, but was ignored. Can’t make a new account without being automatically banned. So I refuse to go near that shithole ever again

I escaped when they killed their API.

I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.

I’m not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.

Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life

I left reddit a little over two years ago. The API debacle was the end, though I had been mostly offline for a few months prior.

The fediverse has only gotten better since. However, this is my fourth account. I joined vlemmy, which disappeared overnight, then lemm.ee, which shut down recently, then another instance which wasn’t for me, and now reddthat. I also signed up for hexbear after a few beers, forgot my password, haven’t been able to contact the mods, didn’t use an email address and haven’t been able to get back in since.

Reddit is a shit platform, became worse with the IPO and LLMs, but mainly, to me, the moderation is completely haphazard and the shitty posters were let loose. The inconsistency in moderation made me give up on being constructive.

Here, if you find an instance and communities with good ground rules you agree with, it works. You even have a modlog for transparency.

I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Banned there for “inciting political violence” but then discovered you can get banned across multiple communities or whole servers here because a mod gets their feelings hut.

So, idk. Just trying to get used to the idea of not telling stranger my opinions on things, it seems weird.

I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I’d been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn’t give a shit anymore.

Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.

I’ve been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it’s better here.

2 years into the fediverse; left during the IPO enshittification nonsense when they removed public access APIs and made Apollo impossible.