or any other reason… im curious.
Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
Yup. Then I forgot what community I was on and had to start over again.
I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.
I got banned for being unhinged towards users who were doing (IMO) obvious nazi dogwhistles and the mods sided against me. Fuck them mods and fuck the users who accept that shit. The posters knew exactly what they were signaling.
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.
I still use both but slowly making the transition to Lemmy. Been making political posts on Reddit for a while now & I’m convinced the mods of r/meme will perma ban me after my temp ban is lifted. Can’t speak the truth even if it gets millions of views.
I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.
I joined Reddit thanks to 3rd party apps, and when they turned their back on them I was out too.
I used one of those automated programs that used the old.reddit API to overwrite all my comments. I took a break for lunch, thinking to delete my account afterwards, but when I came back my account had been permanently banned.
So it was definitely like one of those “You can’t quit, you’re fired” type of situations.
From time to time I visit the site because of search results, but from what I can tell, all the main subreddits are filled with bots reposting the same content from 5 years ago.
Same thing happened to me. They noticed I started mass deleting my comments and I got hit with a ban on that specific account.
Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.
Came during the initial revolt. Increased attention after getting banned from Reddit because I joked I’d like a guy with a bunch of guns to give me one cause he had too many. They tried to say I was soliciting for the purchase of firearms, and when I said there was no way any serious person could have thought I was asking to buy a gun, they told me the lifetime ban was in place and if I ever came around again they’d ban me for ban evasion.
Lul. That place is a total fucking hellscape.
I was permanently banned on Reddit June 2024 because I said I hoped the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus.
I’m just making a comeback after some time. Reddit is dead, there is bots and ads and AI everywhere.
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.
My first account was on .ml roughly 5 years back, when it was basically the only instance. I had heard about there being a FOSS alternative to Reddit - but I quickly lost interest because the community was just too small back then. Re-activated my account when the API exodus happened, because there was finally a community large enough to provide a lived-in feeling. Have only gotten more dedicated to the Fediverse ever since.
Came here after my niche small Reddit client got officially shut down. When the API changes were announced, I knew that I’d rather switch than use their official Reddit client. I didn’t like that they charge AI companies for accessing my data and I don’t get any share of their profit neither. Here on Lemmy everyone can train their AI models on our data but at least there’s no random dude (spez) who profits off that.
The decentralization meaning that I can choose some random small instance and not be bound to the admins of any big one was another big point for Lemmy
