how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
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Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven't seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.
Old reddit was so so useful this transition to everybody being loud with little depth of knowledge has been sad to watch.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod [email protected]. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Left because of Apollo shutting down. Thanks, Voyager devs, for recreating that experience on a different platform. :-]
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I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod [email protected]. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.
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Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.
Welcome. Things will just continue to get shittier for sites and tech controlled by rich tech bros with no concept of reality. Stuff like the fediverse seems like the only answer at this point
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or any other reason.. im curious.
My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I'm pretty active.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
edit: I didn't say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already
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"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!
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or any other reason.. im curious.
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.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I haven't seriously posted anything on reddit since the APIcalypse but still lurk there occasionally.
It's also still a decent source of tech information and user experience but that will soon be over as well.
These days reddit is filled with AI slop, malicious bots, Russian trolls, nazi propaganda etc. Outside of some niche subreddits that site is not worth interacting with anymore than necessary.
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My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I'm pretty active.
The great api killing was the largest lemmy jump I believe
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I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
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or any other reason.. im curious.
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.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
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.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life
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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.
Transparency on Lemmy has some problems. Bans aren't attached to any message, so if you ban someone for the reason "This user is a Nazi pedophile who likes Coldplay", most users will just believe that. Comment removals work well, but bans can go against transparency by platforming lies from authority figures.
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I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
Same. Rip RIF is fun
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imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you'd expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i'd see less of that and they'd get dogpilled too.
What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It's like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.
