How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?
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most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently. im here instead, because reddit would just ban any new accounts after you been shadowbanned, if your not using ban evasion methods which cost some money: like new IP, mobile phone, browser,,,,etc.
ALso the significant amount of astroturfing and gatekeeping of political and news discussion on reddit is enough to trigger arguments on both sides getting you banned. plus reddit also using AI moderation to ban people indiscriminately. plus the amount of bots are staggering. its too easy to get banned on reddit, if you try to engage in any of the most controversial subs.
most cities,counties, country subreddits have been taken over by consevatives, and goody two shoes people, so its hard to engage in your regions sub most of teh time.
most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently.
Doubt. A lot of us are here because of the API changes in July of 2023.
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Is this place really that small?
wrote last edited by [email protected]very small, lemmy has about less than 100k users, reddit has 100million+accounts, well you can consider half of people posting or commenting is mostly bots. also new accounts are generated in large numbers by spammers of link farmers, or people who have side businesses.
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Is anyone here so hardcore that they don't even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Reddit has some sort of permabanned me, so I cannot get even new accounts there. So you guys get to enjoy me here, yay!
They unfortunately still have the critical mass, and even though Lemmy is getting better on that front, there's just so much more stuff on Reddit.
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Reddit backstabbing the 3rd party app developers was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Found my way here during that shitstorm. Full deletion of my Reddit accound, haven't looked back. The quality of Lemmy has left me no desire to relapse.
true, even if you dint deleted, reddit wouldve been banning you randomly anyways.
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Im permanent banned from reddit. So yes. I am only here now.
wrote last edited by [email protected]permabanned at first, shadowbanned later, which is basically total ban, any new acc is usually shadowbanned. while permaban usually restricts to that one account: assuming you dont make the same mistakes again witha new account. and they keep coming up with new ways to detect ban evaders.
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Lemmy and YouTube. That's it. Everything else gives me too much anxiety. At work, if I have to reference something from social media, I ask other people to look it up for me and send me the link.
with the amount of people gatekeeping certain topics, movies or actors on youtube i kinda cringe when i look at some of the comments. i avoid as much as possible, i will comment on things like science based ones, even anti-woke invades those spaces.
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Like many who responded, I don't think it's hardcore to not be on Reddit. I was for a long time, then my local forum in Denver was crushed by Reddit admins overreacting to the API rebellion, then the hobby forums started being taken over by AI, and finally the tone on other subs became absolutely toxic, with no variant of the prevailing opinion allowed. Hello, /r/Summit!
The only thing missing from Lemmy is depth, and that will fill in automatically as more people join. For a change, I am delighted to be on a platform that isn't beholden to a small group that makes all the decisions regardless of user input. In fact, I started out on KBin until that flaked out massively (back to normal, now) and was excited that I could just switch to Lemmy and see the exact same things.
Now I am on piefed because I like Python and would like to contribute. But I love all the people at Lemmy <3.
from what ive heard all the location based subs{cities,,,etc} have been overtaken by mostly conservatives and tankies of those areas. even my super blue area is met with " do your duty and obey,,,,etc"
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I’m read only on a privacy front end for Reddit and write and read for Lemmy. I figure I can help grow this place by contributing while staying tuned in to things on Reddit. I do hope this place grows, but it seems to have plateau’d.
funny thing is reddit prefers "read-only" as evidence of thier ai overmoderation as of late, to what end? just for advertisement purposes.
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I do still use reddit, mostly for communities that don't have much on lemmy. I normally still access it through the third-party apps Relay and rdx though. As for other social medias, I do have tumblr and bluesky, as they are very civil and fun, but I can't get into the idea of a normal social media platform such as Mastadon or Instagram, as posting stuff just ends up feeling like work.
i visit niche commmunities on there too, but because of the bans i wont able to engage in anyways.
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i left reddit since the API/spez drama and exclusively use lemmy as "social media"
just today on the shadowban sub, i heard user appeal shadowban by kissing ass in the appeal form to spez, and he was unbanned, lol. i thought it was funny, they thought it too(eventhough the user dint really like spez)
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I only use Lemmy.
The main reason is that Redditt banned me for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a nazi.
wrote last edited by [email protected]before it was "nazi deserved whats coming to them" it was you cant say "demographic, referring to skin color, and certainly not black people" i was in another forum the mod freaked out when i said black people, and he also had an axe to grind against my account too, because i was contradicting his argument with facts(it was a niche forum about conditions). it was the same on reddit. so i always use AA or african to obfuscate a potential ban, and the comments were even denegriating AA people too.
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Yes, I switched to Lemmy and then never looked back. Didn't know that this was "hardcore"
And no, not interested in face twit tok etc. but I sometimes watch a few things on yt (without being "social" there).
reddit got worst, so you arnt missing anything unless you mostly visit niche communities there.
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Is anyone here so hardcore that they don't even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?
I only visit for my niche subs, and even then it's maybe once or twice a month at most. I just check the top posts for the month, and then leave. In and out. 20 minute adventure.
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I am almost Lemmy/Piefed exclusive now. Sometimes I visit Reddit for some niche topics but I'm usually logged out and never comment there.
wrote last edited by [email protected]thats what they want now for reddit users, read only , never login. its less work on them, so they dont have to keep up with moderation. i think only the super-duper users are still left on the site, the one that has aged accounts with alot of good cqs score and karma. new accounts are pretty much doomed.
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For daily browsing, pure Lemmy.
Researching a problem or future purchase, I'm still putting site:reddit.com in the search bar. I love you Lemmy, but you're just not there yet.
same here, niche topic can only be found on that sub and not here.
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I use Lemmy and Bluesky since I'm banned on Reddit and it's no longer worth bothering with ban evasion. I'm also testing Mastodon through Pachli because Bluesky has kinda started going on my nerves with all the luke warm "Dems need to save the US" takes. I wisth there was a federated platform for short form vertical videos like tiktok. It's probably not feasible as a non profit project but something inside of me is still chasing the high of early pandemic social media.
bluesky will resemble twitter eventually, because most of the twitter people moved to blue sky. its difficult to ban evade on reddit now than it was before the election, you would have to buy a new device and IP TO be able to log in if they hadnt banned your ip already.
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You can always just create another account by the way. It takes a moment to get back up and running because of shadow bans, but it is possible
wrote last edited by [email protected]once reddit shadowbans you , theres almost no way to use a new account, because they can just connect your new account to your old account via the IP adresss, browser fingerprints, and your device components. they looking for things like browser size, time zone/location setting and correct version of browser. beyond that they will compare similarities between posting and spamming habits.
only way is to have a new device: mobile, new ip, different browser, or using more expensive things like proxies, and anti-detect browsers.
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I'm banned too. I did try to create a new account but subreddits have invisible minimum karma thresholds that make it difficult to use as a new user.
wrote last edited by [email protected]any of the large subs will always have a stricter filter, as they have the most traffic. usually some niche subs, and maybe one that is almost never moderated or barely moderated. if they already shadowbanned you, it wouldnt matter anyways.
i know a couple of small subs that are not moderated or barely. i heard ban evaders will try to use these to warm up the account.
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Lemmy is the only social media platform where I have an account. No Facebook, no Reddit, no LinkedIn, etc. From time to time I do read a post on Reddit, when it comes up in search results. When you have an obscure gaming or Linux issue, Reddit can (unfortunately) still be a treasure trove.
Linkedin got stupid when they force logins to look at someones profiles, no thanks. it wasnt that helpful to certain fields for jobs hunting.
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I don't know how people can live without niche subs that simply don't exist on lemmy. I read them but I can't participate since reddit fingerprints me no matter what I do and instantly bans my new accounts.
same here.
