how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?

[kickforce@lemmy.wtf]

Given that the US is a fascist state at the moment and that Reddit is an American media company that has to navigate in that country where propaganda and free speech suppression is so present that seems to be a given.

[johnnycanuck@lemmy.ca]

RiF here, but agreed. (Now Voyager)

[degenerationip@lemmy.world]

Jumped ship when that API shit started. I like this communities way more than a lot ob subreddits that have been around before.

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

yeah it's a lot easier to bitch about 'power tripping mods' and whine about their work than it is to deal with the csam and other garbage the chuds try to post. but you either care enough to chip in or you don't.

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

Frace

those filthy fracemen.

[ketchup@reddthat.com]

Farewell Apollo (the API fiasco), and thank you Voyager (my lemmy app)

[calipherjones@lemmy.world]

I got banned too many times for telling people to punch Nazis. Eventually I was permad. Haven't really tried to circumvent it much because why would I want to use a platform that vehemently protects Nazis?

[deadbeef@lemmy.nz]

I got banned while on a work trip to the United States. I hadn't posted at the time for more than a year.

I requested my post history from them and posted it up publicly to see if anyone could figure out why, I've still got no idea.

There's a link to my post history in a previous winge about it https://lemmy.nz/post/2224688/2959801.

[kebab@endlesstalk.org]

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

[abnormalhumanbeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space]

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.

[feelthepower@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

exactly why I came here. I was hardly using Reddit anymore as it was because it felt off. it still does feel off when I go back to visit, a lot of the posts are formatted in a very machine like way. when I found out about that r/changemyview AI comments thing I knew I wasn't crazy for thinking this.

[nusm@peachpie.theatl.social]

Amen, brother. Voyager helps scratch that old Apollo itch.

[bloomcole@lemmy.world]

Frac all of them

[asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world]

Banned twice. They don't much like when I call for throwing bricks at cops.

[yoldark@lemmy.world]

I'm just making a comeback after some time. Reddit is dead, there is bots and ads and AI everywhere.

[kebab@endlesstalk.org]

What’s the issue with just using an adblocker? You cost them money to serve your queries but don’t make them any money provided you just browse and do not comment/post/vote

[wanderwisley@lemmy.world]

I was permanently banned on Reddit June 2024 because I said I hoped the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus.

[mamdani_da_savior@lemmy.world]

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.

[bromswolligans@lemmy.world]

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.

[percent@infosec.pub]

I imagine that, when deciding whether calls to violence/murder should be grounds for banning, the reasons to ban likely outweighed the reasons not to by a lot