how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
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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.
Point of order - it's not a purchase if it's a gift
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Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
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I left after yet another ban.
1st time because I criticized the US.
Second time cause I said that trump needs the Mussolini treatment.With everything that is said on reddit this was tame in comparison.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.
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you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, "boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account"
im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.
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I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.
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I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn't even aware Reddit was banning people.
I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.
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I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn't even aware Reddit was banning people.
I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.
Wish I was so bold. It took me actually getting banned to migrate.
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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 already know you're pretty far left given they banned you for that. Right wingers im sure still say all of their unhinged shit there.
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Lol I rememebr reporting some ppl telling ppl to kill themselves post trump getting elected, like they were sucidal and the trumpies were encouraging it, reported them and got like a 3 day temp ban for abusing the report system
The ban waves were to lower the leftist presence, not to actually stop talks of violence.
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Wasn't banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.
Like... I genuinely can't use words like "incel", "cuck", "snowflake", "Trump", "Andrew Tate", etc without having my comment removed on most subs.
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Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.
Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking "How many assholes we got on this ship".
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Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years' worth of content on my 250k karma account with "fuck spez" and left it all there to rot.
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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 think it's dumb that /r/cigars and /r/pipetobacco are monitored like a frickin' anti-communist group in the Soviet Union, but /r/trees talks about weed like it's cotton candy.
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Became initially during the API 3rd party bullshit and recently moved completely over after I got banned from Reddit.
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I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.
We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was "fired," it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.
Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.
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Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.
I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there's also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.
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Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.
Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking "How many assholes we got on this ship".
Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don't miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
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Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.
I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there's also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion
This is true. For that I just browse anonymously with an ad blocker
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Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don't miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
