how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
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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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
Became initially during the API 3rd party bullshit and recently moved completely over after I got banned from Reddit.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)--but I don't know that for sure, maybe I'm just being cynical.
Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn't delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that's cool.
And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a "clean" version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits.
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Amen, brother. Voyager helps scratch that old Apollo itch.
And the web version is just as good as the app, which I never would've imagined being the case. It is literally the exact same, so I sometimes use it more than the app on my phone!
