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

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

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.

[krudler@lemmy.world]

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

[jeffool@lemmy.world]

Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!

[turtlesareneat@discuss.online]

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.

[medicpigbabysaver@lemmy.world]

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[rolive@discuss.tchncs.de]

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.

[fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The great api killing was the largest lemmy jump I believe

[pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

[gsus4@mander.xyz]

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.

[thefermentalist@reddthat.com]

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.

[carlossurf@lemmy.ca]

Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life

[genius@lemmy.zip]

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.

[jackcooper@lemmy.world]

Same. Rip RIF is fun

[booboofinget@lemmy.world]

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.

[noodle07@lemmy.world]

RIF ly beloved

[anitaamandahuginskis@lemmy.world]

I'm not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.

[aeri@lemmy.world]

I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.

[oddminus1@sh.itjust.works]

I escaped when they killed their API.

[randomvideos@programming.dev]

There is c/[email protected], but im not sure that counts

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

Came here originally for a pirate community in dbzero, mistakenly joined .ml, then finally joined World. Maybe PieFed is next, who knows. Never let them know your next move.