how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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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.
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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.
The great api killing was the largest lemmy jump I believe
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I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
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or any other reason.. im curious.
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.
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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.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life
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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.
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.
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I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
Same. Rip RIF is fun
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imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you'd expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i'd see less of that and they'd get dogpilled too.
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.
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Same. Rip RIF is fun
RIF ly beloved
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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.
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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.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I escaped when they killed their API.
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Ditto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast
There is c/[email protected], but im not sure that counts
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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.
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Them killing Apollo had me pissed, but for whatever reason I put up with it, waiting for something better. People were starting to talk about Emmy and I thought that was interesting and didn’t really look into it again until I said something mean about Elon and got caught up in a ban wave.
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Welcome. Things will just continue to get shittier for sites and tech controlled by rich tech bros with no concept of reality. Stuff like the fediverse seems like the only answer at this point
Lemmy will be killed by tech bros once enough people figure out there is an alternative to their bullshit. They want total control and they will kill anything they cannot profit off of.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]I’m not banned from Reddit, but I did come here out of disgust for their many many shitty policies, and their entire ethos as both a website and a company.
One of the worst parts is that all the draconian stuff they do, doesn't even seem to be effective at achieving its stated purpose.
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After Reddit killed Apollo, I refused to participate and only used it for news and to see discussions about random stuff. I’d heard about Lemmy back then, but it sounded like it was Reddit for Reddit rejects which didn’t sound appealing. After the big Bluesky migration, I tried it out and I was more open to the idea of the fediverse. Lemmy ended up scratching the Reddit itch when I tried it, even though there’s a serious problem with sub discovery that I think holds it back.
