how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
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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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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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or any other reason.. im curious.
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.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I only tolerated watching reddit using the slide app, so no app = no reddit.
I deleted all my posts.
One day when browsing from a VPN they said if you want to see this page you need to login. I reluctantly login, to get an email a few hours later "your account has been permanently banned for suspicious login"
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Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.
It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.
I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.
It’s Turkiye* now.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Reddit is repetitive and tiresome on the main subs. It’s so bot driven. There are so many ads. Spaz is a dipshit.
That said Lemmy still lacks the small, niche subs, which are still ok over there due to small numbers.
That said Lemmy will get the numbers for those niche subs if we all join and contribute.
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Same. Rip RIF is fun
That sucks. I'm on Eternity for Lemmy thanks to Infinity for Reddit's nice community forking the project for Lemmy
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or any other reason.. im curious.
left during the subreddit mod purges. we closed our sub - 45k~ users with lots of creative, daily content when they announced the API changes and other shittery. They demanded it reopen or they'd appoint new mods, no new mods would step forward. I left and never looked back. I probably should have left long before but the community kept me there doing the modwork.
A note: APPRECIATE YOUR MODS. They're keeping this experience trash free as much as humanly possible. There's a certain type of person that volunteers to help build good communities and they mostly deserve your appreciation.
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left during the subreddit mod purges. we closed our sub - 45k~ users with lots of creative, daily content when they announced the API changes and other shittery. They demanded it reopen or they'd appoint new mods, no new mods would step forward. I left and never looked back. I probably should have left long before but the community kept me there doing the modwork.
A note: APPRECIATE YOUR MODS. They're keeping this experience trash free as much as humanly possible. There's a certain type of person that volunteers to help build good communities and they mostly deserve your appreciation.
I don't know, from what I've seen people that should be mods don't want to and those that want to shouldn't be.
It's very similar to politicans actually.
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I don't know, from what I've seen people that should be mods don't want to and those that want to shouldn't be.
It's very similar to politicans actually.
wrote last edited by [email protected]can't comment re: lemmy mods because I don't mod here. but. reddit and other social networks benefit incredibly - and I have no doubt lemmy as well - from the sheer mountains of trash, spam, fuckwits and bots that assail their daily content, that mods remove and you never have to see or only see for a few minutes. please stand up and volunteer to mod if you think you could help, it's certainly needed.
