how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
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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.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
A lot, the question is when.
The first wave has been getting banned since the US regime took control over it in the person of Jessica Ashoosh (2016).
And a whole lot more since the genocide in Palestine.
The slightest criticism was enough.So I have my doubts on the large group of libs that only got banned since Trump.
They didn't care about anything but themselves and only what their government now does to them.
They are perfectly fine going back to a nice 'democratic' fascist-lite regime that only terrorises other countries while they live in their bubble. -
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]They are humans and humans are biased.
I just got banned from another instance.
Vile personal attacks against me were left up, while lukewarm comments from me like: "Frace is a vasal state" got removed.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Arrived here in the process of USA boycott.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Once the baconreader app developer stated it would stop due to API nonsense I left.
I tried another one called something like Squabbles* for a few months and really liked it, then the owner of that site decided that the racists and nazis that were joining were allowed to say what they wanted.
There were a lot of trans, gay etc, and non whites on that site who tried to reason with the owner but ultimately left due to the hostilities. The place went downhill fast and about a week later I left. It may be far better now.I only go on Reddit now if I'm looking for info on the PC and one of the links is from there. However most of the time it doesn't give me any real info, usually it's just lots of people having the same issue I was searching an answer for.
Edit: it was called Squabbles, not Squiggles
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
When they killed third party apps while disregarding the need for accessibility completely - their own app doesn't even let blind people manage their own subreddit because of that.
So yeah, because I left reddit.
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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.
Yes I'd love for the niche subs to grow more over here!
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I got banned from one of my favorite subreddits, which made it a lot less fun over there.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Not banned from Reddit, but I was given a warning for suggesting big tech was unethical.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.
Several years ago.
"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"
Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I nuked my Reddit account when they dropped support for 3rd-party apps. Spez can eat a bag of dicks.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
I came here after deciding to quit reddit. I'm Canadian. I had no problems with reddit other than Trump's threats to annex (invade) Canada. I'm also joining my national brothers and sisters in the tariff boycotts.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Left reddit during the API controversy a few years ago. Never been banned or anything, just disagreed with the decisions being made.
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Once the baconreader app developer stated it would stop due to API nonsense I left.
I tried another one called something like Squabbles* for a few months and really liked it, then the owner of that site decided that the racists and nazis that were joining were allowed to say what they wanted.
There were a lot of trans, gay etc, and non whites on that site who tried to reason with the owner but ultimately left due to the hostilities. The place went downhill fast and about a week later I left. It may be far better now.I only go on Reddit now if I'm looking for info on the PC and one of the links is from there. However most of the time it doesn't give me any real info, usually it's just lots of people having the same issue I was searching an answer for.
Edit: it was called Squabbles, not Squiggles
Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo. Squabbles seems to have died a death, and I'm not surprised tbh.Another site tried to do that years ago, Voat, and like your story, died as a free speech absolutist Nazi hell hole.
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or any other reason.. im curious.
Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)
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Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I left when I couldn't use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again
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Another site tried to do that years ago, Voat, and like your story, died as a free speech absolutist Nazi hell hole.
I remember that, I signed up for Voat and poked around a bit but it was empty and boring
