are you permanently banned off reddit? or do you just like lemmy more?
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Adding to say I have the same experience. Not banned, never used a TPA, but downloaded RIF Is Fun when people were writing up a storm just to see what was even going on. When the blackouts happened, I saw the more and more unhinged shit the Reddit administration was doing to stifle the protests and decided to make my blackout permanent from then onward. My exposure to the Fediverse has entirely changed how I interact with megacorps and software now. If it's not FOSS or DRM free stuff on my device, I don't want anything to do with it. Obviously getting to 100% on that is a very tall order, but I've been making a lot of headway since 2023.
Even in spite of the vast disparity in quantity of content, I would vastly prefer Lemmy to current Reddit without contest. Even aside from the massive brain drain the blackout had, and all the ad related enshittification, imagine being punished for even upvoting awesome things like Luigi Mangione? Now instead of the countless years I spent leaving my art and constant comments to boost some boneheaded corporation, I can post them here and be involved with a movement controlled by individuals. A movement made for and funded by each other, instead of lining greedy pockets.
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Left, not banned.
I modded a couple small subs, one cozy little ~20 person sub in particular. The API stuff and threats against mods made it no longer any fun and stripped away tools I used to keep it free from alt-right nutbars and spam. The sub voted 100% to disband. After that, I had no reason to stay.
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I use both while Lemmy's community is smaller. I yearn for a world with more small owners of the internet.
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Trying to switch over. I use them both, but the threats to reddit freedom and it's fast enshitification are the reasons I am currently using both.
Plus, the automod are out of control. I got a three day ban for quoting Clerks. (Try not to blow anyone on your way through the parking lot). I wasn't even being mean, it was all for laughs and got a lot of upvotes before some automod refered me to a prude of a moderator.
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This is pretty much me. Used RIF, when it stopped working, I stopped going there regularly. Took a couple weeks to completely kick the habit, and a year of occasional use via search engines, never even bothering to log in. Now I almost never go there. I'll head there as a last resort if a search engine can't find me a useful alternative for what I'm looking for.
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My 17 years old account is dormant.
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there's some niche communities i occasionally check in on on reddit, but i've basically abandoned the site ever since the api debacle killed my preferred app. i mostly just browse on mobile so a decent app was important to me.
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Not banned.. at least not that I know of. Just saw the writing on the wall after the API horseshit.
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I should get my account banned now...
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Unsure about "permanent ban", but have only recreated a duplicate profile as a means to follow the same content without commenting or posting.
I hopped onto the Reddit train late in the game, partially because I was busy elsewhere, but also because of the kind of bullshit that I'd heard about which wound up being pretty accurate. Inter-subreddit feuding, mod omnipotence wielded without the sort of checks and balances or the discretion that it should be, etc. I'm a little annoyed, but not really all that put out given how little I valued it to begin with. It's said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but there wasn't even so much power to be had, some Mods were perfectly reasonable while others were practically bursting at the seams to fuck with users and jerk themselves off about it. I'll settle for news, steam giveaways and smut, thank-you-very-much.
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I left with the API issues. As far as I know my account is still in good standing.
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I stopped commenting on Reddit years ago, I always used r/all almost exclusively and they ruined that algorithm multiple times over. I could never really tell if I was talking to a bot or not when commenting either.
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The people on Lemmy make Reddit users look good. Seriously people here are mean as shit. At least on Resdit mean comments are usually downvoted.
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I left with the API issues. As far as I know my account is still in good standing.
Same here. Couldn’t use Apollo anymore so I downloaded Voyager instead.
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The people on Lemmy make Reddit users look good. Seriously people here are mean as shit. At least on Resdit mean comments are usually downvoted.
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My account is in fine standing, left because I couldnt use reddit is fun anymore and there was no way I was going to switch to their app
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Left due to the API stuff due to Apollo getting axed. Loved that Christian recorded their calls and exposed how crappy they were for blaming things on him. Fun drama, but I left and never looked back.
It’s still a bit of an echo chamber of sheep in here but I haven’t really tried different servers to find like minded ppl. I like the mod of the server I’m on and that’s cool for me for now.
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That's surprising to me. I've had the opposite experience, only encountering one butthead (who had plenty of downvotes).
I hope your experience improves, I rather like it here
Which communities do you mostly comment on? I'm probably just commenting on shitty ones. Lemmy shitpost and asklemmy are absolute dogshit.
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I was already swapping preban but the ban forced me to swap, I dont lurk on reddit anymore or view posts like i did the first month or so (its uninstalled and only used on google rarely, since forums and even quoro are somehow better for useful info again), so I think I like lemmy more lol
The userbase is better, top comments opinion matches mine here, I go into a thread and I never feel the need to argue here, very different experience to modern reddit, close to reddit like 12 years ago.
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I was already swapping preban but the ban forced me to swap, I dont lurk on reddit anymore or view posts like i did the first month or so (its uninstalled and only used on google rarely, since forums and even quoro are somehow better for useful info again), so I think I like lemmy more lol
The userbase is better, top comments opinion matches mine here, I go into a thread and I never feel the need to argue here, very different experience to modern reddit, close to reddit like 12 years ago.
I got a note on my phone saying delete reddit its not the same 4 months before my ban, but I def had no intention of leaving til I was banned
