Genuinely curious
When they closed down the API for third party apps I packed my things, I thought reddit would be different, but to me, at that moment they proved they were not different.
Lemmy is not perfect and the whole dev team has some pretty insane views. But you know, it’s FOSS, so it’s not about the devs as much. Perfect is the enemy of great, and Lemmy is a healthier choice then Reddit imo.
Yup, the death of 3rd Party Aps did it for me too. It made me sad because I had to leave behind a lot of the niche subreddits I enjoyed, but I could see the writing on the wall.
Neither, but I’m fed up with Reddit regardless. Open Source and self hosted is something I prefer.
And if everybody praises the alternatives, but nobody is using it, we’ll never get shit done.
I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.
This was it for me too
The only reason Lemmy was started in the first place is because Reddit banned communists and their communities. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
I joined hexbear almost 4 years ago after being banned for suggesting a that a brick would be a far cheaper solution than a guillotine for dealing with the British royal family.
I came here because I didn’t like the censorship (of others, not me) on Reddit. I stayed because I love the lack of advertising.
I’ll jump back over to Reddit on occasion if I need to look something up. The adverts are super jarring.
You can use an extension like Libredirect to redirect you to a redlib instance. Minimal format frontend for reddit, no ads. Here is a list of instances.
On Android mobile, you can install the Libredirect extension on certain Firefox versions like IronFox. There’s also apps like Stealth.
Everyone on here seems chill and people on reddit often bait you to try to get you banned or poison the well in discussions , it’s just a shit site that’s tonedeaf man
I left Reddit when they threatened to remove 3rd party apps and started closing down sub-reddits that weren’t advertiser friendly.
I left because they got rid of 3rd party apps, was never banned.
I’ve never been banned from reddit (that I know of).
I left reddit three years ago next month duringsthe API drama. Since then the only time I’ve been to reddit (not logged in) is when it comes up in a search result.
banned from reddit for “threatening to kill reddit staff”. the post: pedophiles should be executed.
it’s very telling.
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I used Reddit for years as a reader without ever posting or commenting. When alternative front ends were ditched, I switched to Lemmy which I really like. Was never banned.
The ones with their cake day around may and a bit later in 2023 are most likely here because of the API changes. After that its mostly alt accounts on a new instance, privacy reasons and bans
That’s me!
Why are new lemmy users thinking this is a refuge for the reddit banned? To my knowledge my account is still usable, but I just don’t want to log in since the API cash grab. What bullshit is reddit doing these days?
- banning people just for upvoting comments they don’t like, you don’t even have to post to be censored and banned now
- half the site is bots or spam networks farming karma (every post on askreddit is a karma farm)
- toxicity has grown. Everyone is frothing at the mouth for an argument
I checked lemmy out a bit just before I got permabanned for pointing out that calling Russians “ork” is extremely racist and dehumanizing.
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ive been on lemmy for almost 6 years, jesus christ, i feel old
