I use both because Reddit done screwed over my preferred mobile platform. So now I use Lemmy on mobile and Reddit on the desktop

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.

Arrived here in the process of USA boycott.

A lot.

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First I was temporarily banned. Then, permanently banned. They would not even display the comments in question which led to my exile. Toxic power tripping MF’s all up in it over there.

I came hoping for more intelligent content and less middle-schoolish "I hate and if you don't hate it enough too you're EVIL!"

Found pretty much the same level of that, but I do like the UI better.

I quit commenting at that site long ago but still lurk occaisionally in some technical sr's. It became too mean.

Making a conscious decision to leave social media that’s controlled by big companies that only exist to milk people for money. I’m tired of things being great until they’re not. Reddit is a cash cow for user data and it’s so full of bots and disinformation campaigns now.

I immediately noticed people are nicer here. I think a lot of it is that these are real people and not bots who are programmed to be argumentative.

I see a lot more banned users and deleted comments on lemmy than I did on reddit.

raises hand

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.

I kind of stopped actively using Reddit in 2020, but without engaging actively in an alternative. Then the API debacle happened, so I registered a kbin account, when that died down (RIP Ernest) I moved here.

Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)

Two years ago. Haven't looked back. Much

Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.

I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there's just too much useful info to ignore it. But I'm not going there directly

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.

I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

I left over the API bullshit.

Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since

I escaped when they killed their API.

I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

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.

I'll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit's BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.

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.

I also left after the api access changes. I am so glad I switched, this a much more ethical model of operation.

Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star

Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.

Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.

Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking "How many assholes we got on this ship".

Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.

left because of api changes and their increasing censorship of content they don't like (I miss r/all having r/eyeblech).

Left because of Apollo shutting down. Thanks, Voyager devs, for recreating that experience on a different platform. :-]