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Thanks to Reddit is Fun for all the years. I didn't want to leave. Reddit kicked me out

Same here.

same. I was talking to a friend who regularly used reddit during the time all that was going down. Was pretty sure he was gonna migrate to lemmy with me.

He still posts reddit threads regularly in our group chat

I considered it, but didn't because of the communities I was still a part of.

I finally left when they IP banned me for saying stuff like "I'm surprised nazis aren't being attacked tbh"

the third party API thing is when I pretty much completely stopped contributing quality content, though. to anywhere - I don't really do that anywhere now. touched some grass, y'know?

I was an avid redditor. It was my main filler activity.

I quit cold turkey with the API debacle and have never been back.

It was really rough at first, but I like it here.

Ditto

Same. Although I do lurk a bit with rdx. But I won’t touch Twitter or any Meta products with a 10 foot pole.

Same. I was constantly on Apollo. I loved the dev and how active they were. I got all the fun in jokes and considered it a very nerdy activity to scroll Reddit. Swapped to a new instance after a while, so this account isn’t as old as that.

Now I’m on Voyager and have swapped to Linux, so I guess the hive mind here is strong too!

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And me

They banned you for legendary Luigi Mangione candles, so sad.

btw great job camarade ;)

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checked my account date and yeah, pretty much.

Same

Same.

Gees was that 18 months ago?

me too, i hope it doesnt become like the same thing it swore to be an alternative too

I opened my first account in 2012 and I used it for the rest of the decade, then reddit went to shit and I went through another three accounts only lasting several months each for I gave up. Sometimes I still want to go back but everything I see suggests that would be a mistake.

thier recent filters and AI moderation makes it hard to say what you want on there.

Indeed

most of its bots anyways, outside of niche communties, most of the post are more less talking about trump, or trump adjacent in some form another, the only problem with that you are more likely to get astroturfed there.

naaah reddit works fine and many well modded communities are thriving

lemmy on the other hand is slowly losing users

i use old.reddit.com and RedReader. no ads, all free

yea i noticed that too, reddit did multiple massive purges this year alone all the way from election day. they saw to many people being purged, so now they make smaller background moderations. like deleting comments/posts unilateraly, shadowbanning instead.

im not surprised that reddit had to replace IRL engagement with fake bots posts.

Same

as soon as reddit went public is when shit starts to hit the fan, spez was and is more susceptible to outside pressure, like from MUSK complaining, thats actually what triggered the purges this year.

Everything you said is how I feel. I was enjoying reddit until the Brexit referendum, which was when it felt like it got taken over by the alt right. When the API thing came, I realised that money was the only thing that mattered and they were selling my discussion space to whoever would spend, and the alt right was spending big. We didn't matter, so like you, I left.

I was delighted to find people talking again here on lemmy.

i dont report people here, only rarely. on reddit i did alot because of so many misinformation, and trolls, and that ended up rubbed me the wrong way since reporting is a double edge sword on there,sometimes it works to get that troll off the sub, but sometimes the report, if the MOds dont agree with it you can get banned if they think your report doesnt actually have any violaiton on the reported.

I have been working through deleting reddit comments. Then reddit repopulates them because they are hit by a Google search. So so I go through and delete them again.

When reddit blocked my favorite mobile app, I bailed. So I am now on connect for Lemmy. It works almost seemlessly now with a few bugs. It's basically the same user experience as the old Tapatalk for forums that they made almost 20 years ago now. A good user interface is a good userinterface.

Same here. But it was just a matter of time really.

Yeah reddit has a lot of reposting, wich for some things i actually like, for example shitpost wich i think Is lacking here but It Will Just drop the quality here.

Yeah here its much smaller than reddit and i like It since i think It Will happen that you encounter the same people over and over again and i find that very funny

Yeah man…I was fully addicted to Reddit for years until quoting Worf from Star Trek got me a 3 day autoban.

I reflected at how much of the “content” was automated: any major sub had countless accounts posting nonsense to promote themselves, a product, a YouTube channel, a blog. It’s become the definition of enshitification.

I deleted my account and the app before the autoban expired…not looking back.

You could consider the question of whether there is still something about reddit that you value. Seeking an alternative usually means you're trying to fulfill a value or need the previous option provided. While that was true when i first landed on Lemmy there's simply nothing i value about reddit anymore. So i no longer consider it an alternative.

There's also the alternative motive of valuing/supporting FOSS/federation.

Not everyone but most

To add with this as well there are a lot of subreddits I seem to not be able to see comments on if it's a newer thread but it will gladly show me content from 3 weeks ago with botted comments

Anyone else have this issue?

Im not banned either btw

Yeah the fediverse Is a cool idea

If you are banned from a sub they leave traps I guess? Instead of not showing me the sub on my front page or not letting me comment, they leave it up to catch people "evading bans."

thats what happen to alot of people. if you had a old ban, and you commented in a newer sub like years later, the recent purges just look at all your accounts that ever participated in it,(for example something you were ban in r/tech, r/news and you had old accounts that visited those subs but not ban, they were going after that too) and ban all of them. they never did this unless you were a serial ban evader. the theory goes around is that they want a read only site, people will just doom scroll on ads and propaganda all day.

Oh man…awhile back that happened to me: I complained to a mod in PM about racist posts in their sub - on my desktop account…then used the app on my smartphone because I wasn’t at home. It was different accounts because I’d forgotten my password at some point…but I didn’t actually care which account was what - I never cared about Karma and didn’t differentiate between them.

Little did I know the petty mod had given me a one-day ban for “harassment”…and both accounts got banned for “evading”. Back then Reddit admins weren’t swamped (I guess?) and the ban was overturned right away.

I think if that happened today it would have been an automatic autoban. It really feels like a set up. Why are they letting you have multiple accounts if they associate them with one person? What it feels like is Reddit given scammers tools that end up fucking over normal people.

My rigga

lmao

Reddards

The fact that Facebook is one of the largest companies still blows my mind.

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Same. I just wish there were more niche communities.

For me it's Boost.

reddit moment

looks like bots, or someone was going through the subs, look for people to report.

Im not leaving Simply using lemmy more