The only times I've been back in at least two years are when posts here force me to go there for the content I'm looking for. Hate when that happens, but I take solace in the fact they're losing money on me due to using ad-blocking & a browser that forgets everything by default (Firefox Focus).

Unfortunately, most of the interesting niche hobby discussions are going there these days.

Are you suggesting they should ban Reddit before Reddit bans them?

Lemmy is only marginally better for sub bans.

VPN and/or a fresh IP/Device.

Thats a good question! But maybe their ban was only temporary.

I don't disagree, but by the same token, this is specifically !reddit@lemmy.world that you're in advocating not talking about Reddit.

That one guinea pig community probably wouldn't appreciate me telling them not to talk about guinea pigs.

If no one talks about the shitty things reddit does outside of reddit, no one will have any way of knowing until it happens to them personally, because reddit itself is clearly censoring that stuff.

Coming to a community whose purpose is to talk about reddit and complaining doesn't seem any better...

I understand that point of view but I sorta see it more as mourning what was once a good* site that I spent over a decade being a part of. Like using a similar analogy, it's like keeping up with that ex that you loved very much but broke off from after they got addicted to fentanyl and started pawning your things or something.

*good as in not a money and data hungry corporation, the userbase has always been a bit shit but it wasn't this kind of of aggressive shit

Don't talk shit about your exes, it's poor manners and makes you look bad, besides. Many think you should extend to your exes some courtesy, at least, and most of us get that.

Complaining about the actions of companies? I don't owe fealty to any company on Earth, fuck them and fuck Reddit

Being an ex-redditor is the only personality trait for a lot of ones here.

Make a new post and copy and paste it so the next person finds it here

I got banned from reddit because users were cheering the harming of trans kids, and I told said users I hoped they'd get hit with a brick.

Reddit is a right-wing shithole with a neo-liberal facade.

I got several ridiculous bans from reddit.

One was for saying that Hans Kristian Graebner (the Neo-Nazi known as Stonetoss who was had his IRL name leaked online) deserves to get the Brock/Allen Turner treatment (having his RL name put on blast everywhere).

One was for "inciting violence" - I was joking about mosquitoes getting cancer under a picture of a mosquito perched on a cigarette

One was for pasting the list of DOGE staff (it's a government job so it is public record) because Elon whined to his buddy Spez

The final permanent ban was for saying that the mods of r/cybertruck are losers.

I was banned for pointing out a mods hypocrisy of removing some ads while keeping others even when the sub specifically had a rule for no ads. Reddit admins called it harassment when I only sent one message to the mod and reported their reply for breaking the TOS/Moderator Code of Conduct.

My post on that sub didn't appear to have trolls or right wing losers in the replies.

Can it ghisllaine