or any other reason… im curious.
I escaped when they killed their API.
I came here because I needed my FIX and well, reddit banned me for saying I should be allowed to punch nazis. Permanent, appeal instantly denied, which, yikes.
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.
I’m not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.
I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
Same. Rip RIF is fun
RIF ly beloved 😭
Reddit is a shit platform, became worse with the IPO and LLMs, but mainly, to me, the moderation is completely haphazard and the shitty posters were let loose. The inconsistency in moderation made me give up on being constructive.
Here, if you find an instance and communities with good ground rules you agree with, it works. You even have a modlog for transparency.
Transparency on Lemmy has some problems. Bans aren’t attached to any message, so if you ban someone for the reason “This user is a Nazi pedophile who likes Coldplay”, most users will just believe that. Comment removals work well, but bans can go against transparency by platforming lies from authority figures.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life
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.
The great api killing was the largest lemmy jump I believe
I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I’d been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn’t give a shit anymore.
Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.
I’ve been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it’s better here.
edit: I didn’t say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already
I left reddit a little over two years ago. The API debacle was the end, though I had been mostly offline for a few months prior.
The fediverse has only gotten better since. However, this is my fourth account. I joined vlemmy, which disappeared overnight, then lemm.ee, which shut down recently, then another instance which wasn’t for me, and now reddthat. I also signed up for hexbear after a few beers, forgot my password, haven’t been able to contact the mods, didn’t use an email address and haven’t been able to get back in since.
2 years into the fediverse; left during the IPO enshittification nonsense when they removed public access APIs and made Apollo impossible.
Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Welcome. Things will just continue to get shittier for sites and tech controlled by rich tech bros with no concept of reality. Stuff like the fediverse seems like the only answer at this point
Hey, thanks! Yeah I think we were all naive at the dawn of social media and I stupidly trusted big tech. I’ve been getting rid of all big tech over this last month that and it’s been kind of exciting finding FOSS and decentralized alternatives. The discourse seems more genuine and interactive. Hopefully it won’t change.
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 [email protected]. 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.
"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!
Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though [email protected] is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There’s less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.
I’ve grown very interested and supportive of the fediverse, its values, and advantages. I’m still on Reddit though mainly because some of my communities haven’t started here or reached a critical mass. Yes, I know: So start them myself.
I try to spend as much of my Reddit/forum time as I can here these days. And I’m doing what I can to promote this place.
