I came here as a result of them fucking over 3rd party app developers. Never once have been banned by Reddit.

I escaped when they killed their API.

Reddit is repetitive and tiresome on the main subs. It’s so bot driven. There are so many ads. Spaz is a dipshit.

That said Lemmy still lacks the small, niche subs, which are still ok over there due to small numbers.

That said Lemmy will get the numbers for those niche subs if we all join and contribute.

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.

I only tolerated watching reddit using the slide app, so no app = no reddit.

I deleted all my posts.

One day when browsing from a VPN they said if you want to see this page you need to login. I reluctantly login, to get an email a few hours later “your account has been permanently banned for suspicious login”

Banned for absolutely no reason, no reason was given. I tried to get a response multiple times, but was ignored. Can’t make a new account without being automatically banned. So I refuse to go near that shithole ever again

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

After Reddit killed Apollo, I refused to participate and only used it for news and to see discussions about random stuff. I’d heard about Lemmy back then, but it sounded like it was Reddit for Reddit rejects which didn’t sound appealing. After the big Bluesky migration, I tried it out and I was more open to the idea of the fediverse. Lemmy ended up scratching the Reddit itch when I tried it, even though there’s a serious problem with sub discovery that I think holds it back.

I’m not banned from Reddit, but I did come here out of disgust for their many many shitty policies, and their entire ethos as both a website and a company.

One of the worst parts is that all the draconian stuff they do, doesn’t even seem to be effective at achieving its stated purpose.

Them killing Apollo had me pissed, but for whatever reason I put up with it, waiting for something better. People were starting to talk about Emmy and I thought that was interesting and didn’t really look into it again until I said something mean about Elon and got caught up in a ban wave.

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.

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.

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.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.