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Both. It's actually funny. Someone posted that image of alternatives to things like Reddit and Whatsapp and Google, etc, and it had Lemmy on it. I was at the point where I was getting sick of Reddit and had one account banned already. I joined Lemmy, and a few days later my other account got banned for up voting a comment that was just the gif of Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. I had already decided I liked Lemmy more at that point, so whatever. The one thing that sucks is that I had my own little sub with a couple thousand members where I posted my writing, and people seemed to like it. I enjoyed sharing my stories with all those weirdos, and now I can't.

Steve Huffman is a greedy piss boy

I like Lemmy better. There's a lot more effort to have value when you post and have conversations rather than arguments.

But the porn collection over here isn't great yet.

I'm not banned, I just won't go there anymore.

I still have my reddit account for niche stuff, but I overwrote all my comments with gibberish so they couldn't use my words to train anything. I could definitely give up my reddit if push came to shove.

The preponderance of flagrant double standards in moderation policies did it in for me. I deleted a 14 year old account when it became clear that there was going to be a clear effort on behalf of reddit's corporate leadership to push bullshit narratives and purge anyone who spoke up about it. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone invented a reason to ban me.

Turns out I don't even miss it.

I Was banned a while ago for hate speech against cops. I lurk sometimes with libreddit

I use both. I like some aspects of each better. Reddit mostly has some specific large communities I can't find on lemmy due to size, or lemmys demographics just not enjoying that topic.

With the recent US autocratization, its a good idea to keep a maintream profile (such as reddit) without any politics on the account (a decoy). Just in case the authorities start asking for social medias. No social media would make you look "suspicious". And since Lemmy is only used by leftists, you're gonna look guilty by association.

I'm honestly not surprised if EU countries start to ask for social medias in the future, authoritarian surveillance behaviors is not limited to fascism, even "liberal" countries use mass surveillance. I have a bad feeling "Chat Control" is gonna pass, it only goes downhill from there.

Banned I don't know how to behave online.

Israeli IOF Hasbara in worldnews got me banned from everything. I have 5 fully shadow banned account. basically and effectively perm bans. Your page says "no user exists" and your posts and comments cannot be seen by any user nor any viewer in the world.

I'm banned on enough accounts they auto ban me when I make new ones. I went off the rails on a lot of political topics. I never threatened anyone, but I did wish them unspecified harms, use the words of naughtiness, and made myself a target of a few pro Trump mods and that was it. Anyway, I'm fine here, I also didn't start using this until years after the ban so, not very related.

I like lemmy's culture more, but I still browse reddit

I was never on reddit

Not banned. I think it's great that when you copy posts from .ml, you mention the author now.

Both. Getting banned from reddit did me a favor, really.

Lemmy as a platform speaks to me on a philosophical level when it comes to the kinds of technology I use when I have the choice. I like that it is not at the mercy of the need to turn a profit to exist.

I'm on both, I like both. Been liking Reddit less and less over the years, I expect at some point I'll stop going, but for now it's still okay.

Last time I tried to make an account it was instantly shadow banned. Maybe they don't like my email address, who knows. It's kind of a dump over there anyway

I never really got into reddit.

Getting in on Lemmy (relatively) early made it feel more specifical so I actually do more than search it for answers

Left due to the crowd amassed for my country's sub. I became friend with a few regulars there when the sub is small, but these day they're significantly more and more people with a lack of common sense and logical thinking gathered there it's hard to find new friend, to the point the friends i met just decided to lurk or quit. No more fun.

Then API fiasco happened and since i hate the official app so much as it's significantly slower with horrible UI, it's a final push for me to make the jump.

I wouldn't say i like lemmy more, but it's the one i tolerate now. If the main dev became unbearable then i jump again.