Ask Lemmy

It was the API shutdown for me. I eventually got banned for mass editing+deleting my comments to nuke my old profiles on the way out the door. First one got banned from a few subs. Then subsequent accounts got site-banned for ban evasion, when I did the same on those accounts.

Had several accounts, some thrived as mods and active participants, some as mere commenters and some as mere readers. Otoh, I am still on Slashdot, Digg and other internet slush, was really sad to see bash.org go with my fun fun comments.

The internet will last. How we use it (with active, anonymous or sake accounts) continues to change.

This platform became "mature" with less downtime around the Reddit API disaster, and I wanted to support it. I still use Reddit, but I go here first.

Not banned from Reddit, but I was given a warning for suggesting big tech was unethical.

After my fourth or fifth perma ,, I decided Reddit was probably not for me .

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.

Picked if over API change, switched a couple of instances but still visit reddit in RO due to some niche communities staying there.

Came over to the 'threadiverse' after the whole API fiasco. It's been generally great. I do wish there were more users/content over here. But I think that will come with time.

Banned there for "inciting political violence" but then discovered you can get banned across multiple communities or whole servers here because a mod gets their feelings hut.

So, idk. Just trying to get used to the idea of not telling stranger my opinions on things, it seems weird.

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.

Me, I got banned. I still used RIF until it died just to read Reddit, but once that was over I was done.

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.

I'm just making a comeback after some time. Reddit is dead, there is bots and ads and AI everywhere.

Came here when Relay stopped working. Every now and again a Google search takes me there and I have Rdx so I can lurk without an account, but I don't really

Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.

I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there's also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.

Got a few accounts banned there. It became for increasingly ridiculous reasons over time, so I decided after getting perma-banned for saying I hope trump strokes out from some condition he was said to have (blood pooling in his cankles), I decided the catering to the Maga pigs was too much - apparently saying you hope someone's condition worsens is "violence" now. Another was banned from a local subreddit for throwing out the idea of removing valve cores from the tires of ICE vehicles to slow them down. Insane. Done with that horseshit, the censorship has become out of fucking control there.

Got a permanent ban, seemingly for using the word 'defenestrate' jokingly.

I left Reddit the day the API ban went into effect and Apollo no longer worked. And to be clear, it wasn't just that Apollo quit working, but it was also the way the dev was treated. He was trying to negotiate with Reddit to keep the app alive. Reddit & Spez not only weren't negotiating in good faith, but then tried to make Christian look like the villain. Unfortunately he recorded everything and brought receipts proving Reddit's lies, and that was enough to make me walk away.

I spend the majority of my doomscrolling on Lemmy, and the only time I go back to Reddit is for live game sports threads (specifically for American football), which haven't really seemed to catch on over here. I have done a couple of playoff games with Mastodon hashtags, and that worked pretty well, but for regular season games, I participate in the Reddit live threads. But daily reading/commenting? It's over here now, and I'm plenty happy.

I expect everybody came here from Reddit.

Yup. Then I forgot what community I was on and had to start over again.

I'm most interested in the smaller subs on Reddit, like ArchViz, Blender, some others, and regional sites--state and city level. Lemmy just doesn't have much activity on such comms, so I'm still on Reddit for that. I split my time about 60/40.

I got banned too many times for telling people to punch Nazis. Eventually I was permad. Haven't really tried to circumvent it much because why would I want to use a platform that vehemently protects Nazis?