I've heard about Lemmy for a while, and I just joined after getting permanently banned for "threatening violence" after posting "nice sub here" in a new subreddit. I wish I were joking, but it personally doesn't surprise me that much when considering my past experiences. The appeal was denied.

Reddit's most dedicated and longstanding users can only tolerate so many nonsensical and frivolous permanent account bans over the years before they flock to that beautiful forest sprouting up across the river. Lemmy should continue to grow because people like me intend to be here for the life of it.

My last few months on Reddit were spent tracking bot accounts, and taking note of suspicious patterns of certain subreddits refusing to take action against blatant propaganda bots. I'm glad to be past that, at least for now, and I wish the users I'm leaving behind luck. Things were nuts.

[–] nac82@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lmao, I was banned on reddit for reporting something somebody else wrote. Banned for abuse of the report system. Just want to repeat, it was a full reddit ban, not a subreddit ban.

I had submitted a total of 5 reports over the life of the account. The first 3 were acted on by the admins (clear calls to violence/racism) and 2 that passed admin review.

The first report I submitted on r/worldnews led to me being banned from reddit.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's it? Wow, a lot fewer people were upset about the loss of 3rd party apps than I thought. We need to add at least 3 more zeroes to that number if this place stands a chance at taking down reddit.

[–] xfc@lemdro.id -1 points 2 years ago

Does it need to?

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Probably a lot more to do with people being pissed about reddit going public and selling their data to ai companies for profits.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Its still only voters, lurkers that dont do any actions arent counted