Ask Lemmy

I left and blocked reddit on my network after the landed gantry debacle. I'm not banned but I might as well be.

My main and my alt still exist on reddit and have enough karma that I was offered stock options on both accounts.

Not going back because of the API fuckery. Coming up on 2 years on lemmy. Haven't looked back.

Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.

Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It's like a slice of the old web.

Reddit has been getting worse and eventually they just stopped showing people my comments so I deleted my account. Pretty much the next day the warnings for upvotes started coming in.

I just like Lemmy more.

I left Reddit on principle.
I still have functioning accounts over there.

The only time i go there is if I'm linked there when searching for info.

I had been though it all, having joined about a year after the site first launched. I have witnessed multiple evolutions of the broader community and management. I could no longer support what I knew was coming next, so I bailed after 17 years due to the API fiasco.

Now I visit only by chance on searches and RSS subscriptions to a couple super niche subreddits that are more likely to disappear than migrate anywhere else.

I quit reddit and have no intention to go back. Its become total crap and full of boosted ads.

I'm just stubborn, left during the blackout and didn't want to go back.

I left Reddit because the algorithm really wanted me to be angry and afraid.

The world is a shitty enough place. I don’t need the advertisers stressing me out even more.

I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there... I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

Lemmy is just so much better quality.

Not yet. I did get a comment removed but successfully appealed for saying what citizens do to kings. The appeal was me saying it was in a historical context, of course ;)

Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲

My opinions on a certain orange thing was a bit top radical for ol reddit.. but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.

I got perma banned for saying that Elon Musk should get "burned" in Canada for fraudulent sales numbers posted by Tesla in order to qualify for Federal subsidies.

They took me literally, and claimed I was promoting violence. My appeal got shut down in less than an hour. They "burned" my 8 year old account, for saying that Elon should get "burned" in Canada. The irony is real.

I nuked my 11 year old account when I moved here.

Wave of the future!

Lemmy more. The default comment sorting means there's a chance that my comment will be at the top and therefore discussion can happen. On reddit, past a certain amount of comments, I don't bother. No one will see it.

Like many here, I left reddit during the whole API debacle, and I was doing really good about avoiding reddit for a while, but there's way less people here, way less communities, and while yes, I could start the communities I'd like to see on Lemmy, I just don't think there are enough users to have engaging conversations yet. For that reason, I maintain my reddit account, so that I can have those conversations and connections that I can't get here. I hope it changes some day and we can grow our numbers here.

I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don't want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I'd look back at what I've posted and commented more often, but I haven't much at all.

I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn't use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.

I was briefly perma banned but it was bullshit so it was lifted on appeal, but it was wake up call. Reddit admins are getting kinda fashy so I decided after 14 years it was time to leave.

I've still got an account. But I jumped over during the API debacle. I'm sure if I stayed I would have been banned for commenting on the Luigi situation, or calling Musk and Trump out for the dimwitted little Nazi fucks they are.

But I'm here! A proud little lemming just feeling blessed AF to be here with all you nerds!

I like lemmy more and decided to get my accounts banned in reddit after I started using lemmy.

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

Lemmy is a much nicer environment overall, so i moved here

I'm not banned, I was banned in r/Korea for posting a link to my own peertube instance but nowhere else.

I just don't feel that me trying to make some rich guy even more rich makes a lot of sense when they behave so shitty to us.

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

I got perma banned so Im here now! And now I like it better

I over-wrote and then deleted my nearly 20 years of posts/comments and then deleted my account.

I came here during the API thing then went back because it’s quiet here. Then I came back because I got into selfhosting and now I’m more dug in.

Idk why I would get banned from Reddit

Wanted to quit Reddit and the censoring of anything critical of Elon game me the impetus.

I was enjoying it till a post I randomly clicked on showed a screenshot of a post I made here and that post was apparently removed by mods...

Assuming it was the one I said everything is going to Putin's plan--- tank the economy, billionaires lap it up, the US lose allies, and the next step is just taking orders right from Russia. Apparently that was "controversial"? Lol

I halted all of my posting to reddit during the API fiasco. Lurked on Lemmy until I needed to start blocking communities and then created an account to do so.

Most of the niche and local communities (most notably r/IWantOut) are still on that sinking ship though, and not here :(. I only visit to see what those niche communities are up to from time to time, but do not post or get any news from there.

Of the communities that are highly active on Lemmy, I do think the content is pretty good and is enough to replace reddit. I feel like I get to hear what's going on without the censorship on that sinking ship. There's just enough activity such that the more general communities have enough new content to look at by browsing the "all" tab on the homepage and in the communities, but there's still not enough activity or users for me to browse through "local" or "subscribed" yet.

Never been on Reddit. I tried Masto as a Twitter alternative, figured Masto is a bad Twitter alternative but found this. It doesn't feel much like Reddit, but it does feel like old 90s forums, which I consider a feature, not a bug.

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.

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 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.

I still have my reddit account, but I nearly exclusively use it for a closed, non-public group I am in for nearly a decade.

But I have moved my focus to Lemmy.

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.

I went scorched earth on reddit

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.