Ask Lemmy

2 years into the fediverse; left during the IPO enshittification nonsense when they removed public access APIs and made Apollo impossible.

Left Reddit after they killed third party apps ( R.I.P RiF) and haven't looked back. That site is dead to me.

I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there's just too much useful info to ignore it. But I'm not going there directly

Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since

As I've said before, Reddit's become the new Quora / Yahoo Answers.

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.

Got banned for opposing genocide and Western imperialism in a main subreddit. 🤷

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.

Got banned a little before the whole API thing because Reddit admins think child molesters deserve a safe space. Fuck them and their shithole site.

Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I'd guess it's dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.

I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

Not banned. It had been going downhill, so I made up my mind I'd leave during blackout, kbin.social had been shared by Ernest there (hope he's okay), and ended up on Lemmy.

Eta cool username

I was banned for calling out an antisemetic dogwhistle in an anime sub. Asking why I was banned instead of the other person led to a permanent sitewide ban.

I’ve grown very interested and supportive of the fediverse, its values, and advantages. I’m still on Reddit though mainly because some of my communities haven’t started here or reached a critical mass. Yes, I know: So start them myself.

I try to spend as much of my Reddit/forum time as I can here these days. And I’m doing what I can to promote this place.

Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.

Came to Lemmy when reddit fucked up the api change. Month ago my Lemmy instance closed up so I moved to piefed instead as I find it more acceptable (take it as you want).

I'll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit's BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.

Rude awakening came last year after using reddit since 2015. Got banned for responding to r4r prompts. These days its become a cesspit for telegram ads and spam. Ironical you ban humans for botlike activities but let bots roam freely .

Joined lemmy and mostly use discord as an alt for redit subs i was actively involved in.

I did. Not banned though.

Like many in the comments, I left after the API changes. I'm not using their shitty app, and it's so bot infested now it's not even worth it.

Permabanned for supporting Luigi.

I haven't seriously posted anything on reddit since the APIcalypse but still lurk there occasionally.

It's also still a decent source of tech information and user experience but that will soon be over as well.

These days reddit is filled with AI slop, malicious bots, Russian trolls, nazi propaganda etc. Outside of some niche subreddits that site is not worth interacting with anymore than necessary.

I left Reddit as soon as Apollo stopped working

In this thread: People learning about digital immigration.

I made my account simply because I'm interested in federated/noncommercial social media. Left reddit for good once they fucked over the 3rd party apps.

I became aware of Lemmy during reddit’s API bullshit. I left, and never posted there again. Let their greed, bots, and enshittification rot.

Moved from reddit because reddit is now infested with old twitter people who are just so annoying. Also I like the idea of a non centralized social media.

I'm on my last account. Having to farm new accounts has become too cumbersome.

Whenever some deplorables get angry enough to get that account banned then I'm done. This is a less talked about rate of attrition on reddit.

I've had one banned for replying that a comment was "self gratifying". The militant far-right internet warriors report spam enough such that eventually some careless content mod will click the ban button.

I left during the API debacle.

12. It was 12 people.