Welcome, glad to have you aboard!

I’ve basically abandoned Reddit as well. I’ve been on for so long, but this bullshit makes me feel unsafe. If the platform is going to so blatantly side with those who would happily let me die for a few dollars (health insurance companies), then I don’t need to give them my attention or data anymore.

Welcome to the Fediverse! If you've been on Reddit for 14 years, you were attracted to what it once was. Lemmy is that, but a whole lot better, and your skills as a moderator will be highly valued here. In fact, if you are looking to start up any new communities hmu and I'll see about giving you a hand.

Also, here's your obligatory Saint Luigi blessing for the banned:

remember kids:

A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power

Reddit. Doesn't. Want. Active. Users.

It wants bots. It wants HailCorporate promotional accounts. And it wants your eyeballs to look at their ads. It doesn't want you to participate in any meaningful way.

Stop using the site. Stop pretending this site is intended to be used by real people. Be glad they're doing this and not simply baiting you along with fake interactions while you've been shadowbanned and left to unwittingly scream into the void.

It was liberating for me. Haven't gone back.

I got permabanned for saying “trans women are women”, which they said was encouraging violence. So who even knows what’s happening there at this point.

13 year account here, also banned for supporting Luigi. I tried to appeal, but the post had already been removed so I didn't know what exactly I said that violated the rules, and my appeal was denied. This was a post I made back in December, mind you. They went looking for a reason to ban a Luigi supporter. They did homework.

Somebody over there is really afraid of how popular Luigi's actions are. I wonder why...

Permabanned for "glorifying or inciting violence" by replying to a post about Elon Musk under a dinosaur poop meme, where someone asked "what should the would richest man do?" with "he should eat shit and die".

Here for good.

Welcome! There are dozens of us

Reddit is a bot-infested hellscape. I got so mad when I learned that most AITAH posts and popular sub posts were just karma farmers preying on our attention. Lemmy seems to offer some relief. Happy to be here :)

Luigi is a hero

I got banned for asking why someone’s comment was banned. Crazy shit over there.

It is too much pressure for Reddit to have this many users. They're doing their best to get rid of them. It's just too much to handle... Poor Reddit

Help Reddit's well-being by leaving it and join Lemmy today!

Yeah, I was on Reddit for over a decade. And the changes especially in these past couple years have been so dramatic. I received a seven day band today for like the third time and finally deleted the app and here I am . No looking back.

My main concern is that Luigi isn’t even confirmed to be the one to have pulled the trigger, right?

I got a 3 day sitewide suspension, and (very surprisingly) a permaban from /r/fuckthealtright for calling a story about an Infowars employee getting murdered "uplifting."

I dumped Reddit over the weekend.

They may all go to hell, and I will go to Lemmy.

I got shadow banned for making a popular post about dyi Luigi prayer candles on witches vs patriarchy. No warning no notification just a site wide permanent shadow ban on an old account with high karma. I feel like this is a better community though so win win I guess. Funny because I feel like they’re banning most real people and just leaving the bots lol. Tons of people post on shadow banned everyday this can’t be a healthy business model.

This same thing happened to me twice in one week. I haven't had a ban on my account in 14 years. I've given up on Reddit and just deleted my account. Fuck them if they want to treat us like we're children. I won't use their platform again.

14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).

Got my badge of honor today. Reddit are bootlickers.

Welcome reddit refugee!! Best time to ditch reddit was in july 2023 second best time is now

Same man, I've been on Reddit pretty much since 2005.

It seems like such a waste of 20 years of doom scrolling, imagine if I'd put that time into learning a trade, or another language...

In a Yogscast TTT video some years back, Rythian used 'Green Mario' as a joking name for Bouphe, who was using the Luigi player model at the time.

For those who want to undermine reddit's power trip, I propose Green Mario as the first stick in their knee-bending attitude.

Considering the time you were at reddit (not too different from mine), I think you'll find Lemmy like reddit was in your earlier times there.

What I mean by that is generally more thoughtful and reasonable discussion (generally), smaller communities, more generalized (but specific stuff is accepted, so "all ttrpg is good here" vs "thats pathfinder, this is for 5e only!", as an example.

Welcome and I hope you enjoy it here!

Also, if you come across a server you think fits better as a home base - make an account, see if it fits. You dont have to stay in one spot just because its where you made your first.

Curating subs? I see it as more of "creating my own bubble". Lemmy is a good way to kinda expose myself to other stuff for a change and not just the reddit hive mind.

I mean, how many times have you opened a post and knew what the top 3 comments would be??

These companies are revealing their true colors now that they think it's acceptable to do so.

Simple solution: don't go on that shithole unless it's to repost content here

It seems like ever since the DOGE kids were posted on Reddit and Elon got mad the ban hammer has been out en force.

It's been almost two years since my exodus. I've popped in Reddit a few times for specific information, but I noticed I just feel like crap when I do. It's just so toxic. I didn't notice it until I spent time in Lemmy.

I got permabanned during the women's March for cheering on the March posters and such. I started and admined the /keitruck sub reddit. I also had some other subreddits that weren't as big. Keitruck is pretty small though. All that work for nothing. So I didn't fight the ban, just moved here. Good move! Now I only go to reddit from accidentally clicking on web searches. Who knows WTF is going on.

The adjustment can be a little awkward at first but there's plenty to do on Lemmy if you take some time to learn how things work and how to get the most out of it.

If you're the type of person that enjoys posting and guiding topics there's no shortage of people hungry for content on Lemmy. There are lots of active communities but even more that are still trying to get off the ground or need someone interested to adopt them.

Whatever your interests, https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great way to find communities for the topics you care about if you aren't finding them on lemmy.world.

I hope your time here is more enjoyable than where you're coming from.

I’m here because r/pics bots are assholes and mods don’t reply to asking why they banned you, the auto ban says I was banned because at some point in my many years I commented on a subreddit they didn’t like. I carried on just fine, but when I was browsing one day with a different account I commented on another r/pics post and now both accounts are banned for 7 days for ban evasion. The bots still never told me what to do about it to fix it and they denied my appeal, so fuck em.

Deleted that app, and all my other social media apps, Facebook, instagram, x, Reddit, threads, etc. im tired of arguing with all the bots. But I need something to still be able to scroll, so here I am.

I think there is a very simple solution to all your problems with reddit...

Every long term reddit bans and/or alienates and comes to lemmy, benefits us all. Welcome!

bring your subs, bring your friends!

Did you also get troll reported to that automated help response for people that may be contemplating self harm?

That was always a good time. Man, I miss Reddit so much...

Welcome to Lemmy! If you find it's not quite you your liking, there is also Mbin which is sort of similar but has some significant differences too.

Personally, I like them both and they're both federated.

If you wanted to check it out, https://fedia.io/ is the more popular instance.

They’re finniky bastards.

When Reddit bans or even just temporarily suspends me, I just create a new account right away and jump back in.

1. I only use Reddit in a Brave private window. If I want to use Reddit on my phone I just use RedReader and never bother logging in. I don't really feel the need to post when I'm mobile anyway.

2. Once I'm banned/suspended I open a Firefox window and create a new Outlook account.

3. Open a new Brave private window and create a new Reddit account with the new email. Log in. But hey, all your subreddits aren't there from your old account and man, it's going to be annoying to re-add all those subs, right? Nah. There's a browser script for that.

4. In your old Reddit account go to old.reddit.com/subreddits or whatever button you click on in Reddit that shows a list of all your subreddits. At the top of your list of subs is a link titled "multireddit of your subscriptions". Right click on that link and copy it.

5. Now go to your new Reddit account and paste that link in the URL field and hit enter and you'll have a list of all your subs from your old account with the join button next to all of them. You could go down the list clicking join on all of them. I have hundreds, so screw that. I use the script. I won't paste my script, just go to Google and search for "Reddit sub auto-add script Github". There's a few different ones you can try. Essentially, in the window with your new account and all the subs with the join buttons, you are hitting F12 to open the developer console, clicking on the "Console" tab, and then pasting the script and hitting "Enter" to run it. The script is essentially just searching the page for all the "Join" buttons and auto-clicking them.

NOTE: If the script is clicking those join buttons too fast, or if you've decided to manually go down the page clicking the join buttons and you're doing it too fast, Reddit detects that and will block you from Reddit for like 10-15 minutes before you can continue. In any of these scripts you'll see a number, usually 500. That's the milliseconds the script waits before clicking on the next join button. 500 used to work. Now you'll want to change that to like 3000 or 5000 to increase the wait time. 5000 has been working for me.

That's it though. You can just leave that window with the script open and it'll go down your list of subs auto-joining them. Before I found that script it was REALLY annoying manually clicking on hundreds of join buttons. Now, steps 1-4 take me less than 5 minutes and then step 5 is automated so I just go do something else. My new accounts aren't shadowbanned and I'm back on their shitty site nice and quick. Because honestly, I wouldn't still bother with their site at all if I had to wait for my suspension to end or had to manually rejoin all my subs every time.

Welcome soldier!

The free market works in mysterious ways.

Should something like this ever happen to me, I'll be happy to leave Reddit behind. Right now I'm still looking to promote Lemmy.

welcome home!

A fresh new start can do wonders. Reddit is freaking fever dream in every direction.

Now that you're unbanned, consider using a tool to edit all of your comments to gibberish to remove your value from reddit. I've seen it a lot, it's easy to do, and it works.