I personally like the community a lot more... though I suppose it also depends why you were banned from reddit as to whether you'll be happy here.
If you were banned for talking shit on minorities, trans people or something like that, you'll probably find yourself quickly banned from most instances here. Unless you just avoid the topics
If you were banned for say, being a fan of Luigi Mangione etc... You'll probably be very happy here. Point is lemmy admin's in general are very open to the left, and very accepting of more or less anything but intolerance.
If you were banned for non political views... then I guess it depends a lot, You can talk far more openly on topics of piracy etc.... in most instances.
Same here. I’ve been suspended on Reddit and haven’t heard back on my appeals in over four months. Like, all I did was talk about gamedev, post pixel art, and share my free games when/where appropriate. Got site-wide ban after posting my game in a "Weekly Self-Promotion Thread" created by mods.
Lemmy is alright. Communities are smaller, of course, but its growing. Welcome!
Honestly I think engagementwise if anything I see improvement over reddit. Less people, but also less competition so. I'd say on the whole my comments get 3x more replies and notices than reddit.
I guess I do suck linux dick, but can't really see what you can say that would get comment stalked. I've never seen someone reply on a non linux based post and get a reply like "oh but 3 weeks ago you said you were using win 11, so your input on world hunger is meaningless".