how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?
or any other reason.. im curious.
you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, "boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account"
im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.
I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.
Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years' worth of content on my 250k karma account with "fuck spez" and left it all there to rot.
I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.
I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.
We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was "fired," it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.
Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.
Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.
It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.
I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.
I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.
Wasn't banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.
Like... I genuinely can't use words like "incel", "cuck", "snowflake", "Trump", "Andrew Tate", etc without having my comment removed on most subs.
I escaped when they killed their API.
Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.
I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there's also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.
Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.
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
I got banned for being unhinged towards users who were doing (IMO) obvious nazi dogwhistles and the mods sided against me. Fuck them mods and fuck the users who accept that shit. The posters knew exactly what they were signaling.
I joined Reddit thanks to 3rd party apps, and when they turned their back on them I was out too.
I used one of those automated programs that used the old.reddit API to overwrite all my comments. I took a break for lunch, thinking to delete my account afterwards, but when I came back my account had been permanently banned.
So it was definitely like one of those "You can't quit, you're fired" type of situations.
From time to time I visit the site because of search results, but from what I can tell, all the main subreddits are filled with bots reposting the same content from 5 years ago.
Came during the initial revolt. Increased attention after getting banned from Reddit because I joked I'd like a guy with a bunch of guns to give me one cause he had too many. They tried to say I was soliciting for the purchase of firearms, and when I said there was no way any serious person could have thought I was asking to buy a gun, they told me the lifetime ban was in place and if I ever came around again they'd ban me for ban evasion.
Lul. That place is a total fucking hellscape.
When they killed third party apps while disregarding the need for accessibility completely - their own app doesn't even let blind people manage their own subreddit because of that.
So yeah, because I left reddit.
Left reddit during the API controversy a few years ago. Never been banned or anything, just disagreed with the decisions being made.
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.
I was banned from Reddit as a "security precaution" which I assume means they didn't like the fact that my browser was always security hardened thus they couldn't track me to feed me ads.
I was already considering leaving for Lemmy, but when they straight up banned me for doing nothing wrong other than protect my privacy, that was the final straw. Mind you, I didn't even use Reddit that frequently anyway, which made me all the more baffled by their sudden decision with no warnings at all.
I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I'd already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.
I also left after the api access changes. I am so glad I switched, this a much more ethical model of operation.
Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star
Became initially during the API 3rd party bullshit and recently moved completely over after I got banned from Reddit.
I left after yet another ban.
1st time because I criticized the US. Second time cause I said that trump needs the Mussolini treatment.
With everything that is said on reddit this was tame in comparison. Then I landed on Lemmy, and it feels like I am out of the land of bots.
left because of api changes and their increasing censorship of content they don't like (I miss r/all having r/eyeblech).
left during the subreddit mod purges. we closed our sub - 45k~ users with lots of creative, daily content when they announced the API changes and other shittery. They demanded it reopen or they'd appoint new mods, no new mods would step forward. I left and never looked back. I probably should have left long before but the community kept me there doing the modwork.
A note: APPRECIATE YOUR MODS. They're keeping this experience trash free as much as humanly possible. There's a certain type of person that volunteers to help build good communities and they mostly deserve your appreciation.
My first account was on .ml roughly 5 years back, when it was basically the only instance. I had heard about there being a FOSS alternative to Reddit - but I quickly lost interest because the community was just too small back then. Re-activated my account when the API exodus happened, because there was finally a community large enough to provide a lived-in feeling. Have only gotten more dedicated to the Fediverse ever since.
Reddit is repetitive and tiresome on the main subs. It’s so bot driven. There are so many ads. Spaz is a dipshit.
That said Lemmy still lacks the small, niche subs, which are still ok over there due to small numbers.
That said Lemmy will get the numbers for those niche subs if we all join and contribute.
As I've said before, Reddit's become the new Quora / Yahoo Answers.
Reddit is a shit platform, became worse with the IPO and LLMs, but mainly, to me, the moderation is completely haphazard and the shitty posters were let loose. The inconsistency in moderation made me give up on being constructive.
Here, if you find an instance and communities with good ground rules you agree with, it works. You even have a modlog for transparency.
I left Reddit after the Apollo app was no longer usable due to the whole API thing. Their app is garbage and until recently their mobile website wouldn’t work (it would force you to visit with the app to view some subreddits).
Now, I use Voyager with Lemmy. I still check in on Reddit from time to time or when searching for info, but I use Lemmy mostly now.
I stopped using reddit after the api changes, and started using lemmy after about a year of going cold turkey
I nuked my Reddit account when they dropped support for 3rd-party apps. Spez can eat a bag of dicks.
Once the baconreader app developer stated it would stop due to API nonsense I left.
I tried another one called something like Squabbles* for a few months and really liked it, then the owner of that site decided that the racists and nazis that were joining were allowed to say what they wanted.
There were a lot of trans, gay etc, and non whites on that site who tried to reason with the owner but ultimately left due to the hostilities. The place went downhill fast and about a week later I left. It may be far better now.I only go on Reddit now if I'm looking for info on the PC and one of the links is from there. However most of the time it doesn't give me any real info, usually it's just lots of people having the same issue I was searching an answer for.
Edit: it was called Squabbles, not Squiggles
Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo. Squabbles seems to have died a death, and I'm not surprised tbh.Came here after my niche small Reddit client got officially shut down. When the API changes were announced, I knew that I’d rather switch than use their official Reddit client. I didn’t like that they charge AI companies for accessing my data and I don’t get any share of their profit neither. Here on Lemmy everyone can train their AI models on our data but at least there’s no random dude (spez) who profits off that.
The decentralization meaning that I can choose some random small instance and not be bound to the admins of any big one was another big point for Lemmy
Yup. Then I forgot what community I was on and had to start over again.
I still use both but slowly making the transition to Lemmy. Been making political posts on Reddit for a while now & I'm convinced the mods of r/meme will perma ban me after my temp ban is lifted. Can't speak the truth even if it gets millions of views.
I became aware of Lemmy during reddit’s API bullshit. I left, and never posted there again. Let their greed, bots, and enshittification rot.
Got banned for opposing genocide and Western imperialism in a main subreddit. 🤷
Im mainly here cause I find the idea of the fediverse an intriguing concept to be honest :3
I only tolerated watching reddit using the slide app, so no app = no reddit.
I deleted all my posts.
One day when browsing from a VPN they said if you want to see this page you need to login. I reluctantly login, to get an email a few hours later "your account has been permanently banned for suspicious login"
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 was permanently banned on Reddit June 2024 because I said I hoped the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I'm not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.
I'm just making a comeback after some time. Reddit is dead, there is bots and ads and AI everywhere.
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.
Oh, at least two, I’d guess. But seriously, I left when the api was shut down and I could no longer use Apollo to browse. There were other signs, but that was my tipping point.
Saw the direction Reddit was going in. Decided to join Lemmy to see what was going on. 2 months later I was axed from Reddit. Now here, I live.
My app stopped working due to their API stuff so I just kinda stopped using it over the next few weeks, after trying to use it in a browser which was horrible.
Left Reddit after they killed third party apps ( R.I.P RiF) and haven't looked back. That site is dead to me.
I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I'd been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn't give a shit anymore.
Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.
I've been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it's better here.
edit: I didn't say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already
I got banned while on a work trip to the United States. I hadn't posted at the time for more than a year.
I requested my post history from them and posted it up publicly to see if anyone could figure out why, I've still got no idea.
There's a link to my post history in a previous winge about it https://lemmy.nz/post/2224688/2959801.
I initially joined Lemmy because I wanted to leave Reddit after the API situation. Admittedly I still use Reddit because Lemmy doesn’t have an active enough community for all the topics I am interested in or want information on. Once it gets there, I will fully make the switch.
Left reddit when the API nonsense was coming and the site had gotten so bad in general.
Got a few accounts banned there. It became for increasingly ridiculous reasons over time, so I decided after getting perma-banned for saying I hope trump strokes out from some condition he was said to have (blood pooling in his cankles), I decided the catering to the Maga pigs was too much - apparently saying you hope someone's condition worsens is "violence" now. Another was banned from a local subreddit for throwing out the idea of removing valve cores from the tires of ICE vehicles to slow them down. Insane. Done with that horseshit, the censorship has become out of fucking control there.
Me, I got banned. I still used RIF until it died just to read Reddit, but once that was over I was done.
I left Reddit as soon as Apollo stopped working
I lived through Livejournal choosing to destroy itself and saw Reddit doing the same things and worse and walked away. Choosing short term profits over people makes me NOPE out. No bans or warnings for me. I guess I just don't type "dangerous" stuff even though I consider myself pretty opinionated.
After my fourth or fifth perma ,, I decided Reddit was probably not for me .
Shadow banned due to automatic filter
I left during the API bullshit and never looked back.
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 left during the API debacle.
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 left during the API thing, went back briefly later on, and left again when I realized how messed up moderation and subreddit rules had become. As usual, dumb business people are ruining that site for everyone.
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.
I got banned a few times but it's not like I couldn't just make new accounts.
I didn't even want to be on that shit website from the beginning and was just waiting for a decent alternative.
That'd be me.
Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life
@Abraxas@feddit.uk Never banned. Started exploring alternatives during API changes. Staying on federated because it makes more sense.
Everyone understand how ridiculous it would if you could only email people on same email service, but for some reason we accepted that limitation as normal for social posts for many years.
Not banned from Reddit, but I was given a warning for suggesting big tech was unethical.
2 years into the fediverse; left during the IPO enshittification nonsense when they removed public access APIs and made Apollo impossible.
A lot, the question is when.
The first wave has been getting banned since the US regime took control over it in the person of Jessica Ashoosh (2016).
And a whole lot more since the genocide in Palestine.
The slightest criticism was enough.So I have my doubts on the large group of libs that only got banned since Trump.
They didn't care about anything but themselves and only what their government now does to them.
They are perfectly fine going back to a nice 'democratic' fascist-lite regime that only terrorises other countries while they live in their bubble.only fully transitioned when I got banned for some statement defending victims of violence
started looking during the API fiasco
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.
Jumped ship when that API shit started. I like this communities way more than a lot ob subreddits that have been around before.
Left around the API drama times. I still visit, but haven't posted anything for two years.
My only regret is that I still haven't defaced my profile over there - I'm looking for ways to save my data and somehow link it to the original posts/comments, because besides the shitposting, I've posted some things that could be useful to myself too.
After Reddit killed Apollo, I refused to participate and only used it for news and to see discussions about random stuff. I’d heard about Lemmy back then, but it sounded like it was Reddit for Reddit rejects which didn’t sound appealing. After the big Bluesky migration, I tried it out and I was more open to the idea of the fediverse. Lemmy ended up scratching the Reddit itch when I tried it, even though there’s a serious problem with sub discovery that I think holds it back.
I’m not banned from Reddit, but I did come here out of disgust for their many many shitty policies, and their entire ethos as both a website and a company.
One of the worst parts is that all the draconian stuff they do, doesn't even seem to be effective at achieving its stated purpose.
Them killing Apollo had me pissed, but for whatever reason I put up with it, waiting for something better. People were starting to talk about Emmy and I thought that was interesting and didn’t really look into it again until I said something mean about Elon and got caught up in a ban wave.
I see a lot more banned users and deleted comments on lemmy than I did on reddit.
Me, I'm getting constantly banned from r/Europe by this moronic mods.
Banned by writing about that Germany never paid anything to Poland for holocaust of Polish citizens
I'm reading worldnews rules on Lemmy. There should be lax rules, no ban whatsoever - only for pedophilia and obvious crime like drugs, terrorism, videos of murders
I quit commenting at that site long ago but still lurk occaisionally in some technical sr's. It became too mean.
Me, arbitrary ass ban while using an alt trying to gain karma on the front page so I could post with it, my first comment insta banned all accounts permanently because I guess I was banned from that sub on my main/og account.
Yeah, got a few temp bans for talking about shitler/muskrat and they perma-banned my account for "harassment". The post they linked me to didn't even link to a comment; it wasn't something I remember posting on.
I was getting tired of the culture over there anyway. I was also tired of arguing with conservatives who think their shit doesn't stink and regurgitate Fox News talking points about the "illegals" and ICE.
I kind of stopped actively using Reddit in 2020, but without engaging actively in an alternative. Then the API debacle happened, so I registered a kbin account, when that died down (RIP Ernest) I moved here.
That would be me for ban evasion this past week
First I was temporarily banned. Then, permanently banned. They would not even display the comments in question which led to my exile. Toxic power tripping MF’s all up in it over there.
Came here when Relay stopped working. Every now and again a Google search takes me there and I have Rdx so I can lurk without an account, but I don't really
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.
Two years ago. Haven't looked back. Much
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.
Had been thinking about leaving Reddit for a while because of inevitable enshitification but it was the API thing that prompted me to move.
Had several accounts, some thrived as mods and active participants, some as mere commenters and some as mere readers. Otoh, I am still on Slashdot, Digg and other internet slush, was really sad to see bash.org go with my fun fun comments.
The internet will last. How we use it (with active, anonymous or sake accounts) continues to change.
This platform became "mature" with less downtime around the Reddit API disaster, and I wanted to support it. I still use Reddit, but I go here first.
i was banned from reddit but had been wanting to leave for quite some time at that point, so it was a welcomed change. that's when i learned more about decentralized social networks and stuff.. glad to be here. i wouldn't go back to reddit even if i was allowed to.
Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)
... and how many, like myself, were permabanned with no warnings by overzealous lemmy.ml mods?
(For posts that no, were not racist or -phobic )
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 came here after deciding to quit reddit. I'm Canadian. I had no problems with reddit other than Trump's threats to annex (invade) Canada. I'm also joining my national brothers and sisters in the tariff boycotts.
I did
I got banned from one of my favorite subreddits, which made it a lot less fun over there.
Arrived here in the process of USA boycott.
I got banned from reddit and then i got banned here
I haven't had a Reddit account thank god lol. but Reddit bans people just for saying the word Luigi, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who've been unfairly banned from Spez's shitsite come here
Picked if over API change, switched a couple of instances but still visit reddit in RO due to some niche communities staying there.
Got a permanent ban, seemingly for using the word 'defenestrate' jokingly.
got banned for supporting Luigi. albeit a bit vocally.
Came over to the 'threadiverse' after the whole API fiasco. It's been generally great. I do wish there were more users/content over here. But I think that will come with time.
I expect everybody came here from Reddit.
Yo
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 was done with redit toxicity.
I prefer this. Beehaw is my favorite. They're so nice over there. 💛🐝
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I left Reddit the day the API ban went into effect and Apollo no longer worked. And to be clear, it wasn't just that Apollo quit working, but it was also the way the dev was treated. He was trying to negotiate with Reddit to keep the app alive. Reddit & Spez not only weren't negotiating in good faith, but then tried to make Christian look like the villain. Unfortunately he recorded everything and brought receipts proving Reddit's lies, and that was enough to make me walk away.
I spend the majority of my doomscrolling on Lemmy, and the only time I go back to Reddit is for live game sports threads (specifically for American football), which haven't really seemed to catch on over here. I have done a couple of playoff games with Mastodon hashtags, and that worked pretty well, but for regular season games, I participate in the Reddit live threads. But daily reading/commenting? It's over here now, and I'm plenty happy.
Making a conscious decision to leave social media that’s controlled by big companies that only exist to milk people for money. I’m tired of things being great until they’re not. Reddit is a cash cow for user data and it’s so full of bots and disinformation campaigns now.
I immediately noticed people are nicer here. I think a lot of it is that these are real people and not bots who are programmed to be argumentative.
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A lot.