Look in your heart, you know it to be true (OC)

not banned just swapped

Can confirm, was banned from reddit. But it was for advocating violence against child molesters so fuck em.

I actually deleted my Reddit account during the big API purge and came here instead. This applies to many users here.

Same here ... I just didn't like the atmosphere there any more and jumped on Lemmy
I realized that I jumped on Reddit years ago when it was smaller and less known and I grew with it over time ... I thought the same thing about Lemmy and now I feel good about growing on this new platform.
I did the same. Thank goodness for personal block lists.
I gotta get around to doing that!

Never got banned, just always used a 3rd part reader and wasn't going to migrate to the shit default app

I kept using infinity until about a year ago when I got banned. 3rd party apps continued to work, just had to fiddle a bit with your own API.

The initial wave of users onto reddit clones often include a disproportionate amount of malcontents. A lot of people who don’t play well with others, who are banned from reddit (or at least banned from lots of subreddits) usually turn up first on these reddit alternatives and disrupt the community by repeatedly showing anti-social or disruptive, attention seeking behaviour. It’s not even necessarily related to any political persuasion. This stuff can collapse budding alternatives.

The first wave of new users on reddit alternatives are, in my experience, more likely to have a lot of problem users and since the sites are so small, and usually sparsely moderated, they are much more disruptive than they would be on reddit.

From what I can tell, the Fediverse has got past that.

It's a matter of numbers and community.
If you want to be a jerk, people will ignore you. If there are ten other people in the room, you can only be a jerk ten times before everyone in the room starts to ignore you.
That's the Fediverse, it's a small community and word gets around fast with people who see and notice a bad character and start blocking them, their posts, their comments and their activity.
That's the thing about numbers .... if you are a small group, word gets around quickly who the jerk is ... if you are a big community, there are more systems in place to deal with jerks
So the only way for jerks to survive ... is to build a community of jerks for themselves ... and surprisingly enough, those communities don't last very long.
- Yeah, indeed but some people are frustrating and objectionable in behaviour that doesn't immediately lead to bans. Sort of malicious compliance, knowing where the line is. "I'm not touching you" behaviour. They do slowly get banned, but they can run rampant on communities for a time until they do.

Some of us aren't banned.

I simply prefer to be here. I like the idea of a Fediverse.
- I'll put up with a worse community to not have to deal with that bad of a ui

Err… no!?

Not banned, just left after RiF stopped working

I still miss RiF. It was great

Welp, back to the bots!

Kind of funny coming from the admin of an instance that goes around and bans people for no reason. Even funnier when yoy and VS tried to contact the admins of different websites to get me banned over there because you did not like me suggesting that the moderators and admins of your instance were abusive. Hell even other Lemmy admins can back that up.

Corgana is SysAdmin on ST.W and, from what I recall, the owner of the domain. Keep that in mind when you see Corgi patting himself on the back.

You're the reason people leave your instance dude. This meme is hilariously tone deaf.

Ban

Still not banned. Not using it though

I did get banned, for using ChatGPT to fix my spelling and then using an old account to go back, which was ban evasion. I'd been on it for 12 years. I guess the point is that the banned people on here these days are not necessarily batshit trolls, many of us are semi-normal :-)

Does Lemmy ban Reddit users that were banned?

Lemmy is just software that anyone can use. Each Lemmy instance with open sign ups has their own rules. But even so- there would be no way of knowing which Lemmy users are equivalent to any reddit user without the user itself making it known.

Nah. I only ever got banned from r/history, and that was for auto-deleting my comments.

Redditor: extremists!