Basically what I mean is, did you also come here from reddit?
I came here after I got my Reddit account banned permanently. And the thing is, I don’t exactly know why I got banned. Nor what I did wrong. I always tried to follow the rules, post and comment appropriately and nicely, but on New Year’s Day last week, I got a message simply saying "Your account have been permanently banned for violating the rules.
But when I replied asking what rule or rules I unknowingly broke, they just messaged me back saying “you got banned because you violated the community guidelines”. So now I’m here.
What about you? Are you also a Reddit Refugee?
I came here and leave Reddit forever because I am trying to use less US products and services. Right now I don’t know how to bypass Microsoft and Google. Everything else is easy (like forgetting about Reddit or not drinking Coca Cola).
It’s also really nice not to have a continuous doom scroll. You can really only go for like an hour on the front page here until the places start becoming really esoteric. I’m which case not interesting or very interesting. But it’s not active enough to provide you with a whole day of gloom. And I kinda like that.
If you can afford and are not relying on games get a mac. I mean it’s still US but it is soooo much better and less enshitticated than windows. Regarding Google you can switch to a European cloud use duckduckgo or stuff for search, there are plenty foss alternatives to maps and for YouTube you can check out grayjay. It’s a bit tedious but it’s possible and as convenient as big tech products
Mac is a US product too :)
Another one here for the API exodus 👍
Dozens of us!
It’s the reason the Lemmyverse and Fediverse exist.
At least you got a message. I got shadowbanned without any message, and tons of appeals were just wasted times. :(
Shadowbanning is the most passive-aggressive chickenshit behavior. It’s not like it isn’t almost immediately obvious when it happens either. If you want to ban me, have the balls to tell me and cite the justification for it.
ever since they employed thier AI moderation, they dont even tell anymore, even for a sitewide ban,. because they dont want to give away details how they are using nebelous, arbitrary AI to ban people.
I left during the api bullshit, fuck spez
Ive been trying to leave privatized platforms and after degoogling and leaving meta, reddit was next. It happened to coincide with the acceleration of mod fascism but it was mostly about moving to a libre internet experience
My Reddit accounts have been systematically and immediately banned upon creation for the past 5 years
Originally I came with the API changes, I had only been using reddit for two months though. If I had known about Lemmy I don’t think I would have had the desire to use reddit in the first place.
I left Reddit in 2023 when they decided to mess with third party apps. I went to kbin initially and then moved over to here.
I got banned for low key implying there’s a genocide going on in Gaza.
Not even stating it.
Just implying it.
“antisemitism, permaban”
That was in 2023 iirc
one of my accounts got banned for offering an explanation of somebody else’s thought process. I was “advocating violence” or some shit like that, apparently
because I offered my best take at what might have been going through this person’s head for why they took a particular action.
mods & admins are all dumb cunts. not my subs, though, my mods were cool, obviously
because I offered my best take at what might have been going through this person’s head
Empathy…?
Yes, a lot of us left during the API exodus. Reddit was already going downhill anyway with all the bot spam and shills, that’s probably even worse there nowadays.
Once in a while I do bring up old.reddit to read through some communities that haven’t caught on here (yet), or maybe something that comes up in a google search, but that hasn’t been enough to make me want to log back in there let alone post/comment on anything.
its funny now its AI spamming ,botting now.
I quit the big R when they killed third party apps.
Would have paid them a monthly fee to use my app,but the way they killed them really soured me on Reddit. Burned my account, and moved on
Banning third party apps was the symptom. The root cause was Reddit going public. The lust for cash ruined Reddit for a lot of people.
Same (I wouldn’t have paid Reddit, but I did donate to boost), but this comment was funny because “The Big R” is what my friend and I call Roblox.
Yes, I’m a Reddit refugee.
The site changed so much over the ten years I used it. When I started, there was plenty of good discussion and the most informative comments got voted up. Then power users started playing the same games with karma that rich people play with money. Near the end the negativity and superficiality were overwhelming. Then the API business happened and I realised Reddit was in the last few stages of circling the drain. I learned about Lemmy from a comment by someone who announced they were leaving for good, and I followed them.
If you look at Reddit today… the posts and comments share the same quality regardless of whether they’re human or AI slop.
I’m here because Reddit started buying CBP adds. Fuck collaborators
