or any other reason… im curious.
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
Technically me, even though they eventually reversed it after appealing the ban 4 separate times (banned for “violence” for commenting “same” on a picture of a woman in a shirt that says “Punch a Nazi.”) That whole thread showed that the admin staff of the site have nazis and/or Nazis sympathizers among them and I don’t vibe with that shit. Once the API thing went through and RIF stopped working, I came here.
Came to Lemmy when reddit fucked up the api change. Month ago my Lemmy instance closed up so I moved to piefed instead as I find it more acceptable (take it as you want).
How are you liking piefed? It seems to have better user tools.
I like it so far. I’m no mod, but from user perspective it feels way better than lemmys default web interface.
They took a sub away from me with over 200K subscribers because I ran it in a way counter to Chinese investment interests.
I was there from the inception.
Am I an inflammatory piece of shit? Yes.
Is free speech dead? YES!
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.
Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
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.
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 is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion
This is true. For that I just browse anonymously with an ad blocker
I’ll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit’s BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.
I was taking part in the blackout, but obviously Reddit the company did not listen, so I left. And here I am.
I also came here shortly before the full API bullshit. They announced it (months?) before, or there were at least hints from app developers about what was going to happen.
By that point i already had a laundry list of other shit i was pissed off about at that site. So i knew that was finally time to leave and find somewhere else.
Jumped ship when that API shit started. I like this communities way more than a lot ob subreddits that have been around before.
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.
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.
Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.
Same. The moment Apollo shut down I quit reddit and started using lemmy on the voyager (pretty much an Apollo clone for lemmy)
apollo devs making digg, but digg will prob be just as bad as reddit lol, at least im not perma banned there yet
Two years ago. Haven’t looked back. Much
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.
