Genuinely curious
I wasn’t banned or shadow-banned. But I very rarely use Reddit-like forum platforms. It’s because I love microblogging more. Forums are high tension for me, honestly. So, yeah I wasn’t banned or shadow-banned. But rather very rarely use and participate in Reddit.
I left because they got rid of 3rd party apps, was never banned.
When they closed down the API for third party apps I packed my things, I thought reddit would be different, but to me, at that moment they proved they were not different.
Lemmy is not perfect and the whole dev team has some pretty insane views. But you know, it’s FOSS, so it’s not about the devs as much. Perfect is the enemy of great, and Lemmy is a healthier choice then Reddit imo.
Yup, the death of 3rd Party Aps did it for me too. It made me sad because I had to leave behind a lot of the niche subreddits I enjoyed, but I could see the writing on the wall.
Neither, but I’m fed up with Reddit regardless. Open Source and self hosted is something I prefer.
And if everybody praises the alternatives, but nobody is using it, we’ll never get shit done.
I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.
This was it for me too
I left Reddit when they threatened to remove 3rd party apps and started closing down sub-reddits that weren’t advertiser friendly.
I came here because I didn’t like the censorship (of others, not me) on Reddit. I stayed because I love the lack of advertising.
Everyone on here seems chill and people on reddit often bait you to try to get you banned or poison the well in discussions , it’s just a shit site that’s tonedeaf man
I’ll jump back over to Reddit on occasion if I need to look something up. The adverts are super jarring.
You can use an extension like Libredirect to redirect you to a redlib instance. Minimal format frontend for reddit, no ads. Here is a list of instances.
On Android mobile, you can install the Libredirect extension on certain Firefox versions like IronFox. There’s also apps like Stealth.
The only reason Lemmy was started in the first place is because Reddit banned communists and their communities. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
Why are new lemmy users thinking this is a refuge for the reddit banned? To my knowledge my account is still usable, but I just don’t want to log in since the API cash grab. What bullshit is reddit doing these days?
- banning people just for upvoting comments they don’t like, you don’t even have to post to be censored and banned now
- half the site is bots or spam networks farming karma (every post on askreddit is a karma farm)
- toxicity has grown. Everyone is frothing at the mouth for an argument
yeah it’s pretty wild how quickly everything has devolved there.
ive been on lemmy for almost 6 years, jesus christ, i feel old
I had 4 accounts and they banned all of them for inciting violence. I said Donald Trump is a pedophile and deserves to be in prison.
They don’t like anti trump people.
Same here. Calling out the pedophile in chief is evidentially a big no no on Reddit.
The ones with their cake day around may and a bit later in 2023 are most likely here because of the API changes. After that its mostly alt accounts on a new instance, privacy reasons and bans
That’s me!
For anyone who still wants to access Reddit just to browse favorite (niche) subs which won’t ever get traction here, some third-party apps still work.
My favorite is cygnusx’s Slide for Reddit fork (they picked it up after it was abandoned). You can use it logger in or anonymously - without an account logged in:
https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide
^ you can see my Slide app with the frontpage showing regular subs, and it doesn’t use the dumb new reddit algorithm which shows you posts from like a week ago.
The other option is Morphe who patch the official Reddit app. It will require an account but you can change a heap of things, block everything you dislike too. The patching app does YouTube and YouTube Music or whatever they call it, but it also patches Reddit:
^ here’s an example of some of the things you can change in a Morphe patched Reddit’s settings
Also sorry for the pictures, I wrote and uploaded this while steaming milk for my coffee!
I’ve never been banned from reddit (that I know of).
I left reddit three years ago next month duringsthe API drama. Since then the only time I’ve been to reddit (not logged in) is when it comes up in a search result.
I used Reddit for years as a reader without ever posting or commenting. When alternative front ends were ditched, I switched to Lemmy which I really like. Was never banned.
