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When the 'fun' side of reddit became unrecognizeable, then gradually after using Lemmy all I really do on Reddit is post in more useful places where I can share advice on chronic illness, and its really unfortunate there's not much in comparison for communities here otherwise Reddit would be deleted already.
Political comments shouldn't turn into vaguely threatening DMs, so many people on there nowadays need their teeth knocked out like some airpods for that shit.
most of my fun subs got you insta banned from more serious subs becauase no joking or mockery of weirdos was allow. had to separate out my accounts. even then I'd have crazy reddit weirdos stalking me and reporting my comments on other subs trying to get me banned for one comment i said in their sub.
Banned for no reason I could figure out. Never got any response from mods when appealing. Pissed me off that an account that I had for 12+ years with no warnings of any kind was shadow banned.
you were probably banned by association. could have made a post 10 years ago in a community that was banned and thus you were banned.
That's one of the most infuriating things. Like, you get tons of posts on your frontpage that you did not choose. At some point you engage with some unhinged statement, trying to reason with the lonely wayward person that said something horrible or sad. You are now shadowbanned from multiple large communities, so no normal users will see your posts and you won't even get notified that this action has been taken against you.
Since I am here for near 5 years, maybe I just like to replace greedy-shitholes with fediverse alternatives as soon as possible.
i think it was privacytools.io that got me here first, then reddit fucked up in 2023 and i actually got to use it more.
Terrible Reddit experience; I still wanted to answer questions because of boredom just not on Reddit. Long story short, I experienced a romance scam/sextortion where a Reddit user manipulated me into sexting him by being my "friend" and he knew I was at a vulnerable place in my life because I told him that I was healing from a breakup since I genuinely thought he wanted to help and get to know me---he figured that I was lonely and hurt. Thankfully, I was quick enough to stop the convo before he threatened me to send him money or other things. Lesson learned.
I suspect as with many here it was Reddit's API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.
i was temp banned initially, thought i would use another account that was untouched avoiding the sub, then i was getting multiple emails, found out they banned all the accounts i even forgot about too. then the wierd shadowban came for final account, appealed for a few months with no luck, while already made an account on lemmy.
this happened to loads of other users too, im also in another forums where they tracked the shadowbans more clearly. had to navigate throught he tankie instances for a few months without knowing that i was participating in, then found out i could block them, plus having do deal .world politics users too.
Banned from Reddit for taking the piss out of the far right.
Deleted from ml for taking the piss out of the far left.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Pay walling subreddits was the last straw for me
I left Reddit because I didn't want AI scraping my lackluster comments.
I gravitated to lemmy vs Mastodon or Blsky because the community seemed more "based" instead of biased.
And it's great. When I'm wrong, the ~~lemmings~~ folks here rip me a new one.
AI has free reign to scrape Lemmy or any federated site. But at least the data being scraped isn't curated and moderated by a massive advertising platform.
When Reddit started charging for their API Key. Killed off Apollo, best Reddit app on iOS. Didn't want to try the Reddit App. After Apollo officially shutdown, I stuck around reddit through old.reddit and it wasn't the same. Deleted all my accounts and jumped over to Lemmy. Joined Lemm.ee then that shut down and moved over to lemdro.id
I don't have a reddit account but heard of the enshittification and alternatives. I was looking for a place to have discussions since it feels like there are fewer decent places for that on the internet these days.
The death of 3rd party apps sent me here. It's been great over in the fediverse but I do wish there was more content. I will sometimes go back to Reddit.
Overall it's been great though.
I think algorithms can get anyone who isn't vigilant. Moving to the fediverse gives me more control over what goes into my head.
been on the fediverse a few years, but didn't really move over until my third reddit ban and how increasingly awful reddit is. i might already be unbanned againt but i just don't see a point in posting on reddit anymore where jokes about your cat killing rabbits is considered promoting violence and talking about your life experiences are considered sexist/racist.
i still miss my 'controversial' subreddits i used to be a part of. like bicyclingcirclejerk. i don't miss the insane people on my city subreddit who had insane political takes and massive victim complexes. but there are plenty of people on lemmy who make posts like that. but at least here they are mostly in their own communities i can block, rather than spouting there crazy nonsense in totally unrelated spaces.
i started getting fed up with reddit around 2020, but all the alts back then were awful. at least now they have a decent user base and some more moderate/open minded instances. 5 years ago it was all conspiracy crazy people and nazis. i used kbin until it died and then moved to .world
I think I stuck it out with Reddit for a lot longer than most. But I couldn’t ignore the shift in culture once it went public…
Content that I had been posting for years was suddenly getting taken down by mods for no actual, valid, rule-associated reason. My attempts to politely challenge this was met with arrogance and further bans, so I eventually gave up and just unleashed a barrage of verbal abuse on the mods and took my permabans as little notches on my bedpost.
Bots. Fucking bots everywhere. Like a flea infestation that everyone said they hated but never actually did anything about. It’s Facebook-levels of dead internet in a lot of the big subs, and the smaller esoteric ones were starting to lose the battle.
Reddit culture became a caricature of itself. I’m thinking of your typical redditisms you’d see in comments. And I think the final death rattle was seeing those same phrases pop up in the ads that filthed up my feed. The corporatization of Reddit was complete at that point.
So I left, did a little asking, and ended up here. Hi.
I left Reddit because I realized that the people running it were complete assholes who believed money was more important than community.
What made me interested in Lemmy was the decentralized nature. What made me stay is how it reminded me of Reddit a decade ago and of course the community.
Another vote for Rexodus.
I value freedom and love free / libre / open source software. After the US trade war against basically everyone I searched for non-US Reddit alternative. Lemmy is a great combination.
Typical angry reddit user. I didn't like that they allowed r/conservative to be a sub full of racist shit. Then they banned one of my favorite sub reddits. They're greedy and only allow you to use their shitty app.
Looked at Reddit alternatives for many years due to increasing issues with Reddit. Found Lemmy to be the best project
