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I became aware of Lemmy during reddit’s API bullshit. I left, and never posted there again. Let their greed, bots, and enshittification rot.

Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.

Left Reddit, won't ever go back. Lemmy still needs more traction, but at least it is not as toxic and influenced by corporate greed.

Got banned for opposing genocide and Western imperialism in a main subreddit. 🤷

Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I'd guess it's dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.

I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.

Oh, at least two, I’d guess. But seriously, I left when the api was shut down and I could no longer use Apollo to browse. There were other signs, but that was my tipping point.

left during the subreddit mod purges. we closed our sub - 45k~ users with lots of creative, daily content when they announced the API changes and other shittery. They demanded it reopen or they'd appoint new mods, no new mods would step forward. I left and never looked back. I probably should have left long before but the community kept me there doing the modwork.

A note: APPRECIATE YOUR MODS. They're keeping this experience trash free as much as humanly possible. There's a certain type of person that volunteers to help build good communities and they mostly deserve your appreciation.

Saw the direction Reddit was going in. Decided to join Lemmy to see what was going on. 2 months later I was axed from Reddit. Now here, I live.

I stopped using reddit after the api changes, and started using lemmy after about a year of going cold turkey

I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.

Got banned for calling an antivaxxer a waste of oxygen :3

I got banned I guess for using a VPN? I honestly have no idea why. At that point, I decided I just don’t want invest in that platform anymore.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I was banned from Reddit as a "security precaution" which I assume means they didn't like the fact that my browser was always security hardened thus they couldn't track me to feed me ads.

I was already considering leaving for Lemmy, but when they straight up banned me for doing nothing wrong other than protect my privacy, that was the final straw. Mind you, I didn't even use Reddit that frequently anyway, which made me all the more baffled by their sudden decision with no warnings at all.

Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.

you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, "boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account"

im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.

I initially joined Lemmy because I wanted to leave Reddit after the API situation. Admittedly I still use Reddit because Lemmy doesn’t have an active enough community for all the topics I am interested in or want information on. Once it gets there, I will fully make the switch.

Reddit is repetitive and tiresome on the main subs. It’s so bot driven. There are so many ads. Spaz is a dipshit.

That said Lemmy still lacks the small, niche subs, which are still ok over there due to small numbers.

That said Lemmy will get the numbers for those niche subs if we all join and contribute.

Once the baconreader app developer stated it would stop due to API nonsense I left.

I tried another one called something like Squabbles* for a few months and really liked it, then the owner of that site decided that the racists and nazis that were joining were allowed to say what they wanted.
There were a lot of trans, gay etc, and non whites on that site who tried to reason with the owner but ultimately left due to the hostilities. The place went downhill fast and about a week later I left. It may be far better now.

I only go on Reddit now if I'm looking for info on the PC and one of the links is from there. However most of the time it doesn't give me any real info, usually it's just lots of people having the same issue I was searching an answer for.

Edit: it was called Squabbles, not Squiggles
Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo. Squabbles seems to have died a death, and I'm not surprised tbh.

Left Reddit after they killed third party apps ( R.I.P RiF) and haven't looked back. That site is dead to me.

I nuked my Reddit account when they dropped support for 3rd-party apps. Spez can eat a bag of dicks.

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.

I was banned for calling out an antisemetic dogwhistle in an anime sub. Asking why I was banned instead of the other person led to a permanent sitewide ban.

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!

Permabanned for supporting Luigi.

I left Reddit as soon as Apollo stopped working

I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.

Several years ago.

"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"

Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?

@Abraxas@feddit.uk Never banned. Started exploring alternatives during API changes. Staying on federated because it makes more sense.

Everyone understand how ridiculous it would if you could only email people on same email service, but for some reason we accepted that limitation as normal for social posts for many years.

I left during the API thing, went back briefly later on, and left again when I realized how messed up moderation and subreddit rules had become. As usual, dumb business people are ruining that site for everyone.

I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I'd been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn't give a shit anymore.

Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.

I've been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it's better here.

edit: I didn't say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already

I'm not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.

Left reddit when the API nonsense was coming and the site had gotten so bad in general.