I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
I got banned from reddit for saying the genocide in Gaza was bad.
I believe the politically correct term to appease the only “acceptable” narrative is war not genocide to describe a very clear targeting of Palestinian children Tsk Tsk for you not knowing it’s common knowledge at this point /s
I got banned for saying Israel was a fascist state and this was years before the current genocide started. Zionists have infiltrated that platform good and proper.
Most of us kinda didn’t realize that Israel is a disgusting abomination until Oct 7th
These parasites really crossed some lines
Never again 🤡
Really? It’s weird, I thought Reddit was more left-wing, but it seems that’s not the case at all.
My Reddit app stopped working…
I got temp banned for saying antizionist things, while I was banned I began to look for an open source alternative which lead me here. Early on I used .world but after finding out about Blahaj Lemmy I switched :3
Fuck u/spez
This. Lying bastard.
When reddit started it’s dive down the enshitification hole. As for things I wish it had, a lemmy version of multireddits would be nice, especially since we can end up with multiple communities for the exact same thing here.
I joined Hexbear for the hentai.
I don’t know why this feels so genuine
It shouldn’t, Hexbear has a strict no-porn rule, Hentai included.
I used old.reddit.com exclusively, so the app thing never affected me personally. But when the admins started extorting those devs, and lying about it… I started looking for the exits. The day I wrote it off entirely was when they casually announced they’d reject and ignore the site-wide protest of moderators who do all their work, for free.
You can’t own a community.
You can enable them… or you can abuse them. Reddit chose abuse. The enshittification had been undeniable since 2016, when fascists choked the front page, and the admin response was ‘everybody play nice.’
The company doesn’t make anything. The site is an empty box. Every worthwhile conversation on some arcane niche, every thread pruned of idiot bastards, is something users made. It’s not even like Facebook or Youtube, where a significant chunk of (eugh) “content” is profit-driven. A forum is just people talking.
Moral disgust aside, I immediately knew - the quality was fucked. Posts would keep happening. Comments would abound. But the only reason Reddit worked was that voting filters the best stuff toward the top. The same filter does not work on crap mixed with crap. That’s all there’s going to be. Bots and fascists yapping at one another in approved tones of voice. r/Funny with five hundred names.
Dumb bastards tried to sell a recipe for stone soup.
i’m in the US and am becoming increasingly worried about privacy online (as if i needed more reasons). as a leftist, i believe it will become even more difficult to organize in the near future and want to protect myself as much as possible. i know nothing can truly assure me my information won’t be compromised but i’m going to try and do what i can to limit the possibility. also, dealing with reddit, twitter, and bluesky have convinced me to abandon popular social media. i don’t even like using YouTube.
i want to belong to a community of likeminded people who understand the seriousness of privacy and the reality of potential revolution in the US.
Joined about a year or two before the reddit API fiasco.
- I really don’t like ads+tracking and didn’t want my posts supporting a company like reddit
- I’m an advocate of FOSS
- reddit has inherent pressures to censor content based on mass media pressure and profit, and to permit anti-social far right trolls
- reddit punishes proxy users, where many instances here allow me to protect myself while posting here
- didn’t like the new reddit layout - even before I came here, I was lurking for a year or two on alternate frontends
- I believed federation was a good strategy at building a better reddit alternative
But also, it actually had some communities at the time. If it were more dead, or unfederated, I’m not sure if I would have put as much effort in building communities.
I like open protocols and free software, and during the API exodus there was finally enough content that I wanted to jump ship.
of course I had annoyances with reddit, but I have annoyances with Lemmy too.
it’s still preferable imho
I was part of the reddit exodus over the 3rd party app bullshit. I saw a post from one of the bigger servers bitching about how you shouldn’t join lemmygrad or Hexbear because they are full of tankies so I made a Lemmygrad account. After Hexbear refederated I added a few of their comms and realized I jive more with their community than with Lemmygrad so I made a HB account and added a bunch of my old Lemmygrad comms to that.
I wish the hobby comms were more active. That’s really the only reason I still have my reddit account.
Banned for a stupid reason from Reddit. I made a joke that a mod from r/entertainment didn’t like and got banned. I kept accidentally commenting on the subreddit because I often comment on posts without checking subreddit. Even though I had muted and blocked r/entertainment it kept popping up on my feed because it’s a general subreddit. Got banned from Reddit for trying to circumvent the ban.
Damn that sucks, but didn’t you try to just make a new account on a new email?
Yes and apparently I’m ip banned from using Reddit on my phone. I tried a vpn also but it wasn’t worth the hassle or the money.
What did u to get IP banned bro?
Bias for FOSS
I might sound illeterate but what is Foss?
Free & Open Source Software
(Free as in freedom, not as in “costs nothing”)
Invented by GNU together with the GPL (GNU general public license)
Supposed to make both making and using software accessible to all, and protect the software from being stolen from the public
Free open source software
User can audit the code 🤡User relies on some tech bro to audit the code but hey at least there is some transparency
Free and open source software
What kind of bias?
Reddit killed RIF. I’d already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.
…didn’t stay on Jerboa long
What client do you use?
I switched to Connect, and have liked it well enough that I haven’t tried any others
Same story, except I have used Connect from day one.
Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit’s official app was a turd sandwich.
I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.
I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I’ve been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.
(I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
Bromies love their chains
