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?

  • tht@social.pwned.pageEnglish
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    6 days ago
    • Most of the content is reposts and bots
    • Moderators remove anything they dont like(Creating an echo chamber)
    • Comments are mostly low-effort jokes or bots, not valuable discussion
  • Womdat10@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    I was one of the leaders of the big fuck spez on r/place, would have been a bit hypocritical if I’d stuck around after the that.

    Edit: probably should add a photo

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    In no particular order as to why I left Reddit to join Lemmy:

    • Reddit became a chore just to see good content. (This is even after the fact of filtering out unrelated or unwanted subreddits in my feed.)
    • The comment sections on Reddit became worse and worse with more joke/meme comments than actually related comments, low effort comments, bot spam, and the burial of your comment for no one to see, (or care to reply to,) if you were to comment on a post or comment more than 24 hours after it’s original posting. (Most of the time it felt like you had maybe 8 hours before it seemed to be a waste to comment.) Why would anyone stick around to comment or reply if nearly no one is going to engage?
    • (Like many others have mentioned in the comments,) if you mentioned or talked about anything that wasn’t considered good, you were often blasted with downvotes and/or comments.
    • How often you saw rinse and repeat content, questions, and sometimes comments. (I’ll admit. I took part in the rinse and repeat content ‘sharing’ and I wish I hadn’t done it for so long. The karma whoring was real for me.)
    • Concerns (then later the reality check,) about how much Reddit is an echo chamber.
    • /u/Spez showing us who he really is.
    • Not liking the direction Reddit was heading. Writing on the wall when they fired Victoria Taylor
    • The API fiasco.
    • Movement towards IPO.

    Lemmy doesn’t have any of these problems that I’ve experienced. Lemmy feels very much like a grass roots movement and I like that. I wish the communities that I am a part of had more active users, but that will more likely come with time.

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    Reddit is heavily American-centric.

    At least on Lemmy, there can be multiple communities with the same name with different rules, focus, region, and culture.

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Had my account permabanned on Reddit by mods on a power trip.

    Then they cut third party support so my app stopped working.

    Centralised Social media is a disaster waiting to happen. You just can’t trust corporates. They will be corrupted eventually.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    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.)

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I wanted to keep using Sync for Reddit and or Boost for Reddit, both clients were built for Lemmy now (as of this message Sync is quite broken though).

    Even when I can keep using Sync for Reddit patched with Revanced I truly enjoy using clients such as Voyager (I missed Apollo a lot when I went from iOS to Android) and Summit, Eternity is a good alternative too.

    IMHO Summit stands the best because it is the smoothest and behaves almost as good as Sync for Reddit did in its prime.

  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I used Boost for Reddit but well, we know how that went. I really loved Boost. The dev pivoted to Lemmy, so I did as well. So far the experience has been pretty solid.

    • Bullybeard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I’m not sure I’m aware of reddit boosts or 3rd party apps, could you please explain to me how those work and how it was a deal breaker to so many people here on Lemmy?

      • Venicon@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Reddit changed the API which meant that any popular third party apps were going to have the pay thousands or even millions to Reddit just to access it.

        Third party apps like Boost, Apollo etc all left the platform but some devs created apps for Lemmy instead which gave people the experience they were used to. Reddit official app is full of ads and you can’t download half the stuff you want.