I found Lemmy thanks to a guy on reddit wich answered to my comment. I said that we leftists generally lacked a place where we could express some opinions without te fear of being banned. infact Reddit moderation (both admins and mods) suck and doing their “job” and there are instances of people being banned just for saying something completely normal or just some bugs. I am still active on Reddit but would like to make the Lemmy community grow so mabye it can become and actual alternative.
Sorry for any disturb, bye :3
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Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.
I left when they blocked third-party APIs to force people to use their app
Same. I was constantly on Apollo. I loved the dev and how active they were. I got all the fun in jokes and considered it a very nerdy activity to scroll Reddit. Swapped to a new instance after a while, so this account isn’t as old as that.
Now I’m on Voyager and have swapped to Linux, so I guess the hive mind here is strong too!
I was using RIF, it was doing the job
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Thanks to Reddit is Fun for all the years. I didn’t want to leave. Reddit kicked me out
Samsies
Hard same. Precisely the same path. Enshittification at work.
Same. Their app is garbage, their moderation is unhinged, and their CEO and advertisers are right-wing MAGA freaks. I won’t be back…
The correct term is Maga bots. And you ca tell they haven’t discovered Lemmy yet. I also came for those reasons. The bots too. I still use Reddit here and there but mostly Lemmy only.
This was my path too
I was an avid redditor. It was my main filler activity.
I quit cold turkey with the API debacle and have never been back.
It was really rough at first, but I like it here.
And me
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I considered it, but didn’t because of the communities I was still a part of.
I finally left when they IP banned me for saying stuff like “I’m surprised nazis aren’t being attacked tbh”
the third party API thing is when I pretty much completely stopped contributing quality content, though. to anywhere - I don’t really do that anywhere now. touched some grass, y’know?
Same here.
same. I was talking to a friend who regularly used reddit during the time all that was going down. Was pretty sure he was gonna migrate to lemmy with me.
He still posts reddit threads regularly in our group chat
Ditto
Same. Although I do lurk a bit with rdx. But I won’t touch Twitter or any Meta products with a 10 foot pole.
I’m here for the same reason. Interestingly enough I figured out how to make the app I use work again, but by that point reddit had gone to AI slop hell.