Was perma banned in Reddit a few years ago for discussing ACA compliance. I saw it coming for awhile, the any comment I made no matter how inauspicious was flagged over the course of a few weeks.

After banning I was unable to post on any of my accounts. But I could change prior comments so I used an app to generate AI gibberish and replace years of comments and participation with AI bullshit to salt the earth for Reddit.

Before you leave I recommend doing the same.

Am I the only one on Lemmy who isn't from Reddit

I'm kinda young, won't specify more than "teen"

I sometimes browse Reddit without an account (some more niche meme/funny subreddits), but have never had an account.

I don't actually remember how I originally heard about the fediverse. (adhd be like)

My current Reddit account I carefully curated and built is unbanned but associated to a different email, but my primary email is actually receiving new emails as of this week that my old accounts are permabanned. That alone is not noteworthy, but over the past couple months some of my other alts have had their passwords reset at random, with emails asking me to verify. These are not phishing emails, but actually from Reddit. I think they're on to me and trying to get a confirmation, but not clicking those links so they can do their IP identification. Sociopathic, vindictive, people run Reddit apparently. Like sorry for dissenting and calling out specific employees that have bullied me, your operation is surely not corrupt. /s

I mostly don't use Reddit anymore. I can speak my mind on Lemmy, which is refreshing.

I moved from reddit to hexbear a while back, spent a month or two lurking and occasionally commenting then decided it was time for a social media detox. A year later I signed up for db0, knowing reddit was absolutely not the place, and liking what I saw as far as admin politics and moderation style.

Its been almost a year, I haven't caught any bans or had any particularly toxic interactions, so either I'm in the right place or I've become increasingly good at self censoring.

I left when they blocked third-party APIs to force people to use their app

Here since deleting Reddit post history at the time of 3rd party app api. I only go back (via RedLib) for niche communities.

Used to love Reddit but the drop in quality over there is shocking, the same shit reposted ad nauseum & bots galore. Much prefer it here, though still hoping niche communities will grow & become sustainable.

A small number of communities here have got a foothold & i find them better than the Reddit equivalents dispite far fewer posts so there's hope.

Reddit shadow banned my account for posting this diy candle idea on witches vs patriarchy. They won’t respond so I guess I’m barred from participating forever.

I left when they fucked over 3rd party apps.

I'm not banned, but I'm here because Reddit essentially in active decay. It's old. All the community names are taken. Some taken years ago. The site is too big to be effectively maintained by admins, leaving many communities badly-run, half-abandoned and being swamped by bots, trolls and whatever else. You can't grow anything there.

You can on the Fediverse. Community discoverability is by far much better on here, and the federated structure of it means that no-one can camp on communities to stop others from making it. You can just be replaced by someone else if you run it poorly.

There are many other problems too such as the site using AI to ban people, buggy notification system etc.

I joined when Apollo for reddit died.

10+ years on Reddit. Never banned on any subreddit or Reddit itself, ever. First came here during the 2023 API controversy. Went back to Reddit since the anime community was pretty small here, and I could still use my own API key for 3rd party apps.

Came back to Lemmy a week or two ago due to this bullshit. I'm not affected yet as I still have my own API key, so I'll be hopping back and forth between Reddit and Lemmy. But I know my time on Reddit is limited.

I just hope Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse is polished up by the time of the next Reddit exodus. But based on the most recent API change, I think Reddit has learned to make smaller changes over long periods of time over one major change that angers everyone all at once.

I wasn't banned, I just hate the official app and the overwhelming number of bots and ads. So I gave it up, and Lemmy fills that commenting niche for me. My account is still live on reddit, though. There's like 12 years of old comments and sometimes I like reading through them to see how stupid I used to be.

Reddit has become unusable for me at this point. I will see 2-3 posts from my local subreddits and then everything else is "because you've shown interest in a similar community" of random cities I've never been to/ never will visit. It also won't stop showing me trainwrecks. I don't look for this content, and I mute every community it promotes and as someone who commutes by train everyday I really don't want to see that shit.

Fuck spez the 2023 canvas was the last time i used a account over there and when a search engine leads me there it makes me sick to see the new ui and overall culture.

Lemmy is lacking content badly, but noway I'm going back there.

I'm here because I got perma banned for saying trump needs punched dead in his shit.

I got banned, for evading a ban. (I didn't know I was banned, was just using one of my 3 alts for different hobbies and made a comment, instantly banned all 3, no appeals)

left when reddit went public. nothing good happens when you have to answer to stockholders….

The day the API changes went into effect, I logged in here and never looked back.

One of my reddit accounts was perma-banned for commenting “good” under the announcement that the queen died. Another one was banned because I said I dislike theocracies in a thread about Israel.

Humanity will never be free until the last king is strangled with the intestines of the last priest.

I'm too "violent" for spez.

FUCK YOU SPEZ.

I can’t straight up “quit Reddit” for Lemmy yet. There’s not enough of the content I want to see here, yet.

A while after Reddit practically blocked the Apollo app, I realized just how much I loved that app. It was the perfect Reddit interface. Not long after, I discovered how great Voyager did of replacing the experience, and that’s what ultimately brought me here “permanently.”

So, Reddit has lost browsing time from me big time, and that time is now shared with Lemmy.

Also, I love a good Rust project 🦀

Ever since Apollo shut the doors I’ve not had a user there. I still keep tabs on a few communities that don’t really have a presence here, but only lurking, no participation.

Lemmy is a federated clone of Reddit, and Reddit has more users, so most likely, everyone here has either rejected Reddit, or been banned by Reddit, or they are using both platforms at once to reach a bigger audience.

I am here because I was very dissatisfied with Reddit's administration and moderation and with the way they screwed app devs.

I'm concerned that Lemmy uses the same basic moderation techniques as Reddit, and so it could fall into the same ruin as Reddit. But for now, the moderators I've interacted with here have been straight up legit good people. So I stick around.

I stopped using entirely a few years ago, I kept getting banned (esp after 10/7) and spinning up new accounts just felt like a waste of time. Now this is pretty much my only social media aside from XHS.

I much prefer temp bans, but it does depend on the context

I left Reddit for good a few weeks ago when I got a 3 day autoban for directly quoting Worf from Star Trek…in response to a post asking for quotes. I think it was an autoban because a couple years previous I got an auto-warning for quoting a punk song in a punk sub…appeal rejected.

I appealed the 3 day ban…but no idea if it would have been accepted because I deleted my account and the Reddit app after 2 days when I snapped out of my Reddit addiction and finally realized how enshitified it’s become.

R-word emigrant, checking in.

I'm totally banned so here we are.

I deleted my main Reddit account and jettisoned about 14 years of memories etc. Had a new account. Prolly still have it but I’m not going back. There’s just no reason to.

I'm here after Reddit perm banned me for no reason and ban evasion failed. I submitted a ban appeal before discovering here but now that I have, I don't think I'll go back to reddit even if I get unbanned, this place is so nice.

🤚 yo.

I came over in 2023, like so many others, in protest of the API changes. Originally, I was sad that there were so few users here, but actually it pretty quickly started to feel more comfortable. I still maintain an account over there, but I haven't posted there in ages. I like it better here.

I joined Lemmy after the API fiasco in 2023. Was hoping more would follow but they did not. I still maintained an account here and on reddit for a while.

Then, my original account of 12 years got banned for saying mean things about Nazis. Reddit admins really don't like when you are mean to Nazis. I made another account which miraculously lasted for another 13 months before getting whacked for ban evasion.

I continued to scroll on my banned account via Infinity because fuck the official garbage app. Now that reddit has quietly changed API privileges again, no more new accounts can request an API key so my read-only forays there will likely come to an end soon, when my banned accounts key stops working. I'm done with reddit after that. I'm fine with chilling here waiting for others to figure out they're in a cycle of abuse, and making the right choice by leaving reddit in the dust.

Been here since the Reddit API shutdown in July of 2023.