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.

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

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 🦀

I was using Reddit Sync. When the API nonsense went down, the Dev announced that they were switching to Lemmy. I've stayed on the app and now feel like I'm part of a much richer community. I'm glad to be here.

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

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.

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 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 answer to your question is "essentially everyone". Either hated Reddit, hated the changes, hated the app restrictions, and/or got Permabanned over nothing.

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.

I'm too "violent" for spez.

FUCK YOU SPEZ.

I'm here since the reddit API changes, which lead to the app I used being shut down (I don't remember the name anymore).

Im still lurking on reddit, but haven't logged in ever since.

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.

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.

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

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.

For what it's worth, the start of my bans were bans from leftist subs for moderate positions. I used up one strike for joking that Trump supporters would voluntarily bury themselves with Trump to guard him in the afterlife ("inciting violence"), then i got simultaneously banned from r/workersstrikeback and r/latestagecapitalism because i said something to the effect of "voting against fascism shouldn't be seen as a loss, and it was a perfectly fine way to spend a tuesday ("neoliberal propaganda"), and then finally i posted on r/unpopularopinion that: "as bad as shit can be sometimes, i still don't think i'd do all that much differently", and then when people commented on it, if it was insulting, i insulted them back ("harassment").

The truth is, organizations just have a way of getting all fucked up, and you rise and retain your position by being fucked up. So, yeah, once something like reddit becomes a hot commodity, run by people with too much to lose, they wind up strangling the thing to death. (I hope that phrase isn't "inciting violence").

Oh, that reminds me of another of my list of repeated violations (12 years without any, then all of that shit in like 6 months).

I used the term "lame duck" in describing what you could reasonably expect from Biden when Israel started going after Biden, and i got a bsn for "ableist language".

Now, whether that one was a false flag?... i mean, it could go either way. I've definitely encountered that type of crap with leftists before as well...

For what it's worth: i'm pretty far left. I probably occupy a similar space as Bernie Sanders (in the sense that he's probably even farther left than he says, but he knows that nobody is going to completely dismantle the whole system just because he hot on a podium and told them to.)

Fuck reddit. They deleted my nsfw content even though it was not breaking any rules.

Not even sure what their problem was since they don't give a reason - just banned!

Oh well maybe Lemmy is a better place for me.

Hope you all enjoy me over here!

Pics and erotic fiction on my profile.

Isn't everyone on here as an alternative to reddit?

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

Not me, I'm here since the reddit API disaster, and Lemmy is my replacement for reddit. I deleted my reddit account. I'm happy to have left. I feel like this is a nicer place. Healthier discussions. Calm. Not as much heated name calling.

Although some people have been rather rude as of late, so I try to remind them of how to act. But obviously there will be people who are still going to be assholes for no reason.

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.

I'd argue it already is an actual alternative so long as you're following more general technical content rather than niche local stuff. Most of us the people here have Reddit's API shutdown for third party apps to thank including myself. At least for me the last time I tried using the first party app it had major issues playing gifs on my Galaxy A52. Combine the bugs with the general closing of the platform and it was quite an easy switch. Lemmy is certainly smaller, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I waste less time on it than I used to on Reddit which feels more healthy.

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.

R-word emigrant, checking in.

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.