I was already no longer posting on reddit through alternative front-ends since around 2018, because I disliked privacy issues with it. I was just lurking via alternate frontends (the precursors to Redlib, there were more before the API fiasco). I was already into the FOSS community and so I forget exactly how I came across Raddle and Lemmy (maybe through /r/piracy or /r/datahoarder, but could have been many other places), and Lemmy was far far far slower then, but when I landed on Lemmy I really wanted it to become a viable alternative to reddit.

I got perma banned from reddit.

I am not sure why. It could have been because I got 200+ downvotes for posting that Guy Ritchie’s Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare looked like a steaming pile of dog shit or because I posted that Pete Hegsbeth needs to die.

Anyway I deserved the Perma Ban.

The only thing I miss about reddit are the sports subs. Those were a lot more active than the ones on lemmy/fedverse.

Saw a post on r/rust.

Because Reddit is a haven for power tripping white supremacists who ban any opinion they don't like.

Reddit killed third party apps and I refused to use their shit app. It all just stinks of enshitification. So I spun up my own instance of Lemmy and haven't looked back.

I wanted to keep using Boost, and they banned third party applications from Reddit.

Especially annoying given that their own application was awful and at times unusable with whole features completely missing.

Reddit ban for a R1 violation.

Apparently if you say punching a nazi is a form of self-defense they'll say you're inciting violence.

Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn't willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.

apicalypse, rip apollo

Not associating with as many bots.

I finally got banned from Reddit and by now they have rather effective methods to detect ban evasion.

Corporative social media pushed me out, ActivityPub seems a great solution to those problems.

Then Reddit and Communism

Because fuck spez™ and reddit is so large it's hard to find community

Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid or will get their sign on bonus. And that after 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind the Wendy's. Apparently that is violation of rule 1 inciting violence. Which is total BS. Other people post much, much worse and actually death threats. Reddit definitely also bend the knee to the US authoritarian regime and any view other than nazisme is banned.

Anyway lemmy feels a much more positive place here except the formula 1 lemmy. That sub is so incredibly toxic.

Banned from Reddit for writing lyrics to my favourite Christmas song because it had a homophobic slur in it and mods don't understand when it was written, who it was written by/about/sung by whom, it's vulgarity in other countries culture and/or context - heaven forbid any of them get meatballs from a chip shop or buy cigarettes in the UK.

And then ban evasion during that time. I prefer the lack of bots and reposts (except the Reddit repost bots) here though.

Banned for many reasons, but the last one was for saying all religion are bad.

Just didn't feel like making yet another alt to be banned.

because centralized social media eventually leads to ads/monetization etc. your content becomes for profit