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[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.

Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking "How many assholes we got on this ship".

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.

Actually surprising I don't miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)--but I don't know that for sure, maybe I'm just being cynical.

Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn't delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that's cool.

And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a "clean" version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits. 😌

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I left over the API bullshit.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Same it was the bridge too far. Reddit was something I was willing to deal with on my terms. They decided that wasn't good enough and I'm smart enough to walk away from a toxic relationship.

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[–] blobchoice@feddit.uk 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn't even aware Reddit was banning people.

I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Wish I was so bold. It took me actually getting banned to migrate.

I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.

[–] Ketchup@reddthat.com 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Farewell Apollo (the API fiasco), and thank you Voyager (my lemmy app)

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

exactly why I came here. I was hardly using Reddit anymore as it was because it felt off. it still does feel off when I go back to visit, a lot of the posts are formatted in a very machine like way. when I found out about that r/changemyview AI comments thing I knew I wasn't crazy for thinking this.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, "boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account"

im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.

[–] l3enc@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

left reddit in 2023 during the API debacle, funnily enough it's what made me aware of other social platforms so I guess it all worked out for the better

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

2023 refugee reporting in. Couldn't give up the Sync life.

[–] jimrob4@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years' worth of content on my 250k karma account with "fuck spez" and left it all there to rot.

[–] gonf@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago

I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.

We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was "fired," it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.

Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Left reddit during the API controversy a few years ago. Never been banned or anything, just disagreed with the decisions being made.

[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Got banned for calling an antivaxxer a waste of oxygen :3

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Lol I rememebr reporting some ppl telling ppl to kill themselves post trump getting elected, like they were sucidal and the trumpies were encouraging it, reported them and got like a 3 day temp ban for abusing the report system

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

The ban waves were to lower the leftist presence, not to actually stop talks of violence.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

only time I ever reported anyone since it was so extreme

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[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

I was banned from Reddit as a "security precaution" which I assume means they didn't like the fact that my browser was always security hardened thus they couldn't track me to feed me ads.

I was already considering leaving for Lemmy, but when they straight up banned me for doing nothing wrong other than protect my privacy, that was the final straw. Mind you, I didn't even use Reddit that frequently anyway, which made me all the more baffled by their sudden decision with no warnings at all.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Wasn't banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.

Like... I genuinely can't use words like "incel", "cuck", "snowflake", "Trump", "Andrew Tate", etc without having my comment removed on most subs.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I got banned for being unhinged towards users who were doing (IMO) obvious nazi dogwhistles and the mods sided against me. Fuck them mods and fuck the users who accept that shit. The posters knew exactly what they were signaling.

[–] fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I joined Reddit thanks to 3rd party apps, and when they turned their back on them I was out too.

I used one of those automated programs that used the old.reddit API to overwrite all my comments. I took a break for lunch, thinking to delete my account afterwards, but when I came back my account had been permanently banned.

So it was definitely like one of those "You can't quit, you're fired" type of situations.

From time to time I visit the site because of search results, but from what I can tell, all the main subreddits are filled with bots reposting the same content from 5 years ago.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Same thing happened to me. They noticed I started mass deleting my comments and I got hit with a ban on that specific account.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Came during the initial revolt. Increased attention after getting banned from Reddit because I joked I'd like a guy with a bunch of guns to give me one cause he had too many. They tried to say I was soliciting for the purchase of firearms, and when I said there was no way any serious person could have thought I was asking to buy a gun, they told me the lifetime ban was in place and if I ever came around again they'd ban me for ban evasion.

Lul. That place is a total fucking hellscape.

[–] jimrob4@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I think it's dumb that /r/cigars and /r/pipetobacco are monitored like a frickin' anti-communist group in the Soviet Union, but /r/trees talks about weed like it's cotton candy.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

I already know you're pretty far left given they banned you for that. Right wingers im sure still say all of their unhinged shit there.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Point of order - it's not a purchase if it's a gift

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

They took a sub away from me with over 200K subscribers because I ran it in a way counter to Chinese investment interests.

I was there from the inception.

Am I an inflammatory piece of shit? Yes.

Is free speech dead? YES!

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I'd already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

My first account was on .ml roughly 5 years back, when it was basically the only instance. I had heard about there being a FOSS alternative to Reddit - but I quickly lost interest because the community was just too small back then. Re-activated my account when the API exodus happened, because there was finally a community large enough to provide a lived-in feeling. Have only gotten more dedicated to the Fediverse ever since.

[–] Zezzoz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I left after yet another ban.

1st time because I criticized the US. Second time cause I said that trump needs the Mussolini treatment.

With everything that is said on reddit this was tame in comparison. Then I landed on Lemmy, and it feels like I am out of the land of bots.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I can create a new accounts if I wanted to. I just gave up on Reddit. They banned me for posting about how a local Nazi. Tried to get a youth center burned down because it had a LGBTQ flag up for pride month. The guy is a captain at a county jail to.

My app stopped working due to their API stuff so I just kinda stopped using it over the next few weeks, after trying to use it in a browser which was horrible.

[–] Logical@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.

I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there's also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion

This is true. For that I just browse anonymously with an ad blocker

[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Became initially during the API 3rd party bullshit and recently moved completely over after I got banned from Reddit.

[–] kebab@endlesstalk.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Came here after my niche small Reddit client got officially shut down. When the API changes were announced, I knew that I’d rather switch than use their official Reddit client. I didn’t like that they charge AI companies for accessing my data and I don’t get any share of their profit neither. Here on Lemmy everyone can train their AI models on our data but at least there’s no random dude (spez) who profits off that.

The decentralization meaning that I can choose some random small instance and not be bound to the admins of any big one was another big point for Lemmy

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