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".
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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".
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.
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.
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. 😌
I left over the API bullshit.
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.
Same
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.
Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.
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.
Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.
I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.
Farewell Apollo (the API fiasco), and thank you Voyager (my lemmy app)
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.
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.
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
2023 refugee reporting in. Couldn't give up the Sync life.
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.
Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.
When they killed third party apps while disregarding the need for accessibility completely - their own app doesn't even let blind people manage their own subreddit because of that.
So yeah, because I left reddit.
Man I can't even begin to fathom how little of a shit they give about disability and accessibility at this point.
Would you believe Reddit was actually a great and welcoming place a long time ago? Can't blame you if you don't.
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.
Left reddit during the API controversy a few years ago. Never been banned or anything, just disagreed with the decisions being made.
Got banned for calling an antivaxxer a waste of oxygen :3
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
The ban waves were to lower the leftist presence, not to actually stop talks of violence.
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.
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.
left during the subreddit mod purges. we closed our sub - 45k~ users with lots of creative, daily content when they announced the API changes and other shittery. They demanded it reopen or they'd appoint new mods, no new mods would step forward. I left and never looked back. I probably should have left long before but the community kept me there doing the modwork.
A note: APPRECIATE YOUR MODS. They're keeping this experience trash free as much as humanly possible. There's a certain type of person that volunteers to help build good communities and they mostly deserve your appreciation.
I don't know, from what I've seen people that should be mods don't want to and those that want to shouldn't be.
It's very similar to politicans actually.
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.
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.
Same thing happened to me. They noticed I started mass deleting my comments and I got hit with a ban on that specific account.
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.
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.
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.
Point of order - it's not a purchase if it's a gift
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!
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.
I nuked my Reddit account when they dropped support for 3rd-party apps. Spez can eat a bag of dicks.
Once the baconreader app developer stated it would stop due to API nonsense I left.
I tried another one called something like Squabbles* for a few months and really liked it, then the owner of that site decided that the racists and nazis that were joining were allowed to say what they wanted.
There were a lot of trans, gay etc, and non whites on that site who tried to reason with the owner but ultimately left due to the hostilities. The place went downhill fast and about a week later I left. It may be far better now.
I only go on Reddit now if I'm looking for info on the PC and one of the links is from there. However most of the time it doesn't give me any real info, usually it's just lots of people having the same issue I was searching an answer for.
Edit: it was called Squabbles, not Squiggles
Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo. Squabbles seems to have died a death, and I'm not surprised tbh.
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.
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.
Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.
I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.
Several years ago.
"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"
Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?
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.