Came to Lemmy when reddit fucked up the api change. Month ago my Lemmy instance closed up so I moved to piefed instead as I find it more acceptable (take it as you want).
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- It was 12 people.
There are dozen of us! Dozen!
I'm just making a comeback after some time. Reddit is dead, there is bots and ads and AI everywhere.
Got banned for opposing genocide and Western imperialism in a main subreddit. 🤷
Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.
People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I'd guess it's dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.
I only tolerated watching reddit using the slide app, so no app = no reddit.
I deleted all my posts.
One day when browsing from a VPN they said if you want to see this page you need to login. I reluctantly login, to get an email a few hours later "your account has been permanently banned for suspicious login"
I'm not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.
I became aware of Lemmy during reddit’s API bullshit. I left, and never posted there again. Let their greed, bots, and enshittification rot.
Im mainly here cause I find the idea of the fediverse an intriguing concept to be honest :3
I got banned too many times for telling people to punch Nazis. Eventually I was permad. Haven't really tried to circumvent it much because why would I want to use a platform that vehemently protects Nazis?
Oh, at least two, I’d guess. But seriously, I left when the api was shut down and I could no longer use Apollo to browse. There were other signs, but that was my tipping point.
Left Reddit after they killed third party apps ( R.I.P RiF) and haven't looked back. That site is dead to me.
Saw the direction Reddit was going in. Decided to join Lemmy to see what was going on. 2 months later I was axed from Reddit. Now here, I live.
Got a few accounts banned there. It became for increasingly ridiculous reasons over time, so I decided after getting perma-banned for saying I hope trump strokes out from some condition he was said to have (blood pooling in his cankles), I decided the catering to the Maga pigs was too much - apparently saying you hope someone's condition worsens is "violence" now. Another was banned from a local subreddit for throwing out the idea of removing valve cores from the tires of ICE vehicles to slow them down. Insane. Done with that horseshit, the censorship has become out of fucking control there.
I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I'd been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn't give a shit anymore.
Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.
I've been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it's better here.
edit: I didn't say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already
Me, I got banned. I still used RIF until it died just to read Reddit, but once that was over I was done.
Left Reddit, won't ever go back. Lemmy still needs more traction, but at least it is not as toxic and influenced by corporate greed.
I lived through Livejournal choosing to destroy itself and saw Reddit doing the same things and worse and walked away. Choosing short term profits over people makes me NOPE out. No bans or warnings for me. I guess I just don't type "dangerous" stuff even though I consider myself pretty opinionated.
After my fourth or fifth perma ,, I decided Reddit was probably not for me .
I was banned for calling out an antisemetic dogwhistle in an anime sub. Asking why I was banned instead of the other person led to a permanent sitewide ban.
Shadow banned due to automatic filter
I initially joined Lemmy because I wanted to leave Reddit after the API situation. Admittedly I still use Reddit because Lemmy doesn’t have an active enough community for all the topics I am interested in or want information on. Once it gets there, I will fully make the switch.
Left reddit when the API nonsense was coming and the site had gotten so bad in general.
I left during the API bullshit and never looked back.
I got banned I guess for using a VPN? I honestly have no idea why. At that point, I decided I just don’t want invest in that platform anymore.
I left Reddit as soon as Apollo stopped working