I found Lemmy thanks to a guy on reddit wich answered to my comment. I said that we leftists generally lacked a place where we could express some opinions without te fear of being banned. infact Reddit moderation (both admins and mods) suck and doing their “job” and there are instances of people being banned just for saying something completely normal or just some bugs. I am still active on Reddit but would like to make the Lemmy community grow so mabye it can become and actual alternative.
Sorry for any disturb, bye :3
P.S.
Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.
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.
I mostly don’t use Reddit anymore. I can speak my mind on Lemmy, which is refreshing.
Not as an alternative, but as a supplement. Both experiences have massive problems, some shared, some not.
Same
Isn’t everyone on here as an alternative to reddit?
You could consider the question of whether there is still something about reddit that you value. Seeking an alternative usually means you’re trying to fulfill a value or need the previous option provided. While that was true when i first landed on Lemmy there’s simply nothing i value about reddit anymore. So i no longer consider it an alternative.
There’s also the alternative motive of valuing/supporting FOSS/federation.
Not everyone but most
I moved from reddit to hexbear a while back, spent a month or two lurking and occasionally commenting then decided it was time for a social media detox. A year later I signed up for db0, knowing reddit was absolutely not the place, and liking what I saw as far as admin politics and moderation style.
Its been almost a year, I haven’t caught any bans or had any particularly toxic interactions, so either I’m in the right place or I’ve become increasingly good at self censoring.
I am not here on lemmy/the fediverse just because it is an alternative to reddit, I am here because I intend to contribute as much as possible to destroying reddit by being here and contributing.
It makes me sad seeing the blanket cynicism people have towards the potential of social media as if we tried everything and social media is just inherently toxic when all we have tried is for-profit social media run by massive corporations full of sociopathic ultra rightwing upper management that demand endless growth.
Reddit has to go, it is far too centralized a replacement for forum/message boards, but the good news is every meaningful contribution we make here on Lemmy/the fediverse pushes the knife deeper into reddit’s chest :)
Reddit can only win at forming an unavoidable corporate silo we are compelled to endure if it projects an inevitability to it, we are here to destroy that inevitability.
Was perma banned in Reddit a few years ago for discussing ACA compliance. I saw it coming for awhile, the any comment I made no matter how inauspicious was flagged over the course of a few weeks.
After banning I was unable to post on any of my accounts. But I could change prior comments so I used an app to generate AI gibberish and replace years of comments and participation with AI bullshit to salt the earth for Reddit.
Before you leave I recommend doing the same.
Im not leaving Simply using lemmy more
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.
Everything you said is how I feel. I was enjoying reddit until the Brexit referendum, which was when it felt like it got taken over by the alt right. When the API thing came, I realised that money was the only thing that mattered and they were selling my discussion space to whoever would spend, and the alt right was spending big. We didn’t matter, so like you, I left.
I was delighted to find people talking again here on lemmy.
Chiming in to say: same, though it took a step further for me before I quit in disgust. I was ready to accept the api costs argument in good faith until I learned that a dev could not make a reddit client that would use my own api token. Which meant they didn’t (only) care about the api load, they care about ensuring that I see as many ads instead of posts that they can get away with.
Sadly, Google worsening their search results to juice their own (ad) numbers not long afterwards led to the general public learning about searching Reddit as a way to land on actual human-vetted info. Just as the core user base splintered and left in greater numbers than ever before, a tidal wave of new users joined and enthusiastically picked up the torch – without even realizing what they were contributing to.
Here’s to a fun time and a healthy, safe space. 🥂
Been here since the Reddit API shutdown in July of 2023.
Same.
Same
checked my account date and yeah, pretty much.
Yes, that is why I came to Lemmy, but since I haven’t used Reddit in two years and probably not thought about it much at all since then, I don’t really consider Lemmy a Reddit substitute anymore. It’s just Lemmy.
My current Reddit account I carefully curated and built is unbanned but associated to a different email, but my primary email is actually receiving new emails as of this week that my old accounts are permabanned. That alone is not noteworthy, but over the past couple months some of my other alts have had their passwords reset at random, with emails asking me to verify. These are not phishing emails, but actually from Reddit. I think they’re on to me and trying to get a confirmation, but not clicking those links so they can do their IP identification. Sociopathic, vindictive, people run Reddit apparently. Like sorry for dissenting and calling out specific employees that have bullied me, your operation is surely not corrupt. /s
I’m here since the API stuff on Reddit, haven’t posted a lot there, haven’t posted a lot here but at least I’m not supporting Reddit through my daily use anymore. Though when I really need some information that I can only find on Reddit I’m not gonna not use it.
I am. Was super optimistic too until October 7 made it clear that this place is just quinoa reddit.
What happened Oct 7
netanyahu found a pretext for genocide and a lot of lemmy users found a purpose in life: simping for him.
People here simping Netanyahu? Are they banned? Or banned from Life even
I’m sure at least 25% of us are here because all of our years old accounts were permabanned for “inciting violence” which they use as a blanket term for posts they don’t like against the administration.
99% chance you were glorifying the violence against the assassinated CEO
That was indeed a glorious assassination.
Principles mean nothing to most people.
Am I the only one on Lemmy who isn’t from Reddit
I’m kinda young, won’t specify more than “teen”
I sometimes browse Reddit without an account (some more niche meme/funny subreddits), but have never had an account.
I don’t actually remember how I originally heard about the fediverse. (adhd be like)
I think social media should not be connected to big tech billionaries. Call me crazy. :)
The fact that Facebook is one of the largest companies still blows my mind.
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