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.
Been here since the Reddit API shutdown in July of 2023.
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.
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)
Im here from reddit after being wrongfully banned . Loving lemmy lot more
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
Exactly 7 people are
I think social media should not be connected to big tech billionaries. Call me crazy. :)
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I used to be here because reddit sucks, but now I’m here because lemmy is so much better. Yes, there are memes, but there is also a LOT more genuine conversations to have.
Yes here its much Better and users are actual users
I was banned on Reddit in June of 2024 for saying that I hoped that the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus. I found out about lemmy at the end of last year and I’m still happy to be here.
Yay!
I’m here as an evolution from Reddit. I still use that for a web search result source if needed, but I don’t really find myself wanting to go back there.
Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit to me the same way a smoked turkey and pepperjack with tomato and lettuce on lightly toasted sourdough is an alternative to a cigarette for lunch.
Now I’m hungry
Exactlly
left when reddit went public. nothing good happens when you have to answer to stockholders….
Spaz is now a billionaire, so whatever happens now is irrelevant.
I left Reddit for good a few weeks ago when I got a 3 day autoban for directly quoting Worf from Star Trek…in response to a post asking for quotes. I think it was an autoban because a couple years previous I got an auto-warning for quoting a punk song in a punk sub…appeal rejected.
I appealed the 3 day ban…but no idea if it would have been accepted because I deleted my account and the Reddit app after 2 days when I snapped out of my Reddit addiction and finally realized how enshitified it’s become.
Appeal actually Always worked for me, i appealed Two permabans and won.
But yeah for most people are Just a waste of time
I left when they fucked over 3rd party apps.
Same here. But it was just a matter of time really.
I’m here after Reddit perm banned me for no reason and ban evasion failed. I submitted a ban appeal before discovering here but now that I have, I don’t think I’ll go back to reddit even if I get unbanned, this place is so nice.
Yeah It Is, btw welcome here, i Hope you Will continue to be here with us :)
Thanks and yeah im liking it here so i’ll probably stay
i have been shadowbanned on my last account. so basically im here. Reddit is very pro-right wing now so any accusation or “impliying” physical violence is a instaban in some case.
unless u are planning to use a new device/ip address and a new browser theres very little chance to get back in, if you are banned.
I tried that and they STILL got me. I was also using a friend’s self hosted vpn so it’s not even my vpn getting flagged, i dont know how they do it
Yeah you can change your name but yeah.
Reddit Is not right Wing as like authoritian, more like liberal, dirty liberal that makes the illusioni of Freedom while you cant Say certain stuff, a Place "for all communities to live* but at the end some are more “privileged”, supported or free then others
Here since deleting Reddit post history at the time of 3rd party app api. I only go back (via RedLib) for niche communities.
Used to love Reddit but the drop in quality over there is shocking, the same shit reposted ad nauseum & bots galore. Much prefer it here, though still hoping niche communities will grow & become sustainable.
A small number of communities here have got a foothold & i find them better than the Reddit equivalents dispite far fewer posts so there’s hope.
Yeah reddit has a lot of reposting, wich for some things i actually like, for example shitpost wich i think Is lacking here but It Will Just drop the quality here.
Yeah here its much smaller than reddit and i like It since i think It Will happen that you encounter the same people over and over again and i find that very funny
Yeah man…I was fully addicted to Reddit for years until quoting Worf from Star Trek got me a 3 day autoban.
I reflected at how much of the “content” was automated: any major sub had countless accounts posting nonsense to promote themselves, a product, a YouTube channel, a blog. It’s become the definition of enshitification.
I deleted my account and the app before the autoban expired…not looking back.
