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.
Also another reason to leave reddit is age verification!
Fuck reddit. They deleted my nsfw content even though it was not breaking any rules.
Not even sure what their problem was since they don’t give a reason - just banned!
Oh well maybe Lemmy is a better place for me.
Hope you all enjoy me over here!
Pics and erotic fiction on my profile.
Came here after I got permabanned for reporting a user that followed me from subreddit to subreddit to call me slurs, and hopped on alts so I couldn’t even just block them. Not wanting to be harassed is a grievous crime, I know.
The answer to your question is “essentially everyone”. Either hated Reddit, hated the changes, hated the app restrictions, and/or got Permabanned over nothing.
For what it’s worth, the start of my bans were bans from leftist subs for moderate positions. I used up one strike for joking that Trump supporters would voluntarily bury themselves with Trump to guard him in the afterlife (“inciting violence”), then i got simultaneously banned from r/workersstrikeback and r/latestagecapitalism because i said something to the effect of "voting against fascism shouldn’t be seen as a loss, and it was a perfectly fine way to spend a tuesday (“neoliberal propaganda”), and then finally i posted on r/unpopularopinion that: “as bad as shit can be sometimes, i still don’t think i’d do all that much differently”, and then when people commented on it, if it was insulting, i insulted them back (“harassment”).
The truth is, organizations just have a way of getting all fucked up, and you rise and retain your position by being fucked up. So, yeah, once something like reddit becomes a hot commodity, run by people with too much to lose, they wind up strangling the thing to death. (I hope that phrase isn’t “inciting violence”).
Oh, that reminds me of another of my list of repeated violations (12 years without any, then all of that shit in like 6 months).
I used the term “lame duck” in describing what you could reasonably expect from Biden when Israel started going after Biden, and i got a bsn for “ableist language”.
Now, whether that one was a false flag?.. i mean, it could go either way. I’ve definitely encountered that type of crap with leftists before as well…
For what it’s worth: i’m pretty far left. I probably occupy a similar space as Bernie Sanders (in the sense that he’s probably even farther left than he says, but he knows that nobody is going to completely dismantle the whole system just because he hot on a podium and told them to.)
I was using Reddit Sync. When the API nonsense went down, the Dev announced that they were switching to Lemmy. I’ve stayed on the app and now feel like I’m part of a much richer community. I’m glad to be here.
Same. I just wish there were more niche communities.
I can’t straight up “quit Reddit” for Lemmy yet. There’s not enough of the content I want to see here, yet.
A while after Reddit practically blocked the Apollo app, I realized just how much I loved that app. It was the perfect Reddit interface. Not long after, I discovered how great Voyager did of replacing the experience, and that’s what ultimately brought me here “permanently.”
So, Reddit has lost browsing time from me big time, and that time is now shared with Lemmy.
Also, I love a good Rust project 🦀
Huh?
Huh?
Look at username
I’d argue it already is an actual alternative so long as you’re following more general technical content rather than niche local stuff. Most of us the people here have Reddit’s API shutdown for third party apps to thank including myself. At least for me the last time I tried using the first party app it had major issues playing gifs on my Galaxy A52. Combine the bugs with the general closing of the platform and it was quite an easy switch. Lemmy is certainly smaller, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I waste less time on it than I used to on Reddit which feels more healthy.
yeet reddit
The day the API changes went into effect, I logged in here and never looked back.
as soon as reddit went public is when shit starts to hit the fan, spez was and is more susceptible to outside pressure, like from MUSK complaining, thats actually what triggered the purges this year.
There are purges this year?
Big Time.
I got banned a couple of months ago over a metaphorically framed post. Was recenly talking to a co worker who’s gotten back into No Man’s Sky since the last update that added ship building and he hit the NMS sub on Reddit looking for help and was shocked to see how many posts and users had been deleted - from a decidedly non-political sub with some of the lowest drama out of all the gaming ones.
Reddit seems to be purging the oldest members with over a decade of being on the site the most aggressively.
Also, I tried to delete my account and it would not do it. So it seems it’s banning users but not removing the accounts as some way to pad the site’s user base numbers.
I had a hell of a time getting my unarchived posts deleted. The site kept kicking me out and refusing to let me at my posts and comments. Took me logging in with different computers to get everything I could delete, removed.
They are definitely gaming numbers and hoarding user’s data.
Bad form, that.
Same
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.
Me too. RIP rif.
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.
hexbear is one of the tankies triad, less annoying than the other 2.
Let’s try not to give our new users false expectations.
Calling the ML (marxost-leninist, not .ml) communities the “tankie triad” is not only innaccurate but serves simply to stop discourse through name calling.
Tankies aren’t real. They can’t hurt you. Lend the ML’s an ear and I bet you’ll discover you agree with them in more than you expect. Especially the Hexbears though. Etiquette is different on that instance, and the culture is clearly different from much of the rest of the threadiverse, but if you’re respectful and not being a chud you can have some really great conversation and debate with them since they actually know what they’re talking about and don’t just vibe into a keyboard.
Not as an alternative, but as a supplement. Both experiences have massive problems, some shared, some not.
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
