Reddit has become unusable for me at this point. I will see 2-3 posts from my local subreddits and then everything else is “because you’ve shown interest in a similar community” of random cities I’ve never been to/ never will visit. It also won’t stop showing me trainwrecks. I don’t look for this content, and I mute every community it promotes and as someone who commutes by train everyday I really don’t want to see that shit.

I’m totally banned so here we are.

I did use to be a Reddit user. Now I’m a bot, according to the admins of ttrpg.network.

I am, but there’s such a strong focus on American news and politics that I still jump back to Reddit a lot though

I use both for different reasons, different communities

Never banned but I disliked the corporate capture and astroturfing that infested Reddit. I moved here so no corporation could own my community.

Lemmy is a federated clone of Reddit, and Reddit has more users, so most likely, everyone here has either rejected Reddit, or been banned by Reddit, or they are using both platforms at once to reach a bigger audience.

I am here because I was very dissatisfied with Reddit’s administration and moderation and with the way they screwed app devs.

I’m concerned that Lemmy uses the same basic moderation techniques as Reddit, and so it could fall into the same ruin as Reddit. But for now, the moderators I’ve interacted with here have been straight up legit good people. So I stick around.

Not banned. I just like the idea of the fediverse. And also to have more “real people” in the comments.

We also have bans here. And they’re also rather arbitrary. Just never defend europeoids (they are guilty by default, no matter what happened) and always defend minorities of any kind (they are always right in their rightful rights). Simple? Not quite. You will still be banned from time to time even from the communities you never heard about(local moderators love that).

But overall, it is much nicer here. Moderators are fewer and lazier, and some people can sometimes even read your arguments before calling you a racist or something.

Reddit is leftwing lemmy us hard left. Anyone right of moderate are the ones that get banned here for no reason. Any platform that doesn’t allow true actual free speech of all political perspectives is doomed to die as an irrelevant echo chamber.

I’m not banned, but I’m here because Reddit essentially in active decay. It’s old. All the community names are taken. Some taken years ago. The site is too big to be effectively maintained by admins, leaving many communities badly-run, half-abandoned and being swamped by bots, trolls and whatever else. You can’t grow anything there.

You can on the Fediverse. Community discoverability is by far much better on here, and the federated structure of it means that no-one can camp on communities to stop others from making it. You can just be replaced by someone else if you run it poorly.

R-word emigrant, checking in.

I stopped using entirely a few years ago, I kept getting banned (esp after 10/7) and spinning up new accounts just felt like a waste of time. Now this is pretty much my only social media aside from XHS.

I much prefer temp bans, but it does depend on the context

yea, lemmy is kind of an alternative for me. but in essence it’s completely different. people don’t argue with bots for one. and the community is smaller so if you make an ass of yourself without being banned you’re still known for being an ass :)

My account appears to have been blocked instantly from the public eye just because I intermittently shared in /r/Milwaukee a weekly board game group that I run, so, yeah, this is a nicer place.