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
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Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.
The answer to your question is “essentially everyone”. Either hated Reddit, hated the changes, hated the app restrictions, and/or got Permabanned over nothing.
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.
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’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
Huh?
Huh?
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?
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.
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 mostly don’t use Reddit anymore. I can speak my mind on Lemmy, which is refreshing.
recently you have to be so careful about keywords now on reddit, form what ive heard. they can automatically delete comments or posts based on the reddit site wide filter, this is a new development on thier part.
the one thing on reddit, is reporting someone even once can be considered “report abuse” i can understand if its spam reporting someone, but once, twice or thrice? how is that abusing it.
this is a new development
Some subreddits (almost said communities, heh) had been using bots to automatically ban anyone who posted or commented even once (regardless of the content) in subreddits they’d blacklisted long before the API debacle…
That’s what’s nice about Lemmy in general. It tends to lean quite left, but you aren’t going to get outright banned for speaking your mind if it differs from general consensus (although you might farm some downvotes lol).
reddit was “kinda left” before '16, when he got first elected bans started happening, then reddit start shifting to the right, sitll on the left. now its just mostly center right to the right. whats keeping it from going on full right, is subs are sitll posting about trumps GAFFES and critcizing him.
Not as an alternative, but as a supplement. Both experiences have massive problems, some shared, some not.
Same
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.
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.
i dont report people here, only rarely. on reddit i did alot because of so many misinformation, and trolls, and that ended up rubbed me the wrong way since reporting is a double edge sword on there,sometimes it works to get that troll off the sub, but sometimes the report, if the MOds dont agree with it you can get banned if they think your report doesnt actually have any violaiton on the reported.
I’ve reported a couple people recently. One person got banned from a community, which was rewarding. They were telling people left and right to kill themselves and shit.
But yeah that situation is not nice. A report shouldn’t take in you getting banned, unless they find out you were the antagonist somehow. Reporting in itself shouldn’t be considered abuse unless it happens very frequently by the same person. My two cents.
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. 🥂
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.
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.
looks like bots, or someone was going through the subs, look for people to report.
Im not leaving Simply using lemmy more
