• Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1211·
    7 days ago

    Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.

    Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It’s like a slice of the old web.

  • char_stats@lemm.ee
    1·
    3 days ago

    I was shadowbanned, so I signed up for Lemmy for the long term, and made another account on Reddit because who gives a shit about “ban evasion”.

    Will keep using both till I’ll be permabanned; Reddit still has more of the communities I’m interested in. I hope Reddit fucks up even more so there’ll be another exodus to Lemmy.

  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
    14·
    6 days ago

    Not banned. I chose Lemmy because I’m a big believer in the ideas of the fediverse and I want it to succeed.

    I do still have to use Reddit occasionally to look up info that hasn’t made it here yet, but I don’t post or comment there.

  • ghewl@lemmy.world
    31·
    7 days ago

    I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.

    🖕spez

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

    • Billegh@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 days ago

      Same. Also removed what content I had put there, to the extent that I could. Account is still there.

    • xorollo@leminal.space
      4·
      5 days ago

      Same. And it didn’t impact me directly but clearly demonstrated the value of a distributed platform.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      5 days ago

      Yep. Not to mentioned permanently AI astroturfed, and the politics went full on hard authoritarian and Zionist.

      I used to mod 2 communities with over 300k members.

  • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 days ago

    I left reddit during the API scandal. I had the energy and time to move platforms and so I did. Open software, FOSS, non-for-profit digital solutions are all things I’m trying to support more at the cost of not using those paid or private services. Every dollar out of their pockets (the rich) is another dollar in ours.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      wish i knew about api, im guessing it also allowed you to remain “hidden” so its harder for reddit to ban accounts? its probably one of the other reasons they wanted it gone, aside from the money from ads, and not being paid by those APIS.

      • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 days ago

        An API is like a question a service provides that it will programmatically answer. So reddit provided questions for getting all of its content for free. People built front end apps for viewing the content to match their preferences, provide anonymity, avoid ads, etc.

        There were a lot of good reasons for reddit to stop providing that service free of charge, but they went full Corporate enshittificatioon where they made the pricing so awful it forced most of the apps to shut down.

        Couple that with the protecting of /r/theDonald and other non-humanist political subs and, for me anyway, it was clear that the company wasn’t run by good people but by greedy people and things would only get worse.

  • Vazz (He/Him)@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 days ago

    I’ve been trying to use Lemmy more for general and political content but I still use Reddit for niche fandoms and hobbies.

  • bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    I mostly switched to lemmy because the mobile reddit app i used finally broke after the api changes.

    I refuse to use that shitty reddit app and the creator of the app i used made a lemmy app so here i am

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    211·
    7 days ago

    I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there… I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

    Lemmy is just so much better quality.

  • Amberskin@europe.pub
    11·
    6 days ago

    I am.

    First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.

    But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.

    So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.

    I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
    3·
    5 days ago

    Like MySpace, Reddit, as we knew and loved it, died a long time ago (arguably long before the API scandal). The API scandal was just the straw that broke the camel’s back for many of us.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      reddit when downhill the moment trump as elected the first time, i noticed they started to ban increasingly more, and easier, very sensitive filters, partially due to the rise of trolls and bot farms. then social media so increasingly lucrative revenue from right wings trafficking to thier platform through ads, thus the allowance of astroturfing, and banning of alleged “violence, or threats”