Banned for a stupid reason from Reddit. I made a joke that a mod from r/entertainment didn’t like and got banned. I kept accidentally commenting on the subreddit because I often comment on posts without checking subreddit. Even though I had muted and blocked r/entertainment it kept popping up on my feed because it’s a general subreddit. Got banned from Reddit for trying to circumvent the ban.
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Damn that sucks, but didn't you try to just make a new account on a new email?
Yes and apparently I’m ip banned from using Reddit on my phone. I tried a vpn also but it wasn’t worth the hassle or the money.
What did u to get IP banned bro?
That comes with the ban because I have multiple accounts. That’s how they prevent ban evasion.
I was part of the reddit exodus over the 3rd party app bullshit. I saw a post from one of the bigger servers bitching about how you shouldn't join lemmygrad or Hexbear because they are full of tankies so I made a Lemmygrad account. After Hexbear refederated I added a few of their comms and realized I jive more with their community than with Lemmygrad so I made a HB account and added a bunch of my old Lemmygrad comms to that.
I wish the hobby comms were more active. That's really the only reason I still have my reddit account.
i’m in the US and am becoming increasingly worried about privacy online (as if i needed more reasons). as a leftist, i believe it will become even more difficult to organize in the near future and want to protect myself as much as possible. i know nothing can truly assure me my information won’t be compromised but i’m going to try and do what i can to limit the possibility. also, dealing with reddit, twitter, and bluesky have convinced me to abandon popular social media. i don’t even like using YouTube.
i want to belong to a community of likeminded people who understand the seriousness of privacy and the reality of potential revolution in the US.
When reddit started it's dive down the enshitification hole. As for things I wish it had, a lemmy version of multireddits would be nice, especially since we can end up with multiple communities for the exact same thing here.
When they nuked third party apps. For a long time I used the official app, then I switched to 3rd party, nd I couldn't go back
It seems like most people joined Lemmy for the 3rd party apps. I admit I am not familiar with reddit 3rd party apps and what they do in terms of functionality, I'd love if someone explained them to me
They're just apps not made by Reddit, but made by Reddit users, some of which were paid. And many which were significantly better and more reliable than Reddit's.
A quick example on Lemmy just with the web, these are all lemmy.world but different UIs:
- https://a.lemmy.world/ - Alexandrite UI
- https://photon.lemmy.world/ - Photon UI
- https://m.lemmy.world/ - Voyager mobile UI
- https://old.lemmy.world/ - A familiar UI
And that one too: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
And that's just the web browser ones, there's a bunch for iOS and Android too. Reddit had even more.
A good app that matches your style of scrolling really makes a difference.
The Official client was mid at best and hundred of thousands of people where on various third party apps.
Then Spez wanted to sell API access to train AI so it became prohibitively expensive for most third party reddit clients to continue.
So I didn't want to use their app and on top of that it was to sell my data to AI businesses.
I actually wanted to nuke all my comments to be sure they couldn't use them but didn't manage to do it reliably.
But yeah the fact that they completely killed the reddit client I used just to sell my data for AI training was the last straw for me.
Also reddit was getting quite toxic especially in some subreddits IMO.
They literally acquired the Alien Blue client, which at the time was the best Reddit client according to many people, and used it as the base for their official client. How on earth did they fuck it up this badly??
I never used Apollo since I was stuck on Android. But I still wish I had the chance to use it while it was available.
I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.
I didn't even use a third party app so it didn't affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.
I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.
Heh, and they say the exodus/protest were pointless 🤣
I’m the same but I used Apollo, and the ads + principle of what they did drove me away permanently And I scrambled all my comments
Reddits CEO.
Reddit just isn't fun without Reddit is fun.
I used Apollo to browse Reddit. It was really a great app, and it made browsing Reddit enjoyable. The dev, Christian, listened to his users, frequently updated and improved the app, was active in the subreddit, and seemed to care about making it a positive experience. It really was like being a part of a club.
It wasn’t just that Reddit shut down the API, but the way they boldfaced lied about Christian and their interactions with him. He was feverishly in talks with them to save the app, but Reddit not only wasn’t negotiating in good faith, but even worse, lying about the interactions to try to smear Christian and make him look like the villain. It was then that I knew that Reddit would never be the same, and I started looking for alternatives.
I tried several, but Lemmy seemed to be the closest to Reddit and scratched the itch. Not only that, an amazing dev created Voyager, which is heavily inspired by Apollo, (pretty much a direct copy), and makes me feel at home. There’s not as many communities here as subreddits over there, but I have curated a great Home feed, which includes most of my interests and that I enjoy browsing. I can honestly say the comments here are much better and more authentic. On the whole I get real replies and have better conversations instead of trolls and confrontations like I frequently did at Reddit. I do stop in over there sometimes out of boredom and browse, but it’s really not the same as before. (And maybe it is, and I was just fooling myself and not seeing it.) I don’t think I’ve posted or commented on Reddit since Apollo died except on live sports game feeds, which I do miss over here. I found a regional instance that I like, and, on the whole, I really enjoy it here.
TLDR: API killed Apollo.
My story’s pretty much this.
Same journey for me. Digg > Reddit > Lemmy. I do need leave .world though.
Same journey here.
I was already on Mastodon when the API price increase thing happened on reddit and my favourite client (infinity) became useless. I wasn't going to use the bloat-fest that is the reddit app, so I switched to Lemmy in "protest". Now I'm using eternity (a fork of infinity) and I have found a place in this community where I'm incredibly happy. I'm never going back to that shithole and I don't miss anything from there. There's a lot of karma-farming and every single person there reads exactly the same. There's no real discourse. The only times I use it (and through a web browser) is when I'm looking for solutions to some tech-related issue, and that is, if I haven't found the solution here already.
I've used a lot of different forum types and it's sometimes impressive how much of a systematic difference some decisions can make. By not putting your scoreboard on your profile, simply just not adding a couple of numbers to the page, 'karma' just isn't on my mind and there's no incentive to farm it.
It's degamifying, and it's a good thing.
I always wanted more decentralized alternatives. But none of them ever had any real users, then June 12, 2023 happened and I found out about this, that everyone is going to. And actually not a dead platform.
Also, booty: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance)
Spez
The self-destruction of Reddit and the much greater toxicity. Leftist communities here are far more chill than Reddit as well.
Started on Digg moved to reddit when Digg shot itself in the foot moved to lemmy when reddit shot itself in the foot. I will say I post and comment way more on here. Than I ever did on digg and reddit combined. This place feels more like old school forms than social media. Where people come out of the woodwork to be jerks. Ether because your views don't match theirs or you get some spelling or grammar that's not 100% perfect vs just engaging with your ideas for a constructive discussion. I can't tell how many times I have come back to a reply and gone " you make a good point." on lemmy.
I used Boost for Reddit but well, we know how that went. I really loved Boost. The dev pivoted to Lemmy, so I did as well. So far the experience has been pretty solid.
I was paid a large sum of money
Wait, you guys are getting paid!?
Damn and I did it for free?? Where can I redeem my 20 bucks for becoming a lemming too?
I'd quit stop using Reddit quite some tine ago, mostly a philosophical thing. Saw on Mastodon mention about a Reddit (aka Usenet 2.0) like replacement on Lemmy so, here I am.
I had been using Boost on Reddit, so I grabbed that as well as play with other apps like Jerboa, Raccoon.
I used other Fediverse platforms since about 2022 and was keen to find one that replicated a more reddit-like style.
I moved to Korea and started posting on r/Korea. I recorded a video of a big fire in Seoul, and because I couldn't find any news about it I uploaded it to my peertube instance and linked it on r/Korea.
The mods banned me for promoting my own website and said I should have uploaded it to YouTube.
So that resource was gone which was a bummer for me who just moved across the world and didn't speak Korean. That was my main reason to use reddit.
I already hosted mastodon and when the 3rd party amargeddon happened I heard about Lemmy. I was hoping that there would be a vibrant Korea community which never happened.
But somehow the UX is much better than on mastodon so I stayed. Later I switched the software from Lemmy to PieFed though.
What’s piefed
It's a similar software as Lemmy and MBin, but it is written in python: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
It's compatible with the Threadyverse, therefore you can read what I'm writing.
I read through it but am confused by why someone would care to have a small host just for python?
thank you!
Reddit is becoming WAY too nazi like. Say something that goes against they ideas and views? banned. fuck those fat fucks.
I quit Reddit many years ago, because I noticed the toxic culture was fucking with my mental health. Then I was on Mastodon for a few years. Lemmy started to exist in that timeframe and the premise sounded good, so I joined pretty early on, when there were only a handful of posts every week or so. But yeah, these days Mastodon is what I check only occasionally and this place has taken over, as I do like the format a lot more.