Not banned but I like here more. I left during the Exodus/ blackouts/shutdowns. In another life I was a mod for a moderately successful sub and after going into the rabbit hole and seeing the app timer increase to hours a day, I felt they could at least gift mods premium and they could skip ads. After some drama and a high caliber mod left the sub, I followed shortly after as the community has grown and changed.
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I'm perma banned for spreading Luigi related posts.
I use both. I've attempted to replicate the subreddits I was subscribed to on Lemmy with very limited success. I'm not sure if I just need to subscribe to more instances or if my expectations are off.
the bulk of the communities are still on reddit, like not the onion, cats,,,,,etc.
Just like Lemmy more. Reddit has become to enshittified for me to use it anymore, except for some niche stuff due of Reddit's larger traffic volume.
Perma banned for saying child rapists should get a taste of their own medicine.
Haven't been on there in like 10 years, glad all of you finally saw the light. Sad it requires being forced off though.
I like Lemmy more, especially since it’s not corporate owned. The Reddit admins turned the site to shit purposely to push their greedy agenda, they instilled moderators that acted in bad faith for many subs, they allowed misinformation bots and other bad faith actors to run rampant, and they hosted ads to bet on US elections for months up until the day of the election itself. Truly and utterly disgusting behavior from Reddit.
Ellen Pao deserved better, Spez taking over is what enshitified the site.
I never really got into reddit.
Getting in on Lemmy (relatively) early made it feel more specifical so I actually do more than search it for answers
Last time I tried to make an account it was instantly shadow banned. Maybe they don't like my email address, who knows. It's kind of a dump over there anyway
if you go on the shadowban sub, where you are allowed to post there, yea it seems alot of people are getting shadowbanned the instant they create the account, or soon after commenting. they are assuming many people are creating multiple accounts to evade bans. Im in another forum where people are making dozens of accounts, they use it for OF and referall link purpose to earn money, and its been happening to them too, but they have methods to evade reddit , but its a cat and mouse game.
i had like 5+ accts that were all hit with sitewide ban in early feb, because one of my accounts was temp banned, so it decided to ban all of them, except one, that got shadowbanned now. thier bans made less and less sense, if your not aware reddit went public and is trying to sell the site at some point, hence the accounts apocalypse, also Musk had a hand the recent purges too, he complained on 2 occasions that subs were making him look bad, so reddit started purging accounts criticizing most right wingers.
I'm definitely banned permanently, I'm pretty sure I've got one of those evercookies somewhere that will make sure I stay banned, whether it's outright or a shadow-ban.
And it is mainly because of having engaged with some of the lowest of the low, deformed individuals that somehow inhabit there untouched. It had gotten so bad to where they would bombard my posts when I was ranting about things like my shitty job and they just dogpile on you for no reason other than they can because the mods aren't active enough.
I can't imagine what it is like now being there and trying to criticize Musk or something since he's apparently having a say now on it and Spez will bend over for his daddy.
Like lemmy more.
After Apollo stopped working I learned I liked nice UI and no ads more than I tolerated vanilla Reddit.
Neither, but the hope still remains that Lemmy grows to be better. Right now I just see too many weird takes here, but its the best alternative currently.
The preponderance of flagrant double standards in moderation policies did it in for me. I deleted a 14 year old account when it became clear that there was going to be a clear effort on behalf of reddit's corporate leadership to push bullshit narratives and purge anyone who spoke up about it. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone invented a reason to ban me.
Turns out I don't even miss it.
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I'm not banned, I just won't go there anymore.
Both. It's actually funny. Someone posted that image of alternatives to things like Reddit and Whatsapp and Google, etc, and it had Lemmy on it. I was at the point where I was getting sick of Reddit and had one account banned already. I joined Lemmy, and a few days later my other account got banned for up voting a comment that was just the gif of Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. I had already decided I liked Lemmy more at that point, so whatever. The one thing that sucks is that I had my own little sub with a couple thousand members where I posted my writing, and people seemed to like it. I enjoyed sharing my stories with all those weirdos, and now I can't.
Banned on some subs. Mostly just left because I saw it enshittifying.
I'm not permanently banned, I was temporarily banned for a bullshit reason and when I got my account back I went scorched earth then closed my account. Fuck reddit
Every time I add a comment or post on reddit, I get banned all the time, I don't even know why, I tried to appeal the ban, but no one gives a shit. Anyway, I like Lemmy better, it's faster, lighter, and doesn't have any dumb karma thing. So I deleted my last Reddit account, told the Reddit administration to go screw themselves, and I have no regrets.
I'm on mbin mostly. The japan-focused subreddits for legal, finance, etc. have so far refused to move. Once they move, I will be done with reddit entirely
Reddit Refugee. Thanks!
I left reddit one December (think it was 2023). They showed off thier Reddit Recap. Realised I switched from windows to linux to AVOID data collection, then use an app that gladly showed off all the data they collect.
reddit is banned in my country (ofc VPN will bypass it) but why bother use more effort if i got something legally available?
my first account was banned because I was critical of Christianity and it hobby of murdering people