Ask Lemmy

I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.

We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was "fired," it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.

Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.

I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I'd been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn't give a shit anymore.

Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.

I've been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it's better here.

edit: I didn't say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already

I'm not banned on Reddit. I just like the idea that a companies do not interfere in the Fediverse, or that at least we could detach from their servers.

I only tolerated watching reddit using the slide app, so no app = no reddit.

I deleted all my posts.

One day when browsing from a VPN they said if you want to see this page you need to login. I reluctantly login, to get an email a few hours later "your account has been permanently banned for suspicious login"

I got banned for being unhinged towards users who were doing (IMO) obvious nazi dogwhistles and the mods sided against me. Fuck them mods and fuck the users who accept that shit. The posters knew exactly what they were signaling.

I got banned a few times but it's not like I couldn't just make new accounts.

I didn't even want to be on that shit website from the beginning and was just waiting for a decent alternative.

I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.

Several years ago.

"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"

Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?

Came during the initial revolt. Increased attention after getting banned from Reddit because I joked I'd like a guy with a bunch of guns to give me one cause he had too many. They tried to say I was soliciting for the purchase of firearms, and when I said there was no way any serious person could have thought I was asking to buy a gun, they told me the lifetime ban was in place and if I ever came around again they'd ban me for ban evasion.

Lul. That place is a total fucking hellscape.

Wasn't banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.

Like... I genuinely can't use words like "incel", "cuck", "snowflake", "Trump", "Andrew Tate", etc without having my comment removed on most subs.

only fully transitioned when I got banned for some statement defending victims of violence

started looking during the API fiasco

Not banned. It had been going downhill, so I made up my mind I'd leave during blackout, kbin.social had been shared by Ernest there (hope he's okay), and ended up on Lemmy.

Eta cool username

I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I'd already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

Like many in the comments, I left after the API changes. I'm not using their shitty app, and it's so bot infested now it's not even worth it.

My first account was on .ml roughly 5 years back, when it was basically the only instance. I had heard about there being a FOSS alternative to Reddit - but I quickly lost interest because the community was just too small back then. Re-activated my account when the API exodus happened, because there was finally a community large enough to provide a lived-in feeling. Have only gotten more dedicated to the Fediverse ever since.

I did. Not banned though.

My app stopped working due to their API stuff so I just kinda stopped using it over the next few weeks, after trying to use it in a browser which was horrible.

... and how many, like myself, were permabanned with no warnings by overzealous lemmy.ml mods?

(For posts that no, were not racist or -phobic )

i was banned from reddit but had been wanting to leave for quite some time at that point, so it was a welcomed change. that's when i learned more about decentralized social networks and stuff.. glad to be here. i wouldn't go back to reddit even if i was allowed to.

I can create a new accounts if I wanted to. I just gave up on Reddit. They banned me for posting about how a local Nazi. Tried to get a youth center burned down because it had a LGBTQ flag up for pride month. The guy is a captain at a county jail to.

I left after yet another ban.

1st time because I criticized the US. Second time cause I said that trump needs the Mussolini treatment.

With everything that is said on reddit this was tame in comparison. Then I landed on Lemmy, and it feels like I am out of the land of bots.

Came here when Relay stopped working. Every now and again a Google search takes me there and I have Rdx so I can lurk without an account, but I don't really

Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.

It was the API shutdown for me. I eventually got banned for mass editing+deleting my comments to nuke my old profiles on the way out the door. First one got banned from a few subs. Then subsequent accounts got site-banned for ban evasion, when I did the same on those accounts.

Had been thinking about leaving Reddit for a while because of inevitable enshitification but it was the API thing that prompted me to move.

Was tired of getting shit on by mods. I got banned from a sub for agreeing with a mod. Dipshit couldn't admit that he made a mistake and permabanned me. I got banned from two subs I had never been in for blocking a mod on a sub he wasn't a mod on. Little unhinged always on basement dwellers.

Came here after my niche small Reddit client got officially shut down. When the API changes were announced, I knew that I’d rather switch than use their official Reddit client. I didn’t like that they charge AI companies for accessing my data and I don’t get any share of their profit neither. Here on Lemmy everyone can train their AI models on our data but at least there’s no random dude (spez) who profits off that.

The decentralization meaning that I can choose some random small instance and not be bound to the admins of any big one was another big point for Lemmy

This platform became "mature" with less downtime around the Reddit API disaster, and I wanted to support it. I still use Reddit, but I go here first.

Had several accounts, some thrived as mods and active participants, some as mere commenters and some as mere readers. Otoh, I am still on Slashdot, Digg and other internet slush, was really sad to see bash.org go with my fun fun comments.

The internet will last. How we use it (with active, anonymous or sake accounts) continues to change.

Got banned a little before the whole API thing because Reddit admins think child molesters deserve a safe space. Fuck them and their shithole site.