Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
I left Reddit because I realized that the people running it were complete assholes who believed money was more important than community.
What made me interested in Lemmy was the decentralized nature. What made me stay is how it reminded me of Reddit a decade ago and of course the community.
Reddit being reddit caused me to look around.
The nice beeple at beehaw drew me in.
Now I have a couple accounts (beehaw was the first) and I haven’t really run into many rude people. I like it here.
The loss of Reddit third party apps and the reasons they were giving for them doing it felt like it was going to be a slippery slope of shit. The Reddit app was also shit at the time and still is.
With Lemmy, I can just go looking for another app if there’s something I don’t like and even if I don’t switch between them, they also seem to be way more configurable too.
Quit reddit 5 years ago. Had a 12 year old account then.
Thread asked for early examples of racism against a certain group, by my country. I dug up such examples and translated them into English. The examples included slurs. Got permabanned for using slurs, no appeal.
Apparently I should have included a racism trigger warning in a thread asking for examples of racism, although the mod admitted that that wouldn’t have saved me either.
This is a site which was notorious for indulging in gore with videos of people being killed by the way. Bunch of weirdos.
That’s not why I deleted my account though. The last straw was when CIA thinktanks made a hostile takeover of all Middle East and geopolitics subs, forcing a Washington agenda to manufactor consent for war. The Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq subs were riddled with ex-military Americans and the mods were literally paid thinktank gooners. They were quite open about it too.
Wow, my account was 12ish years old too when I was banned the first time. Then I was able to access Reddit again because my partner has an old 11 yo account lol and then they banned that too, even with my VPN and a new device it was accessed from. They are shit ass. Both times I didnt do anything against the guidelines. They just didnt like my educational shit going viral because Americans arent majority fascist alt-right extremists despite popular belief. Most genuinely want basic human rights, healthcare and affordability. Duh. These rich people will eventually collapse because they are choosing to make a fake world instead of learning how to survive within the real one.
Lol. Reddit hasn’t been leftist in a long time if it ever really was. There were some leftist spaces, and I guess a lot of users were left-of-center, but the platform certainly wasn’t.
I came over here when they blocked third party apps. I didn’t join earlier because I thought it’d be similar to Voat, which was apparently horrible and an alt-right cesspool. I was pleasantly surprised. I like that people can have actual discussions here without things being flooded by thousands of comments.
Also, since you’re new, I’d recommend against Lemmy.world. They’re a little aggressive with moderation. They’re the largest instance, which is another reason to go somewhere else. The fediverse works best when no one instance controls it.
lemmy.world is the least aggresive with moderation i have seen. i’ve been banned from other instances, mostly for not agreeing with politics or linking to factual sources that don’t agree with their narrative.
i have never been banned from anything on .world.
Pay walling subreddits was the last straw for me
Fled Reddit when the Exodus happened.
When the ‘fun’ side of reddit became unrecognizeable, then gradually after using Lemmy all I really do on Reddit is post in more useful places where I can share advice on chronic illness, and its really unfortunate there’s not much in comparison for communities here otherwise Reddit would be deleted already.
Political comments shouldn’t turn into vaguely threatening DMs, so many people on there nowadays need their teeth knocked out like some airpods for that shit.
most of my fun subs got you insta banned from more serious subs becauase no joking or mockery of weirdos was allow. had to separate out my accounts. even then I’d have crazy reddit weirdos stalking me and reporting my comments on other subs trying to get me banned for one comment i said in their sub.
i was attracted to the rust implementation as i have a general interest in rust usage
shame they turned out to be lunatic commies
So you joined a platform where everyone is a communist?
reddit killed 3rd party apps and i don’t wanna use their shitty app or websites on my phone so i just ditched it for lemmy
Same same.
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When Reddit killed Apollo.
Me too. API death of reddit.
They thought disabling RIF would force me to use the Reddit Mobile App, but it just got me to break up with reddit finally after 10+ years.
Who nose, maybe this was all part of their plan to get rid of Reddit’s original users and make room for a younger culture who doesn’t care about privacy or ads or whatever.
You were replaced by 20 llm agent -> more ads revenue
It was Boost for Reddit for me. Note: I hate the ads in Boost for Lemmy, but I still havent jumped ship or started to pay for ad-free. When I go on contract at work (I hope) it’ll be more possible.
e: wait, it’s $5, one time? Ok, I’m killing the ads now.
I want to support the platforms that look at people for their interactions, not their marketability. APIs were going to be dead at Reddit and I wasn’t willing to stand over the body with a knife in hand.
Same, but because Boost got killed in the crossfire. Still loyal to Boost on Lemmy btw.
Banned for no reason I could figure out. Never got any response from mods when appealing. Pissed me off that an account that I had for 12+ years with no warnings of any kind was shadow banned.
you were probably banned by association. could have made a post 10 years ago in a community that was banned and thus you were banned.
That’s one of the most infuriating things. Like, you get tons of posts on your frontpage that you did not choose. At some point you engage with some unhinged statement, trying to reason with the lonely wayward person that said something horrible or sad. You are now shadowbanned from multiple large communities, so no normal users will see your posts and you won’t even get notified that this action has been taken against you.
Was looking for a good alternative to Reddit for a while, then the API debacle happened.
I suspect as with many here it was Reddit’s API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.
I switched and never looked back when they blocked third party clients and the mods started migrating to Lemmy.
I am brand spankin’ new and didn’t realize mods migrated too! That’s great! Only thing I wish there was, was the database wealth of information that reddit has but that takes time and humans make that possible.
Oh yeah, it’s impossible to mod effectively via reddit’s official mobile app. And admin was becoming increasingly inconsistent in its demands and communication.
