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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.

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.

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 joined Reddit thanks to 3rd party apps, and when they turned their back on them I was out too.

I used one of those automated programs that used the old.reddit API to overwrite all my comments. I took a break for lunch, thinking to delete my account afterwards, but when I came back my account had been permanently banned.

So it was definitely like one of those "You can't quit, you're fired" type of situations.

From time to time I visit the site because of search results, but from what I can tell, all the main subreddits are filled with bots reposting the same content from 5 years ago.

@Abraxas@feddit.uk Never banned. Started exploring alternatives during API changes. Staying on federated because it makes more sense.

Everyone understand how ridiculous it would if you could only email people on same email service, but for some reason we accepted that limitation as normal for social posts for many years.

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 made my account simply because I'm interested in federated/noncommercial social media. Left reddit for good once they fucked over the 3rd party apps.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

started looking during the API fiasco

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.

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

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

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

Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life

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.

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 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

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

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.

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