Asklemmy

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In the beginning, I wanted to go back to reddit so much. But then I remembered what a shitstain company reddit is, and I reminded myself of that. Now I don't even WANT to go back to reddit. Fuck them.

For the Reddit communities that are important to me I use their RSS feeds to keep an eye on new posts though I've logged out of my account and stopped participating. All actual browsing and participation was switched entirely to Lemmy.

The censorship on reddit sickened me. I felt like I was being brainwashed scrolling through the feed. One day I just couldn't tolerate it any longer and like that I was free

Build a community about something you love! It takes little effort. :) Then when you browse Reddit occasionally, you can steal memes. In fact, do that anyway if you end up browsing and post them here!

New accounts on reddit are heavily restricted making it impossible to share things so I left. Found Lemmy by accident. Instantly way better community and low barrier to contribute has me hereforawhile.

Look at the quality of the posts.

When I open Reddit it's just the most vacuous drivel. It's not enjoyable or entertaining at all. There is no depth or substance.

I went on a 10 day backpacking trip with no reception. I deleted my reddit apps and bookmarks before I went. So got over the withdrawals during the trip, and there was just enough friction to reinstall when I got back that I never bothered.

I was also very mad about them killing the API for 3rd party mod tools and the resulting slip into AI slop and misogynist claptrap on the sub I helped mod. It's an empty Internet wasteland now; just bots and MAGA incels yelling at each other.

I wasn't going to install the app on my phone, so that made the transition easier.

Just like Reddit, you have to add your personalized subs before you can really start enjoying it. Start looking for subs you like.

The bottom line is that there isn't enough content to last all day like Reddit, but I see that as a good thing. I wrap up on Lemmy and then I can dig myself into a Wikipedia hole and learn something.

Best part about Lemmy is my comments actually get seen and responded to and it can take a couple days before a post is dead, unlike Reddit where if I comment 4 hours after it's posted, it's dead and there's no activity on my comments.

Reddit feels like I'm a dog hanging out a car window trying to bite at the air as it whips past me but never getting anything of substance. Lemmy feels like I'm in an AA support group and we're all sitting in a circle communicating and sharing our addiction together.

They perm-banned me and I kept getting pissed off when I would want to reply to something.

Want the freedom to speak your mind? Join Lemmy.

Delete all your Reddit bookmarks and favorites and find a lemmy community to launch yourself into. I picked gaming and a few news ones and so far, it's fine.. Even moreso that I found the old.lemmy.zip page and it's comfortable to me as I was dedicated to old.reddit and RES.

I was perma banned for showing support to our Saint, Luigi Mangioni.

I didn't, really. Barely ever used Reddit to begin with. I just wanted a platform to chat and engage with every now and then, and this federated, decentralized alternative is principally superior and is a historical necessity. The reason you "struggle" is because Reddit wants to keep you trapped in its ecosystem and addicted by centralizing online communication spaces.

Already wrote this somewhere else, but might well share it here: Reddit is a cesspool US deep state cut-out propaganda and censorship platform like all of these US-based platforms are, they answer to the US state dept and empire and we all know it. Doesn’t matter if it’s META, X or Reddit (and fuck, Google and YouTube obviously) - they all follow the same line. They’ll crack down on leftist subs, even r/russia due to the official US position, yet keep racist Western subs around (like r/europe) and other liberal shitholes of all kinds I don’t give a shit to even name or remember, even fascist subs and of course the genocide apologists on r/“israel”.

delete your account and get always on mullvad vpn, reddit often blocked the vpn exit node, so you just can not use it then lol (but sometimes it works still)

I didn't have a choice. They banned my account and instantly shadowban any new account I make. Even if I use a VPN or agent spoofer.

I was banned for expressing a political opinion. I was annoyed that someone else was trying to shoehorn politics into an art appreciation sub, to which I responded in a visceral way, typical of an alcoholic who had been dry for less than a week.

I left reddit in 2020, it was just very toxic at that point. scrubbed my account and uninstalled the app. Hexbear was standalone for a long time, so being part of the lemmyverse is a nice horizon broadener. Beyond that, when I'm bored and want to scroll, I check out rednote to see what the rest of the world is up to

The way I switched was getting banned from Reddit for 7 days wrongly. It then took me two days or 3 days to get unbanned and for them to apologize for the original band. By then I said fuck it and decided to come over here and search for alternatives since I've been on Reddit for like 16 years now or something like that and it's getting a little old and repetitive. Then fortunate part about this place is that there's not enough post and so it's a lot of repetition. But it also allows me to go visit other sites because there is so much repetition here.

Everybody kinda already said the obvious answers, but I'll pop in to reiterate that my main reason was killing the API (because fuuuuuuck their shitty trash app filled with ads- or any and every app that has ads at all). I got here (Lemmy and piefed and mastodon)as part of the mass exodus that switched when the ax dropped on that.

I had wanted to before that, but addictions are addictions. But killing the app I actually liked using (combined with the dev making a Lemmy version that was extremely similar), I just kinda rode the wave to the Fediverse.

So like others, I still poke in when a search result points there, but I avoid it in general. Getting rid of the app will definitely help because it gets rid of the 1-tap access to shit.

To be honest: I haven't done a complete switch. I still lurk on reddit from time to time.

What I have done however is switched to only actively engage with Lemmy, which imo is the more important part. I sadly don't have much original content to offer, but I try to engage in some comments (like just now)

Jerboa app configured to look like Baconreader.

I like discussion and hearing different point of views. Lemmy is great for one side but i've supplemented it with reading HackerNews. I find the discussion on there way more good faith and even though its stupidly pro AI I still like reading why people like AI and posts about how they are using it.

Mostly im just hear for Tech and Linux and memes. After leaving Reddit I barely ever return. Sometimes i open up a sub to scroll the top posts of the month to see if anything was missed