left when reddit went public. nothing good happens when you have to answer to stockholders….
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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Spaz is now a billionaire, so whatever happens now is irrelevant.
I left when they fucked over 3rd party apps.
Same here. But it was just a matter of time really.
I left Reddit for good a few weeks ago when I got a 3 day autoban for directly quoting Worf from Star Trek…in response to a post asking for quotes. I think it was an autoban because a couple years previous I got an auto-warning for quoting a punk song in a punk sub…appeal rejected.
I appealed the 3 day ban…but no idea if it would have been accepted because I deleted my account and the Reddit app after 2 days when I snapped out of my Reddit addiction and finally realized how enshitified it’s become.
Appeal actually Always worked for me, i appealed Two permabans and won.
But yeah for most people are Just a waste of time
I left when they blocked third-party APIs to force people to use their app
And me
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Thanks to Reddit is Fun for all the years. I didn't want to leave. Reddit kicked me out
This was my path too
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I considered it, but didn't because of the communities I was still a part of.
I finally left when they IP banned me for saying stuff like "I'm surprised nazis aren't being attacked tbh"
the third party API thing is when I pretty much completely stopped contributing quality content, though. to anywhere - I don't really do that anywhere now. touched some grass, y'know?
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I'm here after Reddit perm banned me for no reason and ban evasion failed. I submitted a ban appeal before discovering here but now that I have, I don't think I'll go back to reddit even if I get unbanned, this place is so nice.
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Here since deleting Reddit post history at the time of 3rd party app api. I only go back (via RedLib) for niche communities.
Used to love Reddit but the drop in quality over there is shocking, the same shit reposted ad nauseum & bots galore. Much prefer it here, though still hoping niche communities will grow & become sustainable.
A small number of communities here have got a foothold & i find them better than the Reddit equivalents dispite far fewer posts so there's hope.
Yeah reddit has a lot of reposting, wich for some things i actually like, for example shitpost wich i think Is lacking here but It Will Just drop the quality here.
Yeah here its much smaller than reddit and i like It since i think It Will happen that you encounter the same people over and over again and i find that very funny
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I'm here because I got perma banned for saying trump needs punched dead in his shit.
i have been shadowbanned on my last account. so basically im here. Reddit is very pro-right wing now so any accusation or "impliying" physical violence is a instaban in some case.
unless u are planning to use a new device/ip address and a new browser theres very little chance to get back in, if you are banned.
I tried that and they STILL got me. I was also using a friend's self hosted vpn so it's not even my vpn getting flagged, i dont know how they do it
Yeah you can change your name but yeah.
Reddit Is not right Wing as like authoritian, more like liberal, dirty liberal that makes the illusioni of Freedom while you cant Say certain stuff, a Place "for all communities to live* but at the end some are more "privileged", supported or free then others
Fuck spez the 2023 canvas was the last time i used a account over there and when a search engine leads me there it makes me sick to see the new ui and overall culture.
Lemmy is lacking content badly, but noway I'm going back there.
Reddit shadow banned my account for posting this diy candle idea on witches vs patriarchy. They won’t respond so I guess I’m barred from participating forever.
They banned you for legendary Luigi Mangione candles, so sad.
btw great job camarade ;)
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I deleted my main Reddit account and jettisoned about 14 years of memories etc. Had a new account. Prolly still have it but I’m not going back. There’s just no reason to.
10+ years on Reddit. Never banned on any subreddit or Reddit itself, ever. First came here during the 2023 API controversy. Went back to Reddit since the anime community was pretty small here, and I could still use my own API key for 3rd party apps.
Came back to Lemmy a week or two ago due to this bullshit. I'm not affected yet as I still have my own API key, so I'll be hopping back and forth between Reddit and Lemmy. But I know my time on Reddit is limited.
I just hope Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse is polished up by the time of the next Reddit exodus. But based on the most recent API change, I think Reddit has learned to make smaller changes over long periods of time over one major change that angers everyone all at once.
yea i noticed that too, reddit did multiple massive purges this year alone all the way from election day. they saw to many people being purged, so now they make smaller background moderations. like deleting comments/posts unilateraly, shadowbanning instead.
im not surprised that reddit had to replace IRL engagement with fake bots posts.
I'm not banned, but I'm here because Reddit essentially in active decay. It's old. All the community names are taken. Some taken years ago. The site is too big to be effectively maintained by admins, leaving many communities badly-run, half-abandoned and being swamped by bots, trolls and whatever else. You can't grow anything there.
You can on the Fediverse. Community discoverability is by far much better on here, and the federated structure of it means that no-one can camp on communities to stop others from making it. You can just be replaced by someone else if you run it poorly.
There are many other problems too such as the site using AI to ban people, buggy notification system etc.
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Reddit has become unusable for me at this point. I will see 2-3 posts from my local subreddits and then everything else is "because you've shown interest in a similar community" of random cities I've never been to/ never will visit. It also won't stop showing me trainwrecks. I don't look for this content, and I mute every community it promotes and as someone who commutes by train everyday I really don't want to see that shit.
Is this in your logged-in feed that used to only show posts from subs you're subscribed to?
Yes. It used to be a healthy 80-20 of seeing content I'm subscribed to, but the last month or so it's been reversed.
Damn, it's going the way of Facebook. I never saw anything I wasn't subscribed to in my home feed when I was still on Reddit.
Looks like I abandoned Reddit at just the right time.
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