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Jumped ship when that API shit started. I like this communities way more than a lot ob subreddits that have been around before.

Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star

I also left after the api access changes. I am so glad I switched, this a much more ethical model of operation.

left because of api changes and their increasing censorship of content they don't like (I miss r/all having r/eyeblech).

Took away my subreddits that I created with cumulative 200k+ subscribers and perma-banned me for a fake reason (using alternate account to evade subreddit ban).

Never again.

Left around the API drama times. I still visit, but haven't posted anything for two years.

My only regret is that I still haven't defaced my profile over there - I'm looking for ways to save my data and somehow link it to the original posts/comments, because besides the shitposting, I've posted some things that could be useful to myself too.

Left because of Apollo shutting down. Thanks, Voyager devs, for recreating that experience on a different platform. :-]

Just joined 30 mins ago after I found out (really late) that OpenAI was using Reddit to train its LLM.

I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

I see a lot more banned users and deleted comments on lemmy than I did on reddit.

Me, I'm getting constantly banned from r/Europe by this moronic mods.

Banned by writing about that Germany never paid anything to Poland for holocaust of Polish citizens

I'm reading worldnews rules on Lemmy. There should be lax rules, no ban whatsoever - only for pedophilia and obvious crime like drugs, terrorism, videos of murders

I quit commenting at that site long ago but still lurk occaisionally in some technical sr's. It became too mean.

Me, arbitrary ass ban while using an alt trying to gain karma on the front page so I could post with it, my first comment insta banned all accounts permanently because I guess I was banned from that sub on my main/og account.

I came hoping for more intelligent content and less middle-schoolish "I hate and if you don't hate it enough too you're EVIL!"

Found pretty much the same level of that, but I do like the UI better.

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"

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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 stopped using reddit after the api changes, and started using lemmy after about a year of going cold turkey

As I've said before, Reddit's become the new Quora / Yahoo Answers.

I'll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit's BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.

Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.

Technically me, even though they eventually reversed it after appealing the ban 4 separate times (banned for "violence" for commenting "same" on a picture of a woman in a shirt that says "Punch a Nazi.") That whole thread showed that the admin staff of the site have nazis and/or Nazis sympathizers among them and I don't vibe with that shit. Once the API thing went through and RIF stopped working, I came here.

I left Reddit after the Apollo app was no longer usable due to the whole API thing. Their app is garbage and until recently their mobile website wouldn’t work (it would force you to visit with the app to view some subreddits).

Now, I use Voyager with Lemmy. I still check in on Reddit from time to time or when searching for info, but I use Lemmy mostly now.

I kind of stopped actively using Reddit in 2020, but without engaging actively in an alternative. Then the API debacle happened, so I registered a kbin account, when that died down (RIP Ernest) I moved here.

First I was temporarily banned. Then, permanently banned. They would not even display the comments in question which led to my exile. Toxic power tripping MF’s all up in it over there.

I was permanently banned on Reddit June 2024 because I said I hoped the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus.

Not banned from Reddit, but I was given a warning for suggesting big tech was unethical.

Got banned for opposing genocide and Western imperialism in a main subreddit. 🤷

Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I'd guess it's dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.