Asklemmy

When they closed down the API for third party apps I packed my things, I thought reddit would be different, but to me, at that moment they proved they were not different.

Lemmy is not perfect and the whole dev team has some pretty insane views. But you know, it's FOSS, so it's not about the devs as much. Perfect is the enemy of great, and Lemmy is a healthier choice then Reddit imo.

Neither, but I'm fed up with Reddit regardless. Open Source and self hosted is something I prefer.

And if everybody praises the alternatives, but nobody is using it, we'll never get shit done.

I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.

The only reason Lemmy was started in the first place is because Reddit banned communists and their communities. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy

I left Reddit when they threatened to remove 3rd party apps and started closing down sub-reddits that weren't advertiser friendly.

I joined hexbear almost 4 years ago after being banned for suggesting a that a brick would be a far cheaper solution than a guillotine for dealing with the British royal family.

I came here because I didn’t like the censorship (of others, not me) on Reddit. I stayed because I love the lack of advertising.

ive been on lemmy for almost 6 years, jesus christ, i feel old

Why are new lemmy users thinking this is a refuge for the reddit banned? To my knowledge my account is still usable, but I just don't want to log in since the API cash grab. What bullshit is reddit doing these days?

For anyone who still wants to access Reddit just to browse favorite (niche) subs which won't ever get traction here, some third-party apps still work.

My favorite is cygnusx's Slide for Reddit fork (they picked it up after it was abandoned). You can use it logger in or anonymously - without an account logged in:

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide

^ you can see my Slide app with the frontpage showing regular subs, and it doesn't use the dumb new reddit algorithm which shows you posts from like a week ago.

The other option is Morphe who patch the official Reddit app. It will require an account but you can change a heap of things, block everything you dislike too. The patching app does YouTube and YouTube Music or whatever they call it, but it also patches Reddit:

https://morphe.software/

^ here's an example of some of the things you can change in a Morphe patched Reddit's settings

Also sorry for the pictures, I wrote and uploaded this while steaming milk for my coffee!

I had 4 accounts and they banned all of them for inciting violence. I said Donald Trump is a pedophile and deserves to be in prison.

They don't like anti trump people.

The ones with their cake day around may and a bit later in 2023 are most likely here because of the API changes. After that its mostly alt accounts on a new instance, privacy reasons and bans

I left because they got rid of 3rd party apps, was never banned.

I used Reddit for years as a reader without ever posting or commenting. When alternative front ends were ditched, I switched to Lemmy which I really like. Was never banned.

I've never been banned from reddit (that I know of).

I left reddit three years ago next month duringsthe API drama. Since then the only time I've been to reddit (not logged in) is when it comes up in a search result.

banned from reddit for "threatening to kill reddit staff". the post: pedophiles should be executed.

it's very telling.

I checked lemmy out a bit just before I got permabanned for pointing out that calling Russians "ork" is extremely racist and dehumanizing.

I use this site because the community is genuinely better and reminds of me reddit from the early days. Reddit bans are easy to get around

Nah, i left when they killed whatever mobile app i was using to not have to deal with their shitty website

Based the volume of people asking this question over and over... I guess way more than anyone thinks.

My 20 year account got banned for using Apollo sideloaded. I still go there but let’s be honest, lemmy has far better memes

I got permabanned for wishing death on billionaires too many times.

Never been banned I just find Reddit use users insufferable and while sometimes lemmy isn’t that much better it’s definitely not as bad as Reddit has been. Especially lately.

I left 3 years ago, when they killed RiF

A decent sized portion. This has been discussed many times and often mentioned in the political communities in the comments about reddit censorship.

I feel like the way the question is phrased is going to select for people who were banned. Personally I wasn't but saw the upcoming IPO and wanted to dip before the platform was totally enshittified.

Shadow banned, never knew why, not even moderators, and never got an answer, so I figured it was better to just leave the place to somewhere with more humans at the helm

I got shadow banned (seemingly site-wide) after pointing out that the Biden and the Democrats’ messaging shifted from “Trump is a fascist” to “we have to think about unity!” after Trump got shot in the ear, which proved to me Biden et al. were either allied with fascists by protecting them from harm or never believed Trump was a fascist to begin with, which pointed to Biden (and his team and the whole democratic news media) being more closely aligned with Trump than they wanted people to know.

The tipping point for me was probably the line “if Biden actually thought Trump was a fascist and had an actual problem with that, he would’ve shot him on stage”

I created an account here after the API nonsense. Stayed on reddit for a couple years, but the bot problem there got worse, and worse. I was very vocal about why reddit chose to turn a blind eye to the bot problem. My account of 12 years kept catching bans for the mildest of takes. Feels like they were trying to get rid of me. Finally caught a perm ban for ridiculous reasons in 2024, made an alt account that got caught for ban evasion a year later. Gave up because they're very hawkish about keeping humans off the platform, but they welcome bots and alt right shitheads with open arms.

Reddit gave me a choice to either doxx myself to them over a "suspicious activity" flag or walk away. Since I am in fact a bot and have no proof of humanity, I was forced to return to the mothership.

I deleted my reddit account during the API debacle and didn't participate since, but kept lurking there. Then, a couple days ago they started requiring an account to access the site, and now I'm here, oh well.

I hadn't been. I just wanted an open-source alternative; as with all aspects of my life.