I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
Where my Sync peeps at??
the API fiasco.
This was the same reason for me.
Well, I was originally here to promote a movie…
I had a crush on you as a teenager when I saw you in suicide squad
I got banned from reddit for saying the genocide in Gaza was bad.
I got banned for saying Israel was a fascist state and this was years before the current genocide started. Zionists have infiltrated that platform good and proper.
Most of us kinda didn’t realize that Israel is a disgusting abomination until Oct 7th
These parasites really crossed some lines
Never again 🤡
I believe the politically correct term to appease the only “acceptable” narrative is war not genocide to describe a very clear targeting of Palestinian children Tsk Tsk for you not knowing it’s common knowledge at this point /s
Reddit killed RIF. I’d already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.
…didn’t stay on Jerboa long
What client do you use?
I switched to Connect, and have liked it well enough that I haven’t tried any others
Same story, except I have used Connect from day one.
Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit’s official app was a turd sandwich.
I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.
I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I’ve been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.
(I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
Bromies love their chains
I like open protocols and free software, and during the API exodus there was finally enough content that I wanted to jump ship.
of course I had annoyances with reddit, but I have annoyances with Lemmy too.
it’s still preferable imho
I joined Hexbear for the hentai.
I don’t know why this feels so genuine
It shouldn’t, Hexbear has a strict no-porn rule, Hentai included.
Bias for FOSS
I might sound illeterate but what is Foss?
Free and open source software
Free open source software
User can audit the code 🤡User relies on some tech bro to audit the code but hey at least there is some transparency
Had my account permabanned on Reddit by mods on a power trip.
Then they cut third party support so my app stopped working.
Centralised Social media is a disaster waiting to happen. You just can’t trust corporates. They will be corrupted eventually.
- Most of the content is reposts and bots
- Moderators remove anything they dont like(Creating an echo chamber)
- Comments are mostly low-effort jokes or bots, not valuable discussion
I used old.reddit.com exclusively, so the app thing never affected me personally. But when the admins started extorting those devs, and lying about it… I started looking for the exits. The day I wrote it off entirely was when they casually announced they’d reject and ignore the site-wide protest of moderators who do all their work, for free.
You can’t own a community.
You can enable them… or you can abuse them. Reddit chose abuse. The enshittification had been undeniable since 2016, when fascists choked the front page, and the admin response was ‘everybody play nice.’
The company doesn’t make anything. The site is an empty box. Every worthwhile conversation on some arcane niche, every thread pruned of idiot bastards, is something users made. It’s not even like Facebook or Youtube, where a significant chunk of (eugh) “content” is profit-driven. A forum is just people talking.
Moral disgust aside, I immediately knew - the quality was fucked. Posts would keep happening. Comments would abound. But the only reason Reddit worked was that voting filters the best stuff toward the top. The same filter does not work on crap mixed with crap. That’s all there’s going to be. Bots and fascists yapping at one another in approved tones of voice. r/Funny with five hundred names.
Dumb bastards tried to sell a recipe for stone soup.
I was one of the leaders of the big fuck spez on r/place, would have been a bit hypocritical if I’d stuck around after the that.
Edit: probably should add a photo
Got kicked off reddit. But also fuck Reddit for the api change. I just wish the communities had more traffic like reddit
Reddits idiotic moderation
