I found Lemmy thanks to a guy on reddit wich answered to my comment. I said that we leftists generally lacked a place where we could express some opinions without te fear of being banned. infact Reddit moderation (both admins and mods) suck and doing their “job” and there are instances of people being banned just for saying something completely normal or just some bugs. I am still active on Reddit but would like to make the Lemmy community grow so mabye it can become and actual alternative.

Sorry for any disturb, bye :3

P.S.

Ban evasion control is stupid and I fucking hate permabans, since they are so common for the minimal stuff.

  • Aljernon@lemmy.today
    9·
    1 day ago

    The answer to your question is “essentially everyone”. Either hated Reddit, hated the changes, hated the app restrictions, and/or got Permabanned over nothing.

  • Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    I was using Reddit Sync. When the API nonsense went down, the Dev announced that they were switching to Lemmy. I’ve stayed on the app and now feel like I’m part of a much richer community. I’m glad to be here.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      2·
      1 day ago

      as soon as reddit went public is when shit starts to hit the fan, spez was and is more susceptible to outside pressure, like from MUSK complaining, thats actually what triggered the purges this year.

        • foodandart@lemmy.zip
          2·
          8 hours ago

          Big Time.

          I got banned a couple of months ago over a metaphorically framed post. Was recenly talking to a co worker who’s gotten back into No Man’s Sky since the last update that added ship building and he hit the NMS sub on Reddit looking for help and was shocked to see how many posts and users had been deleted - from a decidedly non-political sub with some of the lowest drama out of all the gaming ones.

          Reddit seems to be purging the oldest members with over a decade of being on the site the most aggressively.

          Also, I tried to delete my account and it would not do it. So it seems it’s banning users but not removing the accounts as some way to pad the site’s user base numbers.

          I had a hell of a time getting my unarchived posts deleted. The site kept kicking me out and refusing to let me at my posts and comments. Took me logging in with different computers to get everything I could delete, removed.

          They are definitely gaming numbers and hoarding user’s data.

          Bad form, that.

  • CodeBlooded@programming.dev
    9·
    2 days ago

    I can’t straight up “quit Reddit” for Lemmy yet. There’s not enough of the content I want to see here, yet.

    A while after Reddit practically blocked the Apollo app, I realized just how much I loved that app. It was the perfect Reddit interface. Not long after, I discovered how great Voyager did of replacing the experience, and that’s what ultimately brought me here “permanently.”

    So, Reddit has lost browsing time from me big time, and that time is now shared with Lemmy.

    Also, I love a good Rust project 🦀

  • AAA@feddit.org
    18·
    2 days ago

    I’m here since the reddit API changes, which lead to the app I used being shut down (I don’t remember the name anymore).

    Im still lurking on reddit, but haven’t logged in ever since.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      You could consider the question of whether there is still something about reddit that you value. Seeking an alternative usually means you’re trying to fulfill a value or need the previous option provided. While that was true when i first landed on Lemmy there’s simply nothing i value about reddit anymore. So i no longer consider it an alternative.

      There’s also the alternative motive of valuing/supporting FOSS/federation.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 days ago

    Not me, I’m here since the reddit API disaster, and Lemmy is my replacement for reddit. I deleted my reddit account. I’m happy to have left. I feel like this is a nicer place. Healthier discussions. Calm. Not as much heated name calling.

    Although some people have been rather rude as of late, so I try to remind them of how to act. But obviously there will be people who are still going to be assholes for no reason.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      3·
      1 day ago

      i dont report people here, only rarely. on reddit i did alot because of so many misinformation, and trolls, and that ended up rubbed me the wrong way since reporting is a double edge sword on there,sometimes it works to get that troll off the sub, but sometimes the report, if the MOds dont agree with it you can get banned if they think your report doesnt actually have any violaiton on the reported.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’ve reported a couple people recently. One person got banned from a community, which was rewarding. They were telling people left and right to kill themselves and shit.

        But yeah that situation is not nice. A report shouldn’t take in you getting banned, unless they find out you were the antagonist somehow. Reporting in itself shouldn’t be considered abuse unless it happens very frequently by the same person. My two cents.

    • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Everything you said is how I feel. I was enjoying reddit until the Brexit referendum, which was when it felt like it got taken over by the alt right. When the API thing came, I realised that money was the only thing that mattered and they were selling my discussion space to whoever would spend, and the alt right was spending big. We didn’t matter, so like you, I left.

      I was delighted to find people talking again here on lemmy.

      • Jayjader@jlai.lu
        3·
        2 days ago

        Chiming in to say: same, though it took a step further for me before I quit in disgust. I was ready to accept the api costs argument in good faith until I learned that a dev could not make a reddit client that would use my own api token. Which meant they didn’t (only) care about the api load, they care about ensuring that I see as many ads instead of posts that they can get away with.

        Sadly, Google worsening their search results to juice their own (ad) numbers not long afterwards led to the general public learning about searching Reddit as a way to land on actual human-vetted info. Just as the core user base splintered and left in greater numbers than ever before, a tidal wave of new users joined and enthusiastically picked up the torch – without even realizing what they were contributing to.

  • CrateredMoon@lemmy.today
    3·
    1 day ago

    For what it’s worth, the start of my bans were bans from leftist subs for moderate positions. I used up one strike for joking that Trump supporters would voluntarily bury themselves with Trump to guard him in the afterlife (“inciting violence”), then i got simultaneously banned from r/workersstrikeback and r/latestagecapitalism because i said something to the effect of "voting against fascism shouldn’t be seen as a loss, and it was a perfectly fine way to spend a tuesday (“neoliberal propaganda”), and then finally i posted on r/unpopularopinion that: “as bad as shit can be sometimes, i still don’t think i’d do all that much differently”, and then when people commented on it, if it was insulting, i insulted them back (“harassment”).

    The truth is, organizations just have a way of getting all fucked up, and you rise and retain your position by being fucked up. So, yeah, once something like reddit becomes a hot commodity, run by people with too much to lose, they wind up strangling the thing to death. (I hope that phrase isn’t “inciting violence”).

    Oh, that reminds me of another of my list of repeated violations (12 years without any, then all of that shit in like 6 months).

    I used the term “lame duck” in describing what you could reasonably expect from Biden when Israel started going after Biden, and i got a bsn for “ableist language”.

    Now, whether that one was a false flag?.. i mean, it could go either way. I’ve definitely encountered that type of crap with leftists before as well…

    For what it’s worth: i’m pretty far left. I probably occupy a similar space as Bernie Sanders (in the sense that he’s probably even farther left than he says, but he knows that nobody is going to completely dismantle the whole system just because he hot on a podium and told them to.)

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
      56·
      3 days ago

      🙋

      Thanks to Reddit is Fun for all the years. I didn’t want to leave. Reddit kicked me out

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I was an avid redditor. It was my main filler activity.

      I quit cold turkey with the API debacle and have never been back.

      It was really rough at first, but I like it here.

    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Same. I was constantly on Apollo. I loved the dev and how active they were. I got all the fun in jokes and considered it a very nerdy activity to scroll Reddit. Swapped to a new instance after a while, so this account isn’t as old as that.

      Now I’m on Voyager and have swapped to Linux, so I guess the hive mind here is strong too!

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      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?

    • Caesium@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      same. I was talking to a friend who regularly used reddit during the time all that was going down. Was pretty sure he was gonna migrate to lemmy with me.

      He still posts reddit threads regularly in our group chat

    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      Same. Although I do lurk a bit with rdx. But I won’t touch Twitter or any Meta products with a 10 foot pole.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m here for the same reason. Interestingly enough I figured out how to make the app I use work again, but by that point reddit had gone to AI slop hell.

  • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’d argue it already is an actual alternative so long as you’re following more general technical content rather than niche local stuff. Most of us the people here have Reddit’s API shutdown for third party apps to thank including myself. At least for me the last time I tried using the first party app it had major issues playing gifs on my Galaxy A52. Combine the bugs with the general closing of the platform and it was quite an easy switch. Lemmy is certainly smaller, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I waste less time on it than I used to on Reddit which feels more healthy.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    111·
    2 days ago

    I am not here on lemmy/the fediverse just because it is an alternative to reddit, I am here because I intend to contribute as much as possible to destroying reddit by being here and contributing.

    It makes me sad seeing the blanket cynicism people have towards the potential of social media as if we tried everything and social media is just inherently toxic when all we have tried is for-profit social media run by massive corporations full of sociopathic ultra rightwing upper management that demand endless growth.

    Reddit has to go, it is far too centralized a replacement for forum/message boards, but the good news is every meaningful contribution we make here on Lemmy/the fediverse pushes the knife deeper into reddit’s chest :)

    Reddit can only win at forming an unavoidable corporate silo we are compelled to endure if it projects an inevitability to it, we are here to destroy that inevitability.

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    Was perma banned in Reddit a few years ago for discussing ACA compliance. I saw it coming for awhile, the any comment I made no matter how inauspicious was flagged over the course of a few weeks.

    After banning I was unable to post on any of my accounts. But I could change prior comments so I used an app to generate AI gibberish and replace years of comments and participation with AI bullshit to salt the earth for Reddit.

    Before you leave I recommend doing the same.