• char_stats@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I was shadowbanned, so I signed up for Lemmy for the long term, and made another account on Reddit because who gives a shit about “ban evasion”.

    Will keep using both till I’ll be permabanned; Reddit still has more of the communities I’m interested in. I hope Reddit fucks up even more so there’ll be another exodus to Lemmy.

  • Vazz (He/Him)@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I’ve been trying to use Lemmy more for general and political content but I still use Reddit for niche fandoms and hobbies.

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    10 days ago

    Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.

    Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It’s like a slice of the old web.

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      8 days ago

      Yep. Not to mentioned permanently AI astroturfed, and the politics went full on hard authoritarian and Zionist.

      I used to mod 2 communities with over 300k members.

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    9 days ago

    I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.

    🖕spez

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      9 days ago

      I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.

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      9 days ago

      hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

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    10 days ago

    I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there… I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

    Lemmy is just so much better quality.

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    9 days ago

    Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲

    My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit… but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.

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    Not banned. I chose Lemmy because I’m a big believer in the ideas of the fediverse and I want it to succeed.

    I do still have to use Reddit occasionally to look up info that hasn’t made it here yet, but I don’t post or comment there.

  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don’t want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I’d look back at what I’ve posted and commented more often, but I haven’t much at all.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn’t like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.

    Edit: damn it’s almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride

    Edit: did you really just copy the same post as? There’s no karma like on reddit you know that right?

    https://lemm.ee/post/60400188

  • Archangel@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    I got perma banned for saying that Elon Musk should get “burned” in Canada for fraudulent sales numbers posted by Tesla in order to qualify for Federal subsidies.

    They took me literally, and claimed I was promoting violence. My appeal got shut down in less than an hour. They “burned” my 8 year old account, for saying that Elon should get “burned” in Canada. The irony is real.

  • bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social
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    9 days ago

    I mostly switched to lemmy because the mobile reddit app i used finally broke after the api changes.

    I refuse to use that shitty reddit app and the creator of the app i used made a lemmy app so here i am

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      Same. And it didn’t impact me directly but clearly demonstrated the value of a distributed platform.

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    9 days ago

    I am.

    First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.

    But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.

    So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.

    I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.

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    10 days ago

    I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn’t use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.

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      9 days ago

      hopefully its not to nutrek super-fans, those are the worst kind of trek fans.