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I was never banned and I never really wrote any comments

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I’ve never been banned from Reddit even temporarily, I just like Lemmy more

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 37 minutes ago

Same; haven't looked at reddit since I came here (other than the occasional search engine question where a reddit thread has the info)

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 minutes ago

Permabanned but I do like it here

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 minutes ago

On average I think I end up spending more time on reddit, but I contribute to and like this community a lot more.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 2 points 53 minutes ago

Lemmy is going to the local store and Reddit is going to the mall.

I just like lemmy more. I still visit reddit irregularly, like every few days.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 1 points 53 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

I got a new account after my old one got banned but now I never challenge the echo chamber. I just ban/block obnoxious subs and users to avoid the temptation. I stay mainly for some interest groups there and local subs.

Saw one mod in a sub bragging about how they banned lots of users for challenging a post and they were getting cheered on. Wonder if that is in line with reddit's policy?

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

I'm permanently banned from Reddit. I don't like Lemmy nearly as much, but it's probably just that I'm less familiar and haven't figured it all out. Finding subs that I liked in Reddit was much easier, but there's the obvious moderator issues with Reddit - mainly that I'm banned.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don't get the problem with being banned. I used to create a new reddit account when I thought of a new username I liked. DGAF about karma so I just threw accounts away. On one occasion I did get banned and just created a new account, no big deal. If you want to go back just go back.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

They ip ban you if you do that because they consider it ban evasion I believe

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

If you turn your internet router off and on, it should be assigned a new IP address by your ISP. That's how mine works anyway. This is why dynamic DNS services exist, so you can host things at home even though you don't have a static IP address.

[–] CozyLorraine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

i agree, my ban is also a clear example of their bad moderation ong πŸ™

[–] Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I find it super funny honestly, because I left Reddit because of shit moderation and a gross bias toward liberal posts in the moderation (ironic now). Then I come here to escape, which I'm realizing is a very liberal a platform, and I'm noticing that it wasn't that it was leftist leaning, the people were just insufferable.

I routinely find things in common with people across the aisle here and the content is way more objective.

I never got perma banned, but I was silenced enough to know that it wasn't good for my mental health to stay. Lemmy is great. I think this is a platform where people can actually just meet in the middle and talk. I got banned from Mastadon on my first day, so it was a no go.

But banana bread, at fucking work bro? HELL. YEAH.

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm still using both, but I'm sure with the changes in administration I'll be getting banned soon. I already got a warning for saying that self-declared kings are liable to self-declared regicide

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

Found Lemmy during the API protest and ditched reddit. I've been meaning to go back to reddit and get banned over the whole crazy censorship thing, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[–] bstix 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

When Reddit changed the layout (new/old) some ten years ago, I started using a 3rd party app, because "new reddit" was everything that I hated about other sites. I stopped using it when they killed 3rd party apps, but that was really just the final nail in the coffin anyway. It was rotten to the core long before that.

Yeah I still use Old Reddit when I go there.

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 1 points 1 hour ago

Technically I’m still on it. I just stopped interacting there. Might post on some of the niche crafting subreddits sometimes in the future because I miss those on here. For everything else Lemmy is far superior. Decided to β€œswitch over” when I found out that half of my comments and posts got shadowbanned.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Both of those facts can exist at the same time. I believe I am partly banned from some Subs if only because I disagreed with the Reddit Hivemind and the Mods crazy power trips.

Lemmy is 1000% more open minded.

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

I just prefer Lemmy. I started exploring Lemmy about 6 months before the API fiasco. The content on Lemmy has just kept improving since.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I switched during the API fiasco. Most of my browsing is from mobile and I refused to use the crappy official app. Content had been declining in quality anyway, so I didn't feel that strongly about it.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Dito, still have RIF installed on my phone so every time I click a reddit link im reminded of what they did with a 403: forbidden error. I like it better over here anyway, nicer people who give a shit and fewer bots (or atleast fewer obvious ones).

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Same. I tried the official app after sync stopped working and hated it

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Modified boost too.

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

I've had accounts shadow banned due to VPN. I've had more accounts banned from subs due to annoying mods. I'm still on reddit, but I really do prefer the non-corporate/non-VC-backed social media

[–] Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

I got a bullshit warning about harassment on a 5 day old post that said "Don't be a jerk to people you don't know and you won't have that problem" Appealed it and got told it it was harassment.
Fuck reddit.
I'm slowly going through my posting history and editing anything useful to the AI training to be nonsense.

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yes I'm permanently fingerprint/IP banned as of last year.

I posted anti-Isreal comments on one of the largest default subreddits, which perma banned me. Whenever I browsed through the front page and commented in that subreddit on my other accounts because I forgot I was banned there, all of my accounts were banned for ban evasion. This happened twice and then I was perma-ed.

For context I used and contributed to the site regularly since Digg without much issue or any bans

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago

12 years, 900K+ karma, Permabanned soon after the inauguration for repeating a statement I'd made many times before.

Came to Lemmy and found lots of recently banned veterans. Many of us were high volume posters for over a decade, and never got banned, then suddenly we all turned into monsters that had to be permabanned in the same month.

I prefer Lemmy in many ways - no puns, fewer trolls, no bots, no Russian propaganda farmers, etc., but some of my favorite subjects are badly lacking. Reddit has several very large and active guitar subs, for instance, while Lemmy's guitar forums are small and barely used.

On the other hand, the political subs are far more radical, and allow real discussion of political options more than Reddit. They are not doing themselves a service by suppressing radical speech over there, they are only driving it underground, where it will become even more radical. When it happens they'll be surprised because they buried it instead of addressing it.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

Still unbanned even though I blacked out /r/piracy then actively pushed our community here until the only people left in /r/piracy were the bootlickers who wanted to reopen it and continue as usual. I never go to reddit anymore except to agitate for moving to lemmy.

[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I have already saved subreddits I liked on bookmarks, but after so many suspensions and bans for literally stupid reasons I had enough of this cesspool which is reddit and surprisingly I feel a lot better, I think reddit takes way more than it gives to anyone, I use lemmy moderately and that's the way things should be with anything, not sure I will ever get back on reddit again

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

No, but I'm banned from:

  • r/republican for asking if they have ever heard about besieged fortress syndrome
  • r/twoXchromosomes for telling a mod that she's bullying a person who disagreed with her in a discussion about abuse - like an abuser would (the mod was trying to rally other people into joining her into cyberbulling)
  • r/menslib for writing that being a victim is not an excuse in a thread about a 20-something yo woman grooming young girls into porn (she herself too was groomed).
  • some political ones for "hate speech against Russians" - for cursing them and their invasion of Ukraine.

I am banned from worldnews because I called Israel an ethno-centric kapo state.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Just left during the API thing. I've rarely been back, mostly to the subreddits for games I play (unfortunately still the best communities for them) but I used to spend hours a day there, and now it's minutes a month if that much.

Never banned or even shadowbanned as far as I know.

I think so? I used to browse the site over breakfast, and one morning, Apollo couldn't connect. I don't want to cause trouble by trying to log in, if I'm banned, so I have not tried to log in another way.

🀭

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I was a mod who decided fuck spez when he killed my app

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Got banned for saying Luigi was right

[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

I've been banned for saying pro luigi or similar stuff, but since I am not attached to my account I just make a new one. The most annoying part of getting banned is just resubbing to your preferred subreddits. I prefer lemmy now days anyway and it is nice to see familiar usernames now and then and I don't get as annoyed seeing constant liberalism. I still use Reddit for some things like really niche subjects, questions, or hobbies and people can be genuinely helpful in some subreddits ngl.

I also find the moderation here to be much fairer and more protective of vulnerable groups.

[–] Leorhall@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I’m not banned, but prefer Lemmy more, or at least the idea of it. I come here first, browse around the communities I’m subscribed to, and then shift over to Reddit to browse again. Unfortunately, I’m still seeing more interesting things to me over there, people gushing over Alan Wake, talking up the war in Helldivers, chatting about ways to buy things locally instead of American, etc, the topics I’m interested in.

I do find that things keep getting more interesting here, more discussions I’m keen on seem to be surfacing, and I take that as a good sign.

[–] Pestilence@feddit.org 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

I've just deleted my Reddit account, to switch entirly to Lemmy. No ban or something, i just don't want to use social media from the US anymore.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 1 points 35 minutes ago

For-profit US tech boycott club!

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[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I just find reddit inconvenient nowadays.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 hours ago

I like Lemmy more.

[–] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

no i just like supporting competition and not giant companies

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I've never been permanently banned from Reddit but I have been shadow banned before on multiple occasions because I tried stopping people from spreading misinformation. But that wasn't the main reason as there were several other reasons I left Reddit. I've been using Lemmy for about 4 years now and I have no intentions of ever going back to Reddit.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Not banned. I deleted my account myself some time back

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