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[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Got banned for saying Luigi was right

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

I deleted my account before the reddit exodus, when it became clear to me they were heading the way of all centralised social media

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Neither, deleted my 13+ year account.

[–] Taco2112@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Left when the 3rd part apps got shut down. Stayed because of quality apps and no ads.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

reddit was better simply because it has more people. but it's unusable without api access and alternative clients like sync and boost.

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I still have my reddit account, although with all posts and comments first turned into Fuck spez and the deleted. I tried Lemmy first 2 years ago, but the Italian instance is just a mirror bot farm. I gave lw a chance now and I am hooked.

[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Going cold turkey. Bizarrely I like lemmy more as there's less content so I don't scroll as much.

I nuke my accounts pretty regularly for data security so didnt really have any value in my account (none of this "I had 1500 karma coins" or whatever)

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[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My main and all my alts except one was banned cause I kept reporting blatant ads disguised as legitimate posts as spam. Happened around the same time they killed off 3rd party apps, so I needed a good excuse to try Lemmy anyway.

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[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months 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.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Just like lemmy more.

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still have 2 Reddit accounts in good standing. I used Reddit entirely via the Reddit Is Fun app. I tried the official Reddit app but the ads flooded out content and performance was trash.

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[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Got really close to getting permabanned, Then switched to using this. Then I started seeing people getting banned for upvoting certain content. Glad I left.

[–] dangrousperson@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I chose to leave a year ago as the 3rd party apps (I was using RiF (Reddit is Fun)) were being killed. Realized it was the beginning of the end and I left.

Tried a couple of Lemmy apps since then (and I have been mostly lurking) and landed on Connect for Lemmy and I'm very happy to have left the corporate hell-hole of social media

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I left in the API exodus. Never went back.

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[–] grimoire@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Neither, I still use reddit because the subreddits pertaining to my interests are still active. Lemmy is almost entirely political discussion and boomer Facebook comic strips from what I've seen, and most other boards pertaining to specific interests have low activity here. If that wasn't the case I would be using Lemmy much more.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I liked reddit but came here because I'm Canadian and am trying my best to ween myself from american products and services due to the american administrations newfound disrespect for my country. Also, tariffs.

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[–] ragingdachshund@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago
[–] arifinhiding@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

Lemmy has a variety of fresh opinions, and I like how everyone has different experiences. For example, I hardly see a unified opinion on what people think of Gen-Xers, Millenials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha. They seem well-distributed and for the most part, there's less of those subtle reddit-style "generalizations" here. I typically look for internet spaces that emulate reality, and I think Lemmy does that well.

I was never banned and I never really wrote any comments

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

no they just closed the api for 3rd party apps. I wasn't going to use their shitty app. the official app was literally the worst of all of them so this was the only way they were going to get users but fuck that. I don't need reddit.

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[–] innocentpixels@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I just use both. I don't like what Reddit as a company is doing, but they have a larger amount of content

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No and not really. Reddit is just past its expiration date. I believe Lemmy suffers from a lot of the same systemic issues and that will prevent it from becoming an actual long term solution. It's just the alpha version. It's better than the prototype, but it's still built on the same fundamentals and will likely suffer a similar type of failure.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I never really used Reddit, but I read an article during the API debacle in 2023 that mentioned Lemmy so I gave it a shot.

both of my accounts are still up, i just like Lemmy more

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago
[–] RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

just left and haven't looked back, I'm not using the stupid default reddit app

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I like lemmy more. There is no real permaban on reddit btw. I’ve been β€œpermabanned” like 20 times on there

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Both. I was banned for using a slur. I was quoting a movie in a post about that movie (Glengarry Glenross). It was in quotation marks and everything.

I made a new account and was banned a month later for being racist. It was on a video of a train and I said something like 'why did I feel when that started like some Indian guy was going to die foolishly?'

Racist, apparently.

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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

At the very least there's less "you should be supporting my sides' genocide and it's your fault my country is 'openly' evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well" on lemmy.

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.

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[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months 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

[–] technocat@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I use both while Lemmy's community is smaller. I yearn for a world with more small owners of the internet.

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I came here when they made the API changes. I made the right choice. Rn Lemmy doesn't offer the variety and volume of content that Reddit did, but fuck those guys.

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months 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

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months 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

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 3 points 3 months ago

Got banned on Reddit years ago and I've been on Lemmy for a month

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I was banned off reddit doing to standing up to the r/seculartalk mod Liam and him throwing a little bitchy fit when I used my alts to warn users he was banning them for disagreeing with them. The site then banned me for circumventing his sub ban.

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