I'm making the transition. I use both, for now.
Asklemmy
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
I left during the first mass exodus. I miss the large active communities and the wealth of knowledge.
But I don't eat meat, I don't wear name brand clothing, I don't give evil corporations any more money to than is absolutely necessary (we all need gasoline), and I DON'T GO BACK TO REDDIT.
Never have been.
Both sorta. I created my Lemmy account around the time Reddit started fucking with the API calls which affected Apollo, which was one of the best apps I've ever used. And I sort of split my time between Lemmy and Reddit, mainly for for the SBC gaming subreddit, but some politics and such too. And then within the last month I started getting pinged left and right for up voting stuff of all things, and then being warned about threatening violence (for saying Republicans should get their toes stepped on by the justice department).
But now I'm over here full time.
I was always wary about reddit being a non-opensource/non-federated platform. But the communities there were incredible. I remember when it really was like the 'front page of the internet'. But I could not believe the user unfriendly decisions they made, and the app ban was the death-knell.
Besides, Lemmy is awesome! Not much need to go back.
Iβm not banned, just tired of reading the brigading reds spamming every thread
Never been banned from anywhere nor do I intend to. I never made a Reddit account because of that scandal where a really talented artist got banned because the mods thought their art was AI generated even though the artist kept proving it wasn't. What happened to Reddit since has only cemented my pre existing disdain for that site.
I decided to join social media early last year and I remember Lemmy was on one of the lists of new social media sites, so I joined it and have been having a great time ever since! π
for me it was when the ads started appearing between comments. it was a step too far and i bounced.
My 17 years old account is dormant.
there's some niche communities i occasionally check in on on reddit, but i've basically abandoned the site ever since the api debacle killed my preferred app. i mostly just browse on mobile so a decent app was important to me.
I just find reddit inconvenient nowadays.
I like lenmy more
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.
Closed reddit account and loving Lemmy! Here to stay. π
I just like Lemmy more.
Technically Iβm 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 βswitch overβ when I found out that half of my comments and posts got shadowbanned.
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.
Yes; yes
I got perma banned because a power tripping moderator of unitedstatesofIndia had me banned.
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.
banned
decided to finally try the alternative
So far, mostly better, though I did come across one batch of people that are as dumb as the average redditor
Yes, I suggested a violent act that foreigners perpretated Should be prepetrated in the foreigner's land. It included the incineration of 3 persons in a car from an aerial weapon platform.
Iβve gotten myself banned from Reddit before, I just make a new account, I just started hating everything those neurotypicals say.
I found out about Lenny when I got fed up with βexpertsβ giving the most brain rot advice on my field el expertise and realizing it is like that now.
Lenny has been amazing is the old internet and I really missed the old funny internet.
Deleted my Reddit acc during the APIcalypse. Lemmy is just awesome.
The people on Lemmy make Reddit users look good. Seriously people here are mean as shit. At least on Resdit mean comments are usually downvoted.
Drag's banned from Reddit