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Got tired of all the doom posting in reddit. Not saying Lemmy is any different, but it's less prevalent at least.

I left during the API debacle.

Left Reddit after they killed third party apps ( R.I.P RiF) and haven't looked back. That site is dead to me.

That'd be me.

Left reddit when the API nonsense was coming and the site had gotten so bad in general.

I got banned a few times but it's not like I couldn't just make new accounts.

I didn't even want to be on that shit website from the beginning and was just waiting for a decent alternative.

I was banned for calling out an antisemetic dogwhistle in an anime sub. Asking why I was banned instead of the other person led to a permanent sitewide ban.

Rude awakening came last year after using reddit since 2015. Got banned for responding to r4r prompts. These days its become a cesspit for telegram ads and spam. Ironical you ban humans for botlike activities but let bots roam freely .

Joined lemmy and mostly use discord as an alt for redit subs i was actively involved in.

I initially joined Lemmy because I wanted to leave Reddit after the API situation. Admittedly I still use Reddit because Lemmy doesn’t have an active enough community for all the topics I am interested in or want information on. Once it gets there, I will fully make the switch.

@Abraxas@feddit.uk Never banned. Started exploring alternatives during API changes. Staying on federated because it makes more sense.

Everyone understand how ridiculous it would if you could only email people on same email service, but for some reason we accepted that limitation as normal for social posts for many years.

Not banned. It had been going downhill, so I made up my mind I'd leave during blackout, kbin.social had been shared by Ernest there (hope he's okay), and ended up on Lemmy.

Eta cool username

I had been sick to death of Reddit for minimum of 5 years. When Boost for Android stopped working after the API fiasco I abandoned all of my moderated subs, some I'd been running for 15+ years. I left them all in a sweep and decided to let people fight over them. I didn't give a shit anymore.

Then I got banned for a totally innocuous comment, which honestly was the push I needed to un-bookmark it and never look back.

I've been on Lemmy for 2+ years I think and although a lot of the content is re-gurgitate-it, I think overall it's better here.

edit: I didn't say it very clearly. I was on Lemmy way before my ban because I was just exhausted with R as a platform already

I left during the API thing, went back briefly later on, and left again when I realized how messed up moderation and subreddit rules had become. As usual, dumb business people are ruining that site for everyone.

only fully transitioned when I got banned for some statement defending victims of violence

started looking during the API fiasco

Permabanned for supporting Luigi.

In this thread: People learning about digital immigration.

Like many in the comments, I left after the API changes. I'm not using their shitty app, and it's so bot infested now it's not even worth it.

I did. Not banned though.

... and how many, like myself, were permabanned with no warnings by overzealous lemmy.ml mods?

(For posts that no, were not racist or -phobic )

Me fuck reddit mods, bunch of basement dwelling nerds with nothing in life

Had been thinking about leaving Reddit for a while because of inevitable enshitification but it was the API thing that prompted me to move.

Had several accounts, some thrived as mods and active participants, some as mere commenters and some as mere readers. Otoh, I am still on Slashdot, Digg and other internet slush, was really sad to see bash.org go with my fun fun comments.

The internet will last. How we use it (with active, anonymous or sake accounts) continues to change.

This platform became "mature" with less downtime around the Reddit API disaster, and I wanted to support it. I still use Reddit, but I go here first.

i was banned from reddit but had been wanting to leave for quite some time at that point, so it was a welcomed change. that's when i learned more about decentralized social networks and stuff.. glad to be here. i wouldn't go back to reddit even if i was allowed to.

Got banned a little before the whole API thing because Reddit admins think child molesters deserve a safe space. Fuck them and their shithole site.

It was the API shutdown for me. I eventually got banned for mass editing+deleting my comments to nuke my old profiles on the way out the door. First one got banned from a few subs. Then subsequent accounts got site-banned for ban evasion, when I did the same on those accounts.

2 years into the fediverse; left during the IPO enshittification nonsense when they removed public access APIs and made Apollo impossible.

Was tired of getting shit on by mods. I got banned from a sub for agreeing with a mod. Dipshit couldn't admit that he made a mistake and permabanned me. I got banned from two subs I had never been in for blocking a mod on a sub he wasn't a mod on. Little unhinged always on basement dwellers.

I came here as a result of them fucking over 3rd party app developers. Never once have been banned by Reddit.

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I expect everybody came here from Reddit.

I'm most interested in the smaller subs on Reddit, like ArchViz, Blender, some others, and regional sites--state and city level. Lemmy just doesn't have much activity on such comms, so I'm still on Reddit for that. I split my time about 60/40.