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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Came here when Relay stopped working. Every now and again a Google search takes me there and I have Rdx so I can lurk without an account, but I don't really

I did

I'm on my last account. Having to farm new accounts has become too cumbersome.

Whenever some deplorables get angry enough to get that account banned then I'm done. This is a less talked about rate of attrition on reddit.

I've had one banned for replying that a comment was "self gratifying". The militant far-right internet warriors report spam enough such that eventually some careless content mod will click the ban button.

I’ve grown very interested and supportive of the fediverse, its values, and advantages. I’m still on Reddit though mainly because some of my communities haven’t started here or reached a critical mass. Yes, I know: So start them myself.

I try to spend as much of my Reddit/forum time as I can here these days. And I’m doing what I can to promote this place.

I left Reddit the day the API ban went into effect and Apollo no longer worked. And to be clear, it wasn't just that Apollo quit working, but it was also the way the dev was treated. He was trying to negotiate with Reddit to keep the app alive. Reddit & Spez not only weren't negotiating in good faith, but then tried to make Christian look like the villain. Unfortunately he recorded everything and brought receipts proving Reddit's lies, and that was enough to make me walk away.

I spend the majority of my doomscrolling on Lemmy, and the only time I go back to Reddit is for live game sports threads (specifically for American football), which haven't really seemed to catch on over here. I have done a couple of playoff games with Mastodon hashtags, and that worked pretty well, but for regular season games, I participate in the Reddit live threads. But daily reading/commenting? It's over here now, and I'm plenty happy.

Banned there for "inciting political violence" but then discovered you can get banned across multiple communities or whole servers here because a mod gets their feelings hut.

So, idk. Just trying to get used to the idea of not telling stranger my opinions on things, it seems weird.

Got a permanent ban, seemingly for using the word 'defenestrate' jokingly.

I left reddit a little over two years ago. The API debacle was the end, though I had been mostly offline for a few months prior.

The fediverse has only gotten better since. However, this is my fourth account. I joined vlemmy, which disappeared overnight, then lemm.ee, which shut down recently, then another instance which wasn’t for me, and now reddthat. I also signed up for hexbear after a few beers, forgot my password, haven’t been able to contact the mods, didn’t use an email address and haven’t been able to get back in since.

Came over to the 'threadiverse' after the whole API fiasco. It's been generally great. I do wish there were more users/content over here. But I think that will come with time.

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.

I expect everybody came here from Reddit.

After Reddit killed Apollo, I refused to participate and only used it for news and to see discussions about random stuff. I’d heard about Lemmy back then, but it sounded like it was Reddit for Reddit rejects which didn’t sound appealing. After the big Bluesky migration, I tried it out and I was more open to the idea of the fediverse. Lemmy ended up scratching the Reddit itch when I tried it, even though there’s a serious problem with sub discovery that I think holds it back.

Them killing Apollo had me pissed, but for whatever reason I put up with it, waiting for something better. People were starting to talk about Emmy and I thought that was interesting and didn’t really look into it again until I said something mean about Elon and got caught up in a ban wave.

Banned for absolutely no reason, no reason was given. I tried to get a response multiple times, but was ignored. Can't make a new account without being automatically banned. So I refuse to go near that shithole ever again

A lot, the question is when.
The first wave has been getting banned since the US regime took control over it in the person of Jessica Ashoosh (2016).
And a whole lot more since the genocide in Palestine.
The slightest criticism was enough.

So I have my doubts on the large group of libs that only got banned since Trump.
They didn't care about anything but themselves and only what their government now does to them.
They are perfectly fine going back to a nice 'democratic' fascist-lite regime that only terrorises other countries while they live in their bubble.

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I haven't had a Reddit account thank god lol. but Reddit bans people just for saying the word Luigi, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who've been unfairly banned from Spez's shitsite come here

Picked if over API change, switched a couple of instances but still visit reddit in RO due to some niche communities staying there.

Came here originally for a pirate community in dbzero, mistakenly joined .ml, then finally joined World. Maybe PieFed is next, who knows. Never let them know your next move.

I’m not banned from Reddit, but I did come here out of disgust for their many many shitty policies, and their entire ethos as both a website and a company.

One of the worst parts is that all the draconian stuff they do, doesn't even seem to be effective at achieving its stated purpose.

I got banned for implying there might be genocide going on in Gaza.

Several years ago.

"Anti-semite, you want to kill all Jews!"

Talk about "every accusation is an admission", eh?