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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

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.

Not banned from Reddit, but I was given a warning for suggesting big tech was unethical.

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.

I left during the API bullshit and never looked back.

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 got banned from one of my favorite subreddits, which made it a lot less fun over there.

I haven't seriously posted anything on reddit since the APIcalypse but still lurk there occasionally.

It's also still a decent source of tech information and user experience but that will soon be over as well.

These days reddit is filled with AI slop, malicious bots, Russian trolls, nazi propaganda etc. Outside of some niche subreddits that site is not worth interacting with anymore than necessary.

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Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)

I was done with redit toxicity.

I prefer this. Beehaw is my favorite. They're so nice over there. 💛🐝

Got banned for calling an antivaxxer a waste of oxygen :3

I lived through Livejournal choosing to destroy itself and saw Reddit doing the same things and worse and walked away. Choosing short term profits over people makes me NOPE out. No bans or warnings for me. I guess I just don't type "dangerous" stuff even though I consider myself pretty opinionated.

Making a conscious decision to leave social media that’s controlled by big companies that only exist to milk people for money. I’m tired of things being great until they’re not. Reddit is a cash cow for user data and it’s so full of bots and disinformation campaigns now.

I immediately noticed people are nicer here. I think a lot of it is that these are real people and not bots who are programmed to be argumentative.

Shadow banned due to automatic filter

After my fourth or fifth perma ,, I decided Reddit was probably not for me .

Two years ago. Haven't looked back. Much

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I use both because Reddit done screwed over my preferred mobile platform. So now I use Lemmy on mobile and Reddit on the desktop

got banned for supporting Luigi. albeit a bit vocally.

First I was temporarily banned. Then, permanently banned. They would not even display the comments in question which led to my exile. Toxic power tripping MF’s all up in it over there.

A lot.

I got banned from reddit and then i got banned here

I kind of stopped actively using Reddit in 2020, but without engaging actively in an alternative. Then the API debacle happened, so I registered a kbin account, when that died down (RIP Ernest) I moved here.

Arrived here in the process of USA boycott.