Basically what I mean is, did you also come here from reddit?
I came here after I got my Reddit account banned permanently. And the thing is, I don’t exactly know why I got banned. Nor what I did wrong. I always tried to follow the rules, post and comment appropriately and nicely, but on New Year’s Day last week, I got a message simply saying "Your account have been permanently banned for violating the rules.
But when I replied asking what rule or rules I unknowingly broke, they just messaged me back saying “you got banned because you violated the community guidelines”. So now I’m here.
What about you? Are you also a Reddit Refugee?
Yes I think many of us are. During the last elections there was a whole slew of accounts that were banned over not supporting the ‘right side’. I think Reddit is just moderated by bots now. Hence the shitty replies from it.
Yup, I got a 3 day ban for critising Donald trumps tariff and science cutting strategies
Yeah it’s like Facebook now. Just another stormfront
Yes, I’m a Reddit refugee.
The site changed so much over the ten years I used it. When I started, there was plenty of good discussion and the most informative comments got voted up. Then power users started playing the same games with karma that rich people play with money. Near the end the negativity and superficiality were overwhelming. Then the API business happened and I realised Reddit was in the last few stages of circling the drain. I learned about Lemmy from a comment by someone who announced they were leaving for good, and I followed them.
If you look at Reddit today… the posts and comments share the same quality regardless of whether they’re human or AI slop.
At least you got a message. I got shadowbanned without any message, and tons of appeals were just wasted times. :(
Shadowbanning is the most passive-aggressive chickenshit behavior. It’s not like it isn’t almost immediately obvious when it happens either. If you want to ban me, have the balls to tell me and cite the justification for it.
ever since they employed thier AI moderation, they dont even tell anymore, even for a sitewide ban,. because they dont want to give away details how they are using nebelous, arbitrary AI to ban people.
Only started doing Reddit frequently late 2024, and then came “Liberation Day” & I realized I needed to liberate myself from US tech.
Originally I came with the API changes, I had only been using reddit for two months though. If I had known about Lemmy I don’t think I would have had the desire to use reddit in the first place.
Same story got hooked on Reddit because I could access content without an account. Turns out: you can do the same with Lemmy, the results just aren’t that high on a web browser.
Yes, I also came via Reddit. All the accounts I created were deactivated shortly after; I had 14 in total
Reddit became too much of a shithole, so I bailed out.
That sucks that you got banned with such a vague reason.
I stopped using my Reddit account after they blocked Sync from working. I still use the site now and then on the browser for casting a wider pop culture net and niche content, but I’ve tried to shift to the Fediverse where I can.
Yeah, and I could have sworn it was part of of Reddit policy that mods are supposed to tell you exactly why your account got banned, like specifics.
Or at the very least, you can ask the mods in a new message.
But I guess not, because when I asked why the told me “it’s because you violated community guidelines”, and before I could question again what it was exactly I did that was wrong (because I legit had no idea what it could have been), they muted me indefinitely
Ive been trying to leave privatized platforms and after degoogling and leaving meta, reddit was next. It happened to coincide with the acceleration of mod fascism but it was mostly about moving to a libre internet experience
I’m here because Reddit started buying CBP adds. Fuck collaborators
Another one here for the API exodus 👍
I think the majority of Lemmy users are Reddit refugees, not because they got banned, but because of the Reddit API changes that forced 99% of the third party apps to shut down.
not because they got banned
Nah, that’s always been a sizable chunk. Fediverse will always have the worst of the worst, because it’s the easiest to evade bans. And yet there’s still multiple people who constantly get accounts banned for ban evasion.
Naw the worst go to bsky or threads, that’s where the evil shit is acceptable.
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What is API?
Like ELI5 please
If I have valuable info and I want to share it in a controlled way, I can use an API. If i am an airline, I could spit out a feed that tells you a list of flights and how delayed they are. If im Reddit, I can share posts, comments, etc.
Anyone (in the case of a free API) can take the data the API spits out and make their own app with it. But if you charge for API access, then someone would have to pay to make an app with your information.
Interface third party software uses to connect
It’s a way for apps to interact with reddit. Reddit shut down the API for third party clients so that you’re forced to use their crappy official app instead of much nicer alternatives.
I used a different app to access Reddit and hence couldn’t use it anymore. The official app was a huge downgrade to what I was using before and full of ads. So I - like many others - just left Reddit for good.
to be precise: not exactly shut down, but made it really expensive
That’s like saying you can hack SSH/HTTPS just by calculating out the prime number, it just takes really long time (billion years).
the official app is more data mining, and intrusive too. thats probably one of the reason why reddit doesnt want it, because they cant sell your info to GOOGLE, or OPENAI and palintir.
The API change wasn’t it, it’s when it became clear to me they were selling all my data to Google. I frequented mental health subs, and I started getting Google ads for scams TARGETING people with mental health issues. Just sick.
+1 RIP Apollo
Long live Voyager!
Practically a decade of Riddit is Fun…
Woah there boi, we prefer the name “Reddit Expats”, we no simple refugees or immigrants
Unless this is your job and you’re planning to go back to reddit, we’re not expats.
Or is this a dog whistle?
the recent surges of refugees are from the multi-wave purges last year.
When Reddit killed Apollo, I no longer had the means to use Reddit— I’d rather not have Reddit than use the Reddit app.
Unlike so many people here, I have nothing against centralized social media, and I actively miss it— I miss having a large user base to talk with, I GREATLY miss all the specialize niche communities I followed. But it’s not good if I can’t access them.
Yes, the centralized nature of Reddit means that one person can fuck up the entire community… but decentralization means I have no one to talk to about the things I want to.
Anyway. I’m here hoping that enough people will eventually join that I can have MY Reddit back. I’m frustrated that the place is so tankie infested though, and fear that’s greatly holding it back.
Same deal here, it’s why I’m struggling so much to lean more heavily on Mastodon too. I just can’t figure it out, it constantly feels like I’m using it wrong Still not using Xitter, just Bluesky
I came here and leave Reddit forever because I am trying to use less US products and services. Right now I don’t know how to bypass Microsoft and Google. Everything else is easy (like forgetting about Reddit or not drinking Coca Cola).
If you can afford and are not relying on games get a mac. I mean it’s still US but it is soooo much better and less enshitticated than windows. Regarding Google you can switch to a European cloud use duckduckgo or stuff for search, there are plenty foss alternatives to maps and for YouTube you can check out grayjay. It’s a bit tedious but it’s possible and as convenient as big tech products
Mac is a US product too :)
It’s also really nice not to have a continuous doom scroll. You can really only go for like an hour on the front page here until the places start becoming really esoteric. I’m which case not interesting or very interesting. But it’s not active enough to provide you with a whole day of gloom. And I kinda like that.
Ohhh!
And I am also a Lemmy refugee! 🤪
I mentioned the concentration camps China uses for Uyghurs, and I mentioned them with a rather mild wording. *blam*! Comment deleted! By one of the main people maintaining Lemmy. Hooray. I really didn’t want to play on their sandbox after that.
Somebody happened to mention Piefed in some /c/ just a couple of days later and now I’m here :)
Feels much more like home to me! 🙂now you cant even reference"something should happen to trump" or “naming the Minnesota ICE shooter”
To be fair you could just use a different Lemmy instance. From what you said I have a feeling you were on the .ml instance which does have that type of moderation :/
Either way glad you’re still in the Fediverse even if it’s not a Lemmy instance :)
My home instance was sopuli.xyz, but the community in question was on lemmy.ml indeed. I haven’t written anything on .ml ever since.
