or any other reason… im curious.
Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.
Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking “How many assholes we got on this ship”.
Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don’t miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)–but I don’t know that for sure, maybe I’m just being cynical.
Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn’t delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that’s cool.
And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a “clean” version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits. 😌
I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn’t even aware Reddit was banning people.
I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.
Wish I was so bold. It took me actually getting banned to migrate.
Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
There are DOZENS of us!
…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.
That’s a LOT of dozens!
Same. Reddit without Relay isn’t worth it
RiF here, but agreed. (Now Voyager)
Me too
In hindsight, I’m really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it’s just not the same.
Same here! My app stopped working (rip rif… You will be missed…!), I thought I give the official reddit app a try, it wouldn’t let me log in no matter what I tried and then I heard of lemmy via feddit. Only went back once to delete all my data and to close my account.
This. Fuck reddit
Same. Used rif.
Saaame.
I used the reddit app many many moons ago, but then discovered Boost. Once it quit working flawlessly, Lemmy became home. And Boost for Lemmy is wonderful :)
This is/was the way. I mean, not that people are not welcome here now but still supporting reddit that long is like supporting Elon after he went mad or Trump after the first time around…
Same. I still miss bacon reader.
Yep. Also left digg during their ad push fiasco to go to reddit.
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I left over the API bullshit.
Same it was the bridge too far. Reddit was something I was willing to deal with on my terms. They decided that wasn’t good enough and I’m smart enough to walk away from a toxic relationship.
Same
Yup, once they wanted to force their garbage app on me, I quit.
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I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.
Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years’ worth of content on my 250k karma account with “fuck spez” and left it all there to rot.
I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.
I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.
We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was “fired,” it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.
Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.
you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, “boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account”
im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.
I came here during the API thing, stopped going on Reddit on my phone, and soon after left the site entirely.
Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
I left when I couldn’t use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again
Reddit can 9gag on my TikTok.
Farewell Apollo (the API fiasco), and thank you Voyager (my lemmy app)
exactly why I came here. I was hardly using Reddit anymore as it was because it felt off. it still does feel off when I go back to visit, a lot of the posts are formatted in a very machine like way. when I found out about that r/changemyview AI comments thing I knew I wasn’t crazy for thinking this.
Wasn’t banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.
Like… I genuinely can’t use words like “incel”, “cuck”, “snowflake”, “Trump”, “Andrew Tate”, etc without having my comment removed on most subs.
I wasn’t banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up “the grass is greener where you water it,” so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it’s just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!
Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though !cfb@fanaticus.social is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There’s less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.
