or any other reason… im curious.

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    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”.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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. 😌

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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I got banned for being unhinged towards users who were doing (IMO) obvious nazi dogwhistles and the mods sided against me. Fuck them mods and fuck the users who accept that shit. The posters knew exactly what they were signaling.

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    I joined Reddit thanks to 3rd party apps, and when they turned their back on them I was out too.

    I used one of those automated programs that used the old.reddit API to overwrite all my comments. I took a break for lunch, thinking to delete my account afterwards, but when I came back my account had been permanently banned.

    So it was definitely like one of those “You can’t quit, you’re fired” type of situations.

    From time to time I visit the site because of search results, but from what I can tell, all the main subreddits are filled with bots reposting the same content from 5 years ago.

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      Same thing happened to me. They noticed I started mass deleting my comments and I got hit with a ban on that specific account.

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    Came during the initial revolt. Increased attention after getting banned from Reddit because I joked I’d like a guy with a bunch of guns to give me one cause he had too many. They tried to say I was soliciting for the purchase of firearms, and when I said there was no way any serious person could have thought I was asking to buy a gun, they told me the lifetime ban was in place and if I ever came around again they’d ban me for ban evasion.

    Lul. That place is a total fucking hellscape.

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      I think it’s dumb that /r/cigars and /r/pipetobacco are monitored like a frickin’ anti-communist group in the Soviet Union, but /r/trees talks about weed like it’s cotton candy.

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      I already know you’re pretty far left given they banned you for that. Right wingers im sure still say all of their unhinged shit there.

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    I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

  • My first account was on .ml roughly 5 years back, when it was basically the only instance. I had heard about there being a FOSS alternative to Reddit - but I quickly lost interest because the community was just too small back then. Re-activated my account when the API exodus happened, because there was finally a community large enough to provide a lived-in feeling. Have only gotten more dedicated to the Fediverse ever since.