Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being... goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.

What's your story?

I was one of the people who they actually unbanned because the bot wrongfully banned it. But because I used a second account during the wrongful ban, again cannot underemphasize so wrong that they admitted it was wrong, it perma banned all of my accounts.

I was on my regional sub Reddit and it turned right-wing real quick. Heard of Lemmy, decide to check it out, after 2-3 months I saw that I was more on Lemmy than Reddit so I deleted it.

In the background the API shit and their opening in the Market was happening so it probably help me to go

I was banned in one sub for pointing out how heavy-handed the mods were being about pedantic shit. They are basement-dwelling asshats.

I quit with the API bullshit but I first started realizing Reddit sucked when an admin threatened to ban me after I reported a fascist troll running a bunch of sockpuppets. The troll I guess was friends with a mod who was friends with this admin, I don't really know what the deal was but the result was they got me in trouble for abusing moderation. I kept reporting the troll and their accounts eventually got nuked by Reddit a few weeks later, I was never banned or contacted by an admin again.

Pointing out that 3/4 of the posts are old junk from karma whores or even suggesting something is AI generated gets you downvoted to oblivion and people calling you anything but nice.

Made an account here on Lemmy in 2023 after the API stuff.

Then, a year later I got permbanned on reddit for being mean to Nazis, talking shit about Elon Musk, and saying Hans Kristian Graebner (the Neo-Nazi who makes the Stonetoss comics) deserved to have his name leaked on the Internet.

New account was banned a year after that for evasion.

Said fuck it, stopped using reddit and started being active here instead.

I used to have an iPad, and watching an entire movie on the Netflix app drained the battery by 2-4%. The Reddit app took 15-20% of the battery over breakfast, so I switched to Apollo. Then, I could get through breakfast with the battery still at, say, 95%. Clearly, the official app did something else in the background; since they didn't disclose what, it was probably nefarious. One day, Apollo stopped working, and that was that.

I got banned from my state sub by a mod who didn't live here. Dipshit was a mod on nearly thirty subs. Turns out he/she/it was a right wing shill. That came out in the drama right before I jumped ship and came to lemmy full time.

I have a similar story. I was banned, then "unbanned" (as in I got a notification apologizing + stating I was unbanned) but then they never actually lifted the ban

This happened years ago before most of the big reddit controversies popped off and before words like incel and red pill were coined. There used to be a medium sized community called /r/foreveralone. It was mostly a community for people who were romantically alone and provided support and semi-edgy memes about it. Mostly though it was a support group by the time I found it. It was a decent community then full of lonely people who mostly encouraged each other and tried to help each other overcome those mental blocks we all set up that keep us from what we want.

Over time though new users started to migrate into the sub offering a different kind of support. They would claim that women were to blame for their lonely state and their rhetoric became increasingly aggrieved and violent. Around this same time /r/redpill was coming into it's prime and sucking many users down a very dark path. The /r/foreveralone community fractured and a schism created two groups within the community, those that wanted it to remain mutual support and chuds that wanted more red pilled content. Unfortunately the chuds won.

Despite many efforts my members of the community and mods to combat the problem nothing worked. I know many users also reached out to the reddit admins for help, but they chose to do nothing. After unmasking who knows how many chuds posting for support only to try to manipulate the community I left and moved on with my life. But it wasn't until months or years later (I can't remember the exact timeline) that the reddit admins squashed /r/redpill and helped the /r/foreveralone community recover their subreddit, but even now it's still fairly poisonous.

Like Facebook and X after them, reddit had a choice to keep the community free of knuckle dragging chuds, but chose not to for some vaguely defined, free speech ideal. That's why reddit sucks.

I moderated a large sub that participated in the blackout. Our mod team was threatened by the admins into reopening, and that's when I knew I was done with the platform.

Reddit is owned by US American Big Tech; that’s enough reason.

I've been on reddit for 13 or 14 years I think, had my own subreddit dedicated to my cats, then they closed the API and I couldn't use the free and add-free app anymore to manage it.

uhg why.

move on. it ded

I don't really think that Reddit sucks. But it's not the best option out there for me any more, which is why I'm here instead. I'd rather be using an open-source, distributed system with a variety of clients.

Can you give more details?

I was churning accounts because I'd get preemptively banned by some subs just for posting in other subs, then I'd post in one accidentally not remembering the preemptive ban and all the accounts get permabanned for "ban evasion", it's too much work. What're ya gonna do? Make a separate email AND account for each subbreddit to prevent that?

Then they remove old reddit for everyone without an old account.

Many of the subs are gone anyway. /r/random mostly ends up on dead subs, and all the users of years ago are gone, seemingly also due to account churn.

It's always bothered me how incel's are discussed when really, the group they are referencing are often sexually active but just deeply misogynistic. Meanwhile many people who are closer to the 'forever alone' crowd deserve genuine sympathy. Being lonely sucks, and being unable to 'obtain' a partner is lonely.

Beyond that - some people will just throw out 'incel' as a catch all for "took issue with any pro-woman or pro-lgbt statement".

The fact that Reddit allowed for the 'ban users if they comment in another sub' thing to exist is another sign that owners have lost their fucking minds.

It's literally just a mechanism for the mega-subs to suppress smaller subs from growing. Why on earth would Reddit go out of their way to introduce monopolies.

Personally I would assume bad design over compute vampirism. But I could be wrong.

I'm just not buying across millions of users, there exists a combination of ethical pattern matching (e.g. subs, comment patterns, online timing, etc). to reliably identify a single human behind multiple accounts. We're not that unique.

It's 100% IP and cookie based. Each of which can be circumvented without too much issue.

Did it happen to be r/Comics?

Yeah, incel today has more angry loner vibes than anything. It was never a really good term though because involuntary celibate is not an accurate way to describe either the modern chuds or the older /r/foreveralone community members. It's got misogyny baked right in because it externalizes the cause of isolation when in most cases those folks are their own worst enemy when it comes to dating.

The /r/foreveralone community had a somewhat derogatory term to describe it, terminally special. So many of the people who would come to the community looking for help or support would receive pretty excellent and sometimes very personalized advise and do nothing but explain how their specific circumstances meant they couldn't use dating apps or join a group around a hobby or whatever. They preferred to remain isolated rather than leave their comfort zone and where experts at making excuses.

Those folks are one of the reasons the red pill message was so successful in the community. It didn't require them to change anything about how they were approaching dating. It's picky women or alpha males or whatever and never themselves.

Initially came over during the API protests. But my Reddit is Shit angry blab right now is that I can't fucking read comments anymore when just randomly searching things on my phone because there's a pop-up that you can't close that makes it impossible to read more.

I've tried clearing my cache and it seems to come back faster and faster every time. I also flip over to the desktop site instead of mobile to keep reading - but that's a pain in the arse.

So yeah. Greedy bastards are just smashing the 'get our app' banner in your face and blocking everything else. Fuck em

What? An innocent, new baby??

Sus. We're going to watch you.

/s

I saw one too many questions asking what I thought about Andrew Tate, I said that I'd murder him if I could, a couple hours later I got a notification that said I was permabanned.

Mine's a doozy https://maximiliankohler.blogspot.com/2023/06/reddit-is-dangerous-humanity-needs-an-alternative.html.

I posted to the DnD 5e subreddit about a contradiction in the rules between how elementals and demons are summoned, suggesting that someone can summon a demon who can summon their own demon and so on, forever. Rules as Written allowed it and Rules as Intended also seemed to allow it given summoning elementals explicitly restricted doing summoning lesser elementals all the way down.


Anyway I got about to about 50 downvotes because I said I would allow a player to summon a demon who could summon a demon (who could potentially summon another demon) because, well, DnD. Fuck me I guess.

Once, it was a shining example to the world of how cool Lisp was, and it had absolutely no inane comments. Then they rewrote it in Python.

They basically told us that if we don't reopen they'll simply remove us as moderators of the sub and reopen it themselves.

can we not be like every earlier "reddit alternative" that just talks about reddit? i remember the shitstorm that was voat.

i didn't join because of reddit, i joined because i like the threaded conversation model.

People started doing that shortly after the addition of user-created subreddits. At first, it was usually for participating in comically horrible subreddits which have surely been banned by now.

I was drowning in rage bait engagement bait and just generally bait everywhere. Felt like a fish.

Lemmy feels like the open ocean in comparison. I can choose where to go and what to do. It's a lot emptier in comparison, but that's not necessarily worse than hooks everywhere trying to hack your brain.

I was permabanned for reporting an unironic 'kill all men' post.

Browser fingerprinting however is not easy to circumvent.

Nah, the app is pushed so hard because browsers sandbox the site and only provide minimal context about the user. But an app can request whatever permissions it wants. And the Reddit app wants a lot of invasive permissions. It is 100% a tracking and data collection thing.

axolotl

I recognize that name from this site.

Left in 2023 when the API thing happened and never looked back. Nowadays I only go there through search engines when looking for a tech solution. Most of the useful stuff is either deleted or outdated. Reddit sucks.

It kept throwing subs for Israeli pigs at me, for one.

That and shitty sports that I kept blocking, but it randomly decided the block list didnt exist.

Logged on to my account while on VPN. They suspended my account and the only way to recover it is through email verification. I didn’t use an email when I created that account a long time ago.

I just closed down the communities I moderated and nuked my entire account afterwards when the API ban was announced. I never looked back.

My account was suspended sitewide by the admins -- not just banned by some mods -- for reporting misinformation in r/conservative. Apparently stating the truth is "mod abuse" for those fascist snowflakes and the Reddit admins support them.

I use uBlock origin to remove that pop-up, 4 taps and it's gone. Just make sure to tap the upper part of the page when selecting what to block, otherwise you won't be able to scroll down.

Ive been shadow banned for talking about maker stuff before. Multiple times. It trips their algorithm because it looks like hacks.

I used to use the api to recommend other subreddits based on other subreddits. That lasted for years until that day.

I contributed to better reddit back in the day.

And then the lost me. They dont care I get it. But because of that the fediverse is nipping at their heels. And I'm staying.

There's a couple of extensions for that. But yeah its usually not easy.

Full list of trackers/permissions listed here:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.reddit.frontpage/latest/#trackers

I liked voat the first month or so. Then the....banned people came to it. So eww...

Thanks for that, it turns out Mwmbl is my new favourite search engine 🙂