Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn't willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.

apicalypse, rip apollo

because centralized social media eventually leads to ads/monetization etc.
your content becomes for profit

Because fuck spez™ and reddit is so large it's hard to find community

Corporative social media pushed me out,
ActivityPub seems a great solution to those problems.

Then Reddit and Communism

Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid or will get their sign on bonus. And that after 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind the Wendy's.
Apparently that is violation of rule 1 inciting violence. Which is total BS. Other people post much, much worse and actually death threats.
Reddit definitely also bend the knee to the US authoritarian regime and any view other than nazisme is banned.

Anyway lemmy feels a much more positive place here except the formula 1 lemmy. That sub is so incredibly toxic.

I finally got banned from Reddit and by now they have rather effective methods to detect ban evasion.

Same, broke R1 and the last breaking of it was rather vague link. I just upvoted a comment that made fun of R1 under a post showing child abuse. Turns out that goes under it as well.

Reddit ban for a R1 violation.

Apparently if you say punching a nazi is a form of self-defense they'll say you're inciting violence.

Not associating with as many bots.

Banned from Reddit for writing lyrics to my favourite Christmas song because it had a homophobic slur in it and mods don't understand when it was written, who it was written by/about/sung by whom, it's vulgarity in other countries culture and/or context - heaven forbid any of them get meatballs from a chip shop or buy cigarettes in the UK.

And then ban evasion during that time. I prefer the lack of bots and reposts (except the Reddit repost bots) here though.

Never seen the term apicalypse and just had to say it's fantastic.

That was my fediverse cohort too.

Same. I could only reddit through Boost.

Typing this from Boost for Lemmy :)

Banned for many reasons, but the last one was for saying all religion are bad.

Just didn't feel like making yet another alt to be banned.

Reddit killed third party apps and I refused to use their shit app. It all just stinks of enshitification. So I spun up my own instance of Lemmy and haven't looked back.

I wanted to keep using Boost, and they banned third party applications from Reddit.

Especially annoying given that their own application was awful and at times unusable with whole features completely missing.

Because Reddit is a haven for power tripping white supremacists who ban any opinion they don't like.

I got perma banned from reddit.

I am not sure why. It could have been because I got 200+ downvotes for posting that Guy Ritchie’s Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare looked like a steaming pile of dog shit or because I posted that Pete Hegsbeth needs to die.

Anyway I deserved the Perma Ban.

The only thing I miss about reddit are the sports subs. Those were a lot more active than the ones on lemmy/fedverse.

Saw a post on r/rust.

I was already no longer posting on reddit through alternative front-ends since around 2018, because I disliked privacy issues with it. I was just lurking via alternate frontends (the precursors to Redlib, there were more before the API fiasco). I was already into the FOSS community and so I forget exactly how I came across Raddle and Lemmy (maybe through /r/piracy or /r/datahoarder, but could have been many other places), and Lemmy was far far far slower then, but when I landed on Lemmy I really wanted it to become a viable alternative to reddit.

I've tried to make a couple of anonymous throwaways (for privacy reasons - I've never been banned) and they vanish pretty quickly, seemingly as soon as I share a link. Yes, even when not using a VPN.

Got banned from reddit for saying that Peter Thiel should be turned into soup 3 times.

sports subs

idk iam not that interested in sports, hate sports betting btw. This shows how there are many different niche interests that can not be served by lemmy

You seem like a high initiative individual. Congrats. I lack technical sophistication to even buy a domain name lol. How much do you pay for lazysoci.al per year (the domain name)?

What is your Lemmy instance?

That is sooooo annoying! Like, ok ban my account. But ban ME for ever? Ridiculous. Sincerely hope Reddit dies

Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid

Did you get banned from a subreddit or from the entire Reddit?

You got banned from Reddit for making an upvote? No freaking way

There is no reason the sports instances cant be busy on lemmy.

Reddit killed third party apps

noooo not Peter >:(

Because after 12 years on Reddit, and nearly a million Karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration bloodbath.

My feeling toward Lemmy are mixed. I really miss certain non-political subs, like guitar subs, and animal subs. OTOH, the political forums are much livelier on Lemmy, and you don't have to worry nearly as much about suspensions and bans.

And Reddit was getting flooded with stupid bots, puns, novelty accounts, spam, and Russian Karma Farmers. It would get particularly bad during election years. I bet it's a mess over there right now, and it's only going to get worse.

Edit: How do I get downvoted for that? The question was why I came to Lemmy, and I said why. You downvote someone for truthfully answering a question? I didn't realize that it better be good reason, or else.

I was finally permabanned for a message I'd posted many times without anyone blinking. Then Trump gets elected, and it's a permaban offense.

reddit isn't fun

came to lemmy because I am too dump/stupid for reddit xD their UI blocks me from actually using their product

I'd already heard of Mastodon and based on poking around there, I learned about Lemmy, so I explored it as a Reddit alternative. Initially, my early exposure to lemmy was mostly a curiosity thing.

Also during that time, my resentment and distaste for Reddit's policies and general culture was building up. The place had changed so much over the years, just slowly enough that it took awhile to notice that it was no longer the same place it was when I first arrived.

I ended up coming to Lemmy in the months ahead of the Reddit API fiasco, but would still peek over there from time to time. Then post API fiasco, I just stopped even peeking.

In those days, Lemmy was a largely KIND place, so that really helped the transition. The culture here was different from Reddit, and seemed much more positive and supportive at that time, so that made it easier to look past the flaws. It was a regular occurrence to see folks call out users who were being abusive or overly abrasive in their replies, and folks would often talk out or joke about their differences. It was a nice, refreshing change of pace most of the time.

That's almost all gone now or perhaps hidden on some private or unbeknownst to me server somewhere in the Fediverse. But for me, for now, I'm still here. I just had to adapt. Basically I mostly stopped reading replies to my comments and just block people I see being abusive to others, but this also means Lemmy is now a sad, dead echo of its not too distant past and more of an opportunity to fart into the winds of oblivion.

The best bit is it went like this:

• "peter theil should be turned into soup"
• "th-iel should be turned into soup"
• "I got 2 warnings because I suggested Peter Theil be turned into soup like a bit in loony tunes"

And lo, 15+ year account into the bin, and reddit along with it.

Entire Reddit because it's run by right-wing cry bitches. I almost wanted to say Fuck u/Spez.

you deliberately miss-spelled peters name but where still punished (by a bot?) ???

I was on my last warning, maybe they ramp up scrutiny then or they have just ramped it up recently.
But yeah that was the post that was linked when they gave the reason for a ban and It was rather fast as well. Less than few minutes after upvoting. I was still in that thread trying to explain other person what R1 was.

The sex , drugs and rock n roll !

Discovered way to late there was a decentralized version of Reddit and I had to join

It wasn't just that. I used the first party app so the API changes didn't affect me. It was how bad they handled the whole situation that made me lose faith that reddit was going in a good direction. That thread "addressing" the changes and concerns was brutal.

I'm looking at other people's reasons for reddit bans and i kinda understand why they were. I dont agree with them, and most of them are stupid and heavy handed and are mean-spirited applications of the letter of a rule while blatantly ignoring the meaning, but they are technically justifiable.

I got banned for saying Genji mains suck.

lazysoci.al

It's about £10 a year. I'm lucky though as I run a small side business which has some hosting capabilities. So there is already an enterprise grade set of servers ready to deploy Lemmy. I don't need to look for hosting costs or be worried about performance as the servers are paid for and are top spec.

Reddit destroying third party apps was the last straw for me. So, I hopped on kbin and some Lemmy instances. Reddit continues to degrade, and Reddit mods are annoying.

RIP Aaron Swartz (Reddit removed him as a founder).

Yup. And the third time was discussing policy in context, really.

The difference between saying something and a newspaper publishing that something was said.

My instance and Beehaw still have that earlier friendliness (IMO, at least).

The threadiverse has gotten a bit more hostile since then, but on the whole I still find it pretty friendly, with many pleasant convos and sharing of useful info, but perhaps that's just the places I visit here.

I just want to see less bots and find real community and conversations. I also love the concept of decentralized platforms. I feel like the Internet mostly isn't even real. I miss what it was like 15+ years ago.

Because reddit shut its api access off and "rif is fun for reddit" stopped working, duh.