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?
i called for the death of the state of israel…
Yes, I also came via Reddit. All the accounts I created were deactivated shortly after; I had 14 in total
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
Leaving all US-American platforms, meta first, then Reddit, now google. No reason to support US businesses.
I still consume on Reddit, but won’t post or contribute there anymore.
Yeah, so much good information is there it’s unavoidable to just browse on in, from time to time.
It feels like Even if someone did ask on Lemmy, it doesn’t appear on Google or other search engines at all. makes me wonder if it’s because of the federation or if it’s actively being pushed down…
Really obscure or local stuff is going to be just on Reddit. But yes, I definitely have noticed Lemmy used to appear in search results (Bing via DuckDuckGo usually) but hasn’t for a while.
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
… Every single person on Lemmy is a Reddit refugee. You’re not going to find a single person here who has not used Reddit before.
Yeah, same here
Fuck spez.
I agree with you on this
Me too!
Truth is, regardless of how fucked that platform is, I still resent being banned and the insane extent to which they prevent you returning. The use of throwaways was entirely normal back in the day, now it’s called ‘ban evasion’. It’s nearly impossible (or at least super-tedious) to get back on once they kick you off. It just seems like such an extreme over-reaction. Permanent bans are insane. I’ve seen people get barred from pubs after drunken violence, but that’s usually only for a year or so. This is basically forever.
I was on there for over a decade and posted in multiple communities all the time. Had a load of karma and rarely got into any aggressive arguments. Then one day I upset a mod for complaining about a removed post, that apparently contravened some petty rule. I’m banned from the sub. I use another account, they found out it was me I’m permanently banned. 12 years of contribution just forgotten, all because of some vindictive little basement dwelling prick.
The vast majority of folk here are ex Reddit users. I predate the great Reddit exodus, but even so, I came to lemmy after leaving Reddit, because I wanted something to scratch that itch.
reddit forced alot of people off the site, after the election to change the narrative and introduce more astroturfing, plus the use of AI also drastically increased on reddit as well.
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
MAGA freaks should love me. I didn’t get banned from reddit, I self-deported.
I actually had a Fediverse account several years before the Great Reddit Migration, but it didn’t keep my interest at the time. Tried again and stuck with it after the API change killed third-party reddit apps and they started inserting reddit-approved mods into all major subs.
A Fecesbook refugee :)
(Okay, there’s one group that is too valuable for me. And another one where people really need help with trying to save the world and I write answers beginning with "yeah, this will work, but there are caveats. I’ll write more on the Fediverse side of our group, here’s the link: ", and then I write a longer text here on Piefed and add the link in the end of my FB comment.)
Oh I was just curious if most of us were here from reddit in general.
I’m here because I got banned and Idk why. And according to other places on the internet, people have been banned on reddit without any proper reasoning and this has apparently been going on for months.
Fecesbook
Lol, that’s a good one. I typically call it Fascbook, but Fecesbook is good too.
I left during the api bullshit, fuck spez
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.
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?
What is API?
Like ELI5 please
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
+1 RIP Apollo
Long live Voyager!
Practically a decade of Riddit is Fun…
the recent surges of refugees are from the multi-wave purges last year.
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.
Yes, a lot of us left during the API exodus. Reddit was already going downhill anyway with all the bot spam and shills, that’s probably even worse there nowadays.
Once in a while I do bring up old.reddit to read through some communities that haven’t caught on here (yet), or maybe something that comes up in a google search, but that hasn’t been enough to make me want to log back in there let alone post/comment on anything.
its funny now its AI spamming ,botting now.
