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Got banned on Reddit years ago and I've been on Lemmy for a month

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

At the very least there's less "you should be supporting my sides' genocide and it's your fault my country is 'openly' evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well" on lemmy.

[–] trilobyte81@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They gave me a tempory ban for bull crap so i deleted my 10+ year old account and moved here

[–] ptc075@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Perma-banned, and the worst part is I'm not even sure why. I logged in while away on vacation, got hit with the 'you're logging in from an usual location, please confirm with an e-mail code', and when I did that, boom, locked with no option to appeal.

I find some humor in that a robot decided I was a robot. Perhaps that will save me when the great robot uprising occurs?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Got permabanned. I was one of the last protestors from the API stuff standing.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

I was never banned on Reddit (did get the boot from like 3 subs but that was in 10 years of redditing) β€” but I manually purged my account when I left.

[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I came here when they made the API changes. I made the right choice. Rn Lemmy doesn't offer the variety and volume of content that Reddit did, but fuck those guys.

both of my accounts are still up, i just like Lemmy more

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I got banned because one of the mods of r/entertainment didn’t like a joke I made. After I appealed it it was denied by admins because β€œthe moderators need to be able to protect their communities”.

My joke: β€œ1 like=1 wank 🫑 ”

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[–] Leorhall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I’m not banned, but prefer Lemmy more, or at least the idea of it. I come here first, browse around the communities I’m subscribed to, and then shift over to Reddit to browse again. Unfortunately, I’m still seeing more interesting things to me over there, people gushing over Alan Wake, talking up the war in Helldivers, chatting about ways to buy things locally instead of American, etc, the topics I’m interested in.

I do find that things keep getting more interesting here, more discussions I’m keen on seem to be surfacing, and I take that as a good sign.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Just left during the API thing. I've rarely been back, mostly to the subreddits for games I play (unfortunately still the best communities for them) but I used to spend hours a day there, and now it's minutes a month if that much.

Never banned or even shadowbanned as far as I know.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, but I'm banned from:

  • r/republican for asking if they have ever heard about besieged fortress syndrome
  • r/twoXchromosomes for telling a mod that she's bullying a person who disagreed with her in a discussion about abuse - like an abuser would (the mod was trying to rally other people into joining her into cyberbulling)
  • r/menslib for writing that being a victim is not an excuse in a thread about a 20-something yo woman grooming young girls into porn (she herself too was groomed).
  • some political ones for "hate speech against Russians" - for cursing them and their invasion of Ukraine.
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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When Reddit changed the layout (new/old) some ten years ago, I started using a 3rd party app, because "new reddit" was everything that I hated about other sites. I stopped using it when they killed 3rd party apps, but that was really just the final nail in the coffin anyway. It was rotten to the core long before that.

Yeah I still use Old Reddit when I go there.

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I just like lemmy more. I still visit reddit irregularly, like every few days.

[–] Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I find it super funny honestly, because I left Reddit because of shit moderation and a gross bias toward liberal posts in the moderation (ironic now). Then I come here to escape, which I'm realizing is a very liberal a platform, and I'm noticing that it wasn't that it was leftist leaning, the people were just insufferable.

I routinely find things in common with people across the aisle here and the content is way more objective.

I never got perma banned, but I was silenced enough to know that it wasn't good for my mental health to stay. Lemmy is great. I think this is a platform where people can actually just meet in the middle and talk. I got banned from Mastadon on my first day, so it was a no go.

But banana bread, at fucking work bro? HELL. YEAH.

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[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

I'm still using both, but I'm sure with the changes in administration I'll be getting banned soon. I already got a warning for saying that self-declared kings are liable to self-declared regicide

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I was banned off reddit doing to standing up to the r/seculartalk mod Liam and him throwing a little bitchy fit when I used my alts to warn users he was banning them for disagreeing with them. The site then banned me for circumventing his sub ban.

[–] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 week ago

Nah. Reddit just sucks and Lemmy is awesome

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I like lemmy more.

[–] innocentpixels@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I just use both. I don't like what Reddit as a company is doing, but they have a larger amount of content

just left and haven't looked back, I'm not using the stupid default reddit app

[–] cyphear@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

After spending some time on Lemmy, I have a feeling that if I were to say anything is get banned. I made a meme of that screaming seagull saying, "Luigi!!!" That I want to post from my main. I just can't bring myself to go back. It seems pointless.

[–] swampwitch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I just switched when the API nonsense shat all over the actually good reddit apps, since I primarily used reddit on my phone.

I saw lemmy touted as an alternative and figured why not?

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I want lemmy to succeed. Sadly reddit has better shitposts

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

No but Reddit sucks.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

Left during the APIcalypse, largely only go back to help guide people to the fire exits.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Left on the API troubles went back once or twice for warframe and other small comunities but been liking here much better. I engage with people in here. It doesn't feel like screaming into the void.

[–] RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The 3rd party app change didn't sit well with me. Ended up stop using reddit on my phone entirely since native was horrible. Ended up coming here when the crackdown on "Luigi" was happening and other censorship that was questionable AF. The amount of content here obviously isn't comparable to reddit, yet, but it's enough to digest throughout the day on work poop breaks and whatnot. :)

[–] dogerwaul@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

i am permanently banned. i have gotten around it several times but this one seems inescapable lol. tbh i wouldn't make a new account if i could.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Perma banned. Definitely Perma banned.

Funny how I went what thirteen years or something, being the same cranky old progressive I've always been yet the MOMENT the orange cancer takes office again and reddit kowtows to muskrat, I get permanently banned.

Karma like no tomorrow so apparently a lot of people agreed with me.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I have no idea how many times I was permabanned. But what turned me to Lemmy was that cuntrag Spez taking away my Apollo.

[–] Frieren@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You can get banned on Reddit? I thought you can only get banned by those sweaty mods.

[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I've been banned for saying pro luigi or similar stuff, but since I am not attached to my account I just make a new one. The most annoying part of getting banned is just resubbing to your preferred subreddits. I prefer lemmy now days anyway and it is nice to see familiar usernames now and then and I don't get as annoyed seeing constant liberalism. I still use Reddit for some things like really niche subjects, questions, or hobbies and people can be genuinely helpful in some subreddits ngl.

I also find the moderation here to be much fairer and more protective of vulnerable groups.

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I started winding down when Alexis Ohanian fired the AMA subreddit's organizer; lied to her face; and blamed Ellen Pao (CEO at the time).
I started going there only when desperate after the API scandal.
The only thing that I miss is the ability to see just the subreddits I specify in the url (i.e. r/news+technology+worldnews+etc+etc)

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

On average I think I end up spending more time on reddit, but I contribute to and like this community a lot more.

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