I’m just curious why some people come here; in my case, it’s because it’s not the same as on centralized platforms. I love these kinds of forums.
First time I was banned from Reddit. Now I’m permanently banned so y’all stuck with me.
What did you do ?
“Inciting violence”. Basically anytime someone on r/politics said they wish Trump would die I said I don’t. I wish he’d stroke out and suffer. Got a few bans then a perma ban for that.
That isn’t inciting violence. The mods are overly overly sensitive
Yes. They are. But whatever.
Welcome to a better place
I was never active on reddit, but did lurk sometimes. I love that Lemmy is free software and part of an open network, and I initially just joined because I wanted to support the theoretical idea of it.
But, the communities being quite small and the relatively friendly/good-faith vibe made me engage more actively and start posting more.
Ad allergy - when the API went I tried default and fled screaming into Lemmy pursued by 100 “hot singles” ads.
Banned from reddit obviously.
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I remember I was talking to a dev who worked for Facebook and he mentioned that big tech shadowbans users and suppress posts which can affect them or the ruling government and nobody will notice it and eventually all thr outrage dies down.
Gave me an example of how people have accepted phones without headphone jack, microsd etc. And are now okay with it.
Another example was Facebook pays billions to ISP in 3rd world countries to lobby their government and then pays phone manufactures to preinstall Facebook so it never gets banned even after toppling government, fake news, killings , terrorism etc.
So basically when apple and google wants something to sell, they shadownban and suppress posts that create outrage. So using decentralised apps and avoiding apps controlled by single entity especially built in US.
Thanks a lot for the information, friend. If you want, we can talk privately?
You can ask questions here , will be useful to to others also
I got banned from Reddit for calling Daniel Smith a traitorous jabroni
From a previous comment of mine on the same topic:
I was browsing around on r/kde sometimes, and there was a banner-thing Saying that KDE Supported open platforms like Lemmy. I took a look at Lemmy’s Wikipedia, and browsed around a few days later. I liked the stuff on c/programmerhumour, So I joined. Also my Reddit account got banned (i think, might be deactivated, idk) due to inactivity (I wasn’t on for 2-3 years), and I didn’t care to do anything about it. Also, as a bit of context for the above, it did take a while from hearing about Lemmy and browsing and joining.
I have recently switched to PieFed because it has a faster development cycle and more features (same username).
Everyone else was doing it, I just wanted to be popular.
Reddit basically banned 3rd party apps to fake a growth and show shareholders they can be profitable… so yeah, they can get fucked.
Yup. Landed here during the APIcolypse and haven’t looked back. The only time I visit Reddit now is when I have obscure tech issues, and the only search results are people asking about it on Reddit.
I’m a refugee from Reddit & Twitter. I still lurk there without posting anything.
Reddit was going downhill. Conversations are near impossible. You have to agree with the hive mind or you get down voted into oblivion. The monetization of the platform. The gamification of the platform. The AI bot problem.
There are too many to count. Lemmy is still small, and while it has its own problems, is not completely fucked yet.
You have to agree with the hive mind or you get down voted into oblivion.
Isn’t Lemmy the same way though?
Reddit killed my favourite apps with their obnoxious API access charges.
I didn’t want to install the official Reddit app on my phone.
The great Reddit APIcallypse exodus - but nit for the reason you’d think. I actually used official app, didn’t care much for the 3rd party stuff. Though I underatood why people might care about it.
No, what did it for me was how Reddit handled it. The arogance. The hostile takeover of the subreddits that went down. I didn’t like that one bit. Plus, every day Reddit felt less like what it did and more like your typical social media. But what can you do, eh? I liked the format. But there is nohing like it… right?
Well I said something like that in some thread where the discussion went off-topic to discuss the situation (pretty sure it was a Harry Potter sub). “If only there was an alternative!” Well there was, and it’s called Lemmy, one user said. Intrigued, I checked it out - and was utterly confused. Instances? Federation? Makes no sense. So I figured I would ask. The guy (or gal) was super nice - answered all my questions, gave me pointers… and here I’m.
It was like you don’t know something was broken but suddenly it’s fixed and you don’t know how you could’ve functioned like that before. It certainly helped that in the time I came here.for the first time, the activity was booming so it was easier to switch. Died out a little after a while, but I feel like it is.in a very good place now, activity wise. There aren’t ultra specific communities for everything, but usually there is a general one at least. And it feels more like the Reddit I first joined tham what it ended up being.
Infinitely grateful to the guy (or gal) tbh. Inevitably, being here taught me there are alternatives to more than Reddit. That open source apps are great, actually. That there is something like degoogling. That Linux might not be as scary and foreign, or for programmers only.
I don’t know who you are, kind lemming - but hope somehow you read this.
I couldn’t use boost in reddit anymore and the native app is complete and utter hogwash.
