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I’m not banned from Reddit, but I did come here out of disgust for their many many shitty policies, and their entire ethos as both a website and a company.

One of the worst parts is that all the draconian stuff they do, doesn't even seem to be effective at achieving its stated purpose.

Came here when Relay stopped working. Every now and again a Google search takes me there and I have Rdx so I can lurk without an account, but I don't really

I lived through Livejournal choosing to destroy itself and saw Reddit doing the same things and worse and walked away. Choosing short term profits over people makes me NOPE out. No bans or warnings for me. I guess I just don't type "dangerous" stuff even though I consider myself pretty opinionated.

I did

I left Reddit the day the API ban went into effect and Apollo no longer worked. And to be clear, it wasn't just that Apollo quit working, but it was also the way the dev was treated. He was trying to negotiate with Reddit to keep the app alive. Reddit & Spez not only weren't negotiating in good faith, but then tried to make Christian look like the villain. Unfortunately he recorded everything and brought receipts proving Reddit's lies, and that was enough to make me walk away.

I spend the majority of my doomscrolling on Lemmy, and the only time I go back to Reddit is for live game sports threads (specifically for American football), which haven't really seemed to catch on over here. I have done a couple of playoff games with Mastodon hashtags, and that worked pretty well, but for regular season games, I participate in the Reddit live threads. But daily reading/commenting? It's over here now, and I'm plenty happy.

Me, I got banned. I still used RIF until it died just to read Reddit, but once that was over I was done.

I haven't had a Reddit account thank god lol. but Reddit bans people just for saying the word Luigi, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who've been unfairly banned from Spez's shitsite come here

Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.

I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there's also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.

I’ve grown very interested and supportive of the fediverse, its values, and advantages. I’m still on Reddit though mainly because some of my communities haven’t started here or reached a critical mass. Yes, I know: So start them myself.

I try to spend as much of my Reddit/forum time as I can here these days. And I’m doing what I can to promote this place.

Took away my subreddits that I created with cumulative 200k+ subscribers and perma-banned me for a fake reason (using alternate account to evade subreddit ban).

Never again.

I got banned from one of my favorite subreddits, which made it a lot less fun over there.

Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)

Two years ago. Haven't looked back. Much

First I was temporarily banned. Then, permanently banned. They would not even display the comments in question which led to my exile. Toxic power tripping MF’s all up in it over there.

I was done with redit toxicity.

I prefer this. Beehaw is my favorite. They're so nice over there. 💛🐝

I kind of stopped actively using Reddit in 2020, but without engaging actively in an alternative. Then the API debacle happened, so I registered a kbin account, when that died down (RIP Ernest) I moved here.

I came hoping for more intelligent content and less middle-schoolish "I hate and if you don't hate it enough too you're EVIL!"

Found pretty much the same level of that, but I do like the UI better.

Me, arbitrary ass ban while using an alt trying to gain karma on the front page so I could post with it, my first comment insta banned all accounts permanently because I guess I was banned from that sub on my main/og account.

Me, I'm getting constantly banned from r/Europe by this moronic mods.

Banned by writing about that Germany never paid anything to Poland for holocaust of Polish citizens

I'm reading worldnews rules on Lemmy. There should be lax rules, no ban whatsoever - only for pedophilia and obvious crime like drugs, terrorism, videos of murders

I quit commenting at that site long ago but still lurk occaisionally in some technical sr's. It became too mean.

Left around the API drama times. I still visit, but haven't posted anything for two years.

My only regret is that I still haven't defaced my profile over there - I'm looking for ways to save my data and somehow link it to the original posts/comments, because besides the shitposting, I've posted some things that could be useful to myself too.

Jumped ship when that API shit started. I like this communities way more than a lot ob subreddits that have been around before.

Making a conscious decision to leave social media that’s controlled by big companies that only exist to milk people for money. I’m tired of things being great until they’re not. Reddit is a cash cow for user data and it’s so full of bots and disinformation campaigns now.

I immediately noticed people are nicer here. I think a lot of it is that these are real people and not bots who are programmed to be argumentative.

I got banned while on a work trip to the United States. I hadn't posted at the time for more than a year.

I requested my post history from them and posted it up publicly to see if anyone could figure out why, I've still got no idea.

There's a link to my post history in a previous winge about it https://lemmy.nz/post/2224688/2959801.

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Banned twice. They don't much like when I call for throwing bricks at cops.