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Im pretty sure I am on a Canadian based instance... which is fine by me. But I tried a couple that where branded as general, good for new users, and just never got a confirmation for my account, could never log in. I tried this one, cause the name implied it would work. And it did!

But yea I miss the large communities for a specific video game, and the various large mtg communities. And yea, for tech support I do still add reddit to my search queries.

It's the same problem Linux suffers from. Too many flavors, not one that almost everyone considers the best.

Yeah I agree. I feel like I'm still figuring it out and missing things. I switched to BlueSky and feel like that was almost intuitive. That's one of the big issues with moving away from reddit for a lot of users.

That was so long ago, it's just how people in contentious communities dealt with people to save work on mods.

I know because I was involved in those apps and moderating large subs that absolute shitmouthed turds loved to ransack with brigading.

You have no idea how bad brigading was, particularly by the foul, juvenile 4chan-type crowds who would arbitrarily decide something was "pro feminist" and then flood the sub with hate posts until the mods gave up and then they would slip in their own mods and rebrand the whole community.

I genuinely did not care and still do not care if it offended some people that they were pre-banned because they liked to participate in hate communities, for whatever reason. Back then you could make alts and nobody cared so what does it matter.

So you gave up on it like a decade ago?

That happens here constantly

You gave up on Reddit because mods can ban you for random reasons unrelated to your behavior? That's one of a small set of problems that's literally much worse and more prevalent on Lemmy.

There's like, a billion fucking nazi, incel, misogynist subs on reddit that are just allowed to exist

Tell any one of those subreddit-goers to fuck off for their nazi incel misogynist bullshit? Permabanned

I just got permabanned. I have not had anything so much as a complaint about me in the 12 years I used the site, but in the last 6 months I have received 2 temp and now a perma ban for speaking out against various conservative figure heads.

I got a 24 hour ban for saying a conservative figure should stand on her head and let the blood rush to her brain and maybe she'll have a coherent thought. I was accused of inciting violence.

Edit: Here are the 3 things I got whacked with "inciting violence"

1. Danielle Smith should stand on her head to let the blood rush to her brain to have a coherent thought - 24 hours
2. Someone said JD Vance will never be president, and I responded with, "He will when DT has his heart explode from all the cheeseburgers he eats" - 3 days
3. Kristi Noem needs to shut her fucking mouth and keep her cunt ass out of my countries business - Perma ban

Firing Victoria was the beginning of the end.

I was a daily redditor since mid-2011, but I had no issue dropping it the day they announced the third-party api changes and came over to lemmy soon after. I could see the writing on the wall with that change.

So glad Boost exists for Lemmy.

Yeah I still don't get why people use Discord, it's so shitty and knowledge just gets locked up there to die

I just remembered the one that really pisses me off: 'to use reddit anonymously you must log in'.

Like cant you just give me a "are you a robot" test and let me use a VPN????

Thank you for including a link; this sounds like a fucking joke.

Hate that shit, Reddit’s decline started when individual users started to become sanctioned superusers and did away with the veil of equal-ish participation.

Generally all things done there to scale your feed based on recent activity suck too.

It’s infuriating how much time and energy is extracted from everyone chasing hidden and arbitrary metrics that serve some opaque corporate interest.