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Terrible Reddit experience; I still wanted to answer questions because of boredom just not on Reddit. Long story short, I experienced a romance scam/sextortion where a Reddit user manipulated me into sexting him by being my "friend" and he knew I was at a vulnerable place in my life because I told him that I was healing from a breakup since I genuinely thought he wanted to help and get to know me---he figured that I was lonely and hurt. Thankfully, I was quick enough to stop the convo before he threatened me to send him money or other things. Lesson learned.

Banned from Reddit for taking the piss out of the far right.

Deleted from ml for taking the piss out of the far left.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

i was temp banned initially, thought i would use another account that was untouched avoiding the sub, then i was getting multiple emails, found out they banned all the accounts i even forgot about too. then the wierd shadowban came for final account, appealed for a few months with no luck, while already made an account on lemmy.

this happened to loads of other users too, im also in another forums where they tracked the shadowbans more clearly. had to navigate throught he tankie instances for a few months without knowing that i was participating in, then found out i could block them, plus having do deal .world politics users too.

When RIF shit down, talklittle sent people over to lemmy.world as a replacement for reddit (even though he himself went to tildes). The signup page was laggy so I signed up for a different instance instead.

liberal left

Typical angry reddit user. I didn't like that they allowed r/conservative to be a sub full of racist shit. Then they banned one of my favorite sub reddits. They're greedy and only allow you to use their shitty app.

Paywalling subreddits was the last straw for me

I left Reddit because I didn't want AI scraping my lackluster comments. 

I gravitated to lemmy vs Mastodon or Blsky because the community seemed more "based" instead of biased. 

And it's great. When I'm wrong, the ~~lemmings~~ folks here rip me a new one.

I suspect as with many here it was Reddit's API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.

I left Reddit because I realized that the people running it were complete assholes who believed money was more important than community.

What made me interested in Lemmy was the decentralized nature. What made me stay is how it reminded me of Reddit a decade ago and of course the community.

When Reddit started charging for their API Key. Killed off Apollo, best Reddit app on iOS. Didn't want to try the Reddit App. After Apollo officially shutdown, I stuck around reddit through old.reddit and it wasn't the same. Deleted all my accounts and jumped over to Lemmy. Joined Lemm.ee then that shut down and moved over to lemdro.id

I value freedom and love free / libre / open source software. After the US trade war against basically everyone I searched for non-US Reddit alternative. Lemmy is a great combination.

Another vote for Rexodus.

Banned for no reason I could figure out. Never got any response from mods when appealing. Pissed me off that an account that I had for 12+ years with no warnings of any kind was shadow banned.

I came when they took away 3rd party apps. Though to be truthful ive been leaning towards making a return because the communities here are just so small and mostly dead. Even popular topics have almost no presence here.

i was attracted to the rust implementation as i have a general interest in rust usage

shame they turned out to be lunatic commies