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Because imgur was running ads for AfD

Same here

I got sick of the automated moderation system that the petty sub mods could exploit.

Fuck You SPEZ

Banned for talking about "violence" against Nazis and Kluxers.

I use both, I just love more social media where people are actually fun to talk to

Shadowbans, autoban, psycho-mods. Lemmy is a good alternative.

Every social media platform I've used in the past started out pretty similar then capitalists and advertisers shat all over it and refuse to moderate authoritarians like fascists and nazis because they have money while at the same time censoring violence against authoritarians and genocide footage requires a login to keep track of who is trying to educate themselves so I left.

If something similar happens here subsets of instances can stay federated with each other so hopefully it won't be a complete wash & require a new platform but we'll see. I'm still on the fence about a permanent history and not dumping out instance histories periodically or a rolling max archive say 5 years back, but anonymity I think pushes me further to the archive everything side.

Reddit has been taken over by Ai bots and banned all humans

Reddit banned me ,wrongfully

• Reddit - banned
• Imgur - banned
• Reddit again - banned
• ttrpg.network - banned
• lemmy.zip - banned

there's more. I'm pretty proud tbh. both Reddit and imgur I was banned because I told Nazis to kill themselves. and any time I get permabanned from a lemmy domain is usually because I pissed off some snowflake and they made some shit up to ban me.

Because it was there.

I found something better - not using Reddit

Left Reddit years ago, it was getting too fucking Libertarian, and the AI feature was foisted on everyone too

Had a while without any Reddit-like, then literally only a few months back heard of Lemmy and it sounded like "what if Reddit was more leftist, and didn't have a corporate overlord?", so I joined

When I found out some of the largest lemmy instances were blocked on libranet.de due to the large worker queue.

I never had a Reddit account, because my adult son is active there. Obviously I don't know his username there but even so, I prefer to be here and created an account yesterday.

Privacy reasons. More specifically, I just don't like using platforms when there are alternatives that don't compromise my data. In the end, I don't lose as many features or communities going this route. That said, however, I do miss shitting on people who joined the "christian V atheist" Facebook it's one of my guilty pleasures. These people can't have a logical debates, and often times just completely unrelated to Christianity or atheism. so I end up just personally insulting them.

Perma-banned from Reddit after 12 years for 'ban evasion', basically using a throwaway account - which was common and widely regarded as normal behaviour for years. Guess I missed the memo. Worst part is the sub I was initially banned from (AskUK) kicked me out for using ChatGPT - which I only ever used to correct grammar.

The mods there are the worst stereotypes of power-crazed oddballs. That is their crime and, satisfyingly, also their punishment 🤣

I was on r/piracy and someone had a link to a lemme post, and I was like "what's a lemmy" and did some research. I had already left meta/tiktok, so reddit was my last "social media"

The API changes killed Boost for reddit. When I learned about Boost for Lemmy, I made an account here.