Left Reddit when they killed access to 3rd party apps the API. Switched to Lemmy and haven’t looked back.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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General purpose web forum that isn't corporate owned. Signed up pretty quickly after hear it about it
Too many people and too much advertising
Accessibility that reddit stopped supporting because of paid API bullshit years ago.
Lack of centralization and profit seeking, massive disputes with Reddit moderators and corporate and so on.
There was obscure rules and hard to post in some subreddits. Sick of the people/bots
I hate Reddit. This is so much better. No shitbots, no bad faith argumentative posts, no ads, little censorship.
I was banned from Reddit in June of 2024 for saying I hope the libs of TikTok women would get hit by a bus. I heard of Lemny through a google search and I’ve been here for almost a year now.
Reddit alternative/recommended to us/better communities
Because I knew it was only a matter of time before I got banned from Reddit after they started clamping down hard in terms of censorship, so I left there and moved to Lemmy while I was still ahead.
Got banned on reddit for telling someone to crawl back in their hole.
They were trying to defend circumcision while admitting female ventilation mutilation was bad. I pointed out the hypocrisy of that mindset and finished with "now crawl back into your hole so the rest of us don't have to deal with you".
Instant permaban.
I was already on my way out anyway because of the whole 3rd party app thing so this just kickstarted my emigration.
Cuz got perma banned from r*edit. I argued with one of the many power tripping mods. Anyway my mental health is a lot better after the switch
In the wake of the API shit I would use the report function for basically everything via browser. It was the easiest way to block a user and waste effort for the mods who stuck around all in one go. Never really posted or commented so I didn't catch a ban that way.
And by everything I mean I had a short fuse. Bad grammar, saw the post twice, the post or reply is just too "reddit", the post didn't bitch about the API thing enough, accidentally clicked on it, saw the post twice, user beat me to the punch with a joke worse than mine, sometimes I wouldn't even read posts and just start smashing that report button.
My understanding is that moderation tools were also fucked over like the apps we loved. So to me it was a good way to kick em while they were down and make them get familiar with the shitty interface to do their volunteer moderation for free.
Without fail I would report admin and mod comments. That's probably what got the bans for the first few accounts. Eventually I got browser fingerprint banned and found my way here.
I joined after finding a good username/avatar combo