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Like almost everybody else - Reddit is just too awful to make excuses for even if you want to.
It’s the same content posted over and over and over with people acting like it’s new each time (probably bots). It’s mindless or disingenuous content posted to evoke emotional responses. It’s everything you’ve ever commented or posted being used to train some corporate slop machine. It’s just… awful. I like the format (of old Reddit), so here I am!
Reddits enshitification.
Already hated reddit, then got banned for "harassing" a climate change denier by @ing him on climate change related posts. Didn't bug him in his dms or call names, just tagged him. That was a good enough sign for me that it was time to fully jump ship.
I really like Reddit as a resource for niche topics. Would like to participate but it doesn’t feel sustainable to do so on a privately owned platform.
Lemmy has it own problems regarding this like instances shutting off. Maybe it’s not really made for this. Regardless i have stayed because of the conversation and human interactions.
Content is better, discussions are better, even though volume of posts and comments is much lower than on Reddit. Reminds me of early Reddit days sometimes actually.
With Reddit’s enshittification, censorship, massive influx of misinfo & propaganda, etc, I am no longer comfortable posting there (but I do still lurk there). I don’t think this place is immune to all of that, but for now it’s tolerable.
Banned for reddit
My journey here took a while. I was on the standard Reddit app for a while, then they started promoting that “He Gets Us” bullshit ad. I blocked the account and it was gone for a while, then it showed up again. I had been dabbling with the Apollo app and I switched to that to avoid those stupid ads. Then the API stuff happened, I logged off and never logged back on again.
I went to Threads for a bit, which was nice because I had IRL friends there. Then Meta changed the community rules where calling trans folks mentally ill and bullying LGBTQ+ folks wasn’t considered inappropriate. So I logged off and didn’t log back on until I deleted my account in January 2024.
I joined Mastadon, which is nice, but it’s not easy for a newer, not quite techy user to figure things out. I figured it out, but I get why some folks find it confusing.
Then I joined BlueSky and hung out there for a bit. I still do because I like to follow specific reporters and organizations. But I soon realized, I don’t really like the short form formatting, so I joined Lemmy, then swapped to piefed recently.
Since then, I’ve been hanging out here for actual discussions and on BlueSky for breaking news and info.
I suggest using wafrn as it can do booth talk to bluesky and fediverse people and you can bite people
I answered the question, “If you had to commit a misdemeanor in 60s, what would you do?” and then used another account.
First one got overturned by the mod, but then the account got banned for ban evasion. When I didn’t break the rule in the first place. /shrug
There was obscure rules and hard to post in some subreddits. Sick of the people/bots
Lack of centralization and profit seeking, massive disputes with Reddit moderators and corporate and so on.
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.
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.
Left Reddit when they killed access to 3rd party apps the API. Switched to Lemmy and haven’t looked back.
I hate Reddit. This is so much better. No shitbots, no bad faith argumentative posts, no ads, little censorship.
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