cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73406944

It all started when my main Reddit account was banned—simply because I posted a comment criticizing the banning of a subreddit—resulting in the immediate loss of an account I’d held for about 4 years, with 102k karma. I appealed, but I received no response—not even a reason for my ban, nor any notification that I had been banned in the first place. I’ve filed appeals repeatedly over the past few months, but today, I’m finally giving up. Fuck Spez and his pathetic, whore of a family. When I submitted my appeals, there wasn’t even any indication that they had gone through; I was just left in total silence, unable to do a thing. I started using an existing alt account for basic tasks, but today, that account was banned too—all because I recommended the non-profit, open-source “VPN Gate” project to someone who was complaining about the mandatory KYC (age verification) requirements being imposed in my country. The only reason I was still using Reddit was out of habit, and I’ve decided it’s time to change some of my habits. Ultimately, this is the inevitable fate of every centralized corporation—without exception. There’s no guarantee that some complete moron won’t end up in charge of any of them. I wish more people realized this. If four years of my effort are being sold off to AI data companies, and everything can be permanently wiped out overnight without a word of warning, then that is, quite simply, data theft. Once again, fuck you, Spez—you absolute piece of shit. If you had even an ounce of courage or integrity, you wouldn’t have imposed those damn API restrictions in 2023 and ruined Reddit. I truly regret the four years I spent here, but it’s better to cut my losses now. Goodbye, you son of a bitch Spez, and your puppet, Reddit…

  • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    5 days ago

    I went cold turkey after the third party app debacle but I really missed the home assistant subreddit. There is a home assistant community but it’s nowhere near as active.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      I miss getting help with all sorts of stuff, home improvement and repair and how to stuff, brewing, growing stuff, and the like. Plus they have way better animal videos, to say nothing of all the other video content not found on lemmy.

      Can’t be helped, reddit is unusable, politicians and rich dickheads are leaning on them to make moderation decisions and they are trhing to bend us over for them.

    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      With respect, “it’s not as active” for a Home Assistant community as in what? You don’t get replies to your questions? People don’t ask you enough of them?

      If the former, that is a genuine problem, but hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy. There are fewer responses, but they are more thought out and less likely to be puns, references, and other low-hanging-fruit jokes.

      If the latter, then proactively make guides so people will be more likely to join? Someone has to be the first on the dance floor.

      • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        That’s a fair point and it is the latter.

        I have only posted one question about a problem that I had and I got an answer that resolved my issue.

        Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to help build up the community. I have a very small and basic setup and don’t have time to build it up let alone make posts about building it up.

          • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            A sample size of one isn’t sufficient to conclude that every question gets answered.

            Also, I didn’t say that it was inactive. I said that it was nowhere near as active as Reddit.

            There are about two or three posts per week which includes all the release announcements for home assistant and various components.

            On Reddit there was at least five or ten times that activity with posts every day including questions, automations and dashboard ideas.

            • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              3 days ago

              Okay? The ocean has more water than my sink, but you don’t see me complaining that my sink has too little water.

              • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                2 days ago

                You seem to have got your knickers in a twist over something and I don’t understand what.

                Let me summarise the conversation from my point of view. Someone asked what subreddits kept someone on Reddit. I made the comment that a particular sub that I liked on Reddit was more active than the equivalent communities on Lemmy. It wasn’t a complaint but a statement of fact about what made the transition more difficult for me which I made to contribute to the discussion. Then you seem to have taken that as a complaint and taken offence at it for some reason.

                • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  I didn’t read your paragraph after you opened with that toxic BS, so I’ll just respond to your initial issue:

                  You’re being a Negative Nancy, pretending Lemmy isn’t worth investing in, which makes people not bother signing up and just stick to their corpo slop social medias.

                  I tried to walk you through the logic, but you lost your mind. Enjoy the block.