Reddit’s fall

I got banned from Reddit, which is why I am here.

I can’t tolerate that kind of hypocrisy, and I am tired of my favourite subs getting hijacked.

Rules are fine, but don’t apply on everyone equally. If you catch sight of a mod on his bad day, then you are done. But somehow they are okay with few people being total psychos. This selective treatment is just criminal. another case of “Rules for thee but not for me.”

I got shadow banned on Reddit. I suspect it’s because I kept using the old.reddit interface. I would have let some ads/suggested communities into my feed, but I hate infinite scrolling.

i have been looking to exit reddit since like 2019, but nothing had really matured to be viable until fediverse in '23. then i was on Kbin for awhile but that imploded so I went to lemmy.

reddit subs were cool in the 2010s but starting getting weird after Trump was elected, and I suddenly a lot of my comments were being removed and banned, then I got my first sitewide ban in '20, but it was reversed and then every new account I had kept getting bans because my views were seen by extremists as intolerable. my site bans kept happening over inncuous comments on my city subreddit, which seemed to have a lot of very unhinged far-right and far-left posters, and my factual or contextual comments about things like housing policy, homeless regulations, criticisms of politicians, etc. were branded ‘hate speech’ buy one or both sides because they like their delusional hug boxes rather than acknowledging the limits of our political and social reality.

I also got into trouble a lot on book subreddits for talking about the books I read because they dealt with subject matter that is uncomfortable for american liberals who dominating the literary spaces.

I’ve also noticed a huge drop off in quality from all the subs I used to visit, my local sub is basically just tourists and people bitching about homeless people, restaurant fees, housing costs and how lonely/sad/friendless they are now. a couple of my hobby subs totally shut down, and a couple of the others just became bully pulpits for the mods political views and viral advertising. it sucks. I don’t have any temptation to return and participate in such captured and negative nonsense.

The Reddit API situation brought me here. It’s a much nicer crew.

I got banned from reddit because I said Nazis don’t deserve to live. When I tried to appeal it I showed numerous examples of similar things being said throughout reddit’s history and that killing Nazis was an important part of my country’s history. I guess its suddenly not allowed anymore on that platform so I am here now.

Also I’ve seen way worse said about trans people on reddit but that is OK for some reason.

I was shared an article about reddit shitting the bed (API thing) that mentioned ActivityPub and Lemmy, so I checked it out on a whim. Been around since.

Lemmy has a Canadian instance. Pretty much the only place you can have online discourse without getting spammed by bots or doxxed by some Maple MAGAt divorcee.

Getting more and more annoyed by corpos turning into Nazi Bars, basically

I liked the idea of a federated platform run by people and not big tech.

IIRC I joined before the Reddit API protests. I wanted an alternative where I would be more free to speak my mind. The problem is, Voat and Ruqqus got overtaken by white supremacists, Tildes is too much of a walled garden and both Snapzu and Hubski are basically dead.

Reddit shat itself and on its users by forcing people to use an unusable app, and since I only found reddit tolerable via 3rd party apps I stumbled across Lemmy while looking for alternatives.

I heard about Lemmy on Reddit around the time of the Reddit API lockdown, and it appealed to me, so I joined and have been here since

They broke RIF with the API changes, and Voyager for Lemmy was the recommended alternative at the time. Still here 3 years later.

I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account because, as much as I hate to admit it, the site is often a good source of information for hobby projects etc, but I’ve gone completely read-only. I get what I need and then leave - no voting, no comments, no messaging.

Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.

What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo “blackmailing” them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.

https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.