Are you permanently banned off reddit? or do you just like lemmy more?

Like MySpace, Reddit, as we knew and loved it, died a long time ago (arguably long before the API scandal). The API scandal was just the straw that broke the camel's back for many of us.
- reddit when downhill the moment trump as elected the first time, i noticed they started to ban increasingly more, and easier, very sensitive filters, partially due to the rise of trolls and bot farms. then social media so increasingly lucrative revenue from right wings trafficking to thier platform through ads, thus the allowance of astroturfing, and banning of alleged "violence, or threats"

I never really got into reddit.
Getting in on Lemmy (relatively) early made it feel more specifical so I actually do more than search it for answers

I left reddit during the API scandal. I had the energy and time to move platforms and so I did. Open software, FOSS, non-for-profit digital solutions are all things I'm trying to support more at the cost of not using those paid or private services. Every dollar out of their pockets (the rich) is another dollar in ours.
- wish i knew about api, im guessing it also allowed you to remain "hidden" so its harder for reddit to ban accounts? its probably one of the other reasons they wanted it gone, aside from the money from ads, and not being paid by those APIS.

#falsedichotomy

Lemmy as a platform speaks to me on a philosophical level when it comes to the kinds of technology I use when I have the choice. I like that it is not at the mercy of the need to turn a profit to exist.

I'm banned on enough accounts they auto ban me when I make new ones. I went off the rails on a lot of political topics. I never threatened anyone, but I did wish them unspecified harms, use the words of naughtiness, and made myself a target of a few pro Trump mods and that was it. Anyway, I'm fine here, I also didn't start using this until years after the ban so, not very related.
- Yea i usually created new accounts, or made accounts just in case one gets banned on too many subs, the new one i just avoid the subs i was banned in. but this time once they banned people for anything, even if its temp they just rout all your connected accounts. Oh and they do shadownban people if you make another account if your previous accounts were sitewide banned or shadow banned. i think the shadowbanning is alittle worst than the outright site-wide bans. i was visiting the "shadowban sub" recently and people are getitng the axe the moment they create an account.

Like lemmy more.

After Apollo stopped working I learned I liked nice UI and no ads more than I tolerated vanilla Reddit.

Neither, but the hope still remains that Lemmy grows to be better. Right now I just see too many weird takes here, but its the best alternative currently.

I left briefly to go on Kbin.social first, but went back to Reddit when the instance got flooded with spam and then started to go down more often than not. I had fun customizing how my communities/magazines looked when I was on there.
After the stupid decisions like making upvotes bannable which have worse implications longterm, I went back to the Fediverse. I decided just change instances if shit hits the fan instead of allowing myself to get back into Reddit. It sucks because I’ve used Reddit since around 2010. That being said, Lemmy feels more like how Reddit used to when I started using it.
- its not even safe to comment as a new person, or certain subs anymore.

Just trying it out. Not yet banned anywhere

Not banned. I think it's great that when you copy posts from .ml, you mention the author now.

I have banned myself from Reddit.
- Same. Also removed what content I had put there, to the extent that I could. Account is still there.

Not banned. I chose Lemmy because I’m a big believer in the ideas of the fediverse and I want it to succeed.
I do still have to use Reddit occasionally to look up info that hasn’t made it here yet, but I don’t post or comment there.

I left after the API price hike.
- Same. And it didn't impact me directly but clearly demonstrated the value of a distributed platform.

So I received a 1 week ban from the JusticeServed sub because I made a comment shitting on Elon Musk in r/joerogan from r/popular. Yeah these people will auto ban you from their sub if you comment in r/joerogan if you're not even subscribed to either subs, I guess it's some bot they have for that. When I messaged the mods telling them that's just lame, the admins banned me from Reddit for 7 days and then I understood that Reddit isn't a place where actual discussion is allowed to take place. I also like how Lemmy doesn't entice doomscrolling as much as Reddit since (for now at least) it's slower with updating content and honestly I spent way too much time on Reddit anyway. Also I like open source stuff so there's that.
- i banned from the same sub too, yea crossbanning occurs if controversial subs are commented on. jrogan sub doesnt even support the dude. i suspect alot of these "law related" subs are owned LEOs.

Boycotting US stuff
- Just Yeah. I canceled my Amazon subscription yesterday. I should have do so long time ago.

Banned. Lol.
I was a bit passionate in my support for Luigi so it wasn't an unfair ban unless you count the fact that it's unfair to be punished for supporting violence against dealers in death.

Reddit Refugee. Thanks!

Fuck reddit, I left as soon as I could and deleted my accounts.

I left reddit and deleted my accounts, post and comment history. I had modded a couple high sub communities there and felt it had become less friendly over the years. I initially joined in 2011 but only really started using it during the Digg exodus.
Lemmy feels like old school reddit. So I use it 99% of the time and only check some very specific subreddits when I need to look up something for work.
- i heard its significantly harder to become a mod, or make a sub now, now that even regular accounts are getting ban after its made.
  
  That is one of the things that makes lemmy unique - if you want to, you can spin up your own instance and make a community. It can even be the same name!
  I am all in on decentralized social media at this point. I really dislike the ads, astroturfing, and fake accounts meant to boost brands.

reddit is banned in my country (ofc VPN will bypass it) but why bother use more effort if i got something legally available?

Steve Huffman is a greedy piss boy

Banned from reddit for calling violence on Musk.
Frankly, I'm not impressed with Lemmy either, especially because personal interests are just so much harder to find engagement on.
So, whatever that answer amounts to.

Fed up with Reddit's owners, so I stopped my daily use. I did like Reddit more because of some well moderated and active subreddits, and I do occasionally pop my head in over there once a week or so to stay informed, but I spend almost all of my time here and on mastodon now.
I had a similar relationship with Facebook around 2015. Stopped pretty much entirely except for when I need to engage with Facebook marketplace, and I generally try to use Craigslist first.
- now subs are too moderated, the slightest comment removal will trigger a ban filter, most of the time.

Banned across all accounts
I said "bad bot" to a nazi apologist, and apparently that's "violence"
It's a shame. I had quite a cult following for my "performance art"
- report abuse on r/tech for reporting actual violaters, temp ban, triggered a full ban on 5+years accounts.
- Lmao that fuckin name. Love it.
  
  Well, I quite enjoy fisting, and I'm really good at it...

Last time I tried to make an account it was instantly shadow banned. Maybe they don't like my email address, who knows. It's kind of a dump over there anyway
- if you go on the shadowban sub, where you are allowed to post there, yea it seems alot of people are getting shadowbanned the instant they create the account, or soon after commenting. they are assuming many people are creating multiple accounts to evade bans. Im in another forum where people are making dozens of accounts, they use it for OF and referall link purpose to earn money, and its been happening to them too, but they have methods to evade reddit , but its a cat and mouse game.
  i had like 5+ accts that were all hit with sitewide ban in early feb, because one of my accounts was temp banned, so it decided to ban all of them, except one, that got shadowbanned now. thier bans made less and less sense, if your not aware reddit went public and is trying to sell the site at some point, hence the accounts apocalypse, also Musk had a hand the recent purges too, he complained on 2 occasions that subs were making him look bad, so reddit started purging accounts criticizing most right wingers.

I prefer Lemmy. The community is way friendlier and there are 9000% fewer bots. Also I frequently deleted my reddit accounts for mental health reasons and on occasion in protest and rebuilding a reddit account to the point you can comment in most subs is so annoying. In like a year of using Lemmy on and off I've had more real conversations with real people than I did in thriteen years as a redditor.
- My Reddit account is probably 17 now. I haven't logged in for ages, so I'm unsure. In any case, early Reddit prior to the DIGG debacle was pretty much like here. I think that the angry/edgy types had been on DIGG the whole time. It was when they went over to Reddi that it started to become meaner. Then wen subs cam out, it very quickly turned into what we know today.

No, Reddit is permanently banned from me.

I mostly switched to lemmy because the mobile reddit app i used finally broke after the api changes.
I refuse to use that shitty reddit app and the creator of the app i used made a lemmy app so here i am
- I like swiping to switch between home and all
- ☝️

I use both. I've attempted to replicate the subreddits I was subscribed to on Lemmy with very limited success. I'm not sure if I just need to subscribe to more instances or if my expectations are off.
- the bulk of the communities are still on reddit, like not the onion, cats,,,,,etc.

my first account was banned because I was critical of Christianity and it hobby of murdering people

Just like Lemmy more. Reddit has become to enshittified for me to use it anymore, except for some niche stuff due of Reddit's larger traffic volume.

Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.
Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It's like a slice of the old web.
- Same! As soon as I was forced to use the official Reddit app over Sync, I jumped ship
- Shout out to all my ~1 year 9 month old account homies
  
  Ayy, same day!
- Same here. Left and never looked back.
- Ditto. API thing was transition as well
- Same. I couldn’t stand the Reddit app and all the ads loaded in it. I switched the day Apollo stopped working.
- Yep. Apollo shutting down is why I created an account, deleted all my content and my Reddit account once things started getting really fucky.

Both. Getting banned from reddit did me a favor, really.
- we were forced out, and it was clear musk was influencing the bans too, and so much astroturfing against "left leaning comments, over right wingers" is astounding, i pointed out how many of those posts are just ragebaits.

I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.
🖕spez
- I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.
- hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

I never used Reddit properly, Lemmy was also open source, I get no replies, no interaction on Reddit, nearly every comment and post I make on Lemmy gets someone to reply, it's almost impossible to go back to Reddit once you get used to you always getting some form of attention
- nearly every comment and post I make on Lemmy gets someone to reply
  Nice comment!
- I get no replies, no interaction on Reddit
  Reddit is really fucking passive-aggressive about hiding/not posting stuff and not telling you. If I'm banned or a comment/post is removed, have the fucking balls to tell me. And no, I don't buy the argument of shadowbanning...it's really easy to figure it out simply by logging out.

I am.
First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.
But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.
So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.
I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.

I used a script to delete my comment history and no longer know my password not care to recall it. I don't log in anymore, only lurk.

During the whole API issue, I got a permanent ban from one of my favorite subs over a random and unimportant comment that included a stream of insults from the mod. It was completely unwarranted and pretty obviously was reactionary behavior by someone projecting their bad mood against the world. I sort of looked at my hands and wondered why I would ever want to spend more time on that toxic cesspool. I immediately stopped using the service entirely and moved fulltime over to Lemmy (had an account already, but I was only dabbling prior). I do miss some aspects of Reddit, but that Reddit started its painful death somewhere around Lockdown.

I got a 7 day ban from Reddit and decided if they denied my appeal they were a lost cause. Tried blue sky, mastodon, a news app with comments, gave up on that. Then in an article about open source platforms asked if Reddit had one and someone replied Lemmy.

Never banned. Just moved over here after it was even more clear that they don't have our best interests in mind. And never did.
Same for Xitter.

Both. It's actually funny. Someone posted that image of alternatives to things like Reddit and Whatsapp and Google, etc, and it had Lemmy on it. I was at the point where I was getting sick of Reddit and had one account banned already. I joined Lemmy, and a few days later my other account got banned for up voting a comment that was just the gif of Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. I had already decided I liked Lemmy more at that point, so whatever. The one thing that sucks is that I had my own little sub with a couple thousand members where I posted my writing, and people seemed to like it. I enjoyed sharing my stories with all those weirdos, and now I can't.

Banned on some subs. Mostly just left because I saw it enshittifying.

I left reddit during the api drama last year (more than a year?). I did it on principle. The content on lemmy is not comparable to the niche communities on reddit. Yeah, Steve Huffman is a little pissbaby or whatever the current meme is. But lemmy doesn't have the art communities or the weird goofy shit that reddit did, and as a chronically online loser, my life is a little emptier without it. And I know how stupid and unimportant that is, which is why I'm here and not there.
Plus the porn on lemmy is just like... so disappointing and sparse.
Unrelated- I'm ready to switch to Linux, but do I really have to learn what a distro is and how to build my own PC? Can't I just buy a Linux PC ready to go? Please?
- Hey stranger! I switched for the same reason from reddit to lemmy and while I can't help you with the porn problem... you may want to look into Linux Mint.
  There are very easy to understand guides online (e. g. on itsfoss.com you can find an installation guide, recommended first steps after installation, ...) and there are communities here on lemmy as well. So this may not be the same or a replacement for the communities you miss from reddit but maybe something new to focus on and a way to get in touch with other more or less chronical online people :)
- Switched for the same reason. I have the feeling that in the last couple of weeks lemmy got a lot more interactions, especially after Elon tried to ban posts on reddit, but maybe it is just a feeling. Initially I really missed Reddit. Some inside jokes where missing for my communities. Having this girl show up in everyone’s inbox felt like the first kind of sitewide memory to look back onto. I don’t miss the porn. Having to see crazy attractive people all the time made me feel bad. Would prefer fair trade porn if I seek it.
  
  Nicole never messaged me and I miss the ol' switcharoo and beetlejuicing and r/catsstandingup :,(
- almost any computer made in the last two decades can run Linux, I wouldn't recommend trying to use it on a laptop though (laptops frequently choose to think different [not follow specifications]). For distros I would recommend Debian because almost all software that is made for Linux gets tested on it.
- Installing Linux is super chill. Unless it is like cubes OS or arch. Maybe try pop os
- I can build you one that has Linux ready to go. That's literally what I do, IRL. I build custom PCs for university students and professors, foster dogs, and grow marijuana. The real issue is that I cannot recommend any particular distro over another. I personally would suggest Linux Mint for most users, but if you are using your computer for more high end stuff, like 3d rendering, AutoCAD, or AAA gaming, there are other distros that are more finely tuned for those purposes.
  Try out mint. Throw it on an older machine and use it instead of your daily driver. When you encounter issues, just ask in c/Linux. Most of us are friendly and will help even the newbiest of newbs, because we were all there once as well.
  After a few months, you should feel comfortable enough to either totally nuke windows, (how I did it because I am lazy,) or set up a dual boot partition on your drive so that you can choose to boot into windows if you really need to do so. Warning. Windows will overwrite your boot sector every single time it updates, killing the ability to dual boot until you fix the sector.

I barely use Reddit now. I’ve unfollowed any sub that has an equivalent here.
The main one holding me back is that native speakers of my language are there.

Perma banned for saying child rapists should get a taste of their own medicine.

I quit reddit and have no intention to go back. Its become total crap and full of boosted ads.
- Yep. Not to mentioned permanently AI astroturfed, and the politics went full on hard authoritarian and Zionist.
  I used to mod 2 communities with over 300k members.

I'm definitely banned permanently, I'm pretty sure I've got one of those evercookies somewhere that will make sure I stay banned, whether it's outright or a shadow-ban.
And it is mainly because of having engaged with some of the lowest of the low, deformed individuals that somehow inhabit there untouched. It had gotten so bad to where they would bombard my posts when I was ranting about things like my shitty job and they just dogpile on you for no reason other than they can because the mods aren't active enough.
I can't imagine what it is like now being there and trying to criticize Musk or something since he's apparently having a say now on it and Spez will bend over for his daddy.

I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn't like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.
Edit: damn it's almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride
Edit: did you really just copy the same post as? There's no karma like on reddit you know that right?
https://lemm.ee/post/60400188
- 2 years?? Holy shit! Time flies...

I had numerous accounts, some throwbacks going back 11+years, almost all were purged in feb12-13, due to them trying to eliminate and astroturfing any anti-right wing talking points. now they are assuming almost anyone is a bot. and the last one i thought was safe, was just shadowbanned recently
- It's damn bullshit, you write something in Reddit, the stupid system thinks you're a bot and bans you... good luck appealing this shit, you'll be sitting there for months begging for a unban. Screw these lazy assholes.

I'm currently trying out Lemmy because reddit is killing the Old Reddit interface and I refuse to use their shitty app or new interface website. Plus after using it I think it's kind of fun to have reddit but smaller and more curated. It's like Reddit used to be back in like 2012.

I'm perma banned for spreading Luigi related posts.

I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there... I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.
Lemmy is just so much better quality.

I like the fediverse more. I left during the api thing and think that the fediverse is the next step in social networking.
- I did the same when the API changes were introduced and my app didn't work anymore. Open source is the way to go.