I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Reddit is heavily American-centric.

    At least on Lemmy, there can be multiple communities with the same name with different rules, focus, region, and culture.

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Banned for a stupid reason from Reddit. I made a joke that a mod from r/entertainment didn’t like and got banned. I kept accidentally commenting on the subreddit because I often comment on posts without checking subreddit. Even though I had muted and blocked r/entertainment it kept popping up on my feed because it’s a general subreddit. Got banned from Reddit for trying to circumvent the ban.

  • MotorCade93@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I got banned for inciting violence for saying Monty Williams should invest all the money he stole from Detroit back into the city and then promptly be killed with hammers as a sort of ritual sacrifice to cleanse Little Caesars Arena of his bad juju. It was just a joke and had lots of upvotes but guess it hurt a mods feelings.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Joined about a year or two before the reddit API fiasco.

    • I really don’t like ads+tracking and didn’t want my posts supporting a company like reddit
    • I’m an advocate of FOSS
    • reddit has inherent pressures to censor content based on mass media pressure and profit, and to permit anti-social far right trolls
    • reddit punishes proxy users, where many instances here allow me to protect myself while posting here
    • didn’t like the new reddit layout - even before I came here, I was lurking for a year or two on alternate frontends
    • I believed federation was a good strategy at building a better reddit alternative

    But also, it actually had some communities at the time. If it were more dead, or unfederated, I’m not sure if I would have put as much effort in building communities.

  • Vopyr@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I was new user, was using Reddit week or so, got suspended/shadowbanned twice in a week for something, idk. Reddit is barely even working.

  • kalleboo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.

    I didn’t even use a third party app so it didn’t affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I have a very similar experience, I only left because I noticed just how awful the website has turned by the time the API fiasco happened, and I was definitely getting a bit addicted to the website so leaving essentially made me combat this addiction. I haven’t logged into Lemmy for over a month. Yeah, it has definitely helped me cut down on social media usage.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    The self-destruction of Reddit and the much greater toxicity. Leftist communities here are far more chill than Reddit as well.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Started on Digg moved to reddit when Digg shot itself in the foot moved to lemmy when reddit shot itself in the foot. I will say I post and comment way more on here. Than I ever did on digg and reddit combined. This place feels more like old school forms than social media. Where people come out of the woodwork to be jerks. Ether because your views don’t match theirs or you get some spelling or grammar that’s not 100% perfect vs just engaging with your ideas for a constructive discussion. I can’t tell how many times I have come back to a reply and gone " you make a good point." on lemmy.

  • Zeusz13@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    When they nuked third party apps. For a long time I used the official app, then I switched to 3rd party, nd I couldn’t go back

  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
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    10 months ago

    I was already on Mastodon when the API price increase thing happened on reddit and my favourite client (infinity) became useless. I wasn’t going to use the bloat-fest that is the reddit app, so I switched to Lemmy in “protest”. Now I’m using eternity (a fork of infinity) and I have found a place in this community where I’m incredibly happy. I’m never going back to that shithole and I don’t miss anything from there. There’s a lot of karma-farming and every single person there reads exactly the same. There’s no real discourse. The only times I use it (and through a web browser) is when I’m looking for solutions to some tech-related issue, and that is, if I haven’t found the solution here already.