Basically what I mean is, did you also come here from reddit?

I came here after I got my Reddit account banned permanently. And the thing is, I don’t exactly know why I got banned. Nor what I did wrong. I always tried to follow the rules, post and comment appropriately and nicely, but on New Year’s Day last week, I got a message simply saying "Your account have been permanently banned for violating the rules.

But when I replied asking what rule or rules I unknowingly broke, they just messaged me back saying “you got banned because you violated the community guidelines”. So now I’m here.

What about you? Are you also a Reddit Refugee?

  • JackDark@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I think the majority of Lemmy users are Reddit refugees, not because they got banned, but because of the Reddit API changes that forced 99% of the third party apps to shut down.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 months ago

    i spent 15+ years on reddit but when they started to sell out to wall street it was pretty obvious where it was going… but im addicted to doomscrolling so i built an instance to replace my own reddit addiction. the fediverse has filled the gap nicely.

    just before it took a hard right turn and replaced half the users with bots

  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Since the API exodus, yes.

    I made a very conscious choice to leave reddit at that time, due to that particular bullshit, and I don’t regret it.

    Doesn’t mean I don’t miss reddit though, because I do. Reddit has a lot more traffic which obviously means a lot more content in the sort of niche communities I really love.

    But I made the right choice. I don’t want to be part of that any longer. And the more of us make this choice, the better things will be for us all.

      • murmelade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I still follow my niche interests via the lurk-only app Stealth. It allows you to kinda follow subreddits you want like multireddits you could create with RES but you can’t login so you can’t post. Feels like an okay-ish third party reddit app.