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

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
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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.

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

I left reddit one December (think it was 2023). They showed off thier Reddit Recap. Realised I switched from windows to linux to AVOID data collection, then use an app that gladly showed off all the data they collect.

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.

Haven't had a reddit account since ~2015. Saw no value for a long time. Here is different.

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

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 like lemmy more because it feels like I get more interaction when I post here. Smaller communities are just better for meaningful discussion.

I'm banned off reddit. It was only a generic message i got saying I violated multiple rules. First it was my alt and then my main hours later. I have no idea what happened. Maybe me being on a public wi fi at a hotel and then someone there logged in two weeks later with a banned account so it got connected to mine.
With lemmy was active as reddit. Now it's just a read only site for me.

I just like Lemmy more

The preponderance of flagrant double standards in moderation policies did it in for me. I deleted a 14 year old account when it became clear that there was going to be a clear effort on behalf of reddit's corporate leadership to push bullshit narratives and purge anyone who spoke up about it. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone invented a reason to ban me.
Turns out I don't even miss it.

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?
- 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.
- 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 :)
- 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'm not banned, I just won't go there anymore.

unfortunately not banned

Never been banned on reddit but I prefer how there is less of a moderation here for my searing hot takes when I feel like shitposting

Banned I don't know how to behave online.

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.

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 like Lemmy more, especially since it’s not corporate owned. The Reddit admins turned the site to shit purposely to push their greedy agenda, they instilled moderators that acted in bad faith for many subs, they allowed misinformation bots and other bad faith actors to run rampant, and they hosted ads to bet on US elections for months up until the day of the election itself. Truly and utterly disgusting behavior from Reddit.
Ellen Pao deserved better, Spez taking over is what enshitified the site.

I'm not permanently banned, I was temporarily banned for a bullshit reason and when I got my account back I went scorched earth then closed my account. Fuck reddit

Not banned but I like here more. I left during the Exodus/ blackouts/shutdowns. In another life I was a mod for a moderately successful sub and after going into the rabbit hole and seeing the app timer increase to hours a day, I felt they could at least gift mods premium and they could skip ads. After some drama and a high caliber mod left the sub, I followed shortly after as the community has grown and changed.

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'm perma banned for spreading Luigi related posts.

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.

Israeli IOF Hasbara in worldnews got me banned from everything. I have 5 fully shadow banned account. basically and effectively perm bans. Your page says "no user exists" and your posts and comments cannot be seen by any user nor any viewer in the world.

Every time I add a comment or post on reddit, I get banned all the time, I don't even know why, I tried to appeal the ban, but no one gives a shit. Anyway, I like Lemmy better, it's faster, lighter, and doesn't have any dumb karma thing. So I deleted my last Reddit account, told the Reddit administration to go screw themselves, and I have no regrets.

Haven't been on there in like 10 years, glad all of you finally saw the light. Sad it requires being forced off though.

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...

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.
- Shout out to all my ~1 year 9 month old account homies
  
  Ayy, same day!
- Same here. Left and never looked back.
- 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.
- Ditto. API thing was transition as well

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.

I'm on mbin mostly. The japan-focused subreddits for legal, finance, etc. have so far refused to move. Once they move, I will be done with reddit entirely

I quit reddit and have no intention to go back. Its become total crap and full of boosted ads.

My main and my alt still exist on reddit and have enough karma that I was offered stock options on both accounts.
Not going back because of the API fuckery. Coming up on 2 years on lemmy. Haven't looked back.
- I haven't been on reddit for a long time. When you say "offered stock options", do you mean they offered you the opportunity to invest in stock, or discounted stock, or free stock?
  
  All of the above.

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 left Reddit on principle.
I still have functioning accounts over there.
The only time i go there is if I'm linked there when searching for info.

Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲
My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit.. but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.
- i got shadowbanned recently on my only account, and the rest was purged in feburary by reddit.
- I'll join you somewhere around this statement.

I got perma banned for saying that Elon Musk should get "burned" in Canada for fraudulent sales numbers posted by Tesla in order to qualify for Federal subsidies.
They took me literally, and claimed I was promoting violence. My appeal got shut down in less than an hour. They "burned" my 8 year old account, for saying that Elon should get "burned" in Canada. The irony is real.
- Welcome to lemmy.
  What's your favorite molotov recipe?

I'm just stubborn, left during the blackout and didn't want to go back.

Reddit has been getting worse and eventually they just stopped showing people my comments so I deleted my account. Pretty much the next day the warnings for upvotes started coming in.
- sounds like you got shadowbanned to me, when people stop responding to you, or nobody can see your comments thats what happens. you can check your profile while logged out, you know its shadowbanned if its says "cant find this user info:
  
  They could see everything prior to like 3 days before I deleted the account. It was the last straw for me.

I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don't want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I'd look back at what I've posted and commented more often, but I haven't much at all.

I just like Lemmy more.

I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn't use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.
- hopefully its not to nutrek super-fans, those are the worst kind of trek fans.

I had been though it all, having joined about a year after the site first launched. I have witnessed multiple evolutions of the broader community and management. I could no longer support what I knew was coming next, so I bailed after 17 years due to the API fiasco.
Now I visit only by chance on searches and RSS subscriptions to a couple super niche subreddits that are more likely to disappear than migrate anywhere else.

Left due to the crowd amassed for my country's sub. I became friend with a few regulars there when the sub is small, but these day they're significantly more and more people with a lack of common sense and logical thinking gathered there it's hard to find new friend, to the point the friends i met just decided to lurk or quit. No more fun.
Then API fiasco happened and since i hate the official app so much as it's significantly slower with horrible UI, it's a final push for me to make the jump.
I wouldn't say i like lemmy more, but it's the one i tolerate now. If the main dev became unbearable then i jump again.

I've still got an account. But I jumped over during the API debacle. I'm sure if I stayed I would have been banned for commenting on the Luigi situation, or calling Musk and Trump out for the dimwitted little Nazi fucks they are.
But I'm here! A proud little lemming just feeling blessed AF to be here with all you nerds!

I nuked my 11 year old account when I moved here.
Wave of the future!

I like lemmy more and decided to get my accounts banned in reddit after I started using lemmy.

I'm not banned, I was banned in r/Korea for posting a link to my own peertube instance but nowhere else.
I just don't feel that me trying to make some rich guy even more rich makes a lot of sense when they behave so shitty to us.
- most "location" related subs have overtaken by right wingers, its a ban waiting to happen to most people. my blue area subs was taken over by RWers for a while.

I over-wrote and then deleted my nearly 20 years of posts/comments and then deleted my account.

Lemmy is a much nicer environment overall, so i moved here

I came here during the API thing then went back because it’s quiet here. Then I came back because I got into selfhosting and now I’m more dug in.
Idk why I would get banned from Reddit

I left Reddit because the algorithm really wanted me to be angry and afraid.
The world is a shitty enough place. I don’t need the advertisers stressing me out even more.
- Shit you ain't need an algorithm for that.

I left and blocked reddit on my network after the landed gantry debacle. I'm not banned but I might as well be.