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

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 here. Left and never looked back.
- Shout out to all my ~1 year 9 month old account homies
  
  Ayy, same day!
- Ditto. API thing was transition as well
- Yep. Apollo shutting down is why I created an account, deleted all my content and my Reddit account once things started getting really fucky.
- Same. I couldn’t stand the Reddit app and all the ads loaded in it. I switched the day Apollo stopped working.
- Same! As soon as I was forced to use the official Reddit app over Sync, I jumped ship

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 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
- 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 also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.

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.

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'll join you somewhere around this statement.
- i got shadowbanned recently on my only account, and the rest was purged in feburary by reddit.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.
- nearly every comment and post I make on Lemmy gets someone to reply
  Nice comment!

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

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 :,(
- 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 am grateful that you and others took the time to respond. I fear that even these really simple answers are still beyond my understanding. It's good to know there are people that build pcs on commission, i guess i probably knew that was an option.
  Anyway, it's all beyond me knowledge and finance wise at the moment, but I will save your response. I want to de-google and de-microsoft for the same reason I de-reddited. Not cuz it really matters to my life, but because idk i think it matters to the world and even if I'm just one small drop in the bucket, enough of us are a tidal wave.
  Hope you're having a peaceful day xx
  ETA: I foster cats and grow weed too, let's go get ice cream be best friends
- Installing Linux is super chill. Unless it is like cubes OS or arch. Maybe try pop os
- 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.

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'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 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 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.

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 just like Lemmy more.

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.

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

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

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.

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

#falsedichotomy

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 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.

- 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:

Never been on Reddit. I tried Masto as a Twitter alternative, figured Masto is a bad Twitter alternative but found this. It doesn't feel much like Reddit, but it does feel like old 90s forums, which I consider a feature, not a bug.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm perma banned for spreading Luigi related posts.

I was enjoying it till a post I randomly clicked on showed a screenshot of a post I made here and that post was apparently removed by mods...
Assuming it was the one I said everything is going to Putin's plan--- tank the economy, billionaires lap it up, the US lose allies, and the next step is just taking orders right from Russia. Apparently that was "controversial"? Lol

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.

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.

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 briefly perma banned but it was bullshit so it was lifted on appeal, but it was wake up call. Reddit admins are getting kinda fashy so I decided after 14 years it was time to leave.
- musk has been pressuring reddit to "ban anti-musk and trump" content.
  
  Yeah I know, but that didn't come out 'til I'd left.

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

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.
  
  An API is like a question a service provides that it will programmatically answer. So reddit provided questions for getting all of its content for free. People built front end apps for viewing the content to match their preferences, provide anonymity, avoid ads, etc.
  There were a lot of good reasons for reddit to stop providing that service free of charge, but they went full Corporate enshittificatioon where they made the pricing so awful it forced most of the apps to shut down.
  Couple that with the protecting of /r/theDonald and other non-humanist political subs and, for me anyway, it was clear that the company wasn't run by good people but by greedy people and things would only get worse.

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"
- Lmao that fuckin name. Love it.
  
  Well, I quite enjoy fisting, and I'm really good at it...
- report abuse on r/tech for reporting actual violaters, temp ban, triggered a full ban on 5+years accounts.

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.

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.

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

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.