cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73406944
It all started when my main Reddit account was banned—simply because I posted a comment criticizing the banning of a subreddit—resulting in the immediate loss of an account I’d held for about 4 years, with 102k karma. I appealed, but I received no response—not even a reason for my ban, nor any notification that I had been banned in the first place. I’ve filed appeals repeatedly over the past few months, but today, I’m finally giving up. Fuck Spez and his pathetic, whore of a family. When I submitted my appeals, there wasn’t even any indication that they had gone through; I was just left in total silence, unable to do a thing. I started using an existing alt account for basic tasks, but today, that account was banned too—all because I recommended the non-profit, open-source “VPN Gate” project to someone who was complaining about the mandatory KYC (age verification) requirements being imposed in my country. The only reason I was still using Reddit was out of habit, and I’ve decided it’s time to change some of my habits. Ultimately, this is the inevitable fate of every centralized corporation—without exception. There’s no guarantee that some complete moron won’t end up in charge of any of them. I wish more people realized this. If four years of my effort are being sold off to AI data companies, and everything can be permanently wiped out overnight without a word of warning, then that is, quite simply, data theft. Once again, fuck you, Spez—you absolute piece of shit. If you had even an ounce of courage or integrity, you wouldn’t have imposed those damn API restrictions in 2023 and ruined Reddit. I truly regret the four years I spent here, but it’s better to cut my losses now. Goodbye, you son of a bitch Spez, and your puppet, Reddit…
Apart from habits, what were the sub-reddits that kept you there, and stopped from transitioning completely before? We can start making similar content and bring more people here.
I went cold turkey after the third party app debacle but I really missed the home assistant subreddit. There is a home assistant community but it’s nowhere near as active.
With respect, “it’s not as active” for a Home Assistant community as in what? You don’t get replies to your questions? People don’t ask you enough of them?
If the former, that is a genuine problem, but hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy. There are fewer responses, but they are more thought out and less likely to be puns, references, and other low-hanging-fruit jokes.
If the latter, then proactively make guides so people will be more likely to join? Someone has to be the first on the dance floor.
That’s a fair point and it is the latter.
I have only posted one question about a problem that I had and I got an answer that resolved my issue.
Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to help build up the community. I have a very small and basic setup and don’t have time to build it up let alone make posts about building it up.
If 100% of posed questions are answered, I don’t think it makes sense to call it any flavor of inactive.
A sample size of one isn’t sufficient to conclude that every question gets answered.
Also, I didn’t say that it was inactive. I said that it was nowhere near as active as Reddit.
There are about two or three posts per week which includes all the release announcements for home assistant and various components.
On Reddit there was at least five or ten times that activity with posts every day including questions, automations and dashboard ideas.
Okay? The ocean has more water than my sink, but you don’t see me complaining that my sink has too little water.
You seem to have got your knickers in a twist over something and I don’t understand what.
Let me summarise the conversation from my point of view. Someone asked what subreddits kept someone on Reddit. I made the comment that a particular sub that I liked on Reddit was more active than the equivalent communities on Lemmy. It wasn’t a complaint but a statement of fact about what made the transition more difficult for me which I made to contribute to the discussion. Then you seem to have taken that as a complaint and taken offence at it for some reason.
Not OP, but there are a lot of niche subreddits where you simply can’t get information anywhere else. I quit Reddit entirely after the APIocalypse, and I know around that time people started replicating the extensive network of Sports team subreddits in various places here. But, there are simply not enough people here to make that work.
I have not logged in (other than to manipulate the crypto out of my Reddit Vault and sell it before it crashed) since then. There are precisely four subreddits I monitor via RSS because the info simply doesn’t make it here. But Reddit has already announced their RSS access is going away. When it does, I guess I’ll just have get that info somewhere else.
The niche subreddits are really hard to adjust without. I would’ve gone cold turkey if it weren’t for those because you simply can’t find the info anywhere else. I was using RDX to browse those subs but now that’s gone too (for now, hopefully the dev finds a workaround)
I was able to use RDX up until a few days ago. Like you I was mostly out after the API debacle but I did use RDX to browse r/all for mental junk food. I started out just doing it once in a while but I got more in the habit even as the quality dropped. It’s for the best that I no longer have that crutch. I will miss being able to look up the post episode discussion of whatever show I’m currently streaming. I don’t see Lemmy getting the critical mass for those types of discusaions anytime soon.
Yeah it’s probably better I don’t have the crutch either. I was using it a lot to read stuff like AMITAH and the amount of stuff that was either fake or AI was through the roof. I guess I just wish I had more lead time to wean myself off because being cut off just like that is a hard struggle.
Girl/boy dinner diaries is basically AMTAH-lite and consistently on the front page. Why is it like catnip to me? I was never gonna wean or taper. It just had to be cold turkey
That reddit shit slowly becoming Instagram 2, most of the origin community already gone ;(
Gone where though? I wish some of them atleast come here…
facebook 2.0 actually.
I’ve been clean cold turkey from Reddit for over 3 years now since I made my Lemmy account but I still really miss active discussions about newly released games :(
You can make a post in one of the gaming comms here and sometimes you’ll get a couple folks, but it doesn’t really catch on the same. I had a grand old time reading tons of build discussion and memes when Elden Ring came out, but since Nightreign came out I effectively haven’t interacted with its community at all.
I like Lemmy specifically because it is smaller and more close knit, usually. But it misses out on some of the bigger town-square types of discussion that reddit could enable because reddit had sixty five gorillion users, especially in the gaming space.
I expect that whatever discussion of this type doesn’t exist on reddit probably exists on Discord but that also sucks for a completely separate, but similar, set of reasons. I still use Discord, as of currently, but I hate interacting in big public servers and never do it, and it misses a lot of the thread-and-comment structure that I liked so much about Reddit. (Discord does technically support threads, but they work differently and nobody uses them properly anyway.)
I read reddit but no longer contribute in any way. Activity level is just way lower here, especially for niche interests. I’ve increased the amount of other websites I look at (here, hacker news, steam forums) overall
Most of my habits stemmed from the fact that I found the general chaos of Mastodon overwhelming and too complex for daily use. For instance, while Reddit has its own straightforward website and app, Mastodon lacks a clear, simple interface—which made it seem overly complicated to me from the start. Consequently, I always found it much easier to quickly hop onto Reddit to post or leave a comment. Most importantly, the number of active users on Mastodon is, unfortunately, still far lower than on Reddit.
You’re on the Lemmy version of the fediverse. Mastodon is like Twitter, whereas Lemmy and Piefed are like Reddit.
- Change up how you see stuff: Hot, Scaled, Every 6 hours. Active is the least active ironically.
- Remember, this is mostly not an angry factory like reddit, so you’re going to go through withdrawal. I’m serious.
- Upvote if you like it an post stuff that interests you.
- Remember there are still trolls here. They brigade and fight with you for odd reasons. That should give you a heads up if that starts to happen.
- Not every instance is great.
Since Mastodon was mentioned I’ll also add that a thoroughly hate that Mastodon doesn’t even attempt to show you anything unless you enable Javascript. I’m a user of NoScript so websites don’t run JS by default unless I explicitly opt in. For most sites that’s not a huge deal since it’s just a one time thing but because Mastodon is federated I need to opt in every instance individually which means 90% of the time on the rare occasion I visit a Mastodon link nothing loads initially.
I wish Mastodon did the thing most non-sketchy websitss do and renders at least a basic view of its content without JS so I could at least decide if it’s worth enabling JS in the first place.
I try to keep mostly to lemmy, but the American football scene and the OSRS scene are nearly non-existent here. OSRS being the worst of the two, there’s almost never any updates or posts even. Yeah yeah, be the change I wanna see, but I don’t wanna talk to myself, that’s how dead it is lol
Lemmy does not have a very active Boardgames community or a Blood on the Clocktower community. Just doesn’t have the numbers for it.
Hamsters for one. Opae Ula, Wallsted Method, ecosphere, other sort of niche hobbyist/petcare topics
I love that it says “This account is banned” Then immediately “Jump back into explore communities” Lol
I didn’t get banned I just quit. It was clear that it was going start rotting and it has.
Same here. Just now, I’ve created this account and Reddit will be erased off my phone.
i only lurk on the phone, and use niche subs on librewolf browser.
Hehe. I’m using Librewolf too!
Dunno how long you have been gone, but it’s been bad for a long time. I deleted my account when the TPA thing was going on, and it was already bad by then. Have not been back and won’t.
Whenever I see people getting banned from Reddit I always revel in the fact that I left on my own terms. I never go back there voluntarily since the API Epoch. Eat my shorts, Reddit.
Seriously. At least back then their Android app was basically unusable. I haven’t tried it since, but suspect that because ads I’d probably hate it anyways. It was an unhealthy addiction.
Same here. I just found it appalling, the way users were, and are, being treated. Was getting some strong “livestock” vibes. And all the bots and brigades don’t exactly help Reddit’s cause.
Both for me. I got banned there, evaded the ban for years, then when things got shit I came on lemmy. My new account is still fine, I just prefer staying here.
Some of us left years ago without being banned because it was the right thing to do.
I posted this picture, it got taken down by the mods. I was just pointing out that people are being wow’d by the “flying” car but shouldn’t forget the man behind it.
Nazis like nazi shit, but they don’t like someone reminding them their nazi shit is nazi shit.
Kinda insane if you showed this photo to someone in 2023 one might think it’s photoshopped.
Left reddit after the API fiasco. You will be fine, anyway reddit is in a very rapid decline.
It’s really bad these days. A lot of the smaller subs are riddled with blatant AI slop posts and comments. What’s even the point of being on the site when you’re talking with bots?
Oh wow strong move, getting banned and calling it “I stopped using it” haha get real people. Either delete your accounts or maybe brag about something else
Could have intentionally gone away with a bang. Think making a popular post, then changing the image on its hosting server to say “Fuck Spez removing RSS, justice for Aaron Swartz, check out join-lemmy.org”
Better yet: Delete your posts and keep your account so you can delete your posts again in case reddit restores them, as it is known to do.
Well deciding to not negotiate to have your account unbanned or not creating a new account is a decision too.
But fine. Go beat your chest and be a moral warrior. Not like the outcome isn’t the same and we’re not all here supporting the same human-run fediverse and have to work out how to move forward with each other regardless how we got here.
What is it you’re hoping for anyways for all this distinction? A medal? A special icon? How important does this have to be for you? Or you just itching for stupid infights?
Thanks, you can mail me my medal, I will PM you the shipping details.
Didn’t offer. Just asked about where your level of how special you think you are is. I see we’re at the “Wow: The entitlement to plant yourself as the topic.” Main character Level here.
Yes, very special, that’s why I made a post saying I’m off of reddit please give me credit for getting banned.
I banned Reddit a few years ago. They broke my policy so they had to go.
Today I stopped using Bluesky because they suspended my account for suspicious activity. I’m sure it’s because I use a VPN to bypass age verification. Oh well. Mastodon and Lemmy it is.
What was the likely innocuous comment that caught you a ban? I got IP banned for asking when they’re going to launch Marjorie Taylor Greene into the sun. Apparently that was “promoting violence”.
Someone was complaining that in their country, everything requires identity verification under the guise of “age verification.” I mentioned the existence of “VPN Gate”—a completely open-source, non-profit, educational VPN project that uses residential IPs rather than standard VPN IPs. My account was likely flagged as spam.
That’s ridiculous. Reddit went to shit fast when they stopped letting you use 3rd party apps.
Oh yeah they make a lot of money from sponsored posts, can’t let people mention products and services without paying
Similar thing happened to me. It was a near 20 year old account. Somehow it got hacked and banned. for my history I felt a sense of loss because I realized I wanted to be able to look back and see my old posts and comments. I appealed with no answer, it’s like appealing into the void.
I still had the addiction to seeing content and reading comments, seeing something always new. But I slowly started coming around to fediverse. Not all at once, I created a new reddit account just to see the content. It pissed me off they gated the content to people logged in, pissed me off they keep trying to push you to use the app, but I eventually gave in because of my content addiction to seeing that new dopamine drip feed.
The final straw was when I started noticing a more hostile commenting environment. I would comment something innocuous, but then I would get people arguing with me on fairly un controversial comments. I would notice they would be accounts with private histories less than a year old. Some would have only fans- like ads in their profile.
I also noticed a vast uptick in rightwing trolling and right leaning comments. These accounts all seemed suspect. Reddit had always been a left wing space. I really think a lot of the money being funneled into these midterms is being used for troll farms and bot farms to astroturf narratives on social media platforms. That was the last straw. I was arguing with people who were probably bots on reddit, giving reddit the engagement they want and I had enough.
It really is an addiction, I had to cut it off but I still try to pull up reddit sometimes when i’m bored. But I think fediverse is really going to be the future and we have to keep getting people to gradually come here.
Congratulations 🎊
Thanks :)
it took you this long?
Ok. Try to not throw a huge wall of text please. I hate reddit too, but this is super boring.
