Been here since the initial API exodus. It's been pretty good so far. I hope you like it as much as I do. Welcome!

Where you came from:

Where you are now:

remember kids:

A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power

Reddit needed you more than you needed Reddit. The moment you are slightly less efficient advertising money, they told you to hit the road. When people tell you who they really are, you should listen.

welcome, we have linux and communism.

I closed my account 2 weeks ago after being there for 13+ years. Thousands and thousands of comments and posts. Oh well, I don't even miss it a little bit. It truly became garbage when they locked out free API access. This banning for liking Luigi or shit talking Elon is so against what reddit was about, they've lost their way and I refuse to participate.

Welcome to the fediverse.

Glad I left Reddit I got banned for asking someone if they were threatening someone else.

I keep getting banned for the most ridiculously benign comments. They aren't serious adults there.

Welcome! Yep, I like this place a lot more - higher quality, lower volume.

I check back over on Reddit every so often and it's exactly as you say. It's probably impossible to stop the quality death spiral over there.

I got out recently too, albeit before actually getting ban-hammered. Given how new I am, it's not really my place, but..: Welcome!

Free Luigi.

Fuck reddit.

Fuck spez.

Welcome, hope you like it here. Reddit kinda went down the drain after the API exodus.

Welcome! I've been here since the API fiasco killed everything but their app.

Lemmy feels like old school reddit, I like it.

I lost about seven 12-year-old accounts all for telling off one piece of shit incel, quoting his slur so he couldn't edit, and reporting him. Mods banned me from a major subreddit for "using a slur" and didn't listen to my appeal that I was the one fighting the incel and just quoted him so he couldn't change his comment. Mods acted like pubescent morons and called me names for politely asking for a review of the incident, I changed account to keep talking to people I knew there, got perma-banned for ban-evasion, they sniffed out my other accounts then and banned those too, then I made new accounts but got permanently shadowbanned for criticizing conservatives and reddit mods, made new accounts, those accounts also are now shadowbanned for who-knows-why.

But whatever their excuses are, the reality is clear. They don't want human users, this is why "shadowbans" are a thing, they want humans to feel like they're interacting, but in reality they want a billion bots talking to each other and simulating narratives and conversations so they can twist a few dials and change public opinion on whatever they want.

They're already doing it, it works. A large percentage of users there are already very convincing AI's.

They aren't hiding this, they announced that they would be letting AI's "use" reddit to train and learn. They never specified to what end or how many.

Yeah man. It’s trash there now a days. Welcome!

Fuck reddit and fuck spez

Welcome. Lemmy is like Reddit but the lemmings are more dogmatic and sensitive.

Welcome! I left when Reddit is Fun was shut down, and I feel so much safer, as a woman, on Lemmy.

I left reddit a few months ago. I wish I never gave reddit a minute of my time.

Welcome, sincerely happy to have you. Now go post your favorite interests.

How did you learn of Lemmy?

Elon started to repressure reddit again on criticism against him just recently

Jesus, it's gotten even worse since I left. Fuck Reddit.

Welcome.

I've been here since November. Loving it.

Your comments actually get responses on this platform. Whereas 90% of your Reddit comments will never be seen, much less interacted with.

The downfall of Reddit is well underway.

You forgot fuck spez

Similiar thing happened to me. Elon has bitch tits.

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

• !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

It honestly feels like the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when. If you're on iPhone, I am using Voyager and have been happy with it.

Yeah I deleted my 13 year old account in 2024 and honestly, good riddance.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy the fediverse!

I got tired of how mean the comments became...

Yep similar story for me, except this was long ago. I got warned several times for suggesting we should kill and eat rich people. But I kept doing it, and so here I am.

I've never looked back. Welcome