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I am a huge believer in free software and researched a bit if there was any open source social media.
I found out the Fediverse was a pretty successful attempt at this and now I am active mostly on piefed and Mastodon.
Contrary to most people here, I don't have a huge gripe with Reddit, that I wouldn't have with any other corporate owned social media. I am here mostly because I believe in this project and want to see it evolve. I don't simply see it as a Reddit / Twitter alternative.
Got banned by an AI on reddit, my appeal was rejected by the same AI, And after thinking it over I realized getting to see all the advertisements and bots replying to bot posts really wasn't worth the effort of creating a new profile
IIRC I joined before the Reddit API protests. I wanted an alternative where I would be more free to speak my mind. The problem is, Voat and Ruqqus got overtaken by white supremacists, Tildes is too much of a walled garden and both Snapzu and Hubski are basically dead.
Voat and Ruqqus got overtaken by white supremacists, Tildes is too much of a walled garden and both Snapzu and Hubski are basically dead.
You’re just making up words aren’t you?
They're all Reddit alternatives that existed.
It was the API bullshit about 3 years ago now, Apollo for Reddit was the only useable format and with that gone I was desperate for the old internet. So much better here
Got tired of the reddit app and decided to switch to lemmy
Permanently banned from reddit for ban evasion. I didn't know I wasn't allowed to subscribe to incompatible subbreddits. I think one of them was conspiracy, don't remember the other. I just think conspiracy theories are entertaining.
I don't care much for the "fediverse" as a concept, I just wanted a non-US alternative to reddit.
I was shared an article about reddit shitting the bed (API thing) that mentioned ActivityPub and Lemmy, so I checked it out on a whim. Been around since.
I heard about Lemmy on Reddit around the time of the Reddit API lockdown, and it appealed to me, so I joined and have been here since
i have been looking to exit reddit since like 2019, but nothing had really matured to be viable until fediverse in '23. then i was on Kbin for awhile but that imploded so I went to lemmy.
reddit subs were cool in the 2010s but starting getting weird after Trump was elected, and I suddenly a lot of my comments were being removed and banned, then I got my first sitewide ban in '20, but it was reversed and then every new account I had kept getting bans because my views were seen by extremists as intolerable. my site bans kept happening over inncuous comments on my city subreddit, which seemed to have a lot of very unhinged far-right and far-left posters, and my factual or contextual comments about things like housing policy, homeless regulations, criticisms of politicians, etc. were branded 'hate speech' buy one or both sides because they like their delusional hug boxes rather than acknowledging the limits of our political and social reality.
I also got into trouble a lot on book subreddits for talking about the books I read because they dealt with subject matter that is uncomfortable for american liberals who dominating the literary spaces.
I've also noticed a huge drop off in quality from all the subs I used to visit, my local sub is basically just tourists and people bitching about homeless people, restaurant fees, housing costs and how lonely/sad/friendless they are now. a couple of my hobby subs totally shut down, and a couple of the others just became bully pulpits for the mods political views and viral advertising. it sucks. I don't have any temptation to return and participate in such captured and negative nonsense.
