Reddit went to shit. Maybe five years ago.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
10 points (85.7% liked)
Ask Lemmy
40069 readers
1146 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
As I'm interacting from a non-Lemmy (Catodon) instance, I'll interpret the question as a broader "What made you join the Fediverse?".
In a nutshell, the open-source nature, the possibility of having choices (I can choose between instances and platforms), decentralization, distance from capitalist interests and from enshittification, the shared resonance to some of my principles, among other reasons.
I used to have a Lemmy account (The Lemmy Club) but I'm fond of a platform where I can have both a personal microblogging feed alongside the interactions with the communities on the threadiverse (Lemmy, Piefed, mbin, etc), and Misskey/Sharkey/Catodon is this platform. I also have accounts on other platforms, namely Mastodon, PixelFed, Friendica and tootik (Fediverse platform for geminispace/geminiprotocol, which has nothing to do with Google despite the name), but Catodon is the platform I've been using the most.
Also, I didn't come from Reddit, I didn't even use to use Reddit despite having had an account there many years ago. I don't even how who exactly is this "spez" y'all talk about. I mostly used from Orkut (back when it existed in 2010s) all the way to TikTok (up to a few years ago) before I ditched it all and pivoted to decentralized platforms. Nowadays, the only mainstream social platform I still have (against my own values, I eager to ditch it) is the damn WhatsApp because Brazilians around me use it as their must-have instant messaging, otherwise I'd have exclusively decentralized platforms.
Got banned from Reddit eventually, they seem to have ramped up their detection abilities and banning.
Looked for similar alternatives and lemmy popped up.
All other social media sucked and were bad. Reddit wasn't that bad and I had my subs that where fun. Then reddit blew up and so many people started flooding with their agenda. Specially once Elmo bought out twitter. So called "twitter refugees" came over and turned it into twitter wanna be. This got bot farms active and now every second post if not every big post you see is just a bot post with a very clear agenda. And now you can't even look at their profile histories anymore.
When I heard of Lemmy I was, hmm ok maybe it's good. And to be honest, it feels like old school reddit, which is awesome. Yes, you get less interactions, but they are more meaningfull than the ones on reddit.
too many people got banned , by thier AI moderation.
Yep! I got shadow banned just for using a VPN for me.
bots and toxic behaviour
This. I wouldn't be surprised if its 85% bots and paid posters now. Sucked all the fun out of it. You have to wade through the slop and propaganda to get to the real, quality shitposts.
Reddit api change and could not use a free app to access the place.
As for why .world specifically I don't remember. I picked one from the list and it was probably not sorted alphabetically at least.
API change and third party app fiasco.
Never got banned from anything, I just left on principle. Really looking to move on from big tech altogether. It's gonna take years.
If you sign up now and try to comment, you will get shadow banned.
I came because of the Reddit API closure. I stayed because of the huge anarchist and communist communities.
disagreeing with Reddit policy change, a few years ago. Appreciating Lemmy/Piefed being algorithm-free, and allowing me to filter out whatever content I would consider noise.
I didn't!
If you're here, you joined. You literally made an account, that is joining, lol!
But I don't have a lemmy.world account.
If you are talking to me, you are still in the Lemmy zeitgeist per say. EDIT: I meant say just Lemmy itself.
You asked about lemmy.world specifically. They are on lemmy but not on lemmy.world. People from different instances talking to each other is the whole point of lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole).
I meant just Lemmy, I fixed it. Which is another good option here. Editing the titles.
Right, then your question should be "What made you join Lemmy?".
Lemmy.world is just one of many lemmy instances.
I will correct it, I now see I botched the first title question.
I heard you were on here.
Oh my...
Just a heads’ up — the majority of accounts that will see this post aren’t from lemmy.world. For example, I’m from feddit.online. Your posts are federated, which means your instance, lemmy.world, passes your post to our instances, where we see them.
I understand that, meaning what made you join the community, if you will.
I try to join all of the fediverse services to give em a fair shake. I haven’t tried Helos yet, and I can’t get into the wanderer instance I’m most interested in, but I’ve tried all the big ones: mastodon, loops, pixelfed, bookwyrm, funkwhale, etc. I’m a social media nerd so I like to stay up-to-date on what folks are doing in the space, and the fediverse is the one that most closely aligns with my values.
I am not on .world
But came during the great reddit blackout a while ago
It was there.
Because the light was on.