Just wondering what brought everyone here.
Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.
So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?
the 3rd party shutdown
Typical angry reddit user. I didn’t like that they allowed r/conservative to be a sub full of racist shit. Then they banned one of my favorite sub reddits. They’re greedy and only allow you to use their shitty app.
Reddit told me I wasn’t allowed to use a non-shitty application to read their content any more.
Another vote for Rexodus.
I value freedom and love free / libre / open source software. After the US trade war against basically everyone I searched for non-US Reddit alternative. Lemmy is a great combination.
When Reddit started charging for their API Key. Killed off Apollo, best Reddit app on iOS. Didn’t want to try the Reddit App. After Apollo officially shutdown, I stuck around reddit through old.reddit and it wasn’t the same. Deleted all my accounts and jumped over to Lemmy. Joined Lemm.ee then that shut down and moved over to lemdro.id
I left Reddit because I realized that the people running it were complete assholes who believed money was more important than community.
What made me interested in Lemmy was the decentralized nature. What made me stay is how it reminded me of Reddit a decade ago and of course the community.
The loss of Reddit third party apps and the reasons they were giving for them doing it felt like it was going to be a slippery slope of shit. The Reddit app was also shit at the time and still is.
With Lemmy, I can just go looking for another app if there’s something I don’t like and even if I don’t switch between them, they also seem to be way more configurable too.
Reddit being reddit caused me to look around.
The nice beeple at beehaw drew me in.
Now I have a couple accounts (beehaw was the first) and I haven’t really run into many rude people. I like it here.
Quit reddit 5 years ago. Had a 12 year old account then.
Thread asked for early examples of racism against a certain group, by my country. I dug up such examples and translated them into English. The examples included slurs. Got permabanned for using slurs, no appeal.
Apparently I should have included a racism trigger warning in a thread asking for examples of racism, although the mod admitted that that wouldn’t have saved me either.
This is a site which was notorious for indulging in gore with videos of people being killed by the way. Bunch of weirdos.
That’s not why I deleted my account though. The last straw was when CIA thinktanks made a hostile takeover of all Middle East and geopolitics subs, forcing a Washington agenda to manufactor consent for war. The Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq subs were riddled with ex-military Americans and the mods were literally paid thinktank gooners. They were quite open about it too.
Wow, my account was 12ish years old too when I was banned the first time. Then I was able to access Reddit again because my partner has an old 11 yo account lol and then they banned that too, even with my VPN and a new device it was accessed from. They are shit ass. Both times I didnt do anything against the guidelines. They just didnt like my educational shit going viral because Americans arent majority fascist alt-right extremists despite popular belief. Most genuinely want basic human rights, healthcare and affordability. Duh. These rich people will eventually collapse because they are choosing to make a fake world instead of learning how to survive within the real one.
Lol. Reddit hasn’t been leftist in a long time if it ever really was. There were some leftist spaces, and I guess a lot of users were left-of-center, but the platform certainly wasn’t.
I came over here when they blocked third party apps. I didn’t join earlier because I thought it’d be similar to Voat, which was apparently horrible and an alt-right cesspool. I was pleasantly surprised. I like that people can have actual discussions here without things being flooded by thousands of comments.
Also, since you’re new, I’d recommend against Lemmy.world. They’re a little aggressive with moderation. They’re the largest instance, which is another reason to go somewhere else. The fediverse works best when no one instance controls it.
Can you please elaborate a bit about that “little aggressive work moderation” on lemmy.world? I am there so I am interested.
lemmy.world is the least aggresive with moderation i have seen. i’ve been banned from other instances, mostly for not agreeing with politics or linking to factual sources that don’t agree with their narrative.
i have never been banned from anything on .world.
They aren’t as bad as .ml or Hexbear, but some of the communities are apparently not great. I haven’t been banned, but I’ve heard from other people who have for pretty minor things. They definitely aren’t the least aggressive. There’s a lot of instances out there.
Regardless, it’s the largest instance. We should I courage people to spread out.
Fled Reddit when the Exodus happened.
Paywalling subreddits was the last straw for me
When the ‘fun’ side of reddit became unrecognizeable, then gradually after using Lemmy all I really do on Reddit is post in more useful places where I can share advice on chronic illness, and its really unfortunate there’s not much in comparison for communities here otherwise Reddit would be deleted already.
Political comments shouldn’t turn into vaguely threatening DMs, so many people on there nowadays need their teeth knocked out like some airpods for that shit.
most of my fun subs got you insta banned from more serious subs becauase no joking or mockery of weirdos was allow. had to separate out my accounts. even then I’d have crazy reddit weirdos stalking me and reporting my comments on other subs trying to get me banned for one comment i said in their sub.
i was attracted to the rust implementation as i have a general interest in rust usage
shame they turned out to be lunatic commies
So you joined a platform where everyone is a communist?
