• @Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124•2 months ago

    Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.

    Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It’s like a slice of the old web.

    • FundMECFS
      2•2 months ago

      Yep. Not to mentioned permanently AI astroturfed, and the politics went full on hard authoritarian and Zionist.

      I used to mod 2 communities with over 300k members.

  • @ghewl@lemmy.world
    31•2 months ago

    I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.

    🖕spez

    • @Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      9•2 months ago

      hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

    • qazEnglish
      9•2 months ago

      I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.

  • Rentlar
    21•2 months ago

    I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there… I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.

    Lemmy is just so much better quality.

  • @SassyRamen@lemmy.world
    16•2 months ago

    Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲

    My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit… but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.

  • @w3dd1e@lemm.ee
    15•2 months ago

    Not banned. I chose Lemmy because I’m a big believer in the ideas of the fediverse and I want it to succeed.

    I do still have to use Reddit occasionally to look up info that hasn’t made it here yet, but I don’t post or comment there.

  • /home/pineapplelover
    13•2 months ago

    I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn’t like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.

    Edit: damn it’s almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride

    Edit: did you really just copy the same post as? There’s no karma like on reddit you know that right?

    https://lemm.ee/post/60400188

  • @Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
    13•2 months ago

    I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don’t want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I’d look back at what I’ve posted and commented more often, but I haven’t much at all.

  • @bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    12•2 months ago

    I mostly switched to lemmy because the mobile reddit app i used finally broke after the api changes.

    I refuse to use that shitty reddit app and the creator of the app i used made a lemmy app so here i am

  • @Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    I left Reddit on principle.
    I still have functioning accounts over there.

    The only time i go there is if I’m linked there when searching for info.

  • MelllvarEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn’t use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
    11•2 months ago

    My main and my alt still exist on reddit and have enough karma that I was offered stock options on both accounts.

    Not going back because of the API fuckery. Coming up on 2 years on lemmy. Haven’t looked back.

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      3•2 months ago

      I haven’t been on reddit for a long time. When you say “offered stock options”, do you mean they offered you the opportunity to invest in stock, or discounted stock, or free stock?