cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73406944
It all started when my main Reddit account was banned—simply because I posted a comment criticizing the banning of a subreddit—resulting in the immediate loss of an account I’d held for about 4 years, with 102k karma. I appealed, but I received no response—not even a reason for my ban, nor any notification that I had been banned in the first place. I’ve filed appeals repeatedly over the past few months, but today, I’m finally giving up. Fuck Spez and his pathetic, whore of a family. When I submitted my appeals, there wasn’t even any indication that they had gone through; I was just left in total silence, unable to do a thing. I started using an existing alt account for basic tasks, but today, that account was banned too—all because I recommended the non-profit, open-source “VPN Gate” project to someone who was complaining about the mandatory KYC (age verification) requirements being imposed in my country. The only reason I was still using Reddit was out of habit, and I’ve decided it’s time to change some of my habits. Ultimately, this is the inevitable fate of every centralized corporation—without exception. There’s no guarantee that some complete moron won’t end up in charge of any of them. I wish more people realized this. If four years of my effort are being sold off to AI data companies, and everything can be permanently wiped out overnight without a word of warning, then that is, quite simply, data theft. Once again, fuck you, Spez—you absolute piece of shit. If you had even an ounce of courage or integrity, you wouldn’t have imposed those damn API restrictions in 2023 and ruined Reddit. I truly regret the four years I spent here, but it’s better to cut my losses now. Goodbye, you son of a bitch Spez, and your puppet, Reddit…
Remember this valuable lesson, it will serve you well here.
Think of Lemmy as “Reddit’s communist cousin”, all the same “rules” still apply.
The next step is to block that shithole entirely from your feed. I use UBlacklist. It’s pretty easy to set up.
Did you say something mean about fElon?
it seems you are using mobile, or the app. on the phone they do everything in thier power to force people to use thier app, which allows them to access more data on you. seems they havnt made significant moves ye to fully force logins, or get rid of old reddit yet. on desktop you it still can use old reddit on most browsers. on mobile you use the sinkit extension, or yeoldreddit.
Not for long. They’re making it only users who have logged in within I think 3 or 6 months will be able to access old. Fuck reddit. Delete your account and fuck them off for good
Reddit is just porn.
Ok. Try to not throw a huge wall of text please. I hate reddit too, but this is super boring.
Apart from habits, what were the sub-reddits that kept you there, and stopped from transitioning completely before? We can start making similar content and bring more people here.
I try to keep mostly to lemmy, but the American football scene and the OSRS scene are nearly non-existent here. OSRS being the worst of the two, there’s almost never any updates or posts even. Yeah yeah, be the change I wanna see, but I don’t wanna talk to myself, that’s how dead it is lol
Not OP, but there are a lot of niche subreddits where you simply can’t get information anywhere else. I quit Reddit entirely after the APIocalypse, and I know around that time people started replicating the extensive network of Sports team subreddits in various places here. But, there are simply not enough people here to make that work.
I have not logged in (other than to manipulate the crypto out of my Reddit Vault and sell it before it crashed) since then. There are precisely four subreddits I monitor via RSS because the info simply doesn’t make it here. But Reddit has already announced their RSS access is going away. When it does, I guess I’ll just have get that info somewhere else.
That reddit shit slowly becoming Instagram 2, most of the origin community already gone ;(
Gone where though? I wish some of them atleast come here…
The niche subreddits are really hard to adjust without. I would’ve gone cold turkey if it weren’t for those because you simply can’t find the info anywhere else. I was using RDX to browse those subs but now that’s gone too (for now, hopefully the dev finds a workaround)
It’s all mostly bots and repost slop. At least it was when I left. I can’t see it being different now.
I was able to use RDX up until a few days ago. Like you I was mostly out after the API debacle but I did use RDX to browse r/all for mental junk food. I started out just doing it once in a while but I got more in the habit even as the quality dropped. It’s for the best that I no longer have that crutch. I will miss being able to look up the post episode discussion of whatever show I’m currently streaming. I don’t see Lemmy getting the critical mass for those types of discusaions anytime soon.
Yeah it’s probably better I don’t have the crutch either. I was using it a lot to read stuff like AMITAH and the amount of stuff that was either fake or AI was through the roof. I guess I just wish I had more lead time to wean myself off because being cut off just like that is a hard struggle.
Girl/boy dinner diaries is basically AMTAH-lite and consistently on the front page. Why is it like catnip to me? I was never gonna wean or taper. It just had to be cold turkey
Once you realize that it’s all written by AI for the purpose of engagement, its easer to walk away from it.
None of that shit is real.
I went cold turkey after the third party app debacle but I really missed the home assistant subreddit. There is a home assistant community but it’s nowhere near as active.
With respect, “it’s not as active” for a Home Assistant community as in what? You don’t get replies to your questions? People don’t ask you enough of them?
If the former, that is a genuine problem, but hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy. There are fewer responses, but they are more thought out and less likely to be puns, references, and other low-hanging-fruit jokes.
If the latter, then proactively make guides so people will be more likely to join? Someone has to be the first on the dance floor.
That’s a fair point and it is the latter.
I have only posted one question about a problem that I had and I got an answer that resolved my issue.
Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to help build up the community. I have a very small and basic setup and don’t have time to build it up let alone make posts about building it up.
If 100% of posed questions are answered, I don’t think it makes sense to call it any flavor of inactive.
A sample size of one isn’t sufficient to conclude that every question gets answered.
Also, I didn’t say that it was inactive. I said that it was nowhere near as active as Reddit.
There are about two or three posts per week which includes all the release announcements for home assistant and various components.
On Reddit there was at least five or ten times that activity with posts every day including questions, automations and dashboard ideas.
Okay? The ocean has more water than my sink, but you don’t see me complaining that my sink has too little water.
You seem to have got your knickers in a twist over something and I don’t understand what.
Let me summarise the conversation from my point of view. Someone asked what subreddits kept someone on Reddit. I made the comment that a particular sub that I liked on Reddit was more active than the equivalent communities on Lemmy. It wasn’t a complaint but a statement of fact about what made the transition more difficult for me which I made to contribute to the discussion. Then you seem to have taken that as a complaint and taken offence at it for some reason.
I miss getting help with all sorts of stuff, home improvement and repair and how to stuff, brewing, growing stuff, and the like. Plus they have way better animal videos, to say nothing of all the other video content not found on lemmy.
Can’t be helped, reddit is unusable, politicians and rich dickheads are leaning on them to make moderation decisions and they are trhing to bend us over for them.
I’ve been clean cold turkey from Reddit for over 3 years now since I made my Lemmy account but I still really miss active discussions about newly released games :(
You can make a post in one of the gaming comms here and sometimes you’ll get a couple folks, but it doesn’t really catch on the same. I had a grand old time reading tons of build discussion and memes when Elden Ring came out, but since Nightreign came out I effectively haven’t interacted with its community at all.
I like Lemmy specifically because it is smaller and more close knit, usually. But it misses out on some of the bigger town-square types of discussion that reddit could enable because reddit had sixty five gorillion users, especially in the gaming space.
I expect that whatever discussion of this type doesn’t exist on reddit probably exists on Discord but that also sucks for a completely separate, but similar, set of reasons. I still use Discord, as of currently, but I hate interacting in big public servers and never do it, and it misses a lot of the thread-and-comment structure that I liked so much about Reddit. (Discord does technically support threads, but they work differently and nobody uses them properly anyway.)
Most of my habits stemmed from the fact that I found the general chaos of Mastodon overwhelming and too complex for daily use. For instance, while Reddit has its own straightforward website and app, Mastodon lacks a clear, simple interface—which made it seem overly complicated to me from the start. Consequently, I always found it much easier to quickly hop onto Reddit to post or leave a comment. Most importantly, the number of active users on Mastodon is, unfortunately, still far lower than on Reddit.
Since Mastodon was mentioned I’ll also add that a thoroughly hate that Mastodon doesn’t even attempt to show you anything unless you enable Javascript. I’m a user of NoScript so websites don’t run JS by default unless I explicitly opt in. For most sites that’s not a huge deal since it’s just a one time thing but because Mastodon is federated I need to opt in every instance individually which means 90% of the time on the rare occasion I visit a Mastodon link nothing loads initially.
I wish Mastodon did the thing most non-sketchy websitss do and renders at least a basic view of its content without JS so I could at least decide if it’s worth enabling JS in the first place.
You’re on the Lemmy version of the fediverse. Mastodon is like Twitter, whereas Lemmy and Piefed are like Reddit.
- Change up how you see stuff: Hot, Scaled, Every 6 hours. Active is the least active ironically.
- Remember, this is mostly not an angry factory like reddit, so you’re going to go through withdrawal. I’m serious.
- Upvote if you like it an post stuff that interests you.
- Remember there are still trolls here. They brigade and fight with you for odd reasons. That should give you a heads up if that starts to happen.
- Not every instance is great.
I read reddit but no longer contribute in any way. Activity level is just way lower here, especially for niche interests. I’ve increased the amount of other websites I look at (here, hacker news, steam forums) overall
Lemmy does not have a very active Boardgames community or a Blood on the Clocktower community. Just doesn’t have the numbers for it.
Don’t know what his subreddits were, but I still go there for guitar, and luthier (well 8 guitar related subs in total).
We have a NDP community here, but it’s not very active, even though I suspect that the sub is mostly bots at this point.
Hamsters for one. Opae Ula, Wallsted Method, ecosphere, other sort of niche hobbyist/petcare topics
I’ve been getting this for a few weeks now, no way I’m making another account. Obviously loading the home page like 3 times per day is bot behaviour!
Side note - If you save a multi reddit, it skips verification and autoloads old reddit. However if you try to load any comments it will block you.
I have been avoiding Reddit right up until this link.
Just post an image.
Reddit is my arch enemy.
Oh wow strong move, getting banned and calling it “I stopped using it” haha get real people. Either delete your accounts or maybe brag about something else
Well deciding to not negotiate to have your account unbanned or not creating a new account is a decision too.
But fine. Go beat your chest and be a moral warrior. Not like the outcome isn’t the same and we’re not all here supporting the same human-run fediverse and have to work out how to move forward with each other regardless how we got here.
What is it you’re hoping for anyways for all this distinction? A medal? A special icon? How important does this have to be for you? Or you just itching for stupid infights?
Thanks, you can mail me my medal, I will PM you the shipping details.
Didn’t offer. Just asked about where your level of how special you think you are is. I see we’re at the “Wow: The entitlement to plant yourself as the topic.” Main character Level here.
Could have intentionally gone away with a bang. Think making a popular post, then changing the image on its hosting server to say “Fuck Spez removing RSS, justice for Aaron Swartz, check out join-lemmy.org”
This place is so much worse. The mods are unchecked and twice as power hungry. The users are way more out of touch.
This place took every single corporate control measure that reddit implemented and built lemmy out of it. No lessons were learned.
This place is a snuff box for leftist.
Saying this unironically while using a Lemmy.world account. Try some other instances that don’t ban/defederate from absolutely everything that doesn’t fit their tiny reddit-shaped minds before actually complaining.
Responses like this are such low effort. What is wrong with you. Who gives a shit what instance it is. It’s all the same.
Oh, but Reddit is a leftist utopia!?
Resorting to hyperbole weakens your argument not mine.
I have not said it was a leftist utopia. When reddit started it was community based. We built these spaces ourselves and they reflected our ideals, and that’s what made them good and what drew people in. It’s the same thing a lot of leftists say they want, not just online but in government, in business, everywhere. Cooperatives. Voting systems where our votes actually matter, instead of smoke and mirrors covering for a small group of elites.
Then as these sites got bigger, corporate interests started rolling out features that slowly took those structures apart, and we didn’t even notice. Every change favored the company. The community lost control over its own content and its own spaces, and in its place we got an overseer, a mod in charge. And a lot of these mods act like abusive police with their authority. Unchecked power, no accountability, punishing people however they want. That’s everything leftists say they’re against.
Think how insane it is that people here push for democracy everywhere else, but when it comes to our own digital spaces they just accept it, and do not even catch that contradiction.
I was there from the start on Reddit. I saw how my left leaning views were accepted, then eventually rejected, and finally demonized. I remember peacefully talking about Linux for years then getting constantly brigaded by Winbros. Don’t think I wasn’t there. I left, I was not banned. It was definitely heading that way though.
Before Reddit it was forums, Usenet, IRC, BBS, etc. We definitely need to return to simpler times where everyone isn’t corralled into the same place to be propagandised to. I stopped Meta during the pandemic when I saw them spread misinformation on purpose to divide people. It is clear major platforms are a cancer on our society.
Democracy is a window dressing for control by the wealthy at this point. We definitely need to fix things, but we need to take a long hard look at what we have and why we have it first.
You are correct, we should take back our digital space. That is why I am here. That is why I am trying to replace corporate services with a homelab.
Thanks. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one with this attitude even if we disagree on things. I don’t know how things should be but I know this isn’t it. I think we need to deconstruct a lot of things on the left including these spaces to understand how they took it over and took control.
Good for you I guess? I actually went back to using reddit a few months ago. Lemmy just isn’t big enough for the communities I want to engage with. I have tried to create spaces here, and nobody interacts with them.
As much as reddit sucks, that’s still where a lot of people are. The other issue with lemmy is that it’s a bunch of leftists all fighting and arguing with eachother about who is the most pure leftist. It’s annoying. But, you’ll see that all in due time. Best of luck to you with this place. I guess.
It’s a small space and you’ll see the same people a lot, so be prepared for that.
On average it takes seven tries to leave an abusive relationship.
Comparing this to an abusive relationship is a really stupid comparison.
No, you’re just not very smart and don’t understand metaphors.
Ahhh, thanks for clarifying. I wasn’t getting it bcz of how dumb I am.
You will only feel the pain once you get shadow banned by simply using a VPN. You don’t have the shadow ban yet I guess that’s why you still stay with it.
Haha, I’ve been banned from reddit loads of times already. I just create new accounts, and move, get a new IP address and I’m all set. Granted that was all a happy accident, not something I planned.
Honestly, I am back on reddit bcz this place is too small, and it’s kinda toxic. Everybody spends their time here arguing over who is the right kind of leftist and insulting anybody else who doesn’t share their exact opinions.
Plus, I do gamedev and play DnD and this place is dead as a doornail for those types of communities go.
I left reddit entirely for a few years for what it’s worth.
Gee thanks, this has been very productive for both of us! Speaking as someone who lived in a household with domestic abuse, I really appreciate my situation growing up being compared a fascist takeover of our government.
Besides the companies that abuse us, the government abuses us as well. In a lot of ways the current administration mirrors what an abusive relationship is like. One that we as citizens are compelled to endure. But unlike a personal abusive relationship, there is no escape.
If you cannot use the information then please pass it along to someone who can.
I don’t need the information, and neither does anybody else. If you want to be helpful, give people resources to contact their elected representatives, and/or start volunteering with your local community, and make a plan to get out if things come to that. Everything else including this, is just noise.
I would disagree, lots of people do need help and we are being abused by the government and corporations. It is important to recognize this.
Reddit is an abusive entity borne out by the fact that they are thieves of the commons, taking our collective knowledge and communities for themselves, and locking them up behind a paywall. I don’t care what their abusive terms of service are, what they did is wrong. But this isn’t even about them though because everyone is doing this same shit.
I have already been involved in local elections. I have stood on the capital of my state demanding rights for other disfranchised citizens. I have gone to DC to lobby my representatives multiple times. I know the power of community organizing and influencing local elections. I also know how little power we have on a state level and how we basically have zero power at the federal level (non-wealthy people)
We have problems that can’t be fixed by flexing our political power alone. This is the real conflict we face and is why so many people have been disenfranchised.
i recommend installing block site extension in your browser and adding reddit to the list of blocked sites. i did it almost 2 years ago and still sometimes instinctively type reddit.com when opening a new tab… but it’s getting better.
my account got first permabanned without warning or explanation from worldnews sub after i (politely) suggested that maybe blowing up a school full of kids (30 dead) is not the right thing to do even if a terrorist is hiding inside (under an article about case in gaza). then i still sticked around for my hobby subs for a while but the sute kept showing all kinds of other content to my feed. one day there was a picture showing a WW2 nazi flag on someone’s front yard in ohio and people were suggesting they should bring some veterans to talk to them and explain why it is wrong. i said that wouldn’t help and that people like this should be “tarred and feathered” - which was, according to reddit, not acceptable behaviour because “reddit is trying to be a place where everyone can feel safe and me threatening other people is undermining it”. banned and out.
Maybe a pipebomb mailed to Spez would be more acceptable.
stop that. letting people spew hateful shit publicly without consequences is exactly how we got to where we are as a society…
There, happy?
I got permanently suspended for unauthorized activity but I’ve only ever browsed and commented.
And no one stole my 30 random character password with zero cross site duplication, either.
thats reddits AI moderation for you, very arbitrary, unless you are a propaganda bot, which they barely touch or deal with. they do go after the spammers that reddit isnt getting thier slice of the pie in.
Now you can stop interacting with reddit bots and A.I. slop
