I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
Where my Sync peeps at??
the API fiasco.
This was the same reason for me.
Well, I was originally here to promote a movie…
I had a crush on you as a teenager when I saw you in suicide squad
I got banned from reddit for saying the genocide in Gaza was bad.
I got banned for saying Israel was a fascist state and this was years before the current genocide started. Zionists have infiltrated that platform good and proper.
Most of us kinda didn’t realize that Israel is a disgusting abomination until Oct 7th
These parasites really crossed some lines
Never again 🤡
I believe the politically correct term to appease the only “acceptable” narrative is war not genocide to describe a very clear targeting of Palestinian children Tsk Tsk for you not knowing it’s common knowledge at this point /s
Reddit killed RIF. I’d already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.
…didn’t stay on Jerboa long
What client do you use?
I switched to Connect, and have liked it well enough that I haven’t tried any others
Same story, except I have used Connect from day one.
Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit’s official app was a turd sandwich.
I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.
I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I’ve been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.
(I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)
Bromies love their chains
I joined Hexbear for the hentai.
I don’t know why this feels so genuine
It shouldn’t, Hexbear has a strict no-porn rule, Hentai included.
Bias for FOSS
I might sound illeterate but what is Foss?
Free and open source software
Free open source software
User can audit the code 🤡User relies on some tech bro to audit the code but hey at least there is some transparency
Had my account permabanned on Reddit by mods on a power trip.
Then they cut third party support so my app stopped working.
Centralised Social media is a disaster waiting to happen. You just can’t trust corporates. They will be corrupted eventually.
- Most of the content is reposts and bots
- Moderators remove anything they dont like(Creating an echo chamber)
- Comments are mostly low-effort jokes or bots, not valuable discussion
I was one of the leaders of the big fuck spez on r/place, would have been a bit hypocritical if I’d stuck around after the that.
Edit: probably should add a photo
Got kicked off reddit. But also fuck Reddit for the api change. I just wish the communities had more traffic like reddit
Reddits idiotic moderation
I wanted to keep using Sync for Reddit and or Boost for Reddit, both clients were built for Lemmy now (as of this message Sync is quite broken though).
Even when I can keep using Sync for Reddit patched with Revanced I truly enjoy using clients such as Voyager (I missed Apollo a lot when I went from iOS to Android) and Summit, Eternity is a good alternative too.
IMHO Summit stands the best because it is the smoothest and behaves almost as good as Sync for Reddit did in its prime.
What’s broken about Sync? I use it all the time with no issues.
Well, since lemmy.ml is the most updated Lemmy instance (it should be shouldn’t it?) I assume you should be facing the same issues as most of us.
For me I stopped using it since it stopped marking as read while scrolling the posts, also it kinda broke upvotes and downvotes but I think I got that fixed modifying some toggle in the Lemmy website…
I can’t remember many other instance issues for Sync as of now as I pretty much leave after the 1st one I mentioned.
Reddit is heavily American-centric.
At least on Lemmy, there can be multiple communities with the same name with different rules, focus, region, and culture.
