I left reddit because they got rid of the app I like (reddit is fun) and I absolutely can’t stand their app or new.reddit.com. Simple as that.

I was a power user in several exclusive subreddits (exclusive to heavy reddit users, not like the Lounge) but none of it outweighed how much I hate the UI.

I certainly got downvoted for opinions sometimes but I wouldn’t call that censorship.

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No, I came because of:

• the removal of essential moderation tools
• the insertion of ads and promoted content
• the huge data requirements of the official app

So kind of the opposite of censorship. I came because there’s too much low-quality content.

I just got sick of everything becoming a profit driven cesspool. If open-source social media can take hold it could radically change our whole society. I have to help it get there.

I was banned from Reddit for saying child molesters deserve to be tortured in horrible ways.

Days later I see a similar thread of people saying the same type of shit about business executives with no action taken against them. I opened a ban appeal to inquire what I did differently than these dozens of comments but all I got back was a canned response that the ban would stay in effect. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Reddit wants to create a safe space for child molesters. So yeah, fuck that site.

I dropped 95% of my activity on Reddit about when everyone else left earlier this summer.

This is not censorship but it’s similar, it’s the problems with Reddit’s automated moderation system. It’s not something unique to Reddit since lots of platforms have this issue, and it is a risk on Lemmy as well if we can’t figure out other ways to combat spam effectively once userbase grows

• On Reddit, our university sub’s moderation team had nearly all of their accounts banned (including all the alts), because we shared a mod account to do basic mod actions (before Reddit had some of that functionality built-in). The mod account wasn’t the reason, but we assume that’s what the automated system used to decide we were all one person. It took a while to resolve, and our initial attempts to point out the issue resulted in automated messages saying we were wrong and that we couldn’t appeal anymore. Eventually we posted on mod-support and the only solution was to self-dox our alts to each other in order to get some of them reverted (the ones we didn’t feel comfortable sharing we never got back). It was a mess.

I think we also need to consider the flip side of this issue. Yes, some people are banned wrongfully from these platforms. However, sometimes people are banned for sharing content that also isn’t welcome here, and over time we WILL get more users like that showing up here because Lemmy will look like the next best thing for them. I’m not sure how that will work out and maybe the Fediverse will let those users find their place away from the rest of us, but it’s important to know that not all bans from other platforms are unjustified.

I came because they removed third party apps.

I still use old.reddit.com because the content is still better than on here.

The memes here are pretty terrible. Many of the communities that i follow haven’t migrated. There simply isn’t enough content and a sizable portion of the content that exists is very annoying compared to on Reddit.

Still, I probably use Lemmy more than Reddit due to the apps.

I occasionally use reddit in the browser on mobile but the experience is terrible so I pretty much only check out r/sysadmin (yes I know that there is a similar sub on here, but it’s very small)

I personally don’t really have much against Reddit except the apps issue. They have done a lot of stupid stuff, but meh.

reddit permabanned me for mass reporting very obvious spam bots, as i was “abusing the report feature”, then ignored the appeal (which i’m sure went straight in the trash anyway). 9 year old 500k karma account, and a huge content generator for their money farm, down the drain.

i was already done with the site but mostly stuck around for some of the community content I still cared about. it was obvious they PREFER spam bots over real users, as long as they generate traffic and ad revenue. money over all, they’ve always transparently been that way. and the third party app ban was just the icing on the cake. They give no craps about any kind of censorship unless it censors the voices that might get between them and IPO money.

fuck 'em, fuck spez and his blue-eyed golden boy affluenza-afflicted pedo ass. they can have their spambots in their nice little walled garden. i’m having a lot more fun over here anyway.

edit: and in case a LW mod considers this “uncivil”, my last statement is factual, not an attack. it is an open secret that spez first modded, and then explicitly allowed the continued existence of /r/jailbait for many years (quick google); he is also so self-centered via his golden-boy affluenza complex that he thinks he will be a slave owner in the coming apocalypse.

I probably would have been here sooner had I known about it prior, but I came here because Reddit did a fucky-wucky and now the good apps don’t work. Though I had been getting sick of how many people were just awful there anyway and the only other place I had known about was Tumblr, which isn’t very condusive to conversation. When the announcement of the API shit happened, Lemmy kept getting mentioned (along with other sites) and it was the closest thing to Reddit that wasn’t Reddit.

It not being owned by a single entity is just a happy little bonus.

I left Reddit, deleting all of my content, because I disagreed with the elimination of third party apps and because of Reddit’s response to the community. Full stop. I wasn’t a heavy Twitter user - I tend to enjoy more drawn out discussions and topically focused communities - but I stopped using it entirely because of Elon’s moves, including his rejection of corporate censorship.

I have no problem with a service establishing a ToS that includes trust and safety policies that will remove posts and ban users over hate speech. I have no problem with forced demonetization and deplatforming of hate accounts. I would have no problem if federal and state governments enacted more anti-hate laws to bring us in line with other democracies around the world.

That’s because I do not think that permitting a group of American brown shirts to fly Nazi flags and shout racist slurs at passersby increases freedom. I think it decreases it, because it causes a large part of the population to live in fear. I think hate speech rules by private companies serve the same purpose.

Just the opposite.

I left reddit because they don’t censor nazis hard enough and will actually ban people for reporting hate speech, calling it an “abuse of the reporting system”.

Censorship/bad moderation wasn’t the main reason I left but it was a small factor…

A subreddit (wpt) implemented a rule banning linking to other communities or posts. I had a comment removed for that, I tried to ask for clarity on why and it took two back and forths to figure it out which rule I broke, when/where it was implemented because it wasn’t on their sidebar. I thought Reddit was all about linking to places so I was just surprised, not really upset…

I was mainly upset that Reddit was messing with 3rd party apps while the 1st party one remained a broken, data-grubby mess. The quality of major subreddits were heading way downhill and the bot-spam disguising as real commenters was getting on me too.

When Reddit broke .compact mode for the last time, I could already begin to feel in the wind I needed to jump ship soon. In mid-March, the API went down for some time on my 6th Reddit cake day, that was the day I signed up for this account and slowly began my 4 month transition to Lemmy, and haven’t posted or commented since July.

Some of the subreddits I follow are related to emulation and piracy which has caused some subreddits to get banned or at least take action to limit legal threats. When the Reddit blackout happened a lot of them went down and said they were shifting here. I find they’re a little more open to discussion than other places that just copy and paste some old post or refer you to a Wiki

I didn’t leave Reddit

but I came here for the same reason I use adblock

Spez killed third party apps so he could track people and sell ads. First party apps were bad and getting worse. And the whole way it went down was just dishonest and shitty. I don’t wanna support that.

I also really enjoyed being able to see new content AND comment on it/interact with the community. That was the reason Reddit was cool to me. If I didn’t channel that energy towards something else I’d have ended up back on Reddit.

And the cherry on top, I love the idea of decentralized social networks. It’s better for the internet.