I wasn’t banned or shadow-banned. But I very rarely use Reddit-like forum platforms. It’s because I love microblogging more. Forums are high tension for me, honestly. So, yeah I wasn’t banned or shadow-banned. But rather very rarely use and participate in Reddit.

I left because they got rid of 3rd party apps, was never banned.

banned from reddit for “threatening to kill reddit staff”. the post: pedophiles should be executed.

it’s very telling.

When they closed down the API for third party apps I packed my things, I thought reddit would be different, but to me, at that moment they proved they were not different.

Lemmy is not perfect and the whole dev team has some pretty insane views. But you know, it’s FOSS, so it’s not about the devs as much. Perfect is the enemy of great, and Lemmy is a healthier choice then Reddit imo.

I’ve never been banned from reddit (that I know of).

I left reddit three years ago next month duringsthe API drama. Since then the only time I’ve been to reddit (not logged in) is when it comes up in a search result.

The only reason Lemmy was started in the first place is because Reddit banned communists and their communities. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy

Neither, but I’m fed up with Reddit regardless. Open Source and self hosted is something I prefer.

And if everybody praises the alternatives, but nobody is using it, we’ll never get shit done.

I was temp banned from reddit for honestly I forgot why (something to do with me being antizionist), I realized I was gonna get banned anyway so I deleted my account and left on my own terms.

I left Reddit when they threatened to remove 3rd party apps and started closing down sub-reddits that weren’t advertiser friendly.

My account of like 20 years got banned and I never received any reason why… still to this day have no idea. no messages or anything. I tried making a few more accounts but was using alias emails and VPNs and such and they all got banned. After that I figured why do I try to hard if they don’t want me so I jumped ship…

never looked back

I came here because I didn’t like the censorship (of others, not me) on Reddit. I stayed because I love the lack of advertising.

Buddy I’m shadowbanned from LEMMY

I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.

I got banned twice and decided to just give up.

I have been a Reddit user for 15yrs and got banned 48hrs ago for for suggesting that some dog owners should die because of their deliberate inbreeding to create dogs with traits that are ultimately bad for their health.

For context I am in the UK and we have a deeply ingrained love for dogs over here so seeing a picture of some Americans that are gushing over their inbred dogs made me angry and emotional.