2w ago

We got a bunch of new people in. How is everybody doing?

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So did anything in particular trigger the influx of new users? Just curious. I’m another one of those people that came from Reddit during the API bullshit in 2023.
- For me, it was the upcoming news of paid subreddit access that finally pushed me over to retry this place.
  
  Like you have to pay to join certain subs? Gross.
  
  Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says - we don't know for sure what it'll be, but it's just generally not a good sign.
- I was unaware until recently. The death of the Apollo app was the end of Reddit for me but between old.reddit and ad blockers the experience was ok. But once I learned an alternative existed I moved.
- My understanding is that it's due (at least in part) to some pretty aggressive censorship that's been going on over there. Especially with regard to Luigi and related topics.
  I'm also curious to hear if I'm wrong or if there's other stuff at play too
  
  Yeah, this was the last straw for me. Sorta embarrassed it took me this long to ditch Reddit, I should have done it as soon as the API was killed
  
  That and some popular Reddit posts urging us all to come here - I've seen a bunch of people who came here from the same post I did and at least one other. Woohoo! I know I'm also particularly primed to make changes like this right now, I've been working on getting away from more of the crappy capitalists recently
  
  Was the reddit post about this specific instance or do you mean Lemmy in general?
  
  Lemmy in general
  
  That's precisely why I'm here. I deleted my Reddit account a few days ago, after I got several subreddit bans for upvoting Luigi related posts/comments that had no violent context. Just the name. One of them was a picture of the actual Nintendo character. After that I was like "fuck it, I'm done".
  Fuck Spez. Free Luigi.
- I think reddit started banning people for even upvoting Luigi memes and protest stuff.
- Reddit decided to get a lil fashy and start banning people even for just upvoting shit.
- I deleted my 11 year account when they restricted API access, but capitulated and came back. Updoot restrictions and two 3 day bans made me close up shop and come over for good. I loved reddit, but will never go back again.

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