Are you permanently banned off reddit? or do you just like lemmy more?

I left reddit during the api drama last year (more than a year?). I did it on principle. The content on lemmy is not comparable to the niche communities on reddit. Yeah, Steve Huffman is a little pissbaby or whatever the current meme is. But lemmy doesn't have the art communities or the weird goofy shit that reddit did, and as a chronically online loser, my life is a little emptier without it. And I know how stupid and unimportant that is, which is why I'm here and not there.
Plus the porn on lemmy is just like... so disappointing and sparse.
Unrelated- I'm ready to switch to Linux, but do I really have to learn what a distro is and how to build my own PC? Can't I just buy a Linux PC ready to go? Please?

I barely use Reddit now. I’ve unfollowed any sub that has an equivalent here.
The main one holding me back is that native speakers of my language are there.

I'm currently trying out Lemmy because reddit is killing the Old Reddit interface and I refuse to use their shitty app or new interface website. Plus after using it I think it's kind of fun to have reddit but smaller and more curated. It's like Reddit used to be back in like 2012.

I like Lemmy more, especially since it’s not corporate owned. The Reddit admins turned the site to shit purposely to push their greedy agenda, they instilled moderators that acted in bad faith for many subs, they allowed misinformation bots and other bad faith actors to run rampant, and they hosted ads to bet on US elections for months up until the day of the election itself. Truly and utterly disgusting behavior from Reddit.
Ellen Pao deserved better, Spez taking over is what enshitified the site.

I'm not permanently banned, I was temporarily banned for a bullshit reason and when I got my account back I went scorched earth then closed my account. Fuck reddit

Not banned but I like here more. I left during the Exodus/ blackouts/shutdowns. In another life I was a mod for a moderately successful sub and after going into the rabbit hole and seeing the app timer increase to hours a day, I felt they could at least gift mods premium and they could skip ads. After some drama and a high caliber mod left the sub, I followed shortly after as the community has grown and changed.

Israeli IOF Hasbara in worldnews got me banned from everything. I have 5 fully shadow banned account. basically and effectively perm bans. Your page says "no user exists" and your posts and comments cannot be seen by any user nor any viewer in the world.

I'm perma banned for spreading Luigi related posts.

Every time I add a comment or post on reddit, I get banned all the time, I don't even know why, I tried to appeal the ban, but no one gives a shit. Anyway, I like Lemmy better, it's faster, lighter, and doesn't have any dumb karma thing. So I deleted my last Reddit account, told the Reddit administration to go screw themselves, and I have no regrets.

I was the primary mod/founder for a fairly large subreddit. During the blackout protests Reddit threatened to remove my mod rights if I didn’t reopen the subreddit. I told them to get fucked, and my account was banned. They also removed the other mods and installed new mods. I haven’t touched the platform since and will never use Reddit again.
🖕spez
- I also privated some communities and they renamed them to some random characters instead.
- hence the powermods, im guessing thats how 92 mods consildated thier power and control over 500+ subs. you can hazard a guess of which subs are being control by these groups.

I had numerous accounts, some throwbacks going back 11+years, almost all were purged in feb12-13, due to them trying to eliminate and astroturfing any anti-right wing talking points. now they are assuming almost anyone is a bot. and the last one i thought was safe, was just shadowbanned recently
- It's damn bullshit, you write something in Reddit, the stupid system thinks you're a bot and bans you... good luck appealing this shit, you'll be sitting there for months begging for a unban. Screw these lazy assholes.

Haven't been on there in like 10 years, glad all of you finally saw the light. Sad it requires being forced off though.

I jumped off voluntarily a little over a year ago when spez didn't like third party apps anymore and reddit went public.
Edit: damn it's almost been 2 years on lemmy. What a fucking ride
Edit: did you really just copy the same post as? There's no karma like on reddit you know that right?
https://lemm.ee/post/60400188
- 2 years?? Holy shit! Time flies...

I like the fediverse more. I left during the api thing and think that the fediverse is the next step in social networking.
- I did the same when the API changes were introduced and my app didn't work anymore. Open source is the way to go.

Left during the API thing, and everything I see confirms that I made the right choice.
Especially the fact that there are no investors to appease, no profit motive, and no advertising. It's like a slice of the old web.
- Shout out to all my ~1 year 9 month old account homies
  
  Ayy, same day!
- Same here. Left and never looked back.
- Same. I couldn’t stand the Reddit app and all the ads loaded in it. I switched the day Apollo stopped working.
- Yep. Apollo shutting down is why I created an account, deleted all my content and my Reddit account once things started getting really fucky.
- Ditto. API thing was transition as well

I'm on mbin mostly. The japan-focused subreddits for legal, finance, etc. have so far refused to move. Once they move, I will be done with reddit entirely

Left due to the crowd amassed for my country's sub. I became friend with a few regulars there when the sub is small, but these day they're significantly more and more people with a lack of common sense and logical thinking gathered there it's hard to find new friend, to the point the friends i met just decided to lurk or quit. No more fun.
Then API fiasco happened and since i hate the official app so much as it's significantly slower with horrible UI, it's a final push for me to make the jump.
I wouldn't say i like lemmy more, but it's the one i tolerate now. If the main dev became unbearable then i jump again.

My main and my alt still exist on reddit and have enough karma that I was offered stock options on both accounts.
Not going back because of the API fuckery. Coming up on 2 years on lemmy. Haven't looked back.
- I haven't been on reddit for a long time. When you say "offered stock options", do you mean they offered you the opportunity to invest in stock, or discounted stock, or free stock?
  
  All of the above.

I quit reddit and have no intention to go back. Its become total crap and full of boosted ads.

I have my Reddit account but I have sworn off posting there... I use Lemmy full time and visit Reddit out of curiousity sometimes, but most often logged out.
Lemmy is just so much better quality.

Reddit has been getting worse and eventually they just stopped showing people my comments so I deleted my account. Pretty much the next day the warnings for upvotes started coming in.
- sounds like you got shadowbanned to me, when people stop responding to you, or nobody can see your comments thats what happens. you can check your profile while logged out, you know its shadowbanned if its says "cant find this user info:
  
  They could see everything prior to like 3 days before I deleted the account. It was the last straw for me.

I left Reddit on principle.
I still have functioning accounts over there.
The only time i go there is if I'm linked there when searching for info.

I got perma banned for saying that Elon Musk should get "burned" in Canada for fraudulent sales numbers posted by Tesla in order to qualify for Federal subsidies.
They took me literally, and claimed I was promoting violence. My appeal got shut down in less than an hour. They "burned" my 8 year old account, for saying that Elon should get "burned" in Canada. The irony is real.
- Welcome to lemmy.
  What's your favorite molotov recipe?

Unlike the rest here I got perma banned and then found Lemmy! 🥲
My opinions on a certain orange thing were a bit top radical for ol reddit.. but then again gore and murder Videos are okay.
- i got shadowbanned recently on my only account, and the rest was purged in feburary by reddit.
- I'll join you somewhere around this statement.

I'm just stubborn, left during the blackout and didn't want to go back.

I just like Lemmy more.

I had been though it all, having joined about a year after the site first launched. I have witnessed multiple evolutions of the broader community and management. I could no longer support what I knew was coming next, so I bailed after 17 years due to the API fiasco.
Now I visit only by chance on searches and RSS subscriptions to a couple super niche subreddits that are more likely to disappear than migrate anywhere else.

I just like Lemmy more. I could go back and post, I just don't want to add anything to give them more value. I thought I'd look back at what I've posted and commented more often, but I haven't much at all.

I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn't use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.
- hopefully its not to nutrek super-fans, those are the worst kind of trek fans.

I left and blocked reddit on my network after the landed gantry debacle. I'm not banned but I might as well be.

I nuked my 11 year old account when I moved here.
Wave of the future!

I've still got an account. But I jumped over during the API debacle. I'm sure if I stayed I would have been banned for commenting on the Luigi situation, or calling Musk and Trump out for the dimwitted little Nazi fucks they are.
But I'm here! A proud little lemming just feeling blessed AF to be here with all you nerds!

I left Reddit because the algorithm really wanted me to be angry and afraid.
The world is a shitty enough place. I don’t need the advertisers stressing me out even more.
- Shit you ain't need an algorithm for that.

I like lemmy more and decided to get my accounts banned in reddit after I started using lemmy.

I over-wrote and then deleted my nearly 20 years of posts/comments and then deleted my account.

Lemmy more. The default comment sorting means there's a chance that my comment will be at the top and therefore discussion can happen. On reddit, past a certain amount of comments, I don't bother. No one will see it.

I came here during the API thing then went back because it’s quiet here. Then I came back because I got into selfhosting and now I’m more dug in.
Idk why I would get banned from Reddit

I'm not banned, I was banned in r/Korea for posting a link to my own peertube instance but nowhere else.
I just don't feel that me trying to make some rich guy even more rich makes a lot of sense when they behave so shitty to us.
- most "location" related subs have overtaken by right wingers, its a ban waiting to happen to most people. my blue area subs was taken over by RWers for a while.

I was briefly perma banned but it was bullshit so it was lifted on appeal, but it was wake up call. Reddit admins are getting kinda fashy so I decided after 14 years it was time to leave.
- musk has been pressuring reddit to "ban anti-musk and trump" content.

Not yet. I did get a comment removed but successfully appealed for saying what citizens do to kings. The appeal was me saying it was in a historical context, of course ;)

Lemmy is a much nicer environment overall, so i moved here

I was enjoying it till a post I randomly clicked on showed a screenshot of a post I made here and that post was apparently removed by mods...
Assuming it was the one I said everything is going to Putin's plan--- tank the economy, billionaires lap it up, the US lose allies, and the next step is just taking orders right from Russia. Apparently that was "controversial"? Lol

Like many here, I left reddit during the whole API debacle, and I was doing really good about avoiding reddit for a while, but there's way less people here, way less communities, and while yes, I could start the communities I'd like to see on Lemmy, I just don't think there are enough users to have engaging conversations yet. For that reason, I maintain my reddit account, so that I can have those conversations and connections that I can't get here. I hope it changes some day and we can grow our numbers here.

Never been on Reddit. I tried Masto as a Twitter alternative, figured Masto is a bad Twitter alternative but found this. It doesn't feel much like Reddit, but it does feel like old 90s forums, which I consider a feature, not a bug.

I Was banned a while ago for hate speech against cops. I lurk sometimes with libreddit
- some subs are actually owned by former and current LEO, it make sense. the most famous one being legal advice, and i suspect almost all the video subs are owned by them(the ones usually do with crime related videos)

I got perma banned so Im here now! And now I like it better

I halted all of my posting to reddit during the API fiasco. Lurked on Lemmy until I needed to start blocking communities and then created an account to do so.
Most of the niche and local communities (most notably r/IWantOut) are still on that sinking ship though, and not here :(. I only visit to see what those niche communities are up to from time to time, but do not post or get any news from there.
Of the communities that are highly active on Lemmy, I do think the content is pretty good and is enough to replace reddit. I feel like I get to hear what's going on without the censorship on that sinking ship. There's just enough activity such that the more general communities have enough new content to look at by browsing the "all" tab on the homepage and in the communities, but there's still not enough activity or users for me to browse through "local" or "subscribed" yet.
- you get censored on reddit for discussing bans, outside REDDIT approved subs. i went on r/shadowban and alot of people are getting shadowban out of the blue. from what ive gathered, if you made an account havnt posted in a long time and then you suddenly post you can get shadowbanned so fast, because it automatically thinks your a bot in some cases.

I like Lemmy better. There's a lot more effort to have value when you post and have conversations rather than arguments.
But the porn collection over here isn't great yet.

I like lemmy's culture more, but I still browse reddit

I went scorched earth on reddit

Wanted to quit Reddit and the censoring of anything critical of Elon game me the impetus.

I still have my reddit account for niche stuff, but I overwrote all my comments with gibberish so they couldn't use my words to train anything. I could definitely give up my reddit if push came to shove.

I still have my reddit account, but I nearly exclusively use it for a closed, non-public group I am in for nearly a decade.
But I have moved my focus to Lemmy.

I use both. I like some aspects of each better. Reddit mostly has some specific large communities I can't find on lemmy due to size, or lemmys demographics just not enjoying that topic.

I'm on both, I like both. Been liking Reddit less and less over the years, I expect at some point I'll stop going, but for now it's still okay.
- i was trying to becareful on reddit, in niche sub, only took 1 mod to remove my comment to get shadowbanned.