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

I just like Lemmy more. No NFTs, or Karma meaning anything. It feels like it was plucked from an older time.
- For someone saying karma doesn't mean anything you're sure farming lots of it! Making good comments and shit worthy of upvotes! You're quite a terrible hypocrite!
  
  This is a good complinsult
  
  Ironically (though it's hard to tell) I think their profile picture may be Hypocrites.
- same
- But obv the smartest most helpful ppl on any given topic have old reddit accounts with a lot of karma so they can post? That prob killed amas too, celebs prob didnt have enough karma to make a post

I came voluntarily after the third party app debacle. I never even used a third party app, it had just gotten so ridiculous that when moderators were putting together a blackout in protest, I made the decision that's when I was leaving and never returning, so that's what I did.
- I used Redd is Fun for years, even paid for the ad free version. Moved to Boost as the API debacle as the wave slowly started killing aps. Tried the official app for 2.5 seconds & hated it.
  Moved to Lemmy & been loving it since.
  
  I still use reddit on desktop, but it's all Lemmy on mobile thanks to Boost.
- Same, I didn't have a 3rd party app either. When it was super apparent that it was mostly bots, I used the exit of so many people to add to it. It was the best move I could have made.
  
  Well, disruption can create growth or stagnation. I guess it's up to us to decide which path we'll walk. I'm glad to share this one with good people such as yourself, for as long as it lasts. We may not always agree, we may accidentally trigger each other, but as long as it's accidental (and I guess that's where we walk by faith, not being in each others ' heads to know for sure), and we choose to examine and heal the wound that was poked, then we're each others ' students, teachers, and wounded healers. It takes comraderie to learn and grow together, and I'm so *glad we are doing just that!
- Adding to say I have the same experience. Not banned, never used a TPA, but downloaded RIF Is Fun when people were writing up a storm just to see what was even going on. When the blackouts happened, I saw the more and more unhinged shit the Reddit administration was doing to stifle the protests and decided to make my blackout permanent from then onward. My exposure to the Fediverse has entirely changed how I interact with megacorps and software now. If it's not FOSS or DRM free stuff on my device, I don't want anything to do with it. Obviously getting to 100% on that is a very tall order, but I've been making a lot of headway since 2023.
  Even in spite of the vast disparity in quantity of content, I would vastly prefer Lemmy to current Reddit without contest. Even aside from the massive brain drain the blackout had, and all the ad related enshittification, imagine being punished for even upvoting awesome things like Luigi Mangione? Now instead of the countless years I spent leaving my art and constant comments to boost some boneheaded corporation, I can post them here and be involved with a movement controlled by individuals. A movement made for and funded by each other, instead of lining greedy pockets.
  
  <3
- I came as soon as the app i used stopped working.
  cleared all the posts and comments from my accounts over there way before that though. they were signaling their enshitification a lot earlier than that.

Nope, not banned, chose to leave. Realized most of my anxiety and fear were due to Reddit's algorithm amping up my issues.
Was banned from a couple of subs for promoting Lemmy though.
- it doesnt get talked about enough how bad reddit is for your mental health, glad you got out 🙏
  
  very much so! lemmy has been a godsend for me.
  i knew i was too weak to avoid reddit; so i tried to get them to ban me by breaking all of the rules and they wouldn't.
  so i setup a blacklist in my own dns w an 8 hour timeout and a 30 minute window to force myself to stay away.

I just joined Lemmy today. I found out about it through a piracy site of all things. If it were viable I would replace everything in my life with open-source alternatives. I'm tired of companies getting greedy and ruining the things I love.
- Welcome to Lemmy! Just by being here you’re about to find out (whether you like it or not!) just how viable it is to replace (almost) everything in your life with open source alternatives, it’s just seems to be part of the (awesome) culture around here. Enjoy!
- Make sure you check out places like !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, on there and other communities on that site there be many a sailor like you. What's better is you can participate without having to make a new account!

Reddit is banned from me.
- I'LL START MY OWN REDDIT!
  WITH HOOKERS AND BLACKJACK!
  
  Lemmynsfw has a few sex workers, some of whom might not mind being called hookers I suppose. I'm not sure what community has blackjack.
  Edit: Yes, I'm aware that it's a Futurama quote.

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: I can't believe cm0002 copied your exact same post
https://lemm.ee/post/60400579
- Fuck /u/spez
  
  Fuck /u/spez

It's not a matter of liking more, reddit was dead for me when they fucked their api. Lemmy still needs content, but the ux is wastly superior

I’m permanently IP banned from Reddit. During the time when they forced everyone off of third party apps, I posted multiple times in relevant discussions about Lemmy and other Fediverse alternatives. One morning when I logged in my account had a message from Reddit admins that my account and IP address was banned and that any future accounts created would be circumventing the ban and would also be banned.
More reason to leave that site anyway.

One word - Apollo. Reddit killed it, and I left and came to Lemmy. Much happier here with more authentic engagement, and Voyager gets the job done.
I can’t say I never go back over there, but it’s almost always for live sports threads. Those just haven’t caught on yet here, though it slowly seems to be happening.

I switched during the API fiasco. Most of my browsing is from mobile and I refused to use the crappy official app. Content had been declining in quality anyway, so I didn't feel that strongly about it.
- Same. I tried the official app after sync stopped working and hated it
  
  RedReader is an option.
- Dito, still have RIF installed on my phone so every time I click a reddit link im reminded of what they did with a 403: forbidden error. I like it better over here anyway, nicer people who give a shit and fewer bots (or atleast fewer obvious ones).

I left with the API issues. As far as I know my account is still in good standing.
- Same here. Couldn’t use Apollo anymore so I downloaded Voyager instead.
- Same here. I wasn't even using a 3rd party app, just left because of the shitty behavior. Uninstalled the app and never logged in again. I was on Reddit daily, I'm on Lemmy daily now.

Lemmy is catching up on Reddit. The technical forums/c/r are not as useful yet, and not enough of the hardware suppliers monitor the/their Lemmy communities.
Once that changes over I don't need Reddit.

I left after they banned third party apps. During me testing third party apps for the first time, i have found out that reddit was getting rid of them. I didnt want to use a platform owned by a company that was willing to make these kinds of changes
- Same. Rip rif. Never logged back in. Man I miss grimdank though. O well.
- I also left during that period. Third party apps were and are a lot better. Fuck spez.

I've just deleted my Reddit account, to switch entirly to Lemmy. No ban or something, i just don't want to use social media from the US anymore.
- This ^
- For-profit US tech boycott club!

Left back when they announced the API changes and never looked back.

I stopped visiting reddit when they started screwing around with API access. I'm glad I didn't wait in the hopes the inevitable wouldn't happen.

Lemmy more.

I was never banned or even warned. Reddit is an American company who is catering to the oligarchy. While before the USA was a seemingly friendly country to other democracies, this is not the case anymore. A majority of their population is either voting for agression or is complicit by inaction. Adding content to USA social media is only increasing their reach. Reddit used to be nice but Lemmy is a better alternative anyway.

Left due to the API stuff due to Apollo getting axed. Loved that Christian recorded their calls and exposed how crappy they were for blaming things on him. Fun drama, but I left and never looked back.
It’s still a bit of an echo chamber of sheep in here but I haven’t really tried different servers to find like minded ppl. I like the mod of the server I’m on and that’s cool for me for now.

I didn't wait for a ban. Bailed out during the appocalypse.

I’ve never been banned from Reddit even temporarily, I just like Lemmy more

Not banned, was never active. Just lurked on certain subreddits. I've engaged way more here than I ever did there

I like Lemmy more.

I got admin banned for saying riot police should quit en masse after RvW. The thread was full of right wingers so the topmost comments were sexist as shit. Half the thread got banned.

Just like lemmy more

I like lemmy. Fuck Spez

Got sick of seeing the same anger farming shit every day, then found out about the luigi censorship and just left. Honestly best choice. I'm enjoying lemmy so far, and the control I have over my experience.

Just like Lemmy more.
Reddit gave me a temp ban, but I declined their generous offer to return after a week.
I had reported a post by some far-right religious fundamentalist for promoting political violence. Reddit told me that reporting ToS-breaking content is a bannable offense, perhaps because the far-right owners of reddit feel like kindred spirits to the uber-conservative terrorist sympathizer that got reported.

Wasn't banned. left due to Corporatism.

12 years, 900K+ karma, Permabanned soon after the inauguration for repeating a statement I'd made many times before.
Came to Lemmy and found lots of recently banned veterans. Many of us were high volume posters for over a decade, and never got banned, then suddenly we all turned into monsters that had to be permabanned in the same month.
I prefer Lemmy in many ways - no puns, fewer trolls, no bots, no Russian propaganda farmers, etc., but some of my favorite subjects are badly lacking. Reddit has several very large and active guitar subs, for instance, while Lemmy's guitar forums are small and barely used.
On the other hand, the political subs are far more radical, and allow real discussion of political options more than Reddit. They are not doing themselves a service by suppressing radical speech over there, they are only driving it underground, where it will become even more radical. When it happens they'll be surprised because they buried it instead of addressing it.
- no puns
  A lot of that had to be karma farming

I like Lemmy. Reddit is too corporate now

I get cyberbullyied in reddit for defend a nonbinary person in a sega dreamcast subteddit

Lemmy has good apps. Reddit does not. Easy as.

left reddit due to nazis

Was permanently banned because of "inciting violence", a.k.a. making fun of Trump and Musk with a few Luigi comments sprinkled in.

I left when RIF was disabled, 2 years ago now or close

I deleted reddit after the CEO made shitty decisions. So only Lemmy. So far it has been a much better experience.

Permabanned for being mean to Elon.

Deleted my account when they killed 3rd party apps. Fuck that shithole.

I am the one who bans

I'm just stubborn, left during the blackout and didn't want to go back.
- Same here. My accounts still exist, but I only ever access it now through old.reddit signed out. I still read info from a few communities, but never comment.

I liked Reddit but I couldn't ignore what's happening there anymore. Anyway Lemmy is cool too, not missing it that much.

I just like Lemmy more

I got a bullshit warning about harassment on a 5 day old post that said "Don't be a jerk to people you don't know and you won't have that problem" Appealed it and got told it it was harassment.
Fuck reddit.
I'm slowly going through my posting history and editing anything useful to the AI training to be nonsense.

I got a perma ban from reddit. Ive said this in other comments but I’ll add it here: A mod locked a post I was looking at and said something about how the post wasn’t good (I can’t remember exactly what the mod said). I responded by telling to the mod “get lost”. I got perma banned from that subreddit. Then like 5 months later I smoked some weed and, for whatever reason, felt the need to message the mod and say “spank spank spank. Thats the sound I make as I spank you. Yes yes yes. Thats the sound you make as I spank you”. Thats when I got a phat perma ban from the admins. I made another reddit account on a vpn. All seemed well until I launched reddit with the vpn off by accident. My new account was banned shortly after this. Either way, after the first ban I was looking at alternatives. I found the lemmsters. I still have the reddit app with my perma banned account. I can browse reddit all I want but I don’t use it for anything other than porn or when I google something and a reddit link pops up where my question is being answered. There are things I miss about reddit. Primarily I miss the large chess community there. It is far more developed than the chess community on lemmy. I wish I could get the chess community going here. I don’t really miss reddit for anything else. This is evident by the fact that I could’ve been on reddit right now, but instead I prefer to browse lemmy. I really like the fediverse idea. It interests me greatly and I hope to see it grow! One thing that is exciting that I missed out on with reddit is being there from the beginning. I know lemmy/fediverse is newer so I am happy to join during the more early stages and see how the fediverse as a whole grows.

No, I had a reddit account in good standing that was around a decade old, I switched to Lemmy when it became clear that Reddit was being run by the regressive conservative tech world, eventually I also deleted my reddit account as part of a purge of my online identity.

Left reddit when Sync stopped working. Been here ever since and I actually prefer it here anyway.
Reddit was and probably still is an echo chamber of bots and catch phrases. There were a few useful gems of information when you googled something, but now most of that content has become unreliable due to some people (like me) who salted and later deleted their comments before leaving.
Also Spez was a dick 🤷‍♂️

I like Lemmy more.

Reddit didn’t permanently ban me, I permanently banned it. It started with Reddit killing third-party apps, but nowadays Reddit is a Nazi bar, so there’s no going back.

Found Lemmy during the API protest and ditched reddit. I've been meaning to go back to reddit and get banned over the whole crazy censorship thing, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Not explicitly answering ops q; what brought me here was a friend who introduced the Lemmy/fediverse. And this is (imo) a better alt to Reddit. It is filled with company accounts, spammers, banned or discontinued sub-reddits..
- wish it wasnt so empty though, but i guess that means making a community here is way easier since people are starving for content
  
  I'm sure you know this and have heard it, but for the newbies you have to change your order to get more content. Switch between hot, top 6 hours, top 12 hours, subscribed new and overall new. In that order for me. I rarely get to overall new because it's not addictive.
  
  I agree it can feel like rolling tumbleweeds, but that’s the more reason to invite real humans!

The API killing my preferred third party app did it for me. And the blatant astroturfing/karma farming also meant that it wasn't a good experience on there.
I will say though, the Reddit hivemind effect is still present on Lemmy. Though I think there's less tepid posts to raise account karma here.

Well I’m queer, and apparently the ceo is MAGAt

I left Reddit after they bent the knee to M*sk.