I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

  • MotorCade93@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I got banned for inciting violence for saying Monty Williams should invest all the money he stole from Detroit back into the city and then promptly be killed with hammers as a sort of ritual sacrifice to cleanse Little Caesars Arena of his bad juju. It was just a joke and had lots of upvotes but guess it hurt a mods feelings.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      My first admin finger-wag in fifteen years on reddit was after a long conversation with some antivax loon. I understand how “Okay, enjoy your dead kids, I guess” could sound like I’m the bad guy, in a vacuum. But we don’t live in a vacuum. Any site unwilling to acknowledge that ‘hey uh your mistakes might end a human life’ can be expressed glibly is not being moderated sensibly.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I’ve been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.

    (I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Not sure which wave in the toilet bowl I rode in on, but I do know I will one day be flushed.

    Don’t hang on to tightly.

  • CaptainPieces@lemmy.caEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Got a new phone and decided to use the opportunity to change up alot about how I do things, including using new social media platforms

  • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 days ago

    The reddit exodus during the API policy changes and 3rd party app shutdowns

    I think I did try out Lemmy even before that. I remember making an account in Mander to try it out. Didn’t use it much and forgot about it, even the username.
    I didn’t know about the Fediverse or Lemmy then. Didn’t know about the progressive political background of Lemmy and the development too.

    Then made this account. It’s nice.
    I still use reddit with Infinity for Reddit, since communities on my state, country and mother tongue are more active there(I’m from Kerala/India).

    1. Multi-communities would be very good to have.
    2. A feature to save draft comments/posts on the Jerboa app would be cool too. Not directly related to Lemmy tho

    I think both have been brought to attention of the developers and they have plans to add that. Cool people.

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    Reddit is heavily American-centric.

    At least on Lemmy, there can be multiple communities with the same name with different rules, focus, region, and culture.

  • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    Reddit killed RIF. I’d already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.

    …didn’t stay on Jerboa long

    • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit’s official app was a turd sandwich.

      I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.

  • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    When reddit started it’s dive down the enshitification hole. As for things I wish it had, a lemmy version of multireddits would be nice, especially since we can end up with multiple communities for the exact same thing here.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 days ago

    I got temp banned for saying antizionist things, while I was banned I began to look for an open source alternative which lead me here. Early on I used .world but after finding out about Blahaj Lemmy I switched :3