I left before the API fiasco because I was addicted. Had a brief, beautiful couple of months away from platforms like reddit. Now addicted to Lemmy instead.
I think it’s the best replacement for Twitter if you’re someone trying to build an audience or if you want to be one of the audience. I’ve realized that I’m not either so I don’t really use it much.
The subreddits were becoming more and more toxic in the comments, and any attempts at defending oneself just results in getting banned.
I got attacked for using the wrong terminology, to which I politely told the commentor to go fuck themselves. I got banned for a week. So I made another account and contacted the mods. We argued, they banned me, I made another account, etc.
I was finally contacted by the main moderator of the sub, who actually conversed with me. We reached an agreement and my bans were lifted. However, Reddit Inc. permabanned me and all my accounts, email, everything. I had even contacted the mod of the sub, but unfortunately, Reddit had taken away all the mod tools that allowed the mods to change it.
This wasn’t the only time this kind of thing had happened. Anytime I made a post, I would get ripped apart in the comments. I’d eventually tell them to fuck off and then I’d get banned for being mean in the comments. I’m sorry, but if I’m getting attacked over stupid shit like installing a stove in my skoolie or commenting supportively on other peoples posts, I will fully go off on you and call you out PUBLICLY. If it gets out of hand, I turn it over to the mods.
Reddit is an absolute shit show at this point. Good riddance.
I started using Lemmy a bit before the blackout and all that fun stuff. I was using both before the blackout, then just Lemmy during, and I realized I had a lot more free time and was enjoying the posts on Lemmy more, so I just stayed here full time.
Because of the curiosity to know how still many peoples are using reddit. When we looking the reddit users from lemmy it actually so weird to stay at reddit.
I didn’t fully stop using Reddit, but I can safely say I’ve had about a 95% reduction in total use time there.
After this summer’s fiasco, I have a bad taste in my mouth from them (I think many people do) so I am only in a small handful of communities that haven’t migrated to the Fediverse. The site in general feels much less busy.
I barely used Reddit at all, but I started using Lemmy as soon as I heard it existed. My reason for not using Reddit is primarily because it has ads but also because I don’t want to contribute to a platform that benefits financially with free user content.
Unfortunately, most people don’t think about such things. They just register in the application where their friends are located, and there is a lot of different content.
Because almost everyone on that site is a toxic piece of transphobic shit. There’s only so many kinds of microaggressions you can take every day before you decide to move to someplace else. I wish society would deal with places like that and throw people in jail that enable these assholes to be like that.