I never used Reddit properly, Lemmy was also open source, I get no replies, no interaction on Reddit, nearly every comment and post I make on Lemmy gets someone to reply, it’s almost impossible to go back to Reddit once you get used to you always getting some form of attention
I’m definitely banned permanently, I’m pretty sure I’ve got one of those evercookies somewhere that will make sure I stay banned, whether it’s outright or a shadow-ban.
And it is mainly because of having engaged with some of the lowest of the low, deformed individuals that somehow inhabit there untouched. It had gotten so bad to where they would bombard my posts when I was ranting about things like my shitty job and they just dogpile on you for no reason other than they can because the mods aren’t active enough.
I can’t imagine what it is like now being there and trying to criticize Musk or something since he’s apparently having a say now on it and Spez will bend over for his daddy.
Never banned. Just moved over here after it was even more clear that they don’t have our best interests in mind. And never did.
Same for Xitter.
Perma banned for saying child rapists should get a taste of their own medicine.
I just like Lemmy more
I am.
First, I got a three days ban for ‘prompting violence’. The flagged post said just literally ‘The Heritage foundation should be labeled as a terrorist group in Europe’. I appealed, just to get the temporary ban confirmed with no further reasoning.
But that was moot, because two days after that I got a permaban for ‘using multiple accounts to evade a temporary ban’. I just had an account, with a good number of years behind. I appealed this too, and got a ‘we are not changing this’ reply.
So I nuked my account, looked a little bit around and found this.
I miss some of the technical communities I was part in Reddit. But fuck them.
unfortunately not banned
Never been banned on reddit but I prefer how there is less of a moderation here for my searing hot takes when I feel like shitposting
I’m not banned, I just won’t go there anymore.
Banned I don’t know how to behave online.
The preponderance of flagrant double standards in moderation policies did it in for me. I deleted a 14 year old account when it became clear that there was going to be a clear effort on behalf of reddit’s corporate leadership to push bullshit narratives and purge anyone who spoke up about it. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone invented a reason to ban me.
Turns out I don’t even miss it.
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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?
Installing Linux is super chill. Unless it is like cubes OS or arch. Maybe try pop os
Hey stranger! I switched for the same reason from reddit to lemmy and while I can’t help you with the porn problem… you may want to look into Linux Mint.
There are very easy to understand guides online (e. g. on itsfoss.com you can find an installation guide, recommended first steps after installation, …) and there are communities here on lemmy as well. So this may not be the same or a replacement for the communities you miss from reddit but maybe something new to focus on and a way to get in touch with other more or less chronical online people :)
I can build you one that has Linux ready to go. That’s literally what I do, IRL. I build custom PCs for university students and professors, foster dogs, and grow marijuana. The real issue is that I cannot recommend any particular distro over another. I personally would suggest Linux Mint for most users, but if you are using your computer for more high end stuff, like 3d rendering, AutoCAD, or AAA gaming, there are other distros that are more finely tuned for those purposes.
Try out mint. Throw it on an older machine and use it instead of your daily driver. When you encounter issues, just ask in c/Linux. Most of us are friendly and will help even the newbiest of newbs, because we were all there once as well.
After a few months, you should feel comfortable enough to either totally nuke windows, (how I did it because I am lazy,) or set up a dual boot partition on your drive so that you can choose to boot into windows if you really need to do so. Warning. Windows will overwrite your boot sector every single time it updates, killing the ability to dual boot until you fix the sector.
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.
