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What made you join Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

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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?

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[–] kalleboo 43 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.

I didn't even use a third party app so it didn't affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I’m the same but I used Apollo, and the ads + principle of what they did drove me away permanently And I scrambled all my comments

[–] Resol 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have a very similar experience, I only left because I noticed just how awful the website has turned by the time the API fiasco happened, and I was definitely getting a bit addicted to the website so leaving essentially made me combat this addiction. I haven't logged into Lemmy for over a month. Yeah, it has definitely helped me cut down on social media usage.

[–] kalleboo 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same here, both the X and the Reddit things came at a time when I was trying to cut down on social media usage as it was definitely having an effect on me. Having social media that runs out and doesn't just go on for infinity is so much healthier.

[–] Resol 3 points 5 days ago

Fun fact: I deleted Twitter exactly 23 days before it was renamed to X. I was just tired of scrolling through drama.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.

Heh, and they say the exodus/protest were pointless 🤣