or any other reason… im curious.

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    Left during the API debacle 2 years ago.

    Also, asking that question is the same as Dark Helmet asking “How many assholes we got on this ship”.

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    I was a 12 year account with nearly one million Karma, when I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration purge, for a comment I had made numerous times without an issue.

    We were the people that built Reddit. When I started, nobody had heard of it. When I was “fired,” it was one of the biggest websites in the world. It had become a cesspool of puns, trolls, bots, MAGA dickheads, Russian Propaganda Farmers, novelty accounts, and worse. It was already difficult to navigate to actual comments on some subs. Now that they have permabanned so many highly active active accounts, the problems has worsened significantly.

    Lemmy is great, and I can speak more openly, although the mods are a little free with the removal tools. I miss some of the niche subs, like the guitar subs. The guitar community on Reddit is great, and very supportive of players. I wish Lemmy had that.

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    Me. 99% left when they banned third-party apps. 100% left after a they kept flagging me for silly stuff. Overwrote years’ worth of content on my 250k karma account with “fuck spez” and left it all there to rot.

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    Became initially during the API 3rd party bullshit and recently moved completely over after I got banned from Reddit.

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    Wasn’t banned, but I came here because I wanted to seek a genuine alternative. Reddit feels too censored and like you need to walk on eggshells to avoid the wrath of their moderators and admins.

    Like… I genuinely can’t use words like “incel”, “cuck”, “snowflake”, “Trump”, “Andrew Tate”, etc without having my comment removed on most subs.

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    I left during the Reddit API nonsense, I wasn’t even aware Reddit was banning people.

    I guess I had to stay longer for all that, which I refused to do.

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    I left Reddit voluntarily during the 2023 APIcalypse. Still use my account occasionally to promote the fediverse to those who are still there.

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    I was never banned, but I disliked how it was controlled by a single unreliable company. The API restrictions were the final straw for me.

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    you guys act like we are some kind of scum of earth group, “boohoo i got banned from reddit, and its impossible to register a new account”

    im here cause the privacy and degoogled subs are not get nuked when a serious subject comes up.

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    Came here during the API thing, but made a new account there for hobbies not present on lemmy.

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    I left after yet another ban.

    1st time because I criticized the US. Second time cause I said that trump needs the Mussolini treatment.

    With everything that is said on reddit this was tame in comparison. Then I landed on Lemmy, and it feels like I am out of the land of bots.

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    I got banned for being unhinged towards users who were doing (IMO) obvious nazi dogwhistles and the mods sided against me. Fuck them mods and fuck the users who accept that shit. The posters knew exactly what they were signaling.