Everbody left Reddit in 2023 ,its bots only now

Apart from habits, what were the sub-reddits that kept you there, and stopped from transitioning completely before? We can start making similar content and bring more people here.

I love that it says "This account is banned" Then immediately "Jump back into explore communities" Lol

Whenever I see people getting banned from Reddit I always revel in the fact that I left on my own terms. I never go back there voluntarily since the API Epoch. Eat my shorts, Reddit.

I didn't get banned I just quit. It was clear that it was going start rotting and it has.

Leaving Reddit is like leaving an abusive relationship (kinda: stick with me on this)

1. Reddit makes the rules and tells you what you can and can't say
2. Reddit won't allow you to speak about controversial topics that could be upsetting to it's advertisers (i.e. Israel)
3. Reddit mods can ban you for no reason
4. Appealing to "authorities" (Reddit, when mods go crazy) does absolutely nothing
5. It hurts and is sad to leave
6. It gets better once you leave
7. You look back a while later and think, wow it is so much better now you've left.

Some of us left years ago without being banned because it was the right thing to do.

I posted this picture, it got taken down by the mods. I was just pointing out that people are being wow'd by the "flying" car but shouldn't forget the man behind it.

Left reddit after the API fiasco. You will be fine, anyway reddit is in a very rapid decline.

Oh wow strong move, getting banned and calling it "I stopped using it" haha get real people. Either delete your accounts or maybe brag about something else

I banned Reddit a few years ago. They broke my policy so they had to go.

What was the likely innocuous comment that caught you a ban? I got IP banned for asking when they're going to launch Marjorie Taylor Greene into the sun. Apparently that was "promoting violence".

Today I stopped using Bluesky because they suspended my account for suspicious activity. I'm sure it's because I use a VPN to bypass age verification. Oh well. Mastodon and Lemmy it is.

Similar thing happened to me. It was a near 20 year old account. Somehow it got hacked and banned. for my history I felt a sense of loss because I realized I wanted to be able to look back and see my old posts and comments. I appealed with no answer, it's like appealing into the void.

I still had the addiction to seeing content and reading comments, seeing something always new. But I slowly started coming around to fediverse. Not all at once, I created a new reddit account just to see the content. It pissed me off they gated the content to people logged in, pissed me off they keep trying to push you to use the app, but I eventually gave in because of my content addiction to seeing that new dopamine drip feed.

The final straw was when I started noticing a more hostile commenting environment. I would comment something innocuous, but then I would get people arguing with me on fairly un controversial comments. I would notice they would be accounts with private histories less than a year old. Some would have only fans- like ads in their profile.

I also noticed a vast uptick in rightwing trolling and right leaning comments. These accounts all seemed suspect. Reddit had always been a left wing space. I really think a lot of the money being funneled into these midterms is being used for troll farms and bot farms to astroturf narratives on social media platforms. That was the last straw. I was arguing with people who were probably bots on reddit, giving reddit the engagement they want and I had enough.

It really is an addiction, I had to cut it off but I still try to pull up reddit sometimes when i'm bored. But I think fediverse is really going to be the future and we have to keep getting people to gradually come here.

Did you say something mean about fElon?

Congratulations 🎊

Alternatively reddit is done using you lol. Welcome to lemmy!

it took you this long?

Ok. Try to not throw a huge wall of text please. I hate reddit too, but this is super boring.

I’m in for making DIY Luigi prayer Candles and posting the instructions on witches vs patriarchy. Instant shadow ban years old account high karma no further correspondence from Reddit

Same bruh. Reddit’s decline is real. In Indian feeds, I only see people posting reels from Insta, thirst trap LLM slop in fashion subReddits or sexually deprived men fantasising about content creators and bollywood actresses in celeb subReddits.

You can still go into your account and nuke all your posts and comments

I've been getting this for a few weeks now, no way I'm making another account. Obviously loading the home page like 3 times per day is bot behaviour!

Side note - If you save a multi reddit, it skips verification and autoloads old reddit. However if you try to load any comments it will block you.

They just got rid of r/all won't work on mobile. Legit no reason for me to go there now. I would at least get some sort of news there

If you haven't been banned from reddit yet, you're probably a bot. They don't want humans to use their site.

Being banned from Reddit is a compliment these days. That was the site that used to host thedonald, fatpeople and even pedo communities (and femaledatingstrstegy).

I deleted my old account (14 years I think it was), created a new one a few months later, got banned within a few weeks for being a bigot or whatever.

Which was weird, because a lot of my posts were literally defending trans people, but, there were quite a few arguing with the gun community (so, I'm guessing someone felt insecure they might lose their guns and reported me for bullshit).

It's not even a good place to visit anymore. All the local communities have been overrun by Gun, drug and companies and right wing lobbyists it feels like.

It basically became the equivalent of facebook, but they actually ban you if you disagree with their opinion. Lemmy is rapidly getting better

I got permanently suspended for unauthorized activity but I've only ever browsed and commented.

And no one stole my 30 random character password with zero cross site duplication, either.

I have always wondered if some griefer could find an exploit that leveraged the ban hammer… and used a script that just banned everyone.

Like, literally everyone. All at once. Bots. Humans. Mods. Admins. No distinction. If you log in using the front door, the account is banned.

I’m not much for chaos, but abrupt chaos at a deserving target would be enjoyable to rubberneck at.

Congratulations leaving that trash fire. I went back a couple times out of curiosity and man did I regret it. It's way worse than it was in 2019 which was my peak reddit usage time.