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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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Came here during the API changes. Still salty about it.

I gotta say though, that as much as I wish Lemmy was a viable alternative in every way, Reddit is unfortunately still the place to be for a lot of useful info and discussion. Granted, there's also a lot of crap. But Lemmy is just not big enough to replace Reddit in every way.

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

Yup. Then I forgot what community I was on and had to start over again.

Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.

I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there's just too much useful info to ignore it. But I'm not going there directly

Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.

It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.

I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.

I wasn't banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up "the grass is greener where you water it," so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it's just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

I left over the API bullshit.

Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since

I escaped when they killed their API.

I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.

I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing

Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.

Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.

I'll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit's BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.

My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I'm pretty active.

I also left after the api access changes. I am so glad I switched, this a much more ethical model of operation.

Came here after API changes because I hold a grudge and I refuse to use the app again. Genuinely fucking unusable, all of the recent reviews are 1 or 2 star

Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.

Not banned, but the app I used stopped working, and the official app is horse shit. So I just leave.

Moved from reddit because reddit is now infested with old twitter people who are just so annoying. Also I like the idea of a non centralized social media.