Genuinely curious
I left 3 years ago, when they killed RiF
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I hadn’t been. I just wanted an open-source alternative; as with all aspects of my life.
I had 4 accounts and they banned all of them for inciting violence. I said Donald Trump is a pedophile and deserves to be in prison.
They don’t like anti trump people.
I got permabanned for wishing death on billionaires too many times.
For anyone who still wants to access Reddit just to browse favorite (niche) subs which won’t ever get traction here, some third-party apps still work.
My favorite is cygnusx’s Slide for Reddit fork (they picked it up after it was abandoned). You can use it logger in or anonymously - without an account logged in:
https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide
^ you can see my Slide app with the frontpage showing regular subs, and it doesn’t use the dumb new reddit algorithm which shows you posts from like a week ago.
The other option is Morphe who patch the official Reddit app. It will require an account but you can change a heap of things, block everything you dislike too. The patching app does YouTube and YouTube Music or whatever they call it, but it also patches Reddit:
^ here’s an example of some of the things you can change in a Morphe patched Reddit’s settings
Also sorry for the pictures, I wrote and uploaded this while steaming milk for my coffee!
I actually made my first account here before I was site banned by reddit.
Not today, spez
I feel like the way the question is phrased is going to select for people who were banned. Personally I wasn’t but saw the upcoming IPO and wanted to dip before the platform was totally enshittified.
Ii was banned for saying old people call people who go to therapy “f_____”, i am not homophobic, matter of fact it wasn’t even in english, i used a word with much lighter connotation in my own language.
Some weeks before the fact i said that certain presidents of a certain country would end like Saddam Hussein if UN was serious.
Based
I don’t use it as much but most of the engagement posts are run by bots. I stick to discord a little more. Feels more transparent and you need an invite.
You gonna still use it after they require face recognition
You mean discord? Probably move to telegram then.
I use this site because the community is genuinely better and reminds of me reddit from the early days. Reddit bans are easy to get around
not if you want to access it from the same device, I have heard resetting a phone and requesting a new ip works, not sure if you can restore from backup, i did restore a new phone from backup and evaded a ban for months before appealing a comment removal got me caught for evasion and banned
Yes reddit bans are easy to get around but ugh the karma maxxing just to enter old communities you where in
Why are new lemmy users thinking this is a refuge for the reddit banned? To my knowledge my account is still usable, but I just don’t want to log in since the API cash grab. What bullshit is reddit doing these days?
- banning people just for upvoting comments they don’t like, you don’t even have to post to be censored and banned now
- half the site is bots or spam networks farming karma (every post on askreddit is a karma farm)
- toxicity has grown. Everyone is frothing at the mouth for an argument
yeah it’s pretty wild how quickly everything has devolved there.
My 20 year account got banned for using Apollo sideloaded. I still go there but let’s be honest, lemmy has far better memes
Nah, i left when they killed whatever mobile app i was using to not have to deal with their shitty website
