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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      Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.

      Actually surprising I don’t miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.

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        I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.

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          Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)–but I don’t know that for sure, maybe I’m just being cynical.

          Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn’t delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that’s cool.

          And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a “clean” version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits. 😌

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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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    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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    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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    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.

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      I left when I couldn’t use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again

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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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    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.

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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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    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.

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      Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though !cfb@fanaticus.social is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There’s less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.

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    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

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          imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.

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            What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.

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              One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.

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                It looks like most of their non-investor revenue comes from ads and data mining. I assume buyers only want human human views and data. With that in mind, what do you feel like is going on over there, and what will it lead to? Can they get users to pay enough to make an AI fantasy land? Will they defraud advertisers and data miners wi AI astroturf? It’s such a weird frontier. I wonder what fresh new horrors will emerge from the dystopia.

                Edit: Not strictly relevant, but interesting link:

                https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RDDT/financials/

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        What’s the issue with just using an adblocker? You cost them money to serve your queries but don’t make them any money provided you just browse and do not comment/post/vote