I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

  • comfy
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    5 days ago

    Joined about a year or two before the reddit API fiasco.

    • I really don’t like ads+tracking and didn’t want my posts supporting a company like reddit
    • I’m an advocate of FOSS
    • reddit has inherent pressures to censor content based on mass media pressure and profit, and to permit anti-social far right trolls
    • reddit punishes proxy users, where many instances here allow me to protect myself while posting here
    • didn’t like the new reddit layout - even before I came here, I was lurking for a year or two on alternate frontends
    • I believed federation was a good strategy at building a better reddit alternative

    But also, it actually had some communities at the time. If it were more dead, or unfederated, I’m not sure if I would have put as much effort in building communities.