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What made you join Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Bullybeard@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Reddit killed RIF. I'd already been looking into Lemmy, leading up to the day, but once my app stopped working, I switched to Jerboa and made a Lemmy account.

...didn't stay on Jerboa long

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What client do you use?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I switched to Connect, and have liked it well enough that I haven't tried any others

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 4 days ago

Same story, except I have used Connect from day one.

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Yup. RIF stopped working. Reddit's official app was a turd sandwich.

I want to say I left Reddit in solidarity with the users and mods at the time, but in reality the Reddit app was just so very, very inconvenient that I tried Lemmy.