• Alphamars@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I have created different emails and using different ip address form different networks. The moment I use the account on my current ip, I get banned

  • tupalos@lemmy.world
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    Got banned from Reddit. Enjoying Lenny so far but there’s some subreddits that don’t have enough traffic so I still go back to peruse. Anyone got advice to get around the reddit ban?

  • grill@thelemmy.club
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    13 days ago

    Came because of the reddit API. Stayed, because I couldn’t stand reddit users anymore.

    • rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      In the same boat. I stayed because I can’t stand reddits god awful app showing you shit that your not subscribed to, that’s what r/all is for (miss you Apollo)

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        13 days ago

        I’m using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.

        The reddit community has been reduced to a mob of slobbering children and bots though, so I’m not on there nearly as much. I also avoid contributing because I want to see it slowly die out. Sadly it is still the only source for some information.

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          I’m using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.

          I used to do this, effectively it confused my brain of which platform I was at at the moment lol.

          Anyway not anymore since Sync for Lemmy is so busted to me in my instance (not even showing upvotes for example) and the dev has been absent for so long that I am already using another app (my personal favorites are Summit, Voyager and Boost).

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          It does on Android with a personal Reddit API key and ReVanced. There are instructions posted over st r/baconreader.

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    Reddit made me constantly angry, then the API thing forced me on their app which made me angrier.

    Lemmy makes me feel good and the app I use fits my needs near perfectly.

    This is a pretty decent group of weirdos we got here.

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    I’m a bit less extreme about it than many here. But, in short, back when Reddit made sweeping API changes it immediately gave me ‘the ick’ and so I sought less centralised platforms. Lemmy is the closest thing I’ve found to people just hosting their own message boards like back in the early internet.

    I’m a big fan of decentralized platforms and I love the concept of ActivityPub.

    That said, I still use Reddit and have recently started to really enjoy BlueSky, so I’m not militantly against the corporate platforms or anything.

    Finally, I just like the natural selection things like Lemmy and Mastodon have for those who are naturally more techy and nerdy.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Allows Tor and VPNs

    UI is so clean and mobile browser friendly

    No “Download Our App” annoying BS

    No ads

    Federation make it censorship resistant when it comes to discussions, no one person can ban all dissent, while consensus of the instances can ban all the hate speech, and there’s the tool of defederation to stop instances that allows hate speech to go uncontrolled.

    Lemmy and fediverse platforms are probably the best examples of “Free Speech” platforms there are that, unlike those other “Free Speech” platforms, this isn’t just filled with hate speech all the time, although it isn’t perfect, and there are still jerks sometimes.

    Edit: As to why a “Reddit” type platform with communities and upvote/downvotes, its because I don’t like the “Twitter” style of following people. People become bad all the time. I like to discuss topics, not focus discussions on a person.

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    Reddit was reddit. I left when I was forced into using their stupid app and watch ads.

    I’ve generally enjoyed Lemmy.

    Edit: or to and

    • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Same, used Apollo on Reddit, they made it so I couldn’t so I jumped ship then. Lemmy is where I went, along with mastodon

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        Yep, I went to Mastodon too.

        It’s very upsetting that the way most people know about federated platforms is Meta’s Threads.

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    Came in support of Apollo; I just couldn’t in good conscience continue to support Reddit (even after 19 years) with how they treated external clients.

    Found it similar to Reddit so it scratched the same itch.

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    Because Reddit is a shit hole from which no intelligent life will ever escape.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    Left Reddit because of the API stuff. Still on Lemmy because it’s not as addictive and has a much higher concentration of leftists.