When israel started their Genocide the entire frontpage was filled with Zionist bots and any criticism of israel would lead to a ban.
All while IDF propaganda of beheadedbabies was spammed all over the place.
Reddit admins perma-banned me for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza after calling me “antisemitic Nazi trash.”
I still mostly use reddit.
IMO the most toxic redditors migrated to this site. The mod drama is worse, the spin is worse, and the toxicity is somehow worse. Plus there are large groups of people attempting to make every single post a referendum on politics, and those groups are usually unhinged tankies.
It’s not all bad though. There are a lot of niche subs that are much better here than on reddit. Usually those subs revolve around nerdy interests that haven’t gotten caught up in the culture war. In those subs both the content and discourse are significantly more informative and respectful than reddit.
Reddit is a mainstream platform these days. There’s some good in that, but also a lot of bad. Lemmy is more raw. A lot more objectively crap stuff to sift through, but also more gems.
They ban you for bs reasons. That’s it, even if you don’t go against their rules, apparently saying the truth is enough to get banned.
The API changes. I use Sync, and not being able to use Sync made Reddit more or less unusable for me on my phone. I also fundamentally disagreed with the direction Reddit was going. So, Lemmy it was, and it’s great. And now there’s Sync for Lemmy, which is even better!
All of this me too.
Also, all of reddit felt like lemmy.ml, but here I can block .ml easy peasy
Blocking .ml is super nice. The only thing that is a bit annoying is that they have a lot of active members that don’t mind supporting fascist twats. Yet they participate in the fediverse and are otherwise informative. I don’t get notifications when they answer one of my questions. Oh well.
I’m digging the block.
Things have been more civil since I blocked the instance.
Same here. I exclusively browsed Reddit via app on my phone and tablet. After watching my wife struggle with the official Reddit app, I decided I would never use it. So when that became the only option, I decided it was time to move on to Lemmy.
Besides, I’m very anti-advertisement and Reddit has turned very corporate lately, looking for every way to make a buck at our expense. So I’m done supporting that site. Information and community discussion should be freely accessible, not buried behind paywalls, awards, and advertisements.
