I’m a lurker. I don’t post on facebook or reddit or anywhere. Today I randomly got a message from reddit that my account was permanently banned for apparent repeated violations of their site wide rules. I have the ReVanced app on my phone that blocks ads on reddit just so those scumbags can’t profit off me lurking, but it’s the only reason I could fathom that is why I’ve been banned. Anyway I just wanted to vent so thanks for reading this if you did. Reddit fucking sucks.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      3 months ago

      In my experience, people here are nicer than the people in, for example, r/politics. However, that’s not saying much. I never commented in r/politics. I only commented in those niche communities that don’t exist here and Lemmy is a big step down compared to them in terms of the quality of the discourse. (It helped that the communities I participated in would ban people for being rude.)

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      21·
      3 months ago

      I didn’t realize how bad Reddit had gotten until I tried Lemmy. It got toxic slowly enough that it snuck up on me. I’ll never go back.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        I had to look something up and the answer was in Reddit. After I found what I was looking for I scrolled through my old subscribed communities and saw so much toxicity,. Not just in the people but the things I was subscribed to, r/relationships, AITA, even some of askReddit, it made me feel gross thinking that’s what I scrolled through and interacted with every day.

        • magnetosphere@fedia.io
          2·
          3 months ago

          It’s so much better (and easier, once you get used to it) to just give people the benefit of the doubt.

          I think I read somewhere that Lemmy users are, on average, a bit older than Reddit users. To me, that just means that we’re more likely to have seen the worst that the web has to offer, and don’t want to reproduce it. Of course, we can still be trolls and idiots; it’s just less prevalent.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      For real, the userbase on Reddit was declining in quality for quite a long time, and that decline sharply increased (imo) after the Sacking of the API - largely because TONS of power users, especially in highly technical subs, were like “nah fuck this” and left (and, you know, stopped developing moderation tooling because Reddit effectively blocked non-tech-savvy users from using said tools with the API pricing change).