I left reddit and deleted my accounts, post and comment history. I had modded a couple high sub communities there and felt it had become less friendly over the years. I initially joined in 2011 but only really started using it during the Digg exodus.

Lemmy feels like old school reddit. So I use it 99% of the time and only check some very specific subreddits when I need to look up something for work.

Fuck reddit, I left as soon as I could and deleted my accounts.

Both. Getting banned from reddit did me a favor, really.

Fed up with Reddit’s owners, so I stopped my daily use. I did like Reddit more because of some well moderated and active subreddits, and I do occasionally pop my head in over there once a week or so to stay informed, but I spend almost all of my time here and on mastodon now.

I had a similar relationship with Facebook around 2015. Stopped pretty much entirely except for when I need to engage with Facebook marketplace, and I generally try to use Craigslist first.

Banned from reddit for calling violence on Musk.

Frankly, I’m not impressed with Lemmy either, especially because personal interests are just so much harder to find engagement on.

So, whatever that answer amounts to.

Well, Reddit was a bunch of Democrats circlejerking each other for Internet points to benefit a massive corporation, whereas Lemmy is a bunch of Democrats circlejerking each other for internet points.

So… I guess I like both because it helps reinforce that all social media is a waste of time and a blight on society and culture as a whole

Just like Lemmy more. Reddit has become to enshittified for me to use it anymore, except for some niche stuff due of Reddit’s larger traffic volume.

I use both. I’ve attempted to replicate the subreddits I was subscribed to on Lemmy with very limited success. I’m not sure if I just need to subscribe to more instances or if my expectations are off.

Banned across all accounts

I said “bad bot” to a nazi apologist, and apparently that’s “violence”

It’s a shame. I had quite a cult following for my “performance art”

Why not use the cross-post function? Original post is at [email protected] btw

Both. It’s actually funny. Someone posted that image of alternatives to things like Reddit and Whatsapp and Google, etc, and it had Lemmy on it. I was at the point where I was getting sick of Reddit and had one account banned already. I joined Lemmy, and a few days later my other account got banned for up voting a comment that was just the gif of Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. I had already decided I liked Lemmy more at that point, so whatever. The one thing that sucks is that I had my own little sub with a couple thousand members where I posted my writing, and people seemed to like it. I enjoyed sharing my stories with all those weirdos, and now I can’t.

Banned on some subs. Mostly just left because I saw it enshittifying.

I used a script to delete my comment history and no longer know my password not care to recall it. I don’t log in anymore, only lurk.

During the whole API issue, I got a permanent ban from one of my favorite subs over a random and unimportant comment that included a stream of insults from the mod. It was completely unwarranted and pretty obviously was reactionary behavior by someone projecting their bad mood against the world. I sort of looked at my hands and wondered why I would ever want to spend more time on that toxic cesspool. I immediately stopped using the service entirely and moved fulltime over to Lemmy (had an account already, but I was only dabbling prior). I do miss some aspects of Reddit, but that Reddit started its painful death somewhere around Lockdown.

I prefer Lemmy. The community is way friendlier and there are 9000% fewer bots. Also I frequently deleted my reddit accounts for mental health reasons and on occasion in protest and rebuilding a reddit account to the point you can comment in most subs is so annoying. In like a year of using Lemmy on and off I’ve had more real conversations with real people than I did in thriteen years as a redditor.