Is anyone here so hardcore that they don’t even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?

  • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently. im here instead, because reddit would just ban any new accounts after you been shadowbanned, if your not using ban evasion methods which cost some money: like new IP, mobile phone, browser,etc.

    ALso the significant amount of astroturfing and gatekeeping of political and news discussion on reddit is enough to trigger arguments on both sides getting you banned. plus reddit also using AI moderation to ban people indiscriminately. plus the amount of bots are staggering. its too easy to get banned on reddit, if you try to engage in any of the most controversial subs.

    most cities,counties, country subreddits have been taken over by consevatives, and goody two shoes people, so its hard to engage in your regions sub most of teh time.

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      6 hours ago

      most of us are here, because we got permabanned on reddit early this year, or shadowbanned recently.

      Doubt. A lot of us are here because of the API changes in July of 2023.

      • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 hours ago

        Yep, that was the big wave. Even though my third party app kept working with a custom API key for a long time, I made the full switch after a year or so. Not that I used reddit much during that time. Since then only stumble upon reddit in web searches.