I like it more here because I don’t get banned for saying I think more conservatives should drink raw milk so they’ll get listeria and die

I still have RiF installed 🤷

I was device and IP banned for saying Americans needed to have the Guillotines in the streets.

I stand by what I said lol.

YATZEE!

They took my app dammit. Twice actually, I’d been on alien blue. I’d rather put up with you people than their awful app

I used the Reddit is Fun app for like 15 years. The second they took that away I was gone.

Bottom left. I was curious. Also I thought maybe, just maybe europe.pub would not be 90% posts about USA and Trump. How naive I was! Turns out I just found a second reddit, and it’s occasionally good!

Trump threatened greenland, had all the tech bros at his inauguration and one of them was high on ketamine and heiling, so I figured it was time to leave as many American social media platforms as possible.

The only one I still use is youtube and that’s in a logged out state and in a browser.

Can’t say I miss Facebook, Instagram and reddit. It’s been over a year and I barely think about it nowadays.

I have my issues with Lemmy, but you can filter out most of the bs so at this point it’s mostly memes, animal photography and other wholesome stuff that’s left in my feed. Life is good.

6/9 also the algorithm change in r/popular was the most damning. Reddit says that ICE is suddenly cool?

For the vast majority of Fediverse users, it was either Elon Musk’s announcement in February, 2022, to buy out Twitter, or Elon Musk’s actual Twitter buyout in October, 2022.

Followed by a tweet that must have looked something like this:

join mastodon its literally twitter without musk https://mastodon.social/

As for me, I joined the Fediverse long before there was Lemmy, long before there was even Mastodon, even before it was named Fediverse. I stumbled upon a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to Facebook that even had features beyond Facebook.

Ppl are less insufferable here. Aside from an occasional tankie or Xi bot trying to convince me that having the same ruler for 15 years is good for you actually, we’re vibin’

Wow, 9 reasons on the card, and none of them are “rampant bigotry and bootlicker propaganda being pushed to the top page on a daily basis”

Reddit became too stale for me after a while. Sometimes I still post memes there or look up something, but otherwise my main way of getting information became kbin, later Lemmy once Ernest disappeared, though it was helped by Xitter also becoming an unreliable astroturfed garbage with CSAM generator integrated.

\ BINGO \

Let me assure you though that it’s entirely possible to get banned from Lemmy as well. Not quite as permanently though, but still.

Third party apps did it for me and most of us with accounts around 3 years old.