Reddit account deleted. It’s weird, fell out of love with Facebook but still have the account, but as a paying Reddit customer I held it to higher expectations.
Lemmy seems clunky still, but if Star Trek has taught us anything it’s that the federation is the future. Let’s make it so.
I installed the official Reddit app yesterday, but uninstalled it earlier on as it's just awful. The Dev for Reddit Sync is creating a version for Lemmy.
I installed the official app too, but only because reddit in the mobile browser is offensively terrible and I still unfortunately need reddit for decent search results. Hoping as communities move over here and we start building up a library of useful info that I won't have that dependency anymore.
I just registered to get Boost for Lemmy as soon as it's released. I think seeing it in a more familiar context will make things easier moving here from Reddit
I’m still keeping my Reddit account to make sure the edits to my past posts are not overwritten by a backup. I’ll delete the account in a week or two. Now it is up to us to make Lemmy a thriving community. Keep posting and commenting, folk!
I'm so glad this place is here, I was banned from the reddit UK subs for making pro republican statements when Phil died and then when the Queen died I questioned the mods burying of the Republic arrest story and was perma banned.
It wasn't just the reddit API stuff, the way the moderation works is awful, just perma ban you for nothing, I had an account 8 year old and it was perma banned from the sub I posted in most in an instant at the whim of some pro royalist moderator. There's no way to appeal, they also mute you and that's it.
I have a theory that reddit mods always end up bad because the system makes them that way. Dealing with a huge number of bots, fakers, manipulators and that's before you get to the genuine-but-lazy rule breakers.
Personally, I think perma banning should not be possible in most cases, maybe just increase the maximum ban time with each ban, or have a ban expire after 12 months. That way at least the account doesn't just become useless to you because of one dickhead mod.
Hopefully lessons will be learned for this platform! :)