It happened to a lot of people. Early on, I had a great time on reddit but before the 2016 election the mods were just terrible bullies. Other saidit users will tell you why they came here and usually it was because they were banned or shadow banned. Check out the sub called s/Introductions . Every time we would get a wave of new users, it could be traced back to a wave of bannings. Notice how there are no big flame wars on saidit? So, welcome to saidit.