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Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I was sign up number 3. I emailed Spez his own source code because he had the error reporting on his Web Server set to “VERBOSE”.

  I was permanently banned for an answer in an AskReddit thread that amounted to “what is true in your line of work that you can’t say”. My answer was that non-males are insanely violent and one of the huge lies that is held in the public consciousness is that “men are the violent ones” when the reality is all people are violent, and there’s a tremendous amount of IPV especially in same-sex partnerships. Banned for “advocating violence”.

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  • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I reported a comment for basically saying that men are the only violent sex, and they temp-banned me for abusing the reporting system. The explanation message (canned, I’m sure) said that reporting abuse is a form of harassment or bullying, or something like that.

    Eat shit reddit, and fuck spez.

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    • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t think they are trying to sabotage their own products. It really is that they’re not smart enough to see where is the value is. And this is kind of understandable, right? The underlying software has been copied already. It’s out there. If that company has value it’s only the user base. But that puts management in the strange situation where everything they are doing to make money is making their own product worse. And they kind of know it, right? But they can’t admit it. They can’t think about it clear. Their own mental stability relies on ignoring the obvious truths that they see and read every day.

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I had the exact same experience. I am a man that suffered tremendous amount of violence at the hands of my female caregivers and partners. I reported a similar hate-based comment against men and I got banned temporarily.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I believe I was warned once for that same comment, and banned on another account. I was saying the same thing violence in relationship are overwhelming men in every way. Sure there is done by women

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      • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Consider conducting some actual research and study, instead of deciding your and biased ideas represent reality.

        The fact is that in terms of frequency non-males are worst. Males more severe physical damage per incident.

        But don’t argue with me here, if you wanted actual knowledge on the subject you’d have it already.

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  • dick_fineman@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Been there since 07, also work in Human Services. Reddit died with Aaron. He was the heart and soul of the site. The decline started shortly after that and it was slow, but it really picked up steam around the time of their IPO, and ever since they’ve pretty much embraced “evil”. Fuck Spez.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Incels are quite overly sensitive when it’s a women talking about violence against women by men, they brigade and try troll people. Askedddit also banned me, for because the sub was asking something about an actor, and I was explaining how a Star Trek actor made the show about herself( Beverly crusher) people don’t like how their holy trek role model was criticized

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    • DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Aren’t those kinds of decisions made in the writers’ room, though?

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I left with my 14 year old account after they banned third party apps. Moderating large communities (1M+) with the official app was impossible, and I was moderating 3 of those, plus a bunch of smaller ones. I did Secret Santa 4 or 5 times (move countries frequently for my job, so it wasn’t always feasible), and still have the Guinness World records certificate somewhere, plus a lot of free merch from the mod appreciation giveaways back when they weren’t a shitcorp. Leaves quite the bad aftertaste.

  Pretty sure that by now I’d have been banned as well, I never held back with dark humor and speaking out against evil corpos. In a way I’m glad I left on my own terms before it all went fully to hell.

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  • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I used to mod a million plus sub. How on earth could you do it without 3rd party tools? I am very happy here. It’s nice to be able to talk to real people again.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh we did use third party tools, and there were 5-8 moderators depending on which sub. I just loved the mod queue on reddit sync to just approve/delete reports on the go. Since I’m in Asia I often got them before my US counterparts, so could clean up the queue early on.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Now many of the major subs are concentrated to a less than 100 mods , which controls over 500+ subs.

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• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I was a 12 year member with nearly a million karma. I was permabannef right after the inauguration, for repeating an anti-HitlerPig opinion I’d repeating numerous times before he was elected.

  I came to Lemmy and found out I wasnt alone, i was part of a bloodbath. I’ve seen posts from many people with 10+ year accounts who were banned. We’re the people who built that site, and made it what it was. Somehow we managed to be active for over a decade without a problem, but suddenly we all became violators in the same month, and need to be banned.

  Now we find out Spaz wants to buy TikTok, AND The MuskRat threatened him. No doubt the threat was that if he had a prayer of being awarded the privilege of buying TikTok, he was going to have to obey, and violate Reddit’s foundational free speech mission. The classic Reddit is dead.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He didn’t need musk threatening him. He was already killing Reddit with his whole “we want to float it on the stock market so we’d better get rid of all of the good content” fixation.

    And frankly he was a shit stain even before that, remember how hard it was to get them to ban CP subs?

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  • WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thanks for the warning. Spaz buys tiktok and I delete it. Bout to already, honestly.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I created throw away and many main acts in case one gets banned, I usually avoid the permansub bans with new acts, until much later. So I’m also hearing that reddit links your accounts with strangers, if they get banned all your accounts get banned (( if you commented on any of the subs that the stranger was on)

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• Spookiebear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And they deserve to die out like MySpace. Fuck Reddit!!

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  • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And Facebook meta.

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    • 3laws@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I really wish Facebook could truly die. That will likely happen in another 10 years.

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• InTheDoghouseAgain@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I contributed to Reddit for 4 years and I got banned supposedly for posting putting down a bull terrier that violently attacked a family member and their was a child in the family,

  I have a suspicion that my negative political comments about what is happening in Government may have been the real reason

  All my friends that were on Reddit have been banned they are all good people with views

  No free speech on Reddit it will gradually die

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  • natryamar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Genuine question but how can we trust our respective lemmy instance to not be as corrupt?

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You cannot. You never could. The difference that the Fediverse makes is that you can make your own instance.

      Slight side-track here: in many ways Lemmy is even more authoritarian than Reddit, this is basically a Reddit 2.0. Here there is a modlog, but no modmail, no notification of a moderation action, no ability to ask questions as to why (if only so that you can avoid doing so again?), especially when the modlog merely says that the action was done by "mod" (so even if there were a moderator chat somewhere, or you wanted to send a DM, who would you send it to, unless you send it to literally all, thereby risking getting yourself getting banned from the entire instance for legitimately spamming DMs!?).

      On lemmy.ml, people routinely get instance-wide banned from communities that they've literally never even so much as heard of!? More importantly, for a rule that is never written down anywhere or explained to new users. On midwest.social numerous people have been banned merely for downvoting posts or comments offered by the instance admin, or for submitting reports (not spamming, just one) literally calling out cries for (not against) murder - ideological purity testing is real there. Meanwhile back on lemmy.ml, I can point you (if interested) to an actual conversation where a moderator tells a user that he wants to kill him - but ofc he is protected by the instance admins so nothing will ever be done about such occurrences.

      Now you understand, the "freedom" that the Fediverse offers is not extended to the users, but rather to the instance owners. If you want that freedom, you have to start your own server. Or join one that offers it downwards to its users.

      PieFed offers MANY features facilitating democratization of moderation. Discuss.Online, a Lemmy instance, is quite well-known for allowing freedom to its userbase (though being located in the USA... for how much longer?). There are others - these are just ones that I definitely know about and recommend.

      TLDR: you cannot and never could, that's a misunderstanding of the concept of the Fediverse, though there is potential to make freedom happen here, unlike Reddit where it's a lost cause from the start.

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      • natryamar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Thank you for such a long writeup to my simple question. I would definitely love to selfhost my own little lemmy instance someday in the future. It never made sense to me that this place was automatically better when it’s just technically someone else’s servers.

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    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There’s no money in running a lemmy instance. Donations are unlikely to pay for the costs, much less a living. Also, you can always switch instances, although for this reason it is concerning how big lemmy.world is in comparison to other instances

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s weird how they allowing Sinese to promote himself, he acts like hes weirdly a Veteran, just because he was in the infamous movie, of course he’s a Republican around the same time stewart was supporting vets. I was saying he was virtue signalling so hard.

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• forallmoonkind@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Either you die a hero or lives long enough to become the villain…

  Appears to apply to companies, too

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