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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
ironically, reddit banned me, which stopped me from using it pretty much entirely, which coincided with the “happening” if anyone is curious it was “violence” even though specific targeted satirical threats seem to be perfectly acceptable, generic statements of violence are not things that reddit seems to put thought into. Anyway little fun fact though, they don’t delete your acc, and they dont stop you from using it, they just stop your posts/comments from showing up, to mine engagement i suppose.
for anybody looking for a bit of laugh, look at the ban appeal forum, i promise you there is a couple of days worth of amusement on it. (unless they changed it)
for me personally, the sheer unusability of reddit is why i dont use it. On desktop it leaks ram so bad it’s worse than a java MC server, on mobile it’s literally unusable, i just can’t use it, that’s how bad it is. It’s bad enough to the point im starting to think that reddit is a programming based money laundering front, with some of the functionality that exists in it. I’ve pasted text into reddit before only for it to completely disintegrate. It’s actually laughable how badly it’s put together.
Though i dont think i’ll miss reddit at all, these federated communities are much more my speed anyway.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I was banned for “violence” as well. Specifically referring to child molesters. I saw people saying the same type of shit about other types of people (capitalists, bad drivers, etc.) and nothing happened to those posts but make 1 comment suggesting an actual child molester deserves to suffer and you’re not welcome there. Makes you wonder why the admins are so concerned about protecting them… Anyway fuck that website.
S_204@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I made a comment about punching a Nazi… got banned. Meanwhile, some of the most virulent Antisemitic shit I’ve ever seen was getting posted and some of it hit the front page.
That platform is going to follow twitter into the shitter in short order.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
amusingly enough, the comment that got me banned was on a post about punching nazis, i just made a stupid haha funny about how punching people was fun think it was “i just came here to punch people” (the humor is that its a reddit thread, doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure it out.)
but no, me threatening to pull out the teeth of a pro lifer was perfectly acceptable according to reddit. Some fascinating moderation there.
Saltblue@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Easy, you advocated violence against reddit mods.
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I moved to Reddit during the great Digg exodus.
Last year I had the exact same experience with the same subject in a r/Europe forum. I decided after the temporary ban that I wouldn’t use Reddit. Deleted my beloved Redditisfun App and never looked back.
Clinic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
it was a nice place before it was took over around Brexit