Lemmy got like that after the exodus. No? I mean, I saw some BS here and there, but not nearly as much as right before the hexbear nonsense. Granted, I wasn’t on here much, and using a now defunct username, but I still didn’t see nearly as much.
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TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 months agoI mean Lenny was like that though. After the exodus from Reddit most major instances defederated from hexbear which is like the OH Lemmy instance
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TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Lemmy sort of started with people they got banned from Reddit
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 months ago
You can get banned from reddit?? That doesn’t bode well haha
btaf45@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can get randomly banned on reddit.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I got perma-banned from a (mainstream, ordinary) sub for — and I’m really not joking here — criticising the “Caravan of Death”, which was a fascist death squad used by Chilean dictator Pinochet to assassinate political opponents in 1973.
I asked the mod team if they could specify the rule I broke, and then clearly they asked a Reddit admin to block my entire account, because that’s what happened.
Maybe I could appeal and get the account back, but I don’t really care that much.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, just endorse punching Nazis, a friend of mine got banned from Reddit for that.
sandbox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is ahistorical. The original Lemmy instance is lemmy.ml, and it was hugely tankie literally from the beginning - the .ml referring to marxist-leninism, years before Reddit’s API changes. It’s nothing to do with people being banned from Reddit, it’s just that the concept of a federated message board platform was appealing to communist software developers, who created and guided the project. If anything, the anti-tankie sentiment which is popular on instances like lemmy.world is what came to lemmy after the Reddit exodus.