Lemmy isn’t much better.
We still need communities that don’t allow mod abuse.
Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.
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pulido@lemmings.world 1 year ago
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
at least there’s a public mod log, thats nice.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lemmy isn’t much better!?
Whatever you say, man.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
The instance you are registered in is one of a few that are the non fun parts of this platform
gameplayer55055@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hello everyone. You’re not alone. I got banned like for 4-5 times, using local Ukrainian words that may look like slurs, but they aren’t.
I got unbanned, but I am still too scared to write anything about politics on Reddit. I want a working account there for IT questions.
astro_plane@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Make another account then. I have a shit posting account for ming comments I know will be dicey. Reddit mods are fat slobs don’t let them stop you from living your dreams.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My solution is to browse subreddits without signing in so whenever I go to up vote or down vote anything I can’t and think, “oh right,” then go back to Lemmy (which is quickly becoming a higher quality experience anyways).
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
they will detect your alternate account through fingerprinting you
it’s where I am currently, unable to use any of my 100% wholesome and positively contributing accounts because I shared the opinion of “Oh no, anyways” on a burning Tesla dealership post, got banned from world news with no explanation, asked for elaboration and did not receive it, and then continued to post in that sub with another account.
did I ban evade? yes. did I first attempt to find out why I was banned? yes. was I ignored and thus continued to participate with other accounts, being careful to say nothing even close to provocative with those accounts? yes.
didn’t matter. they identified it as the same account, they banned it.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit mods are fat slobs who can be easily duped, but Reddit algorithims will autoban you for making new accounts.
I’m basically exiled from it until I decide to get a new device and sign in on a new network other than my home or my work.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
they keep banning any other accounts I made there over being linked with the first one. I have tried unique email addresses and everything but they still figure it out within 24 hours, even when I 'm not allowed to post anything. So I just dont use reddit at all anymore.
gameplayer55055@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Luckily, I’ve never had issues with reddit mods, but I received a f*ck ton of global bans on r/reddit_ukr (getting carpet bombed by russian bots and the half of the comments are [deleted])
It’s the time to discover the fediverse ig. Btw any ideas where I can dump a ton of random IT memes?
Klowner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve had my reddit account for 17 years and I received my first warning for inciting violence because I commented “this makes me want to make a whip and go to town on these people” (a reference to Jesus running out the money changers in the temple) on a video of a megachurch service showing a woman painting trump bowing to a cross.
SpaceShort@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I got banned for saying people should engage in mass protest against the arrest of judges and prevent anyone from entering and leaving the building in which they are held until they are released. I’ll create a new Reddit account when I can be bothered to create a new email address. What were you banned for?
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I suggested someone add an icon of torches and pitchforks to an email they were sending to company to complain.
Banned for inciting violence.
msprout@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s nuts, but once I learned that it was just an LLM doing content moderation (and probably the appeals, too), things made a lot more sense.
Spez is the exact kind of guy who would believe that community moderation is an “unsolved problem” and not, y’know, perfectly solvable by the same ol’: ya hire people to do it.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That wont help, neither will a vpn or using a different device lol, I tried them all, think it has to be a different device youve never logged on before on a different network, i lost interest and just use lemmy now, reddit lowkey made me do stuff less, like id read more about my hobbies rather than doing them, like watching ppl game instead of gaming, but for any hobby
SpaceShort@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Thank you for informing me. I’ll take a look in ten years if they are still around.
In any case, I knew I would be banned eventually regardless so I just did as much agitating as possible until that point came.
astro_plane@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I use iOS and that didnt stop me from making another account after I got banned. I have four burner accounts.
msprout@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got banned after 15 years for asking why we can’t organize to cyberbully Trump’s current head of social media: en.wikipedia.org/…/Steven_Cheung_(political_advis…
This was in response to the White House calling Garcia a terrorist on their Twitter account.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Big Cheungus
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was ahead of the curve, and got permabanned in October 2024 for Promoting violence when I said “If a president decided to betray America’s allies, and start directley helping Russia in its wars of conquest, America would probably end up with a dead president”
They basically told me to fuck off on my appeal, and I have since been Hardware banned from my main PC and my work PC, I still want to go back for some of the niche communities that havent emigrated over here yet, but I really cant be bothered to go and fire up a 8 year old laptop or something just for fucking reddit. its a cesspit and getting banned is largely a blessing in disguise.
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
My reddit account got a strike by an admin for describing the risks involved in traveling to the USA currently (abduction, torture for an undetermined amount of time). The appeal I made to that was accepted but it left a sour taste in my mouth.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lucky you, you got handled by a moderator who wasn’t a raging Trump whore.
I got permabanned after a week long ban for “threatening violence” when I suggested that if a Trump was elected (it was in Oct24) started directley Aiding Russia in their invasion of Europe, that they’d probably end up with a dead president. I appealed and suggested that I wasn’t threatening anyone, and that whoever banned me, was politically biased and triggered. and they flipped out and perma’d me.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s pretty lenient, most people get permabans
Siresly@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My account was permanently banned for saying I hope Nazi scum Elon Musk dies soon. Had previously caught temporary bans for saying things like “We should overthrow Musk into the sea.” in response to him having argued King Charles should overthrow the UK government. Reddit admins really don’t seem to like it when you’re righteously intolerant of evil scumfuck psychopaths who use their unearned power and influence to cause immeasurable harm to society, the world and its inhabitants. Things like that break Rule 1, threatening violence, they claim.
Although the permanent ban was only for a couple of days since I for once was successful in my appeal. I basically said death =/= violence. An obvious truth to anyone, except some Reddit admins apparently.
I’ve not really used Reddit since. Kind of lost my will to bother with a US based site that’s clearly and predictably going in a US direction, i.e. spiraling down the fascist sewage. Instead I’ve been drifting over to here. Will see what the moderation over here is like.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My first appeal was not really an appeal and more a question but they ignored every appeal after that, I evaded a subreddit ban (accidentally was scrolling on an alt) for the most lame subreddit and made the most boring pointless comment as I do, it was like 3 words instant ban
But yeah that shit made me genuinely hate the site, there is no way at all to get in contact with a human, no email, no phone, just that one short limited character appeal you can send once.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Prior to that I had a temp ban for reporting stuff and it was like mod abuse or something, insane, it was against the rules, but if republicans incite violence its okay if they encourage suicides or whatever its fine
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s tenous at best, probably would’ve been banned again anyways, since you account doesn’t really clear in subreddit filtwrs
msprout@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I knew a Reddit admin IRL for a year or so. I visited him in the hospital when he was diagnosed with leukemia. I got my marrow tested to try and be a donor for him, and that bitch still doesn’t remember me.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 1 year ago
This is why I tell people to dump pitchers of water on Reddit employees if you meet one at a bar in Frisco. Also rub shit on the HQ front doors handle. Make them extra pissed off.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I hope all their party favors are laced, sf tech bros prob goin to illenium
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I hope all their party favors are laced
Ehhh… dosing someone unknowingly has to be one of the most fucked up, inhumane things that you can do to someone. Obviously fentanyl is prob the worst, but I’m thinking more about psychedelics.
That shit isn’t funny.
daannii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lemmy. The support group for burned reddit veterans.
We were there. We put in thousands of hours of work. Years of moderating. Free work. Content creators. People who commented. Voted. All that karma …
All gone cause you upvoted an anti trump or musk post. Or maybe you upvoted a photo of a tessler burning.
Maybe you didn’t think Luigi should get the death penalty.
Don’t worry brother. Upvote what you want. Be free with the rest of us.
Check out c/
SpaceShort@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I wonder if the reason is because 50501 started on Reddit and they are determined to not let it happen again.
jellygoose@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They bent the knee. Hard.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Feel that pain this year would have been my 10th year on Reddit. I was permanently banned last June for saying I hope the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus. It’s still blows I can’t post or comment on anything. I was part of a close nit group on Reddit involving a car subreddit and now it sucks to see people commenting on where I am and what happened.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Honestly, though? Been nothing but relief since. I really thought I got more out of it than I did. Left in first exo though
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Make a new account and tell them.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 1 year ago
They track Machine ID and IP. They just auto ban any new accounts.
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t miss Reddit. I got my 10 year account permanently banned for making a complaint about a mod who temp banned me for no perceivable reason.
Eat a sack of damp turds Reddit.
andybytes@programming.dev 1 year ago
Oh, you can get banned here. It’s not like this is like a place of free speech. It’s just that the internet is kind of created little pockets of echo chambers. It is what it is. And like it was always going to be like that anyways. I just like it that it’s not monetized by corporations that are bombing the shit out of children.
Ironfist79@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We should have all stayed on Usenet. It’s decentralized and uncensored.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
only place I’ve ever been banned from here was not paying attention to which “channel” I was in since I dont fully understand how Lemmy works, and I ended up posting a comment to a thread I saw come up on the main page of lemmy.world when it was actually a lemmy.ml link, and people over there, most of them dont take too kindly to you insulting their Russian overlords,
* .ml by and large are too ignorant to recognize the Russians aren’t their Socialist idols, they’re just a Capitalist oligarchic mafia state. So you make one comment that is percieved as being targetting against the Putin regime and you’re automatically assigned the label of a Pro Western NATOpill schill *3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
But if any one instance pulls reddit stuff ppl will notice and can leave without losing the whole site and infrastructure
Allero@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Only by the admin of your home instance, which is unlikely and normally comes after something very extreme.
Normally, you’ll get banned by the community/certain instance in very gruesome cases, but not your account.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
you can get banned here
It takes special effort here, though.
And like it was always going to be like that anyways.
It’s not inevitable: some places are very laissez-faire.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not that difficult. A year ago I was banned from lemmy.world for refusing to get into an argument with a mod.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I was permabanned without explanation and reinstated two weeks later, again without comment.
I believe this tracks with what to expect should we ever see the tech-bro billionaires divide the world into monarchy fiefdoms ocer which rhey are each the unchallenged lord and master.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the second you get flagged for ban evasion you are pretty much dead in the water. and you’ll have to move on to drastic, expensive measures to get around it. like a new device and probably a new network
even if your ban reason was false, if you make a new account, as far as they’re concerned thats grounds for a non-appeal permanent ban.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A shadowban was triggered by a simple comment removal and a completely new browsers, reddit wants all your browser info, they dislike if your using a browser fork too, besides only chrome or main ff
selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Many many years and ass loads of karma…
But apparently LIKING posts can get you banned now. What a shit show.
pulido@lemmings.world 1 year ago
It’s all a ploy to control what we think.
Ideas are powerful, that’s why they don’t want us to have any of our own.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 year ago
Clearly they’re butthurt that you didn’t fellate Trump or Musk or some other such drain clog.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Reddit constantly pushing conservative to the front page was a sign
gerowen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I tried to like Reddit but every time I tried posting something I thought was original or thoughtful it would get auto deleted by a bot for not including the right “flair” or some other stupid shit.
pulido@lemmings.world 1 year ago
original or thoughtful
That’s the problem, the powers that b have deemed it necessary that we only have 1 of 2 ideas.
Either you’re loyal to conservatives, or loyal to neo-liberals. Anything else is cause for a ban, and there will be no cavalry to defend you since you’re not loyal to either side.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Posting in r/showerthoughts was impossible.
Questions about dark matter removed from r/space
Lots more like that.
gerowen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Showerthoughts was one I tried. I don’t remember specifics but I tried a couple times to post actual thoughts I had in the shower and they got insta-banned by a bot so I just gave up.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Because you didn’t read and respect the rules
gerowen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh I did and even contacted moderators a few times to try to have posts reinstated after they were insta-banned by a bot. I just got tired of fighting with it every time I wanted to participate.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 year ago
I came from TikTok about 2 years ago and after some initial adjustments I found the experience quite liberating in comparison. But yeah there are a lot of rules that you only find out about by getting deleted or downvoted. Lemmy is quite literally the essence of what makes Reddit interesting without the weird bs so this is an overdue transition anyway (although I miss optional user flairs ngl).
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lemmy is just small enough at this point where mods don’t have to rely on automated tools and things like required flairs to effectively manage their community. As it develops, things like required flairs, verified submissions, etc will become more normal.
For example, I’m watching Wheel of Time, and /r/WoT requires you to flair every submission with a spoiler level (books only, show and book, show only, etc). Lemmy can’t really sustain good discussion on that yet, but when it does mods will need to start aggressively removing submissions if they’re not properly categorized.
Mandelbrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exact reason why I’m here lol.
GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Similar happened to me. You cannot say there is genocide going in Palestine. If u say that are temp banned for a day, then 3 day then permanently banned.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Israel has bots in reddit to gatekeep the narrative i believe they have taken over worldnews
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
There will still be an amount of censorship on lemmy, it might just be on the opposite opinion of yours, so you won’t notice it. I’m pretty sure we’re slowly turning into an echo chamber as well
pulido@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Lemmy is definitely turning into an echo-chamber among the bigger instances.
It’s okay, though. Once enough people get censored, it opens up the opportunity for people to start instances that don’t abuse their mod power.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
Absolutely! Especially communities like lemmy.ml. I just got banned for criticizing certain aspects of Communism. No alternate opinions are allowed apparently…
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The extreme political instances year, like hexbear , mil, grad are as bad as conservatives
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Lmao yeah I guess there’s a lot of us here.
CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Oh this is me. Got banned from Reddit and am on lemmy fulltime.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Shadowbanning is a tool of the demiurge
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They kept sending me emails with cutesie aliens in them after they shadowbanned me. Very weird company
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Lately I’m seeing a lot of this on old accounts
I had a few side accounts from a decade ago that I’d sometimes used to get something from that site but over the past year the all got banned for no reason because I literally didn’t even post with them.
Im guessing that Reddit wants to get rid of those older users that still remember how great it was
LMurch@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
I canceled my reddit pro, or reddit+ account, whatever the f*ck it is called, and the ads, the ads… Ads that look like posts, or comments. It’s almost making me 100% Lemmy too.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Welcome, don’t step in the Tankies on your way in.
mmura10@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just got banned myself for calling a moderator woke. F reddit
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit used to be good enough to get people to post daily without cajoling
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Uh oh, did you suggest something that isn’t aligned with corporate status quo enforcement?
Kualdir@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Reddit has streaks now??
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
And nothing of value was lost
Draegur@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I got banned for pointing out that ICE are a human trafficking terrorist gang
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
They ban facts now? Wow what a dump, I hope everyone that works there is time-teleported into an Auschwitz shower in 1944.
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IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you ever wonder why nobody calls it terrorism when America does it, it is because people are not allowed to do so.