Apparently Mods are being given automated instructions to "check for violence" for any comments that contain the word "Luigi". Subreddit drama discussed

Just switched to Lemmy for this exact reason! Got banned for god knows why and immediately deleted Reddit.

Everybody log into your reddit accounts and post "Luigi" everywhere you can.

I just made the switch to lemm.ee so I think I might just “incite violence” and nuke my account. Good riddance.

Hey everyone, there's a lot of you. You ever think maybe you can just troll them by none stop posting to all their subreddits. Hell the mods are like the same 20 people in over 5000 sub reddits. That's a weak point.

Just nuked my entire reddit account due to this blatant censorship. Hello Lemmy and lemm.ee it's nice to be here

For a brief few years we had communication platforms that could topple dictatorships but now here we are.

censoring Luigi

lemmy.world mods be like: 👀

That’s why I’m here. Reddit started getting super censored so I was looking for an alternative and was directed here. It’s fucking ridiculous.

man we went from spacedicks hitting the front page to this

Reddit has gone full fascist. Wow. Never thought I'd see the day.

You can now get in trouble for upvoting something. How absurd.

My ten year old Reddit account got banned for a single snarky comment about Luigi, so here I am!

So sad and happy at the same time. I enjoyed reddit for awhile so its sad to see it go further downhill but kinda happy cause fuck all of that shit they are trying to do.

Reddit's strategy is to replace all users with AI bots rented from Elon.

Well that means they’re afraid. We’re not calling for anything violent we’re just calling out what we see. It’s a shame that Reddit went red. #boycottreddit

Deserved for the name alone, not the mention the fact of being a Redditor

Ive been on Reddit for 10 to 15 years. Its always been a strange place but ive never seen anything like what's going on at the moment.

• weird rules (like 'Luigi') being applied system-wide without being communicated
• automated actions applied to individual users site-wide, like allowing them to engage but preventing them from creating posts anywhere
• over zealous mods. I'm assuming a lot of mods got sick of it and left over the last few years and those doing the work are under experienced. Or maybe just AI. Its possible.
• GPTs engaging in posts and comments for training
• agents from hostile governments agitating and spurring on political discussions that favour their agenda.

So yeah I'm giving up on it now, its just no fun anymore.

Does anyone know how to reliably delete an entire reddit account, ideally editing over each comment as well? I did this before they closed off access to the API but upon checking months later, they had reverted all the changes so my account looks like it did before with everything visible.

They banned my old reddit account because I reported fake news that was being posted on r/conservative. Apparently subreddit mods can report users who use the report tool and can just get you banned.

I have a suspicion that I was followed by a mod who banned me and accused me of "throwing a tantrum" and muting me from contacting him again when I asked him to justify his ban for "promoting violence" when I very plainly hadn't. I kept getting bans for the same thing across various other subs for similar non promotion of violence, rather laughing about the idea of a politician possessed by the ghost of GG Allin ruining their life with antics, and for harrassment for some post that wasn't even deleted when I got my ban, so I have no idea what it even was.

No time for that kind of nonsense. The "you're in trouble for liking the wrong comments" step is the final step into full mean girl pettiness. Reddit has become an HOA.

Pains me to say, but Reddit can eat my ass.

Reddit has been doing this shit for years. It's a big reason why I left. Spez (little piggie) was only the catalyst.

A few ban-happy,power tripping moderators did come over here, though. I don't have specifics on that, I just know I've seen them, and I've also been banned for some real dumb shit. I just stay away from those communities/instances.

Spez getting a little nervous?

I'll never understand why people do unpaid labor for free for capitalists

That is literally my name 🤦🏻‍♂️

Legit question -not tryna start shit/trigger intentionally: has this kind of reddit response ever happened before? Ive been on reddit for the past 10+ years, but as a comfy lurker. I remember "internal" reddit issues when the 3rd party thing was a thing.

(Quotes bc, from my POV as a lurker/casual user, the upset regarding reddit nixing 3rd party was too meta for me to really understand beyond "this is bad for reddit users")

I've gained enough info by casual usage-proxy to move over to lemme. But ngl, im not grasping the magnitude of why "reddit is bad now". I dont disagree, but i couldnt explain on my own to an outsider why i agree with that sentiment.

Obviously, censorship is bad mmmkay - I'm not questioning this. I have a gut feeling that making the switch and getting my global info from the fediverse is a good call. I just can't express why, and am requesting assistance from the community's exp in how I can express that. This seems like as good a topic ad any for a platform to discuss the matter.

So sad…I loved Reddit…I’m so sad to see it come to this. I’m so sad for all of the young people who think this is how the internet should be…..

I am not surprised though. Someone with money is now exerting influence because Reddit is the most popular place for the resistance to oligarchy. Oligarchy aim is to own all media and they believe that will be the end of resistance's ability to spread messages.

There's going to come a point when the things we can't say may need to be said. A time when the message is delivered with blank comments.

[ . . . ] will carry a message of it's own that becomes much more difficult to ban.

My 11 year old account, very active account, was recently banned from reddit but I'm not sure why. They deleted the comment so I'm not sure what it said. But I've been posting there for 11 years with no issues so something has changed.

I believe the comment I made was talking about if the US invaded Canada and I said they would be hard pressed to hold the country because Canadians look like Americans and we would take the battle across the border.

It's a common sense statement. Doesn't incite any more violence then quoting half the things Trump says about Canada any given day.

I think Reddit is purging the left leaning accounts and making a Nazi safespace like Twitter.

The entire stuff going on is too stupid for me. I was using Lemmy for lurking and Reddit for other shit. I'm staying here now.

Luigi Luigi. Luigi Luigi Luigi. Luigi, Luigi Luigi hahaha. Luigi Luigi.

the ban for upvoting "eat the rich" too.

yet reddit admins never had a problem with thedonalds posters litteraly saying people should be shot and other violent rhetoric for years. the key difference is this time the billionaire class got upset.

This is awesome. Are they going to start banning any reference to the SuperMario Bros IP, now?

e.g.

"This guy is looking more and more like Bowser every day, someone ought to do something about it"

"Princess peach has had it, time to go get the parasol"

"I'm sick of these motherfucking goombas on this motherfucking Earth"

Just put "luigi" at the bottom of every comment.

Damn I thought reddit would stay save from the new usa censorship. Next step will ban liberal or anti trump posts and communities for sure. Seems like I moved to Lemmy at just the right time.

The oligarchs are getting nervous. Good. I hope they are a scared. Fuck their platforms and their false backing of “free speech.”

Mods on Lemmy are a bunch of Napoleonic cunts as well. I'm constantly having posts censored and deleted without clear reason or explanation.

I lost my 14 year old Reddit mod account. That modded a million plus subreddit. Because I made a joke that McConnell was close to death. Which he is. But they banned me before having to offer me stock options. Cunts.

We all know what’s gonna happen next. The Admins will lock out the remaining mod and take it over for being “unmoderated” and install their own puppets like nothing ever happened.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Free Luigi

"check for violence" for any comments that contain the word "Luigi".

This is gonna make Nintendo retro-garming discussions really awkward.

Yea, my blessed Fediverse brethren, hear ye!

Mark thy holy lemmings, gird thy loins with smelling salts and prepare for the unwashed tides. The memes will be terrible and swift, and no one will be safe from the waves of idiocy.

Tremble, for the 2nd Dawn of the Age of Incelius has arrived, and the Reddexodus Reddux is upon us!

hey reddit hows it going

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yeah

I mean this is political censorship. Just plain and simple. Well done reddit. And i am against violence. But the thing that touches me the wrong way is the idea that not guilty until proven completely got lost in this case. And dont get me started on the united healthcare topic. Ia this still allowed on reddit or will it get shadow banned?

It's not like we don't have mod drama but at least when you're federated, stupid decisions get limited to a single instance and others can simply defederate. Does allow for pretty... erm, interesting views you don't see on Reddit.

Is the word "guillotine" censored too? Asking for a friend.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Ah, they’re now mini-zampolit for the reddit admins.

Time to invite them over?

Let it burn.

Out of the loop somehow, what is (this) Luigi all about?

How long till the people still using X, Meta, and Reddit products will start to be featured on !leopardsatemyface@lemm.ee and other related communities?

https://slrpnk.net/post/19213775 ?

Play a charicter specifically to get downvotes, even ASK or subtly imply you should.

Make a bot to downvote anything you dont explicitly upvote, but make upvote button un-downvote posts.

Who said button must corralate to intent? Dont dislike this post OP, i worked really hard on it!