Reddit is so very confused..
Reddit is so very confused..
So yesterday I received a 7-day ban for 'encouraging violence', for saying that Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit, somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and the 'offending' comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit's rules with my 'other account(s)'. Well that's also bullshit because I've had exactly one (1) account in the 14 years I've been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think I'm gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
These companies are revealing their true colors now that they think it's acceptable to do so.
I got shadow banned for making a popular post about dyi Luigi prayer candles on witches vs patriarchy. No warning no notification just a site wide permanent shadow ban on an old account with high karma. I feel like this is a better community though so win win I guess. Funny because I feel like they’re banning most real people and just leaving the bots lol. Tons of people post on shadow banned everyday this can’t be a healthy business model.
In a Yogscast TTT video some years back, Rythian used 'Green Mario' as a joking name for Bouphe, who was using the Luigi player model at the time.
For those who want to undermine reddit's power trip, I propose Green Mario as the first stick in their knee-bending attitude.
Permabanned for "glorifying or inciting violence" by replying to a post about Elon Musk under a dinosaur poop meme, where someone asked "what should the would richest man do?" with "he should eat shit and die".
Here for good.
Much wow, such violence. Ban deserved, imo, yep. Fuck Reddit.
welcome home!
Yeah, I was on Reddit for over a decade. And the changes especially in these past couple years have been so dramatic. I received a seven day band today for like the third time and finally deleted the app and here I am . No looking back.
Once the era of easy money ended a bunch of tech companies who are never profitable and never needed to be because of the 0% interest rates are close to it all of a sudden had to get really profitable really fast so they all enshittified very rapidly
Got my badge of honor today. Reddit are bootlickers.
I got my badge of honor during the API purge, when I mass edited all of my old comments before deleting them. It’s a little more quiet here, but it honestly reminds me of the early Reddit days. If you tag users, you’ll start to see just how small of a community it actually is; I see my tags all over the place in nearly every comment section.
If you haven’t done so, consider looking into the various apps. Voyager (sometimes called Wefwef by the older users) is a sort of spiritual successor to Apollo. So if you’re an old Apollo user, you’ll likely feel right at home.
same here. fucking bootlickers.
I got permabanned during the women's March for cheering on the March posters and such. I started and admined the /keitruck sub reddit. I also had some other subreddits that weren't as big. Keitruck is pretty small though. All that work for nothing. So I didn't fight the ban, just moved here. Good move! Now I only go to reddit from accidentally clicking on web searches. Who knows WTF is going on.
I dumped Reddit over the weekend.
They may all go to hell, and I will go to Lemmy.
Welcome to the Fediverse! If you've been on Reddit for 14 years, you were attracted to what it once was. Lemmy is that, but a whole lot better, and your skills as a moderator will be highly valued here. In fact, if you are looking to start up any new communities hmu and I'll see about giving you a hand.
Also, here's your obligatory Saint Luigi blessing for the banned:
remember kids:
A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power
I have no skills as a moderator, sadly, I avoid responsibility as a lifestyle. Thanks for the warm welcome tho. :)
Reddit is a bot-infested hellscape. I got so mad when I learned that most AITAH posts and popular sub posts were just karma farmers preying on our attention. Lemmy seems to offer some relief. Happy to be here :)
Welcome, glad to have you aboard!
Thanks, glad to be here!
Considering the time you were at reddit (not too different from mine), I think you'll find Lemmy like reddit was in your earlier times there.
What I mean by that is generally more thoughtful and reasonable discussion (generally), smaller communities, more generalized (but specific stuff is accepted, so "all ttrpg is good here" vs "thats pathfinder, this is for 5e only!", as an example.
Welcome and I hope you enjoy it here!
Also, if you come across a server you think fits better as a home base - make an account, see if it fits. You dont have to stay in one spot just because its where you made your first.
Glad to hear it, I look forward to poking around.
It is too much pressure for Reddit to have this many users. They're doing their best to get rid of them. It's just too much to handle... Poor Reddit
Help Reddit's well-being by leaving it and join Lemmy today!
"Damn users trying to comment on stuff. Just shut up and keep scrolling instead. Our bots can handle the comments."
Probably will trick a lot of lurkers
lmfao fuck reddit cause this is so true
I’ve basically abandoned Reddit as well. I’ve been on for so long, but this bullshit makes me feel unsafe. If the platform is going to so blatantly side with those who would happily let me die for a few dollars (health insurance companies), then I don’t need to give them my attention or data anymore.
13 year account here, also banned for supporting Luigi. I tried to appeal, but the post had already been removed so I didn't know what exactly I said that violated the rules, and my appeal was denied. This was a post I made back in December, mind you. They went looking for a reason to ban a Luigi supporter. They did homework.
Somebody over there is really afraid of how popular Luigi's actions are. I wonder why...
It was liberating for me. Haven't gone back.
I haven't and I won't. Lemmy is a far more positive atmosphere with less content, but better quality content. There's less overt manipulation and not everything is politicised. I just don't trust reddit
The slower pace of content is a huge plus to me.
Same. Funny all those douches who said we'd be back in a week lol
Welcome! There are dozens of us
Didn't I see you at the convention in Munich last year?
Cadby, from the consulate right? This is so weird!
Dozens now, hundreds tomorrow, thousands next week.
52K / 12 = 4.3K dozens to be exact
My main concern is that Luigi isn’t even confirmed to be the one to have pulled the trigger, right?
But even if he was, I still don't think he should go to jail for it.
14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).
If I come across something I can't find here I will certainly do that.
I'm using Voyager and you can copy the link for all of your subscribed subreddits (if you haven't deleted your account yet) and enter it into the app. It will search Lemmy for similar communities.
This same thing happened to me twice in one week. I haven't had a ban on my account in 14 years. I've given up on Reddit and just deleted my account. Fuck them if they want to treat us like we're children. I won't use their platform again.
Paranoid me says they're trying to ban all of the older accounts with clear liberal bias. 14 years for me too and my permaban was for saying I'd "take a couple with me" if Nazis ever came for me. Appealed and upheld.
Crazy to think defending yourself is something worthy of a ban, but here we are. Fuck 'em I guess. They won't make money off of me and I won't post to their communities. Sounds like a lose/lose situation for them.
Yeah it's been getting increasingly fashy over there. They've blocked topics before, but to my knowledge they've never banned people for upvoting something. It's crazy. Next they're going to start banning any anti-Israel content as antisemitic, or anything pro-Palestine as promoting terrorism or whatever. It's gotten MUCH worse since the IPO, too, so it's clearly being done for the benefit of the advertisers.
Curating subs? I see it as more of "creating my own bubble". Lemmy is a good way to kinda expose myself to other stuff for a change and not just the reddit hive mind.
I mean, how many times have you opened a post and knew what the top 3 comments would be??
I've seen one person respond to something here with simply "this is the way," and the flashbacks were real
Getting annoyed just reading that in quote form. The obsession with "I think you should leave" is getting too much too. I love that show and they're making me like it less by constantly referencing it.
Weeeelllll... technically there are a couple of Lemmy cliches, but you make a good point. Canned bot responses to farm karma are certainly awful, with the only human exception being "look up en passant" because that was intentional predicability.
I think there is a very simple solution to all your problems with reddit...
I did say I think I'm gonna permanently switch to lemmy..
Welcome to Lemmy! If you find it's not quite you your liking, there is also Mbin which is sort of similar but has some significant differences too.
Personally, I like them both and they're both federated.
If you wanted to check it out, https://fedia.io/ is the more popular instance.
Same man, I've been on Reddit pretty much since 2005.
It seems like such a waste of 20 years of doom scrolling, imagine if I'd put that time into learning a trade, or another language...
That's not how brains work, they need time to unwind, so you would've just found some other method to do that.
It seems like ever since the DOGE kids were posted on Reddit and Elon got mad the ban hammer has been out en force.
Funny, I have said some extremely disparaging things about Musk in specific and oligarchs in general in the last couple weeks and not a single one of those comments got dinged. shrug
Every long term reddit bans and/or alienates and comes to lemmy, benefits us all. Welcome!
bring your subs, bring your friends!
Welcome to the Lemmy BDSM convention!
The adjustment can be a little awkward at first but there's plenty to do on Lemmy if you take some time to learn how things work and how to get the most out of it.
If you're the type of person that enjoys posting and guiding topics there's no shortage of people hungry for content on Lemmy. There are lots of active communities but even more that are still trying to get off the ground or need someone interested to adopt them.
Whatever your interests, https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great way to find communities for the topics you care about if you aren't finding them on lemmy.world.
I hope your time here is more enjoyable than where you're coming from.
Thanks! Honestly it's been less of an adjustment than I expected. Took a couple hours to read about it and figure out how it works, picked a server, and jumped right in. The big thing is that I'm losing that whole curated sub list that I'm going to have to replicate, but I'm sure it'll take care of itself.
It's been almost two years since my exodus. I've popped in Reddit a few times for specific information, but I noticed I just feel like crap when I do. It's just so toxic. I didn't notice it until I spent time in Lemmy.
The free market works in mysterious ways.
Hello
Hi!
Did you also get troll reported to that automated help response for people that may be contemplating self harm?
That was always a good time. Man, I miss Reddit so much...
Oh not in this instance, but I definitely have before.
Should something like this ever happen to me, I'll be happy to leave Reddit behind. Right now I'm still looking to promote Lemmy.
Welcome soldier!
o7
Should’ve left the shit hole before it booted you, but at least you made it here!
Probably, but 14 years is a whole lot of inertia to overcome.
I was a mod for a 2mill person sub with an account made in 2009 when I left 2 summers ago 😅
Not trying to one up you, honestly I get what you mean. It sounds silly but it does feel like you kind of have this energy and emotion invested in it that’s hard to give up. I’m glad you’re here now!
Unsolicited advice: Try not to fall into the trap of comparing everything to Reddit. Most of the things here are better, some things (few) are worse. You just need to find good communities.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions! People are very happy to explain how things work around here in my experience. What’s critical is finding an instance that you like and blocking communities/instances that you don’t. If you browse /all you’ll get what you expect a lot of the time lol
Beehaw and blahaj are pretty great (not everyone agrees with me on blahaj)
Now that you're unbanned, consider using a tool to edit all of your comments to gibberish to remove your value from reddit. I've seen it a lot, it's easy to do, and it works.
Reddit has access to your edit history, it only works for as long as they don't see a need to restore it. And it probably doesn't work at all in regards to preventing ai training.
I personally have found search results that would have been useful or able to solve my problem if they hadn't had this done to them. It has pushed me to search site:reddit.com far less, so I know it works. The fewer people visiting reddit the better.
I definitely don't want to provide reddit with any more value, but many of my posts and comments were informative or had a good way to explain something or the like, and I still get random replies and mail years later on some of them. This (in general, not on reddit in specific) i feel is my contribution to society, so shitting on that just to very slightly inconvenience reddit feels counterproductive. I don't receive any direct benefit from it (and upon leaving reddit I won't even get the indirect benefit of people telling me how helpful I was), but I am content to know that maybe I've helped a few people.
I still get random replies and mail years later on some of them.
I still get random replies on the stuff I turned to gibberish. Though looking at my old u/, a lot of the most upvoted ones were straight up nuked. Which wasn't the case last time I checked.
Neat.
Doesn't really work, Reddit has your posts and comments archived and if they're selling access they'll likely be including that. All it does is inconvenience everyday human users.
A fresh new start can do wonders. Reddit is freaking fever dream in every direction.
