You say ONE thing, and Reddit decides to ban you

Reddit is a full blown Nazi sympathizing shithole at this point. Good riddance.

Reddit really testing the limits of Dead Internet Theory

Everyone is a bot except for you

Reddit is going crazy with the bans. A perma ban can result from something as simple as saying something like "I hope the consequences of not vaccinating are more deeply suffered by anti-vaxxers than by people who are not vaxxed from an allergy or something". After all, that constitutes "hoping for violence/death".

I was banned for showing "extreme indifference" about Kissinger taking a dirt nap.
I wonder if it's because Reddit is now a prime resource for AI scraping, and they don't want it to repeat that anti-vaxxers should suffer more to their cooker clientele 🤔

Same, I was banned for a BS reason. It seems like they are basically looking any for reason to ban leftists at this point, it doesnt even have to be justified

As am I. Apparently the Zionists subreddit mods don't like it when you compare Israeli propaganda to Nazi propaganda.

You’re not supposed to compare apples to other very similar apples. It upsets people.
i like the type of person coming here because of that. welcome to lemmy, we have memes too.
Yay, I'm not alone! Sarcastically pointing out that Israel has a right to unalive and fondle American children is frowned upon.
Well yea, because it’s cute when they do it.
Same for the comm mods here

The "one thing" he said:

Edit: Kinda funny how He's flipping the bird backwards here though.

Yeah I did, I said nazi's can go fuck themselves. That got me a warning. Then I said anti-vaxxers are idiots and that forced vaccinations might be a good idea. When I said that they said I was promoting violence and that got me banned. Seriously, fuck Reddit.
- I posted a gif of Luigi from Luigi’s Mansion and got a warning for promoting violence or whatever. So I just deleted my account and migrated.
- I see r/unvaccinated has gotten its filthy infested little fingers into Spez's brain.
Bud, if you think Reddit is banning nazis....
- they will likely ban the "Kill minorities" but not fhe "[dogwhistle to kill] minorities"
  if those come here, were only getting the extra stupid nazis

Fuck reddit. Zionist fascsist infested shithole

I got banned for telling a legit Nazi to fuck himself up the ass with a cactus, no lube.

Banned for threatening violence and hate speech apparently.

Yeah, my initial main account ban was because I said "if you try to have a monkey as a pet, you deserve to be bitten by it" on a video of a guy who had a monkey ripping shit up in his apartment and that bites him on the hand at one point.
That apparently counts as inciting violence rather than y'know implying that people shouldn't own fucking monkeys which I felt was pretty clear given the context.
Evidently my angry sounding unban request was not well received.
- Hahaha, sorry for laughing but reddit ia such a joke.

Welcome and fuck spez

Maybe it's just me, but no matter what the ban was for (I'm very aware Reddit is going ban-crazy and has just been shit in general,) I feel it's a bad omen that one community (connected communities, fediverse, what have you) is being largely inhabited by people banned from other communities.

reddit bans people for saying things like "isreal shouldn't be genociding the gazans"
- That's what got me banned.
- I was banned for saying we should pay to feed our kids breakfast and lunches at school instead of paying to blow up someone else's kids
I don't disagree, but it depends on the reason. Getting banned for calling out Zionism, or for being a leftist in general? Great! Come to Lemmy!
When the width and breath of censorship is so wide that virtually everyone gets caught in the dragnet?

Yo, this place is dope, fuck reddit

I was banned for a while, saying that NATO countries should declare war on Russia and kill Putin. That was a political news Reddit, and the topic was about Russia's Shadow Fleets and sabotage operations. War, the consideration and advocation, is an inherently political thing.

Reddit would say that Churchill wanting to fight Nazi Germany is advocating for violence. While technically true, it misses the fact that sometimes words cannot broker peace nor civility.

What got you banned? I said mean things about Elon Musk.

I got banned for saying in a Captain America thread that I’d love to see a version of the classic Captain America comic book cover where Cap punches Trump intead of Hitler.
I was apparently inciting violence.
Praise the fediverse!
- Inciting violence was the reason given for me too. Challenging Nazis is violent to them. Don’t let them normalize this idiocy.
Reddit is such a weird place. A lot of left-leaning people are still on there, even though spez worships Elon and even named Elon as the "inspiration" for all the stupid shit he did to Reddit.

Welcome in! Enjoy your stay.

All I'll say is that Lemmy is smaller than Reddit, so naturally a lot of convos default to politics and tech.

Because of that though, you'll be exposed to potentially new ideas regarding both. So be open minded! But also know that you can block users, communities, and instances if you find them unbearable.

Cheers

I have so many bans on Reddit.

I was banned from r/soapmaking for saying that people who buy soap made by other people, melt it, add perfume and trinkets, and pour it into moulds aren't making soap, they're doing arts and crafts. I raise the pigs, render the fat to make lard, and do the chemistry to turn it into soap. I make soap.

I was banned from r/canada for wondering if Danielle Smith was going to pay the lunatic street preecher charged with violating Covid restrictions a conjugal visit, after she made a fawning phone call to him while he was on trial, when he was convicted and sentenced to jail.

I was banned from r/Conservative for pointing out that the headlines that said that the DOJ had found massive voter fraud in Georgia was actually written by a Trump political appointee and contradicted the DOJ, the Republican Attorney General of the United States, the Republican Attorney General of Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia, and Republican election officials from Georgia.

I was banned from the Freedom Convoy sub for asking which constitutional rights had been taken away since the protesters had exercised their Section 2 rights to assemble, their Section 6 rights to cross interprovincial borders freely and that they were free to leave Canada if they could find any country that would take them and free to return if they quarantined, and that since none of them were vaccinated they had obviously exercised their Section 8 right not to receive the vaccine.

Never, ever speak truth into an echo bunker.

Bans seem harsh but you do seem like me, just a generally contemptible asshole.
- Meh. They're pathetic fucking snowflakes, one and all. I just speak the truth to snowflakes.

How do you guys even get banned? I'm straight up posting AI-generated suicide instructions nowadays, and I get more engagement and less shadow removals than I had before.

I got a 6 day ban for calling out people acting like Nazis
You have to post anything a fascist would hate. Fascists love undesirables killing themselves.
I got a 3 day ban for suggesting the Jan 6ers should have been shot for being traitors.
Then got a 7 day ban for joking that a violent insurrection was needed in my own country.
I wouldn't have minded if I was banned for being a filthy hypocrite.
- were you banned from reddit as whole, or just specific subs?
wait how do you even got AI to make suicide instructions I swear sometimes I give GPT a OC of mine who got shot and it doesn't wanna talk about it
- I mean, I just use AI to generate comments and mix suicide instructions in. Something like commenting a cupcake recipe and adding "tie rope around your neck" and "jump out the window" in between the steps provided by AI.
Someone decided to fake report me because of "C.P" (I didn't post anything merely mentioning it)
and they just didn't check my appeal

Welcome internet stranger, you made the right choice.

Yeah, of course... spez hates discussion of supposedly committing violence by anyone from center to left.

It does not help that they're using AI-assisted profiling, information used by both mods and site admins to determine the number of strikes to ban users.

I've been banned from reddit hundreds of times, I have a bot that creates accounts, I say whatever I want, get banned, move to the next account.
Also, every time I get banned I make sure to file an appeal where I tell the admins to gargle my balls.
It's pretty fun community to be a part of 6/10
- I absolutely adore how Reddit is convinced that an account has any sort of value attached to it.
  When some Goebbels cock gobbling SSAdmin shadow banned my 18 year old account… I just made another, absolutely nothing of value was lost.
  Because Reddit is a Nazi sympathizing shithole, all I’ll ever do is take and consume - I’ll buy your competitors products at an increased cost to me if I see you advertising on Reddit.
- Hello yes I would like to join the telling reddmins to gargle my balls community.

And in the end it wasn't even really anything I said as much as the autoflag got my ass for posting on a temp account in a sub that banned my main account. Caught a perma ban for all my accounts with that shit.

All because I originally said I hoped Elon overd*sed. (don't wanna be banned from here too so censor it is.) They're especially sensitive to that one in the Vancouver subreddit I guess for obvious reasons if you know about Vancouver.

the neat thing about lemmy is: i can freely say elon musk is a pedophile protector and ketamine addicted loner. i hope he overdoses and his death will be celebrated

I can’t believe they banned me for what they banned me for too. After 16 years on the platform. Fuck em

Reddit is nearly 100% AI bots these days on the popular subs. You're good to get away. The interface over here is shite and takes forever to figure out, but the people are nice.

Except me. I'm evil.
- Hi evil, I'm dad

Hey, hope you enjoy! Been here a couple years myself and enjoy it a lot more than Reddit, though I was never banned from it.

I got perm banned for saying on a post about Nazis in South Dakota gathered on the Capitol steps, I said I was in the mood to punch some Nazis in the face. Reddit can suck it.

I got banned for "threatening violence" for joking that Ryan Routh should get some help aiming for the neck from Tyler James Robinson.
No sense of humor...

Me posting dispelling obvious Israeli propaganda on any subreddit. Exhausting.

mfw people think lemmy is a free safe space until they discover the biggest instance admins are mostly intolerant, impulsive manchilds UwU

This, with even less recourse to have the ban removed. Eg I was banned by Jordan Lund from politcal/news Lemmys, publicly spoke with him about the ban and was found to not have broken any rules, and he just wont remove the ban. For me doing literally nothing wrong, except having politics he doesn't agree with (feminism and think Trump engaged in election interference, which I had and have reputable sources for), in a politcal sub.

What was the reason though? Personally I never used Reddit. So I don't know about them

I got banned for calling an antivaxxer a waste of oxygen :3

Well, statistically they'll use less oxygen than the rest of us, to be fair.

Reddit: By Bots; For Bots.

I got banned in a subreddit because I said FB dude got a penis transplant from a rat

You don't even need to say something, just become a "security risk" to them by using uBlock Origin to block their trackers. In other words, how I personally got banned. Anyway, welcome to Lemmy!

Someone wished Trump would die of disease (and didn't get banned), I wish him a long life and lots of suffering from disease so reddit banned me for advocating for violence (they'd been targeting me)

Say the wrong thing here and you can get banned too.

the wrong thing
Rules exist.
Like what?
- Allow me to demonstrate…
  “RUST IS THE BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND USING ANYTHING ELSE IN 2025 IS IRRESPONSIBLE!”
- Depends on your instance and the community you're posting in.
  For example, on lemmy.world a user might get warned or banned for openly celebrating the shooting of Brian Thompson. (I forget exactly where they draw the line, but it's an "advocating violence" thing)
  Or here, a user on lemmy.ml might get banned for bigoted statements, even normal things that plenty of people don't even notice are bigoted because it's "common sense" in their own country.
  But you've got to be pretty damn intolerable to get banned from more than a few instances. Like, actual Nazism.
- I said I was my kids landlord in the wrong thread and got banned for 30+ days because I was evil landlord. Trust me my kids are quite happy with how cheep their rent is.

What did you say?

It was a cringe post where it was absolute pain, and I made a joke saying “the gun feels so good on the side of my head rn”
- :(

This place:

"I hate you and your dumb. Yay, my opinion is finally seen!"

If you’re dumb and have hateable opinions I don’t see the issue.
- What a dumb fucking opinion. I hate you.

Welcome to the family! There are literally 10s of us!

My bans came from me saying that Israel is committing genocide and that Netenyahu needs to be tried and hanged for his crimes.

It’s always good to keep your options open. The fediverse has set up guardrails to prevent things from happening here that have already happened out there but anything can fail. I myself have an account on ramble if shit goes bad here. Always have an escape route. Have no loyalty, that will be abused.

You might wanna try out the sorting "scaled" when browsing "all" to find new communities (or check out every c/newcommunity that interests you)

But warning: scaled in all can have a lot of porn if you have nsfw on

You can also just use an instance that defederates from porn, so NSFW can just be for shocking or otherwise violent things.
Thanks for the... the warning.

Lost track of my reddit bans. Really lost track of my subreddit bans. I really stacked them up late 2023.

What are "slightly right of left leaning" opinions that got you or someone you know censored?
- Liberty for all people is pretty rad.
Right-wing views should be made fun of and discredited though, just like Flat Earthers or anti-vaxxers. Right-wing politics isn't simply a "preference," it's support for a brutal system of imperialism and domination of the working class.
- Yes, likewise all statists should be made fun of and discredited. Statist politics isn’t simply a “preference,” it’s support for a brutal system of imperialism and domination of the working class.

Lemmy is fine. We just need more users for content.

There are enough already, IMO. It's stable, the instances I use are populated enough to sustain themselves and have interesting discussion.
*good users. We don't welcome Trump supporters
- Yea, thankfully the fediverse by nature attracts communists.

fake reports on your profile which reddit just won't check if they make sense:

I was kind of indifferent to rule breaking at the sub level but always careful to avoid rule breaking at the site level and not one of my appeals was ever upheld.

I write some bad word about Andrew tate House and get all my accounts band in one day . Fuck Reddit

It's not really that much better here. People jumping the gun constantly.

Depends on the instance really.

I got a temp ban from reddit. Not cool enough, apparently.

Subreddit mods cannot ban you from Reddit entirely, just their subreddit

Oh it definitely can get you an entire reddit ban. Not from them directly but you can be autoflagged as attempting to ban evade if you post in that sub again from a new account. That's how I got got.
accounts still get banned for (at least for me) supporting Palestine.
my ban was due to a comment in a post about some zio settler going into a Palestinian field to remove a Palestinian flag from Palestinian territory, it was boobie trapped and the video showed him as a red mist.
I wrote a long paragraph about the danger of boobie traps and who they are war crimes. but also that zio has a absolutely no right to complain. Banned for supporting violence.
They can and do flag and report accounts to an AI assisted administration that will casually permaban whole communities on a whim.

I have only one account left on reddit 😕

Burn it by saying something epic.

Me too. I commented on a post about a shooting and sarcastically asked how folks were going to blame it on trans people this time. Permabanned!

Hello new!

The irony. You're posting on a comm in the most ban-happy instance with an account registered on the other most ban-happy instance.

The censorship has gone mad on Reddit. I was a user there before the whole Digg migration, and it's been such a wonderful ride. It had to end at some point, though.

I'm just at a point where it's genuinely impossible to have a conversation there without having your comments removed, the thread locked, or downvoted to oblivion for not joining in to whatever the masses are yapping about.

Less of a town square and more of a mob of idiots surrounded by bots.

Yeah it's gotten bad on reddit

It can happen here too

I’ve been banned from a community on here before because I’m sure someone misread my comment.

My comment was clearly aligned with everyone else on the post, but I still got banned and mods did not respond to my messages about getting unbanned.

I've been banned from several communities here for downvoting in one. At least that's what the messages said. Got several bans for communities I didn't even know existed 😂.

It is the way; welcome

I actually enjoy the experience of Reddit more after having been banned.

I said something mean about idiots riding unregistered/uninsured off-road bikes in and out of traffic (totally illegal in the UK) a few months back.

That got me banned.