Yeah like everyone else here… Venting about how shitty Reddit is. In the last 2 years I’ve been getting 7-day bans every few months for the dumbest things. Seriously ridiculous how relatively unoffensive my comments are. Half of which were bot bans. This last time I decided to use my alt account during a ban and got my main account permanently banned. Submitted an appeal but I don’t have high hopes and even if they lift it, fuck them. Not to mention individual sub bans for simply joining other subs or having a link to my OnlyFans on my profile. I’ve had enough.
Shame you didn’t get banned for exposing a pedo ring. Yes they call that one harassment
I got a site wide permaban for saying Putin should be executed for war crimes.
On r/ukraine
you have been murdered for saying Netanyahu should be executed for war crimes.
Netanyahu should be imprisoned and tortured for war crimes.
You should generally avoid showing support towards Europe under TrumpZ administration. Weak Europe will not be able to help US in the future and they all know this. Focus on strengthening China and Russia instead so that they can take on US once Trump has finished robbing and destroying it
/s?
Isn’t “TrumpZ” an obvious hint?
If we stop speaking up then we lose our ability to speak up.
Forums are for ppl to express themselves. We don’t have to agree with everyone to respect their opinions
Ok buddy
I’m not sure if you missed the sarcasm, but I wasn’t making fun of you. I got banned for similar reasons and I’m from the East
I stand corrected. Always us an /s though. Sarcasm is hard to recognize on the internet as there is plenty of lunatics, Lemmy being no exception.
I beg to differ, unmarked sarcasm has the side effect of ragebaiting the less hinged of us, if done well - Starship Troopers wouldn’t be ¼ as good as it is if every scene ended with an actor saying “by the way, this is meant to be satire, we don’t actually like hypermilitarism”
I originate from 4chan. I’m still learning.
I’ve repeatedly gotten away with that (actually, saying that as a terrorist he should be taken out in whatever way makes sense) - but recently I think I got a 7-day ban for it. Moderation is remarkably inconsistent.
NSFW sub bans are the worst. Last I heard most reddit content moderators/admins that were taking care of NSFW subs went overseas or quit due to crushing work hours and having to constantly see shit that makes people’s stomachs turn, even in the softcore subs some of the nastiest shit gets posted and removed.
I used to moderate REGULAR SFW spaces on both Reddit and Discord and let me tell you, the stuff people post is insane. They post straight out terrorist and cartel executions like it is nothing… and that is ignoring the ones who post rapes, tortures, murders, etc. I can only imagine how bad NSFW spaces are. If you do not have an iron-stomach, I would never recommend moderating spaces with millions of people on it.
Got my 7yo account banned for not verifying my mail.
Created a few more accounts with temporary mails, got banned by ‘unauthentic activity’. Then I gave up all and begun to use lemmy. I try to interact on everything to create engagement
Welcome
Nice to have you here :)
Welcome!
Two weeks shy of 15 years and got permabaned last October… Sniped by a bot. Oh well. Found old.lemmy.zip a few days later, signed up and learned how to sub to the communities on other instances and have never looked back.
Am not even angry about it anymore, since it’s waaay more laid back and chill here. Like Reddit was before 2012 or so… Do a lot more reading, which has brought my game up and also, no rage-bots… so that alone is pure delight.
Welcome to the party, it’s low-key but once you find your groove, and learn to sub across the various instances… it’s a blast!
Yeah I’m hoping I don’t get the urge to go back there. Just gotta fill the void with lemmy and/or touch more grass
Find the right handful of commuities and you will not even think of going back.
Honestly.
I’m already having trouble posting nudes on here lol. I can’t join the nsfw instance and my post won’t submit I think cuz I originally joined a sfw instance. It’s ok. I’ll figure it out
I got a 3 day ban for a really innocuous comment. Done by “AI”, of course… I was so annoyed that I didn’t even appeal it and just deleted my account. Should have done it way before, of course. Haven’t been back in 3 weeks. All I said was that Elron Musk hates poor people, and their shit AI said that was threatening harm to someone. Okay.
For something run by a greedy little pigboy, that checks out. Can’t have the poors criticizing those defenceless billionaires and harming their reputation, now can we?
Dude, I feel you. Welcome from a fellow Reddit expat. Right after the Inauguration, Musk had a meeting with Spez, and they permabanned an unknown, but enormous number of people, including me, with a 12 year account, and a million Karma.
People like you and me were on Reddit when NOBODY knew who they were. We BUILT that site, made it the active conversational free speech site it was supposed to be, until they started getting heavy handed, and then went full MAGA for the second round.
You’ll find Lemmy is a LOT more forgiving for political speech, although some instances and subs still have some stupid mods.
There aren’t nearly as many niche forums as Reddit, which is too bad, and there isn’t nearly as much engagement. You won’t be getting thousands, or even hundreds of upvotes. Dozens, maybe. Often none.
On the other hand, you don’t get anywhere near the amount of nonsense you have to put up with at Reddit. The other day I checked out a post that came up in a search, and had to bail because I couldn’t get through the dozens and dozens of pun posts, totally irrelevant tangents, bots, novelty accounts, etc. I never did reach any actual conversation about the subject. It was so much worse than 18 months ago, and it was already bad then.
MAGA has obviously discovered the power of Reddit, and destroyed it. They haven’t found Lemmy yet.
Welcome aboard!
I had to go shortly after the “He gets us” Jesus ads made their appearance.
We need to make a “He gets us (pregnant)” parody.
Jesus loves me. Jesus is inside of me. But he’ll probably be done soon because he just shouted, “Come all ye faithful!”
Jesus gets us - pregnant.
(Note: I have no idea what the original ad looks like.)
My wildest permaban was for a Garyy Tan supporting Cop loving dog shooting another dog, this was detected as threatening violence (or something) a human overturned the obviously ludicrous 7-day ban and then a bot made it permanent.
Mods have never been great on reddit (the number of True, 2, slightly different spellings) subs are largely a result of legitimately bad moderation.
But the admins have gotten so much worse recently (not that they’ve ever been great either: Doxxing trans coworkers to alt-right led subs & banning me for forwarding that someone was trying to dox a mod).
I’m still on their to prevent my local sub going even further right as the rest of Reddit does but I really only engage in that sub now.
Yeah r/offmychest is really bad and I went over to the true version.
Interestingasfuck is terrible and there’s one called intrestingasfuck.
It used to be power mods that were bad and now it’s a combo of humans and bots
I got a seven day for mocking a racist and never looked back
I got banned - after 13 years - for reporting hate speech.
Turns out that is “report abuse”.
lol u probably reported a mod or something smh
Maybe. Or just fuckwits weaponising a badly designed system to control the narrative.
How many on posts about Israel?
None. I almost never talk about politics.
I got two by autobot on Israel genocide.
Yeah, I got permanently from Reddit too, I had a 6 years long Reddit account
I got a 2 month ban on worldnews in a thread about Tesla stocks going to shit and Elon Musk crying about it. My comment was “Hahaha, may he suffer” and apparently that is harassment and inciting violence.
This the same world news that is purportedly modded by Ghislaine Maxwell?
Recently I got a 7-day reddit ban for encouraging violence - tbh I don’t know exactly what I said because all they would do is give me a link to the deleted comment, which was deleted, but it was in the Ukraine War sub and I’m pretty it was for saying I wished somebody would take out Putin. Banned for enouraging violence, upon the enemy leader in an ongoing war. That’s a mighty high ethical bar you got there, sheriff.
