I can’t get rid of it, it’s obnoxious. I’ve tried filtering the element with my adblocker but it keeps reappearing. As much as I find Reddit useful (unfortunately), especially for information and discussion relating to my country, I will never install their proprietary garbage app on my phone just to use their website.

Oh well. I’ve used the Internet before Reddit existed, I’m sure I can get used to doing so again.

  • Ferroto@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I usually don’t browse the web on my phone but for me it was when I got a reddit warning for wishing that someone would put something extra in Putin’s tea.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Reddit has IP shadowbanned me for some reason. All new posts on my main account are invisible, and new accounts are the same. I’ve appealed, multiple times, to no response.

    And not “some reason” being “I made edgy political posts they’d obviously dislike.” No, I did two things on Reddit:

    • Nerd out about lore on /r/thelastairbender and some other fandom subs

    • Nerd out about ML in /r/localllama, before the tech bros came for it.

    Doesn’t seem like anything to ban me over.

    …Funny thing is, it seems like I’m not alone?

    I noticed many experts missing in /r/localllama. Honestly it feels like all the technical knowledge has been sucked out of the sub, and people there don’t even know the basics of how stuff works.

    Same with my preferred fandoms. They’ve gotten more “culty,” less knowledgeable, less interested in deep lore and speculative theory/stories.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      just look at the shadowban sub, they are in the same situation. also unbannings by reddit seem very rare, like the admin actually unbans you. its less than<1% appeal rate out of how many posts are made. the admins are the only ones that physically unbans people, while thier AI bans people. and how many admins are there working on reddit compared to how many appeals that go through. i suspect the admins have a way of filter out majority of appeals(hences ghost rejections)

  • Da Cap’n@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m a former redditor as well, a few years back. Lemmy is a very nice place. It’s like Reddit back before Reddit went to shit (~15 years ago).

    This year, we’ve had a big influx from Reddit. This is great that people are finally abandoning ship.

    I’m pleading with you that are new here…please don’t bring the nastiness here. Start afresh!

    I say that because I’ve noticed a sharp increase of shitty attitudes all of the sudden. It’s a direct correlation with the new influx of redditors. I had someone, just two days ago, accuse me of acting like an r/atheist whatever-the-fuck. He was trying to insult me because I disagreed with his view on something.

    It doesn’t matter if we agree or disagree…respect and latitude is what makes Lemmy a great place. Let’s not turn this platform into Reddit 2.0 ❤️

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      just block tankies instances. and you are golden. also individuals who make tankie comments should also be blocked. plus avoid the politics community too much pro-zionists going there.

    • Today@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      When i first came to lemmy i was defensive and grouchy. Took a bit to recognize how different it is here.

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Keep a hopeful heart, but use the block function liberally.

        It’s one of the things few people know exists, and it will make your life much more sane. In fact, people have been here for several years know that there’s a small cadre of toxic users, and once you accidentally catch them in your block net, things calm down here for you.

        Don’t block people out of anger, just ask yourself if this person is the type of individual who’s going to contribute to my life in any way? If they anger you are frustrate you, just block them. We don’t know each other, or we’re all just faceless humans here.

  • Aerosolcb@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I left because I got banned twice. One for three days for telling a story about my trainer Mark (whos name I changed) and how I didnt like him. 3 day ban for inciting violence. A week later, I was commenting on a post about someone saying getting punched in the face turned out to be a good thing for him. I replied, “Yeah man, a punch to the mouth can be great for behavior correction.” Banned for 7 days.

    It is important to mention that I was banned the literal second I hit post. No human saw my posts. Both times, I was autobanned by the AI moderators. It just disgusted me, so I deleted my account. I had that account since 2011, too.

    One problem I had with Reddit is that the world is falling apart, and every post about serious shit always has people thinking they are hilarious. American missile blows up a school, “Guess the US found oil under that school huehuehuehue” It got so annoying.

    TLDR: AI Moderation is getting super strict to prepare for their IPO, all the posts felt like bots anyways.

  • EpicFailGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    took you long enough XD, IDK of anyone has already told you but there’s a tool to migrate all your subreddits to similar communities, and a script to overwrite all your comments for privacy’s sake.

    There’s also a great community finder tool you should check out, on this side any lemmy instance can sub to any community on any other lemmy instance so you may want to subscrive to several communities with the same theme in more than one instance.

    This is one of them

    https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    This is another: https://sub.rehab/

    • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Thats actually so useful. Such community finder tools should be more widely known, as I think this aspect can be one of the more challenging things on fedi.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I got shadow banned on Reddit for posting my diy Luigi prayer candle idea on a few different pages. I’m not allowed to post comments on facebook because of my anti Israel , anti billionaire and anti pedophile belief’s.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I actually find Lemmy to be kind of refreshing. While it doesn’t have nearly the depth of content or the traffic of new posts on things I’m interested in, the fact it doesn’t send my adblocker into over drive or have mods that seem to spend a lot of time trying to police their communities like they are being paid for it is nice.

    Gives me a small taste of what the old days of individual blogs with comment sections and forums was like.

    • Alkali@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Clicking on posts can switch back to the www version though. I’m honestly over it.