I can comment on something conservative, calling the people morons for being duped, and not get banned from every single left wing area by some power tripping shithead mod that thinks those comments are going to drive positive traction to those conservative spaces.
Some reddit mods are utterly fucking useless, and definitely need to go touch some fucking grass.
Edit adding a screenshot since someone's butthurt enough to downvote: context was calling Jordan Peterson problematic
I got permabanned for saying I would like to see how Eisenhower would treat some Nazi marchers in Wisconsin. Apparently, that is not a commentary on how far the Republicans have shifted, but is actually advocating violence. I haven't been supplying Reddit with free content since. Their loss, I had a pretty decent amount of karma, so I probably was contributing to the popularity of their site.
Got a recent one for you. I was permabanned from reddit a month ago for saying I didn’t care that Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot, because Liz Cheney is a warhawk who has called for bombing millions of people.
Banned for “glorifying violence,” not because I agreed with it or endorsed it. Just for saying I didn’t care.
They even banned an alt I used for work stuff, just for being associated with the main account. Ban upheld on appeal.
I don't agree but I see the reasoning. They are gonna lose advertisers if they allow anything like that on their site. Especially if its a US politician. "I don't care if putin gets shot" might not have gotten you a ban, but a US politician definitely is gonna get a ban, since reddit is a US company.
No. Maybe there’s some indirect concern about advertisers, but it’s mostly narrative control and propaganda.
Look at this recent ceo shooting. The rich know they have to convince us that their lives matter more, and that we have to consider them untouchable. It’s how they maintain their position and protect themselves from accountability from their own evil & violence.
I haven't visited reddit aside from the stray search result or very niche question every few months (no general browsing or any contributing since I made this account), you really can't post archive links? Why? DMCA BS?
I once got banned from a community for sharing a zelda decompilation project on archive.org. Others have reported issues with reddit and banning people for sharing nintendo power magazines. Fun times.
Modern day internet, you can talk about things, but you have to talk around certain companies, like nintendo or else risk getting banned/taken down. But with the fediverse, i can own more of the system. If world ever goes down, I can still use my personal instance to communicate for instance.
Maybe you were in some seriously shady subs with pimple nosed little snotbags acting as mod, but none of this was ever a problem for me in the subs I frequented.
Getting banned from Lemmy is orders of magnitude easier. During my 10+ years on reddit I can only remember one occasion when I got banned from a sub but it has happened on Lemmy multiple times over the 1.5 years I've been here and comments being removed is a regular thing.
On reddit you need to actually break the rules. On Lemmy it's enough that a mod doesn't like what you're saying.
And the sub doesn’t even have to be related. I got banned from commenting in r/thatsinsane for a comment in r/karma4u, can’t even remember commenting there.
Getting banned doesn’t really have the same impact. In both cases, you can still register with a new email, but on Lemmy, you can also choose a different instance.
Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It's almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.
Oh yea reddit gets so strict sometimes. Like I get mods not wanting to get people to start spamming community names, but sometimes a relavent conversation comes up and it's really too strict to not even allow a mention in a relevent conversation.
I'm still fucking pissed off, a Reddit mod banned me sitewide for a week for mocking someone using windows on a steam deck, fuck it, I deserved it, BUT SITEWIDE AND FOR A FUCKING WEEEEK
There was also a fad to spam links to communities, some of them made up. Entire chains of comments would just be nonsense. A crackdown on that would make sense.
Here it's not really an issue. There I'd usually consider a link to a community without additional text to be spam.
I've never been banned from Reddit but I was threatened with a ban by a Reddit admin when I reported a right wing troll group who was obviously using sockpuppets to harass people and spread racist bullshit in some local sub. The admin message said I was abusing the moderation system by reporting them and if I didn't stop I would be banned from Reddit. I was never banned but a few weeks later all of the sockpuppet accounts I reported were banned by the antievil operations team along with one of the mods in that sub.
I’d argue there’s a lot of similarities, since most people left due to Spez and the IPO. I left when Spez and co fucked over the Apollo app dev.
This excludes the tankie instances. I saw a lot of “death to Israel” and other shit before I filtered those instance that would probably have gotten them nuked on reddit. Stuff like that will be the main differences. Here there isn’t any worry about how marketable the platform is to advertisers. Which is mostly a good thing.
Apparently not advocating for spreading knowledge of jury nullification. Lemmy.World is (mostly) banning it and now I need to find a new instance because I consider that to be the endorsement of our (American) government's system of "bend over and take it."
Following a discussion in our team we want to clarify that we are no longer requesting moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification in the context of violent crimes when the crime in question already happened. We will still consider suggestions of jury nullification for crimes that have not (yet) happened as advocation for violence, which is violating our terms of service.
I can't recommend SJW highly enough. Big enough to be stable but small enough to only have a handful of admins who are all very reasonable and very easy to reach and discuss things with
I once crossposted porn and got my ten+ year account permanently suspended. Why? Someone reported the content as revenge porn.
Mind you, I didn't upload it, but merely shared it from /porn to /blowjobs or whatever it was. I have no idea if all participants consented to the upload or not.
Entire account gone, all appeals within the month of allowed appeals automatically denied.
Posting with a new account apparently. Last time I made a reddit account I made a few comments in various subs. A few hours I went back and found that every single thing I posted was deleted without a word from the mods. I hadn't even posted anything controversial but new account = bad I guess
To be fair, this is usually a spam mitigation thing. Most places that do it have an automod that just deletes anything posted by an account less than x days / weeks old, rather than a human going through and doing it manually. It's usually in the rules of the sub
A variant is requiring a certain amount of karma for the same reason
Yea, sometime I just want a throwaway to vent on how shitty my life is, then after typing like 5 paragraphs, I click post. I get an automod saying my karma is too low.
Ugh, that shit just makes me wanna end myself even more (figuratively, of course).
I remember commenting in a sub and getting bounced by automod because I didn't meet a karma limit. Which is fine, lots of subs have karma limits. But it felt really high- I had a couple thousand karma at the time- and the mods explicitly wouldn't tell you what the actual limit was.
So I guess you're just supposed to let automod bounce you occasionally til you manage to hit their magic number.
tech-related, my account got shadow-banned because I posted an article about signalapp that included some bio of founder Moxie and some info about hacker culture