Exactly like my account except 30ish days ago. Welcome to Lemmy! If you’re reading this comment the ban bots haven’t taken over:
Luigi Mangione Innocent Death Elon Musk Trump
Reddit created an account on your behalf and banned you again for this
if reddit bots could read this they’d be very upset
Reddit bans you again in absentia
Yep that’s why I’m here. They banned my 12 year account for sympathizing with Luigi.
You can’t even play Nintendo these days
We’re Gooigi gang here. So watch yourself.
Reddit simply doesn’t want an active user base. They want passive viewers ingesting AI generated content. Much better for advertising revenue that way.
they have been culling via shadowbanning for a month now, much more aggressively like with the ban purgews. they following FB model, which is AI generated rw content.
they have been culling via shadowbanning for a month now
Way more than months. This goes at least as far back as the 2016 kerfuffle over The_Donald, ChapoTrapHouse, and other increasingly popular outside-the-mainstream communities.
Honestly easier to trace it back to 2012, when Reddit was gaining popular steam and doing lots of high profile AMAs. Shadowbanning was a great way to quash the mix of spam accounts and hecklers without letting the people running the accounts know they needed to roll up new ones.
but it drastically increased last month, even compared to feb with all the site wide bans, shadowbans are more silent, so people dont notice it right away, reddit does this intentionally because they like being sneaky and tip people off.
and yes starting 2017 on, thats where i recieved my 1st ban ever on a sub, before that there was no problems talking about politics without getting censured. but i noticed they are going to lowest hanging fruit, rather than the high profile spammers, because they usually know the instant they get shadowbanned anyways.
Soon a rebrand to Redbot.com
Removed by mod
Why would you spam in this thread?
Exact reason why I’m here lol.
Lately I’m seeing a lot of this on old accounts
I had a few alt accounts from a decade ago that I’d sometimes used to get something from that site but over the past year the all got banned for no reason because I literally didn’t even post with them.
Im guessing that Reddit wants to get rid of those older users that still remember how great it was
They wantll Nu-reddit user, aka the ones that are ignorant of reddits history
Yeah I’ve been wondering if I actually got banned because I used old.reddit and a hacked Reddit mobile app.
So is Lemmy the dumping ground for people getting banned on reddit now?
It’s the next best thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Less dumping ground and more release valve. The people Reddit is jettisoning are many of their more active and prodigious content creators and contributors. The site admins simply don’t want new human content anymore. They want passive observers who will consume advertisement content without creating drama.
What they’ll end up with is bots watching Russian trolls.
Absolutely. I lost my 15 year account for using the phrase ‘burn it all down’ entirely metaphorically. They really, really didn’t like Canadians pushing back. Fuck those guys.
I hope Reddit dies in a fire, and not a metaphorical one. One with the ownership group literally aflame. And I’d like to roast marshmallows over that fire.
Yep, that is why I am here
Yes it’s how I got here, and hopefully Lemmy doesn’t turn to shit the way reddit did because of its decentralized nature I hope
Honestly that’s how I got here lol.
Tried it out when the API changes were announced, but let’s be real, Lemmy doesn’t have as much content or user interaction.
It’s allowed me to stop doom scrolling as much, but I do miss some niche communities
You get used to it. Been here happily for coming on two years. Honestly, less content means I can’t scroll 24/7 which has turned into a positive for me.
Fewer niche communities definitely sucks though. Time to start one I guess? :P
Odd since it’s arguably just as easy to make a new reddit account
That would assume you dont have a grudge against the site for banning you.
New to Lemmy and this is me to a T. Reddit just banned my 11+ year old account for expressing my anger at the continued fascist attacks on my country (Canada). So fuck em, I’m not going to bend over backwards trying to make an alt account they won’t flag, I’ll be sad for the Reddit of bygone days but it’s gone now, the new one is rotten to the core.
But why would I want to make a new account on Reddit after getting banned for saying things that people need to hear?
If Reddit wants some passive bullshit audience that can’t talk back, and that swallows bullshit posting, I’m good elsewhere.
I think it’s more like getting used to the freedoms of Lemmy increases the likelihood of popping up on the radar of some dubious Reddit admins.
Can we talk about how screwed up that streak notification is? Let’s encourage people who show signs of unhealthy usage of the platform to further their addiction?
You have a 300 day streak of using heroin, don’t stop now!
Daily usage streaks isn’t a “screwed up” notification.
Plenty of people read a newspaper everyday. Or check socials each day.
A more accurate measure for unhealthy, addictive usage would be hours per day, or week.
But my streak is at 419, I can’t stop now!
people who show signs of unhealthy usage of the platform
Hey! (You’re absolutely right)
Don’t miss Reddit. I got my 10 year account permanently banned for making a complaint about a mod who temp banned me for no perceivable reason.
Eat a sack of damp turds Reddit.
Shadowbanning is a tool of the demiurge
Oh this is me. Got banned from Reddit and am on lemmy fulltime.
I’m so glad to see lemmy.world so active.
I’d rather see lemmy.world shrink to irrelevance because their mods are just using it as a tool to push their agendas.
You might not be a pirate, but did you know they’re censoring piracy communities from you? Not sure if you want to be a part of an instance whose mod team feels they get to make decisions like that for you.
And no Reddit moderator ever had a “agenda”.
🤡
This seems wholly unrelated.
Yeah, honestly, the way things are set up isn’t perfect. I maintain a few accounts on different instances just to fan out what content I get. The Fedi is always gonna have issues with moderation and federation, I just don’t see it as a good enough reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Lmao yeah I guess there’s a lot of us here.
I doubt that very much.
These days both Twitter and Reddit have wacky UI messages written by completely different teams. One team is all business-like as in “Here’s some stern warnings you’re not going to like.” The other team is all casual and wayyy too friendly and fellow-kidsy, like “Did someone say MEMES?” (to which most reasonable people respond “fuck you Elon/Spez, you’re not funny”)
It’s just the same team doing both
But they’re playing both sides, so that they always come out on top.
Similar happened to me. You cannot say there is genocide going in Palestine. If u say that are temp banned for a day, then 3 day then permanently banned.
Israel has bots in reddit to gatekeep the narrative i believe they have taken over worldnews
Just for posterity in case this follows us here, there is a genocide going on in Palestine. Feels like a mantra at this point.
There will still be an amount of censorship on lemmy, it might just be on the opposite opinion of yours, so you won’t notice it. I’m pretty sure we’re slowly turning into an echo chamber as well
The extreme political instances year, like hexbear , mil, grad are as bad as conservatives. Makes you wonder that they were justly banned from reddit as surely as they would if they step out of their instances
that’s why if you disagree with censorship/moderation policy of an instance, you can move to another one. You can’t do that on reddit.
Yea but those tend to be defederated quickly and not last for long, and each time you switch, you lose all the content you’ve posted and saved :(
Absolutely! Especially communities like lemmy.ml. I just got banned for criticizing certain aspects of Communism. No alternate opinions are allowed apparently…
No alternate opinions are allowed apparently…
Yeah, mods will just ban us if we get reported enough. It doesn’t matter if the reports or accurate or if we’re actually breaking any rules.
They don’t realize it, but that kind of behavior has a long term effect on the health and perception of the community.
I’m looking forward to the sections of the fediverse that don’t abuse their mod power. Right now we don’t really have any since most of the mods are immature.
ml is unhinged. Its Tankies advocation for what they think is socialism, but they just end up regurgitating whatever the Kremlin propagates because they forgot Russia stopped being a Socialist country 30 years ago, and is a Capitalist Mafia state now,
That’s a Lemmy feature. Hexbear and ML run how they want, world runs how they want. If you’re pissing someone off some place enough to get banned, it’s probably not the best place for you and best to leave them to their echo chamber. If you go wild, you can stand up your own instance and ban any instances you don’t like.
If someone wants to make a safe-space echo-chamber, they can totally do it.
I know how this works. It’s still a ridiculous echo chamber and I stumbled into a meme community on that instance and didn’t know it and started to discuss Communism. They were very adamant on their stance, despite showing them contradicting evidence. Only then I noticed I was on Lemmy.ml, lol. Shortly after, I was banned.
Tankies suffer from similar delusions as Nazis do. They seem to be smarter however.
Lemmy is definitely turning into an echo-chamber among the bigger instances.
It’s okay, though. Once enough people get censored, it opens up the opportunity for people to start instances that don’t abuse their mod power.
Still, it keeps people away from Lemmy and makes it tedious to handle those situations
They kept sending me emails with cutesie aliens in them after they shadowbanned me. Very weird company
I’m permabanned and they’re still sending me stuff. Read the room Reddit, you ended things not me.
Many many years and ass loads of karma…
But apparently LIKING posts can get you banned now. What a shit show.
It’s all a ploy to control what we think.
Ideas are powerful, that’s why they don’t want us to have any of our own.
Clearly they’re butthurt that you didn’t fellate Trump or Musk or some other such drain clog.
Reddit constantly pushing conservative to the front page was a sign
r/conservative is just a rebrand and refugee camp of r/thedonald , mildly adjusted to accept the new wave “conservatives” across the world, like Supporters of Fidesz (Hungary, Orban), RN (LePen, France), Canadian Maple MAGA, the Russian Mafia State and their blood drunk Nazi Z-Tards, and all of those Joe Rogan / Jordan Peterson / Ben Shapiro types.
Actual Conservatism is dead. its just Nazis and Fascists who hijacked the term for better brand imaging.
All the formerly sane conservatives refuse to acknowledge their party got taken over and died, DNC pushed trump thinking itd be an easy win and we have this now, I feel like ppl forget how much the Demcorat party is to blame
