Honestly, I’d be interested to hear about your adventures.
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My account got suspended and I had no posts on the account. Stuff like this is why I use alternative sites instead of big tech sites.
I said billionaires should be put to the guillotine.
Same
Honesty can be deadly. :3
I asked why the CIA hadn’t killed Trump yet. That, and upvoting a comment of a user who later got banned, got me banned.
I was added to a moderation list on Bluesky for following someone on Twitter and subsequently muting them, and then forgetting I had followed them when I used a tool to migrate all of my follows to Bluesky. Which is just a stupid mistake, but what about people who are following notable bigots because they’re journalists and have to keep tabs on what they say?
Being banned for upvoting someone’s comment seems similarly tunnel-visioned. If you’re upvoting their pun about the moon or their helpful cooking suggestion or their computer build tip, getting banned because you didn’t check their entire post history before upvoting is absolutely insane to me.
Guilt by association is only a thing if it’s actually association.
I got banned for repeatedly tagging a global warming denier in posts about climate change
I made a random comment about a movie’s premiere date on r/FauxMoi without realizing that FauxMoi had blocked my old reddit account years ago. (I have absolutely no clue why FauxMoi blocked my first account.) Reddit viewed me using a new account to comment on FauxMoi as “ban evasion” and now I’m perma-banned from reddit. I received no warning, no notice, I had no idea I was even banned from commenting on FauxMoi.
Every time I make a new account, regardless of the email or where I make the account, the ban follows me. I tried to explain the mistake, that I hadn’t realized my old reddit account was banned from FauxMoi and that I’d take down my (perfectly innocuous, on-topic) comment. Nope. They didn’t care. I’m just fucked. Thanks mods at FauxMoi, hope yalls choke.
It’s a familiar situation, but I didn’t last long on Reddit. My first account was banned after a few months because of one picture.
What was the picture of?
I didn’t. I left of my own accord.
As if Lemmy was any better.
Great thing about Lemmy is you can’t get banned from the whole thing because you pissed off a single touchy admin.
I got a 30 comm multiban for saying “Winnie the Pooh” 😀 that’s gotta be like, a kill-streak or something right?
Unlikely. It’s one guy running multiple comms. I got similar treatment. Then I think the guy who runs piefed has me blocked as a Tankie across all of his new instances.
So I’ve doubled you up.
Not going to lose sleep over it. There’s still plenty of content to enjoy.
that’s what I figured 😁 I went and added the mods of those comms to my own block lists so none us will bother eachother. there is a lot of really nice fediverse to see so it’s nbd.
but I’m definitely tagging you as TURBO TANKIE BLOCK COCKER
Tough but fair
That’s true, but you easily get ostracized for trivialities.
Decentralization blunts a lot of what individual self-important admins can censor. Communities that aren’t constantly harassing their moderators and moderators who aren’t banning people tend to flourish relative to those that are endlessly squabbling and strangling one another.
We’ve already seen a number of Lemmy instances fail when their user base grew too toxic. And we’ve seen new instances take off by being release valves for individuals who want to form communities uninhibited by bullshit.
Also ban evasion is easier if it does happen.
Well, at least for now Lemmy hasn’t reached the level of Reddit, that’s good, that’s already a divine miracle.
Well, just because it has 0.000000001% of reddit’s audience. People is equally shitty here as on reddit.
It’s extra funny because you got downvoted. People don’t realize you can get banned here just for voting in a way they don’t like, and not even on a post in that particular community that banned you.
The donwotes you mention (and that I can’t see, because I disabled it in settings) perfectly demonstrate my point.
I was hopeful some form of reddiquette would be revived here but that lasted about 3 months past the API changes.
How so? Are you a free speech absolutist who feels threatened when other people use their freedom of speech?
Are you equating votes to speech? To me votes are the opposite of that. They are just a lazy shortcut.
That said, you can use your freedom of speech with me at your will. Until I find you boring enough to just silence you (aka, block).
So what is your point? What makes downvotes so bad?
They are just a lazy shortcut.
Can’t you read?
I first thought you equated being down voted with being banned but your point was that being banned for down votes illustrate your point that Lemmy isn’t better than reddit.
I’m not the person you responded to but, I also run with down-votes disabled. I found that paying attention to them was negatively impacting the platform and creating an echo chamber based off populous opinion. Since turning them off, my experience on the platform has been quite a bit more enjoyable. It’s not that I really have a mentality that is different than what the populous opinion is but, I much prefer not seeing them as it removes the potential of “oh this post has been downvoted” because that makes you go into reading it with an already poisoned mindset.
I totally understand where this is coming from but I started on an instance that doesn’t have down votes and moved to a different one because I wanted to see when I’m downvoted. More often than not it is because I was misunderstood and even if not, I want to know where I am. I remember a discussion where I later realized I was heavily downvoted and would have “read the room” better if I knew (time proved me right after all but I digress)
I can definitely understand that as well. I rely on someone replying to the comment if I say something that is unclear or misinterpreted. It allows me to have better feedback anyway then trying to figure out where I went wrong on my own, plus it avoids being able to dismiss it as “well maybe it was just a unpopular opinion so it was downvoted”. I also find effort a huge factor as well, meaning that if someone went through the hassle/effort of responding to my comment then chances are it’s not an opinion type deal and more of either I wasn’t clear or there was a misunderstanding. (when the reply is opposing of course)
I told homophobes they were pieces of shit and got permabanned for it
Hey! Me too!
Well, that was pretty insulting to pieces of shit…
I got banned for “attempting to circumvent a ban” despite not being banned at the time.
Wait, can you tell more?
No. I don’t know anything else. I tried to appeal the ban but never heard anything else. Fuck 'em
By the way, my 3rd account was banned because I asked why my post was banned.
Maybe you had the same username as someone who got banned?
Aren’t usernames unique on reddit?
That’s part of the joke. The other part is that it happens in real life that people are denied passage into a country because someone else with the name is on a terrorist list. I read about it in the great book “One day, everyone will have always been against this”.
I didn’t expect anyone the get the whole joke but I make it anyway. This is the internet.
Don’t know. Don’t care. Reddit is a hot pile of garbage.
I said Italy knows how to deal with fascists in a post about Mussolini.
To fight the fascists, you need to be independent from them, even to have your own food, and if there are many such independent people, then the fascists will have a hard time forcing people to return to them.
Well, they let them into government again, so …
Meloni likes screwing over her own country folk.
Someone asked if a prisoner being resuscitated has finished serving their life sentence, I said you have to be irrevocably dead, admins said that promotes violence.
I got banned from /r/WorldNews and /r/ukpolitics for saying that “from the river to the sea” isn’t antisemitic. It was in the early days post Oct 7th when reddit was virulently pro-Israel; I don’t think they’d do the same nowadays.
I didn’t leave immediately but thinking about it again really pissed me off as I’d been a regular commenter without much issue for years. It genuinely left me feeling quite depressed thinking about how little I mattered to them. When you get banned there’s always some shit about how you should ask if you don’t understand the ban, but one sub never replied, the other went further and told me to stop messaging their mods (I did so once a week when I wasn’t receiving replies, to not spam them) so that was meaningless.
The irony is that here I’m usually getting downvoted for being insufficiently anti-Israel.
I didn’t. I left when they killed RiF
Same, sad they killed rif but at least it pushed me to lemmy
Amen
They killed Apollo in cold blood!
For this photo:
how do I report this
I left when they killed Apollo and third party apps altogether. The only way I viewed Reddit was through that app, so Reddit was dead to me at that point. I used a tool that edited all of my old comments, deleted my 10-year-old+ account and left forever.
I got “VPN banned” despite not using a VPN lmao
Granted I haden’t used the service since the API changes anyway, so no loss there, but I did get a pretty big chuckle when i finally found that out.
