Lots of people have been banned, across all their accounts, with no recourse, and new accounts suffer the same fate
My fiancée lost over a third of her followers overnight, and asked a mod she knows what was happening.
She was told that anyone who had been banned, for any reason whatsoever was being indiscriminately purged, with device fingerprinting and other mechanisms used to keep them from finding a way back in
Apparently it has been happening in stages, so that’s why there are waves of mass-bans
Reddit seems determined to cut themselves off at the knees, so here’s hoping that Digg and Lemmy can shine and learn from the mistakes of Reddit
This is literally why I joined Lemmy :) I got banned, not for advocating violence or racism but for calling out a mod for removing posts that were not breaching any rules.
Initially it was a 3 day ban, I appealed it and they turned into a permanent one lmao.
I am a moderator somewhere (not reddit)
It’s easy to just ban people, but not actually helpful
I always wait until the hate speech comes out. Offensive speech is one thing, but the population of the forum lets them know in their responses that they are out of line
The ban doesn’t happen if my ego is insulted, it’s saved for the pointless troll (and even then, only if it keeps going after being warned) or when something is truly hateful
Remember kids, now is the time to slowly edit your old posts and comments replace them with AI gibberish and then after a while slowly delete them.
My wife got a 3 day ban last week in a hamster subreddit. She got a 7 day ban today in the Reddit ratty channel after somebody had a pic of a wrapped rat in a paper towel. Wife said wouldn’t it look cute in a taco wrap. Go figure.
Wait Digg is back? I thought that died in the 90s?
They’re giving it another shot
It’s still in the development phase right now
I once said that nazis who got punched in the face didn’t deserve any sympathy. Literally wrote “they do not deserve sympathy”, nothing that actually encouraged or glorified the heroic act of punching nazis. I got a site-wide, week-long ban for that.
Fuck Reddit. Punch nazis.
They’re showing us who they value
They should be ashamed of themselves
I got banned for quoting Captain Americacs “punch a Nazi every day” line. Like 2+ years ago. Fuck em, I just use a separate account there for one niche hobby sub.
lol same. That ban felt good.
I got permabanned for saying that the queers were gonna start fighting back.
Do they want to just be a read-only platform for bot-generated content?
Yes, you summed it up perfectly!
If it’s not banning, it’s slapping account suspensions with no further explanation.
I have never been blocked or received any warnings from Reddit, I mainly used it for the home improvement subs. I made one comment criticizing Israel and my account has been banned and my IP blocked. 😂
Yep
I apparently incited violence.
I never knew saying “bad bot” to a nazi apologist was so offensive
Oh and even softly calling out an obvious bot account lol. Nope can’t have that.
I’m good here on lemmy since the API debacle.
It started when Elon Musk intimidated Reddit into banning a subreddit. The sub “r/whitepeopletwitter” was deleted by a frightened Reddit CEO Steve Huffman because people there were posting the names and information of the young hackers Elon deployed in the Treasury Department. Those hackers stole Americans’ personal, private data. they are traitors. The people in this subreddit were punished, because Musky had a big temper tantrum. Even though this sub was allowed to return to Reddit, activist content still gets banned under the guise of deterring violent threats. People have been banned for even merely upvoting pro-Luigi Mangione content on Reddit. It’s censorship. I put up with it and I regret it now. Having to write without even remotely suggesting violence was hard. I’d slip up and get a temp ban. I was finally permabanned for using an old saying, “stomp Nazis,” on a thread about people evicting a NeoNazi from a punk concert. I didn’t really think about it, and it’s what people used to say, it was not a legit threat of harm. Meanwhile, I had trolls chronically threatening to make liberals like me cry all the time. Sorry, but that IS a violent threat. I know these trolls are surely ugly enough to bring tears to my eyes, but normally tears fall because of physical pain. So I deleted my account and destroyed the Reddit app. That’s one less fool to look at all the ads there, which keep getting more flashy and prevalent. It didn’t feel good to be censored this way. Im glad for Lemmy. Reddit censorship sucks, I’m now in the habit of being hypervigilant for anything that could be construed as violent content, even when writing here. Article about Elon bullying Reddit
Punks not dead! 👏
Yep
As we say in my country:
Shit’s fucked
Agreed.
For someone who claims to love jokes and free speech, Musty is extraordinarily thin skinned. Guess I wasn’t supposed to notice his black eye lol
I got banned for saying that I check the obituaries daily, hoping <to see trumps name >.
Me too but it was this hat.
Why isn’t it translating to increased user numbers on Lemmy?
Reddit has also removed discussions about Lemmy and other Reddit alternatives so many users may not even know of our existence.
I may be anecdotal. I got banned and came to Lemmy a couple months ago.
Just a guess. Trying to reinvent themselves as a conservative platform?
I think they at least want to be seen as sympathetic to conservatives
The reality is that they always were. Reddit was never “left-wing”
But it’s about what’s publicly visible and “known”
I also firmly believe it’s to crush the idea that the majority of people don’t like what’s happening. Feels like standard censorship to me. If you look around, and it feels like everyone is against you, you have much incentive to speak up. Nobody wants to stand alone. Reddit is such a huge platform for discussion–they want to use that power to shape what is ‘normal’.
That’s a really good point
Perception is reality
I was having almost 3 year old account on reddit, mostly account was not in use or even if i use there was no posting and commenting most of the time. But recently I’ve got shadow banned on reddit, appealed like more then 10 times but not a single response from the team. And speacial part… They call themselves the heart of Internet lol 😂
Like… why though??
Banning with impunity like that to the extent of keeping you or anyone in the household for coming back forever no matter how small the transgression… is insane.
I’ve had MANY unsavory back and forths with people over the last 12 years on Reddit but to just say fuck you never ever ever come back and we’ve made steps to ensure it is weird. Batshit crazy
It’s pretty wack. I’m just hoping Lemmy flares up again, like it’s so heartening to see it taking off, but at the same time it’s a bit disheartening to see a lot of threads with only like 2-3 comments.
I just have to teach myself to not comment on reddit anymore, or interact with anything there. Eventually hopefully never return.
I can only think they’ve decided to change course and go all in on manufacturing consent… Remove all the real users who might spot a bot and use LLMs to say whatever you like
Heh. I’ve been blocked from a programming subreddit for being ‘too directly helpful’. Apparently the dozen to-and-fro conversations weren’t enough to show that OP needed more concrete direction.
Hilarious if that sees me banned from the platform at some point.
Some mod didn’t like that you were able to convey instructions better than them.
What are you? Some kinda asshole?
