Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.
After 12 years and over 900K Karma, I got permanently banned for repeating an opinion that I’ve posted many times over the past decade. Then Trump gets elected, and the exact same opinion gets me a permaban.
Now I’m hearing that they are banning people for UPVOTES! I wondered why Reddit had decided to throw in with the Nazis, and I this week I see in the news that Ohanion wants to buy TikTok. The new owner of TikTok will be personally chosen by HitlerPig, so Zuckerfuck has been kissing up, and now Ohanion wants in on it. HitlerPig will award it to whomever kisses his ass and pays him the most.
Reddit doesn’t want users participating in the site. They want eyes looking at ads and that’s it. Look, don’t touch. We’ve got bots for touching.
Lurkers are more lucrative than posters.
i have adblockers on, so they never get ad revenue anyways.
14 year old account for me. Mod of a million plus sub. 700k karma. Built fucking subreddits into real communities. Banned over a joke I made for a decade. Reddit is dying and we now have a new federated home.
Which community? I’ll spend my unbanned account posting that you’re over here on Lemmy.
Welcome aboard, the place is comfy and only really needs user numbers at this point.
That’s the problem with these corporations — the foundation is rotten, and they have no principles beyond more money. It has been this way for some time.
Now, we have an economy where the arbitrary whims of billionaires and our king is the main determinant of their share price. This is how Reddit kisses the boot.
They would exhume my grandmother if it increased share price by one tenth of one percent.
Capitalist cunts.
I’m here because I replied to “let’s not give them an inch” with “let’s give them 9mm” and was permanently banned from politics, no recourse. That’s the most left leaning sub on the website.
When they took API access away I was pissed but I stayed. But taking away my free speech, seriously? They can go fuck themselves.
that sub was, but it was taken over by a right winger that allowed astroturfing against the “left”
That’s okay, .world turned their conservative sub into jokes on conservatives, so you can tell it’s better here.
I remember years ago there was an article about a cop who said he wanted to shoot AOC for being a dumbdumb meanie head or something. Top comment said the cop should be fired. I added “out of a cannon” and got permabanned for “inciting violence” like bruh
But do you think ‘nine millimeters’ would have passed?
I could have said “let’s give them 0.354 inches” but why bother. I did that for a few days but going on Reddit is the same as supporting them.
Quality perspective.
When they took API access away I was pissed but I stayed. But taking away my free speech, seriously?
I guess you didn’t hear how they were taking down Reddit alternative posts during the API debacle. They were already crossing the line then.
Truthfully, I didn’t switch until recently because it didn’t affect me directly. I eat meat and I know it’s bad too. But now it’s just too inconvenient to use and almost no benefit compared to Lemmy. Literally even my local city is a community here.
I created my first Reddit account in over a decade and was shadowbanned almost immediately. I didn’t even get a chance to post a semi-“controversial” opinion! The site is total garbage these days.
you made acct at a bad time, they went hard on banning people last month, and ive been hearing on other sites that they were banned almost immediately after commenting once on reddit as a new user, thier bot sensitivity filter is so high, that any comment that was removed was considered a “spam activity”.
Gotta love the appeals process of submitting a form and getting absolutely zero response or indication of status. Appeals going straight into a garbage can with no one reading them lmao
I’m pretty sure that appealing a temp ban (my 3rd, all in a short time) led to them permabanning my account. None of the posts violated the rules they claimed.
Most of the main subs auto shadowban anyone that hasn’t provided a verified email. So it’s possible you’re not banned site wide yet.
ever since trumps first term, thier ban have been come very heavy handed against left leaning comments more so than right wingers, i pointed it out so many times over the years that this was happening. there was suspicion that r/politics was taken over by a right winger, that wanted to seem like both sides, its pretty obviously who was getting banned and what was getting posted.
Remember when CTH got banned when users spoke up in support of slaves who rose up and killed their masters? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Shout out to Hexbear.net (née chapo.chat), pioneers of the lemmyverse, who came here by necessity for being too left, just as many of you are now! ❤️
Don’t leave us in suspense - what was the opinion?
I said that the traitors in the White House are lucky that we are such a tolerant country. In many other countries in the world, and even more in the past, on the evening of January 6, 2021, after their Insurrection failed, HitlerPig and all his henchmen would have been dragged out onto the White House lawn, and publicly executed.
I’ve written that many times, but after the Inauguration, it got me banned.
They like pineapple on pizza.
Shit, that might get you banned here as well… /s
Aww, I like pineapple on pizza :0(
I upvoted you on Lemmy for being on topic, but I downvoted you in my heart.
Haha, that’s fair!
Well, that is an actual war crime.
Shit, they perma’d me for constantly agitating in non leftist subs… I can’t help it.
Now I’m hearing that they are banning people for UPVOTES!
Only upvotes involving Mario’s brother, so far. Presumably the “issue” being that he has too much support and the time between posting and it being moderated away it’s getting enough votes to still have significant visibility which is what they’re trying to avoid.
Mario’s brother
His name is
Robert PaulsonLuigi!!
China’s not going to let tiktok fall out of their control. If it gets sold it will be to someone beholden to them.
Same here. Got Banned from r/WorldNews for talking about Luigi when that CEO incident happened. Perma-banned a day later.
What was the opinion that got you banned?
After Jan 6, I said that those traitors were lucky America is such a tolerant nation. In many other nations (most of them, in the past), that evening, after the Insurrection had failed, HitlerPig and the rest of his henchmen and family, would have been dragged out onto the White House lawn and publicly executed.
I wasn’t condoning violence, just pointing out that he couldnt have gotten away with it almost anywhere else on the planet. I had written that comment, or similar, many times, but once HitlerPig was in office, and Reddit decided to kiss his feet, it became a permanent ban.
I was seeing posts talking about this happening widely on Reddit, but now that I’m on Lemmy, it seems to be much worse than I suspected.
Make advertisers into bad words “hellofresh the rich” " squarespace the ceos"
This is, excuse me, fucking brilliant
Reminds me of how RTGame censors the word ‘fuck’ with the word ‘Youtube’ on videos posted to Youtube
You’re youtubing kidding me.
I think you mean “Nintendo the CEOs”
I just tried this out after wiping all my comments, let’s see if I get a ban
Dont mind me just slowly transitioning over to Lemmy
I regressed back to Reddit for a bit. I’m back for good after I found out they’re also suppressing anti consumption movements.
Reddit can keep all the NPCs.
I hope lemmy becomes large enough to support niche communities, but never coddles nazis like reddit does.
I fear that the Nazis will come first, but am hopeful they keep to their corner.
So far, most instances are hostile to nazis because they saw what reddit became. I hope that persists. nazis should not be welcome here like they are on reddit.
The great part about federation is that there isn’t a central control, and so they can in fact have their own instances, and either your instance can block their instance or you as a user can block their instance and you never have to see them or deal with them.
Yiggity yikes.
they’re also suppressing anti consumption movements.
…wow. Fuck that place.
Well, if you don’t pay for the service, advertisers will, and they won’t like anti-consumption content. Catering to your customers and all that… you are the product, doesn’t matter what you want.
I came back just a few days before this rush began and boy does it feel prescient
What are they doing exactly?
Someone will post about victories in anti consumption and mods will remove it minutes or hours later. r/news is especially guilty of this.
Im here bc the app I used finally broke after the api changes years ago.
I like it but I do not understand the whole instance thing
It’s just like email. It mostly doesnt matter what instance you choose as you can talk with almost any other instance. There are a couple instances that have been defederated from most other instances, but they are few and far between. Anyway, it’s exactly like email.
Think of an “instance” as a server (or servers) where Lemmy is being hosted. So, lemmy.world is hosted by one entity while lemm.ee is being hosted by another. They just have different servers, but they can interact with each other.
Ah okay that makes sense thank you
Me too. Was a huge reddit user but they banned me. Reddit has been going down hill for awhile. Banning to many subs that didn’t do much wrong.
Same, it’s been hard to quit. I never really lost but I perpetually lurk.
Now I’ve heard Reddit is banning users for upvoting posts about Luigi. My new goal is to be banned so I can cut the cord.
Good. Welcome to the new home. It feels like Reddit 2009.
I came here with the API changes, but I knew there would be future waves. It’s so nice. I believe in Lemmy and the promise of federated media to help technology work for humans.
I first joined reddit in 2011 and Lemmy definitely reminds me of early reddit. Except back then I probably lurked for about a year before I even made my first comment or post. I joined Lemmy about a month ago and I’m slowly starting to participate already.
/r/conservative and /r/conspiracy are still open… What a fucking shit-ass website. I don’t get why they don’t just
rm -rfthe whole fucking thing already.Clearly they’re pissed that people are still using the site. They’ve made efforts to stop it by making shit redesigns, releasing a shitty app, user profiles, shutting off the API and trying to force people to use their shit app.
They must be seething that people are still using it and they’ve found a new way to try to get people to stop. Of course, they could shut the site down, but these are execs we’re talking about - their forté is ignoring every elephant in the room and then creating “solutions” that completely miss the problem.
They’re in the business of selling “organic” content to AI companies, but those AI companies don’t want advertiser-unfriendly language in their datasets.
Advertisors are dumb as fuck. Like, clearly if their datasets contain language that is not “advertisor friendly” then who the fuck are they trying to advertise to?
“Wow, all of society is doing this stuff. But this isn’t very friendly. The people doing that stuff certainly wouldn’t like if we advertised the stuff they’re doing!”
I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.
Think about it.
All major websites are censoring language and content that could even remotely be construed as adult-friendly or “harmful”; the fact so many US states are outright banning porn sites (I know it’s like a hydra, but the point still stands); the entire world is sliding right back into fascism; I even feel like Hollywood is stepping away from things like violence and vulgarity.
It’s all a fucking sham and I fucking hate it. Let us swear; let us jack off to the weird shit we want to jack off too; just let people be people.
Why does there have to be a small but extremely powerful subset of people who can run the entire world and dictate what the rest of us can and can’t do?
let us jack off to the weird shit we want to jack off too
That’s been grounds for defederating some Lemmy instances in the past.
I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.
And it’s not just the conservatives. The self-identified progressive places do it too.
“And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Wayne Gretzky.
The thing about the puritans were that they had harsh rules that existed to try to keep their flock from sinning. They failed as such things always fail.
A good example of a common practice from the time was that part of the pay of a young man working on another mans farm was the bed of their eldest daughter at night. It made identifying the father of the child easier.This one practice alone made the puritans a lot more rational than this current cancer on society.
sad how conspiracy sub got co-opted by russian trolls and right wingers, i was there before trump took office the 1st time, and it was a completely different sub.
Same man, I miss the old “sane” conspiracy sub. Seriously, the shit on there now makes the old sub look sane.
I mean none of those other policies affected me. When APIs were removed there was much more bot spam but I muted thousands of subreddits and it was acceptable.
Now they’re banning me for criticizing the moderation policy? Do they think they’re the Thai king? I’m just using alternatives now.
So, Suppressed News has in fact, been suppressed…
I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that the RDDT stock price has dropped 40% in the last month, and it’s not surprising. That site is a sinking ship.
And insiders dumped $59m shares in late January. Shocked, I tell you!
It’s the way of business these days. They got their money. The ship can sink now. The users suffer.
Let us hope so.
The stock is so comically overpriced. Over 100 p/e. Nobody at Reddit is crying because it can’t stay inflated forever. They’re likely already all out.
I suspect that would be from the executive sell off and nothing more . They’ve been doing everything they could to fatten their personal wallets so I’m not surprised a c-suite selloff has resulted in devaluation
Yep, I got a frikking lifetime IP ban a few months back for saying “Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell” in r/politics - apparently some fanboy decided that was “inciting violence”. Fuck Reddit, happy to be part of Lemmy.
got banned for telling a trump supporter to go fuck himself after he joked about the 51st state among other things, im canadian. also i upvoted luigi content and got permanently banned. not just one email, but all connected emails as well.
im out. that place is a censored shithole. fuck reddit. i hope they ban all the real ones so they come here.
I’ve gotten permabans on multiple subs and also overall bans from reddit admin itself. Various reasons like pro-luigi comments, anti-trump comments, anti-israeli comments, pro-ukraine comments. Reddit is a propaganda platform now.
Well… that’s just going to be most American sites going forward. That’s why ultimately platforms like Lemmy are so important. What a lot of people here in the States don’t realize is that this is a war on information.
To be fair, there’s about a fifty-fifty chance that a subreddit, or lemmy community for that matter, called “supressed news” is going to be filled loonies, and those guys could spend all day masturbating to the though of violently dismantling the power of the World Economic Forum.
dismantling the power of the World Economic Forum.
that’s drumpf’s job
It wasn’t about that. I’ve been following it for awhile. It was mainly talk about upcoming protests.
It depends upon what the reason is for banning it.
Reddit currently has a beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images obviously but people post hentai and fish for more. In the comments, they give each other advice/describe their activities.
Reddit doesn’t care.
I’m afraid to say that’s not even the worst thing I’ve seen on Reddit and know continues to exist there. This is about bending over and showing their fealty to billionaires.
I mean the founder was the mod of /r/jailbait for years, if that’s what they had out in the open I don’t want to know what they have semi hidden
There is a disgusting underside that I don’t want to get into. Let’s just say that Reddit clearly doesn’t care that much about policing content. It’s only this topic in particular that they cannot condone. Criticizing billionaires is where they draw the line.
It disgusts me.
criticizing musk and trump specifically, Musk apparently got whitepeopletwitter banned for a while. and trump just gets you astroturfed.
Reddit only cares to bring the banhammer down if a subreddit negatively makes headlines.
the admins ar eprobably in control of some of the subs, 92mods control over 500 subs.
They don’t allow real images obviously but people post hentai and fish for more.
I read this wrong and was confused as to why they allow pictures of people abusing fish.
Because it’s a bestiality sub!
theres also pedophelia adjacent going in some of the medical subs, minors who were positng about possible skin issues was than DM for more pics, i think they shut that avenue down really quick.
Shit, they have an incest sub where people (I really hope) make up stories about wanting to fuck their family members and stuff.
Meanwhile PoliticalCompassMemes and the 4chan subreddit stays up
I’ve seen a lot of awful subreddits over time but PoliticalCompassMemes was the first subreddit I ran into that made me feel like I was actually staring into the start of the pipeline. The way it was masquerading as a “funny all inclusive political humour sub” at the time was nauseating and it’s only gotten worse since.
When it comes to controversial subs, the general rule is if you have really dedicated mods who are super careful to never break a rule themselves you can generally keep it up.
Those mods not breaking any rules individually is important because otherwise the admins will invoke their backup plan for dealing with a sub they don’t like but isn’t breaking any rules - keeping the mods under a microscope and looking for any excuse to ban them and immediately ban the sub for being unmoderated, refuse to give it to new mods, and ban any replacement sub for recreating a banned sub.
They could just ban the sub because they don’t like it, but that kind of seeming capriciousness tends to get a bad reaction from the userbase, which is why they look for an excuse to justify the ban.
Don’t forget KiA and all the Trump subs.
My least favorite fun fact is that Reddit forced the KiA mod to reopen after they went private calling it a “cancer”.
I was a mod at the time and Reddit always told us we had an extreme degree of editorial independence (hence the justification for allowing r/jailbait, /greatawakening, r/coontown etc) but that event made me consider for the first time that exposing normies to propaganda might not just be a side-effect, but a core function of the company.
Yep. I am done with Reddit too. Just deleted my account after this bullshit.
What was the topic about? Sounds like you pissed someone off good 😂
Crazy, ironically, I wouldn’t consider most dem politicians liberals. They’re just not as far right as Republicans.
I was replying to a comment about how a lot of Leftist subs have been taken over by tankies. I was mentioning the growing accelerationist rhetoric among those same tankies. They don’t want to hear anything about fixing the world we live in, because there’s no glory in that, so all they focus on is armed revolution and collapse. They see Trump and MAGA as a good thing, because it will being about collapse of the American Empire faster.
I will never understand people who think the only way to build a better world is to destroy the one they have.
So you’re wanting a return to some status quo, and don’t understand why progressive people would reject your conservatism.
Without radical change, we’ll experience climate collapse. There’s no way to avoid that by straddling the middle.
So you’re wanting a return to some status quo,
Absolutely not. I have no idea where you got that from.
Without radical change, we’ll experience climate collapse. There’s no way to avoid that by straddling the middle.
Radical change doesn’t always involve burning everything down. Believe it or not, there are more options than “do nothing” and “destroy everything”.
Just a textbook case of a reactionary.
No they aren’t looking for “status quo” they are looking for an improvement on the status quo and not willing to throw the dice to gamble that what replaces a burned down system would be any better. Or not even much worse. Because given the disproportionate input of the moneyed class it would almost definitely be worse.
This. You burn the system down, you create a power vacuum, and if that’s how you want to enact change, you better be damn sure you’re coming out on top.
Probably doesn’t make a difference to the people dying under both administrations. A preference is admission that your prioritizing the comfort you’ll enjoy under one of them.
TBH, getting banned from a sub for something that got downvoted there as well just means you said something in the wrong place to the wrong people. That exact same thing can (and does) happen in Lemmy too.
My only permaban in my 10 year Reddit history is for explaining someone making a reference to the MLP cum jar meme, and in hindsight, I did deserve that, even if someone did specifically ask what it meant.
My only permaban on Reddit was making a joke about Nick Fuentes being doxxed. I said “an incel like him should be glad, now the ladies know where to find him if they want to share a cocktail with him”, with a gif of a cartoon Molotov. Inciting/glorifying violence. Ok fine, that one was on me. Still funny though.
You did the right thing my friend.
You rule for your comment. The mental gymnastics conservative leftists go to justify the current state of affairs while propping up counties that have literally nothing to do with socialism is insane. They’re as programmed as maga. They argue in bad faith and their ideology is incoherent
kinda wierd to have conservative leftists, they are mostly center right to be honest, there is no true left anyways in the US. even in the area we live is blue, but we have people (rarely are hard right people) and many people have very conservative views(more have to do with self-fishness than anything.
