I mean back when duolingo has discussions or what they called it, you might write nasty stuff. But now, imagine being banned for the wrong translation.
I haven't used duolingo for a few weeks because my hack to have infinite hearts broke again and I'm too lazy to put in the effort even tho it's not that difficult actually
I'm gonna be real, Duolingo is literally only good for motivation and easy vocab review. It has been years since I used it, but the best advice I got on that website was when forums still existed and people told me that the translations for JP were shit and to learn somewhere else, which is probs why those forums got deleted.
If you have to use hacks to not be bored/deal with the bullshit, then just leave man. It's not worth the bird begging you to come back. Find stuff online, YT (unfortunately) is your friend for resources.
The thing is that I needed to learn a language but that duolingo motivated me to learn a language in the first place. It sadly never made me dig much deeper. Nothing else I've tried ever stuck. So for me it's not duolingo or learn a language seriously but duolingo or candy crush (never actually played that game but you get the point)
I’m so glad I left completely (minus the random search result with no other leads, but no browsing) when the API fuckery started, corporate social media sounds like an absolute hellscape now.
Honestly it's two niche debate subs that kept me engaging that there's no substitute for. I think with the reply button blocked I'll be able to delete my account again soon. Yep I've relasped before.
...and I mainly used those subs to deprogram from my upbringing. That's the real truth, I found it healing.
Fam if you need to use reddit don't feel bad about it. "The trick is not to ignore the mainstream, but to selectively raid it for things we can use." -M. Gunderloy
I hear you but again I've left out an important detail. Those debate boards have moderators who are mostly checked out since the API drama, so the influx of morons using ChatGPT to "think" for them without getting banned has become intolerable and incredibly depressing when considering the long term implications of that among youth.
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
Not op but I got perma banned for fighting with people who were defending massive pedophile Dr disrespect. They were arguing that "it was legal that means it's okay". I pointed out that the US is fucked and certain states have consent laws at 16. Legally he could fuck a 16 year old. However that doesn't change the fact that he's a pedophile scumbag regardless of legality.
I pointed out that the US is fucked and certain states have consent laws at 16
Yeah, that's actually the average age worldwide
Not defending Dr Diddles, mind you, but the US is actually better than a lot of places thanks to having parts where it's 17 or 18 (and... Worse, depending on where you look)
I got banned for commenting on a video of something like "guy loses it in van and runs down protestors" my comment was pointing out that they were running into the way of an already (slow) moving van and then leaping dramatically to the ground. It was like a grade school production of a Chinese insurance scam en masse.
This is like the defining case of "just because it's legal doesn't make it okay." An 18 year old and a 16 year old is one thing. It's very different when it's a 30-something year old and a 16 year old. That's like a high school senior trying to get with a 12 year old.
There's a massive power imbalance in a relationship like that where the 30-something has basically total control. Even a 30-something with a college kid has issues imo, let alone a kid who's a sophomore or junior in high school. That's some Quamire from Family Guy shit. "I love high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age."
Half your age plus seven is the rule of thumb that I've heard. At 18, that means the lowest you should be dating is 16. At 32, it's 23. Etc.
Also, echo chambers are good, actually, and you can't change my mind. Life isn't supposed to be a constant argument, and the criticism of surrounding yourself with people who generally agree with you is a tactic that's been used to prevent people from simply cutting toxicity out on social media platforms.
Plus there are some things unworthy of argument. The existence of trans people, not an argument. Fucking a 16 year old as a grown adult is fucked up, not an argument. Holders of these anti-truths are just bad people covering their own failings
There's a massive power imbalance in a relationship like that where the 30-something has basically total control.
I’ll not agree and say it depends on the two people. It might also not be a relationship and just a one time sex thing, or other. But I’ll agree that it doesn’t sound good in general, but it’s pretty common and doesn’t always end badly.
Half your age plus seven is the rule of thumb that I've heard. At 18, that means the lowest you should be dating is 16. At 32, it's 23. Etc.
I know this rule and I find it too restrictive at specific ages, and generalizing something that can’t be only related to age. It all depends on the personality and maturity of the 2.
My take: being attracted to minors when 23+ isn’t fine and pretty disgusting (when the main goal is sex or similar), but if the people talk a lot and learn about each other, then falling in love isn’t so disgusting and is understandable, although the adult should really pay attention to how they behave and should avoid any hierarchy
It’s just your POV. I’d say that pedophile refers to children, and I don’t consider a 16yo person to be a child. Some can be mature enough, although it might be rare and should be handled case by case, instead of making a stupid generalization.
Jesus Christ. No they cannot. She isn't mature for her age, your just a pedophile making excuses to justify your attraction. That makes you a predator. Ew
Sure. You know better than everyone. Congrats. Doesn't have to be a "her" btw...
Funny that I got called a pedophile as well when I was a minor. Fun times. Being with someone way older isn't always bound to end badly, provided the adult isn't a bad person (which isn't easy in the world we live in) and that both understand the risks and adopt the right posture.
I also know other people who have been in a similar situation. Sometimes it went okay, sometimes not.
Well the sentence that initially got me a three day ban was "Hitler did nothing wrong" which I'm aware doesn't look good on paper but it was a quote and not my own words. According to Reddit the decision was automated so I appealed what I thought was an honest mistake and that's when they probably saw my recent posts promoting Lemmy and talking about Palestine and decided to ban me permanently. That or they didn't like that I filed an appeal. I haven't used Reddit nearly as much since getting on Lemmy anyway so this is more funny than annoying but still a weird way to go.
It's next to impossible to go back anyways, people are getting banned eventually. I've been seeing reports of people's 5+years acc getting shadow banned for very little reason it doesn't make sense. A comment removal, low karma, cqs scores, age is enough to trigger a full site wide shadowban. I've been hearing also temp bans turned into permanent almost as fast the temp ban ends
I bet they're focusing on the old.r users, they've been wanting to get rid of that for awhile. If they shadowban you and leave on your own randomly, there won't be another mass exodus. That's conjecture though.
Anecdotally that fits my experience. I've refused to use new Reddit at every turn (save the app where you have no choice), and I got permabanned yesterday despite no real escalation in my rhetoric. I've always spoken my mind, and let fascists and conservatives know exactly how low I think of them, and until about a month ago none of it had copped me even a temporary ban.
I did not communicate that well. I didn't mean "just left" as in recently, I meant I left out of the blue 100%. When I'm done with something, I'm done. Did the same with lemmy .world. I don't log in and I don't look at any of the old places. Randomly, I get info from a search, but that's it.
Not OP but I got banned on reddit atleast 4 times. Zero bans on Lemmy though.
All for supposed harassment usually after having a disagreement in certain subreddits. Honestly could be anything their report system seems easy to abuse
Now, I don't tend to have those on Lemmy nearly as much, but when the pedophile I was disagreeing with reported me here the mods were chill to hear my side after issuing me a warning.
For both the more chill atmosphere and the better mods I like more here.
On bans I did mean sitewide as I know atleast veganhomecooks banned me (no clue why though I never interacted there. Just lurked). Fully understandable to think I meant communities with how I phrased it though lol.
Again though, I'd love to know how to check for bans. I'm very curious
The 30rock community on dubvee’s instance made it into my “all” feed once and I tried to comment. That’s when I learned. I was super offended lol. I started by searching my name in their mod logs. Turns out I had been banned there for like 9 months. For something I said on some com that wasn’t even on their instance. Then they have some kind of scripts (?) that sync the com bans and automatically turn them into instance bans. It’s crazy. The amount of effort that went into their automated ban infrastructure and ban culture is … impressive?
Sounds like you got crossbanned, basically certain subs will look at which subs a user visits and it autobans you, for example joe roegan sub is a common to get crossbanned from several subs if you ever commented on it. The sub itself makes fun of jrogan rather than support him
Make another account then. I have a shit posting account for making comments I know will be dicey. Reddit mods are fat slobs don't let them stop you from living your dreams.
they will detect your alternate account through fingerprinting you
it's where I am currently, unable to use any of my 100% wholesome and positively contributing accounts because I shared the opinion of "Oh no, anyways" on a burning Tesla dealership post, got banned from world news with no explanation, asked for elaboration and did not receive it, and then continued to post in that sub with another account.
did I ban evade? yes. did I first attempt to find out why I was banned? yes. was I ignored and thus continued to participate with other accounts, being careful to say nothing even close to provocative with those accounts? yes.
didn't matter. they identified it as the same account, they banned it.
I just found out about this too, but on Samsung phones you can install an app on the "secure folder" and that's basically another device ID so even if you install the app there it doesn't ban you.
Recently changed my phone, and while my new phone is completely reddit free, I tried this "secure folder" thing on my old phone(installed the official app via apk but patched to remove ads) that already was banned with a completely new account and so far it's working well, I've left a few comments and such and haven't been shadowbanned.
Now I'll probably won't post or do much on it anyways, I'm committing to use it less and less, but I can't really confidently say that Lemmy fills out all communities as Reddit does
Yeah me too. Honestly I like knowing that I CAN use it if needed, specially if there's an obscure IT question I might need help with. But having it on a whole other phone let's me not want to use it because it would mean having a whole other device to take care of battery and ughh you lost me there , so that's my compromise, I keep it on my desk turned off until needed
I was watching a "Town Hall" sort of thing on YouTube with the founders behind the reboot. They seem like the sort of people who are too rich not to be detached from the perspectives of the common person. So I think you're probably right.
My solution is to browse subreddits without signing in so whenever I go to up vote or down vote anything I can't and think, "oh right," then go back to Lemmy (which is quickly becoming a higher quality experience anyways).
Luckily, I've never had issues with reddit mods, but I received a f*ck ton of global bans on r/reddit_ukr (getting carpet bombed by russian bots and the half of the comments are [deleted])
It's the time to discover the fediverse ig. Btw any ideas where I can dump a ton of random IT memes?
I guess my advice wasn't anygood, hardware bans and ip can go in effect if you get banned. I love Lemmy, but this community is still a young, subs for a lot of niche hobbies and shit posting dont really exist...yet.
I use voyager and kept scrolling through the reconmended sub's list until I found something I was looking for. The search feature is hit or miss, I didnt find anything for IT memes.
they keep banning any other accounts I made there over being linked with the first one. I have tried unique email addresses and everything but they still figure it out within 24 hours, even when I 'm not allowed to post anything. So I just dont use reddit at all anymore.
you probably need to use a new device and on a network you havent frequently used. Unique email addresses dont mean anything if you're logging in with the same browser with the same cookies and "digital footprint"
Even that is getting culled. Reddit recently nuked r/nsfw which is like the OG porn subreddit. Apparently the Reddit execs learned nothing from the demise of Tumblr.
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!
I've had my reddit account for 17 years and I received my first warning for inciting violence because I commented "this makes me want to make a whip and go to town on these people" (a reference to Jesus running out the money changers in the temple) on a video of a megachurch service showing a woman painting trump bowing to a cross.
My reddit account got a strike by an admin for describing the risks involved in traveling to the USA currently (abduction, torture for an undetermined amount of time). The appeal I made to that was accepted but it left a sour taste in my mouth.
Lucky you, you got handled by a moderator who wasn't a raging Trump whore.
I got permabanned after a week long ban for "threatening violence" when I suggested that if a Trump was elected (it was in Oct24) started directley Aiding Russia in their invasion of Europe, that they'd probably end up with a dead president. I appealed and suggested that I wasn't threatening anyone, and that whoever banned me, was politically biased and triggered. and they flipped out and perma'd me.
I canceled my reddit pro, or reddit+ account, whatever the f*ck it is called, and the ads, the ads.... Ads that look like posts, or comments. It's almost making me 100% Lemmy too.
I was permabanned without explanation and reinstated two weeks later, again without comment.
I believe this tracks with what to expect should we ever see the tech-bro billionaires divide the world into monarchy fiefdoms ocer which rhey are each the unchallenged lord and master.
A shadowban was triggered by a simple comment removal and a completely new browsers, reddit wants all your browser info, they dislike if your using a browser fork too, besides only chrome or main ff
the second you get flagged for ban evasion you are pretty much dead in the water. and you'll have to move on to drastic, expensive measures to get around it. like a new device and probably a new network
even if your ban reason was false, if you make a new account, as far as they're concerned thats grounds for a non-appeal permanent ban.
I tried to like Reddit but every time I tried posting something I thought was original or thoughtful it would get auto deleted by a bot for not including the right "flair" or some other stupid shit.
Showerthoughts was one I tried. I don't remember specifics but I tried a couple times to post actual thoughts I had in the shower and they got insta-banned by a bot so I just gave up.
That's the problem, the powers that b have deemed it necessary that we only have 1 of 2 ideas.
Either you're loyal to conservatives, or loyal to neo-liberals. Anything else is cause for a ban, and there will be no cavalry to defend you since you're not loyal to either side.
I came from TikTok to Reddit about 2 years ago and after some initial adjustments I found the experience quite liberating in comparison. But yeah there are a lot of rules that you only find out about by getting deleted or downvoted. Lemmy is quite literally the essence of what makes Reddit interesting without the weird bs so this is an overdue transition anyway (although I miss optional user flairs ngl).
Lemmy is just small enough at this point where mods don't have to rely on automated tools and things like required flairs to effectively manage their community. As it develops, things like required flairs, verified submissions, etc will become more normal.
For example, I'm watching Wheel of Time, and /r/WoT requires you to flair every submission with a spoiler level (books only, show and book, show only, etc). Lemmy can't really sustain good discussion on that yet, but when it does mods will need to start aggressively removing submissions if they're not properly categorized.
Oh I did and even contacted moderators a few times to try to have posts reinstated after they were insta-banned by a bot. I just got tired of fighting with it every time I wanted to participate.
I still haven't been told I've been officially banned, they just give me server errors all the time (only on my main account, not when going on any other account/incogni)
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.
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.
My Reddit account was permanently banned for saying I hope Nazi scum Elon Musk dies soon. Had previously caught temporary bans for saying things like "We should overthrow Musk into the sea." in response to him having argued King Charles should overthrow the UK government. Reddit admins really don't seem to like it when you're righteously intolerant of evil scumfuck psychopaths who use their unearned power and influence to cause immeasurable harm to society, the world and its inhabitants. Things like that break Rule 1, threatening violence, they claim.
Although the permanent ban was only for a couple of days since I for once was successful in my appeal. I basically said death =/= violence. An obvious truth to anyone, except some Reddit admins apparently.
I've not really used Reddit since. Kind of lost my will to bother with a US based site that's clearly and predictably going in a US direction, i.e. spiraling down the fascist sewage. Instead I've been drifting over to here. Will see what the moderation over here is like.
My first appeal was not really an appeal and more a question but they ignored every appeal after that, I evaded a subreddit ban (accidentally was scrolling on an alt) for the most lame subreddit and made the most boring pointless comment as I do, it was like 3 words instant ban
But yeah that shit made me genuinely hate the site, there is no way at all to get in contact with a human, no email, no phone, just that one short limited character appeal you can send once.
Prior to that I had a temp ban for reporting stuff and it was like mod abuse or something, insane, it was against the rules, but if republicans incite violence its okay if they encourage suicides or whatever its fine
I knew a Reddit admin IRL for a year or so back in 2010 or so. I visited him in the hospital when he was diagnosed with leukemia. I got my marrow tested to try and be a donor for him, and that bitch still doesn't remember me.
I got banned for saying people should engage in mass protest against the arrest of judges and prevent anyone from entering and leaving the building in which they are held until they are released.
I'll create a new Reddit account when I can be bothered to create a new email address.
I was ahead of the curve, and got banned in October 2024 for Promoting violence when I said "If a president decided to betray America's allies, and start directley helping Russia in its wars of conquest, America would probably end up with a dead president"
They basically told me to fuck off on my appeal, I had told them A) I wasnt threatening anything, and B) moderation is getting politically triggered and biased. and they permabanned me.
and I have since been Hardware banned from my main PC and my work PC, I still want to go back for some of the niche communities that havent emigrated over here yet, but I really cant be bothered to go and fire up a 8 year old laptop or something just for fucking reddit. its a cesspit and getting banned is largely a blessing in disguise.
that part of my statement wasnt based in anything I know for certain, I see it mentioned a lot, I know they're doing something with algorithms that auto-ban suspected accounts,
I wouldnt put it past them however. while I think my phone is comprimised anyway and unsuitable for going back to Reddit, I know that one way to get hardware id'd for good. is by installing that stupid reddit app, which I wont do ever
They absolutely get your IP and probably some cookie data saved on your computer. Not sure about phones, those are privacy nightmares. I got tagged for trying to get around an IP ban on a sub, so they absolutely track that. Cleared all cookies and trackers, unplugged my modem for a few hours so my ISP would issue a new IP, and once I verified that I had a new IP I was able to use the sub under a different account.
I tried something similar and even waited not hours but months before I even attempted to log in. My account would be fine but the moment I post I get shadowbanned.
There's a reason why most of the people still there and ostensibly on the left are doomers. Reddit won't tolerate anyone else. This also has the effect of encouraging more people to become doomers and not take any action.
It's nuts, but once I learned that it was just an LLM doing content moderation (and probably the appeals, too), things made a lot more sense.
Spez is the exact kind of guy who would believe that community moderation is an "unsolved problem" and not, y'know, perfectly solvable by the same ol': ya hire people to do it.
That wont help, neither will a vpn or using a different device lol, I tried them all, think it has to be a different device youve never logged on before on a different network, i lost interest and just use lemmy now, reddit lowkey made me do stuff less, like id read more about my hobbies rather than doing them, like watching ppl game instead of gaming, but for any hobby
I have ios and each account on the browser with vpn and app got deleted? When I was banned I had 4 alts that all got banned instantly, all different emails and devices too
Feel that pain this year would have been my 10th year on Reddit. I was permanently banned last June for saying I hope the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus. It’s still blows I can’t post or comment on anything. I was part of a close nit group on Reddit involving a car subreddit and now it sucks to see people commenting on where I am and what happened.
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
Yep, 11+ year Reddit user and I had never received a single ban save a few of those pre-emptive ones from overly zealous subreddits I'd never even interacted with. Then in the last 6 weeks I received escalating bans of 3 days, then 7, and just yesterday finally a permaban, without much change in my rhetoric. I've always been very hostile to fascists and conservatives on my account, and for 99% of my Reddit history that never got flagged at all. So fuck em, I'm not going to try and get back on, the Reddit of today is not the one I enjoyed using back in the 2010s.
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")
Ehhh... dosing someone unknowingly has to be one of the most fucked up, inhumane things that you can do to a person. Obviously fentanyl is prob the worst, but I'm thinking more about psychedelics.
Oh, you can get banned here. It's not like this is like a place of free speech. It's just that the internet is kind of created little pockets of echo chambers. It is what it is. And like it was always going to be like that anyways. I just like it that it's not monetized by corporations that are bombing the shit out of children.
The idea behind lemmy (and every other decentralized platform) is not that you can't get banned. The idea is that f the mods of one instance decde to go crazy, are bought by malicious people, or if there is an hostile takover (like what happened to freenode), then the network isn't compromized, and ideally there are plenty of other instances with a moderation policy you agree with and where you can recreate an account
Only by the admin of your home instance, which is unlikely and normally comes after something very extreme (and can be mitigated by running your own instance, where you are in sole power over your account, so it cannot be banned globally)
But normally, you'll get banned by the community/certain other instance in very gruesome cases, but not your account.
only place I've ever been banned from here was not paying attention to which "channel" I was in since I dont fully understand how Lemmy works, and I ended up posting a comment to a thread I saw come up on the main page of lemmy.world when it was actually a lemmy .ml link, and people over there, most of them dont take too kindly to you insulting their Russian overlords,
.ml by and large are too ignorant to recognize the Russians aren't their Socialist idols, they're just a Capitalist oligarchic mafia state. So you make one comment that is percieved as being targetting against the Putin regime and you're automatically assigned the label of a Pro Western NATOpill schill
Reddit censorship is out of control. I got a warning about ‘violence’ today. My crime? I reported that the guy who is currently spamming every Australian mobile phone with messages about out the ridiculous Trumpet of patriots party is getting spammed back. I said “couldn’t happen to a nicer fascist”. Ffs.
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.
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
Absolutely! Especially communities instances like lemmy.ml. I just got banned for criticizing certain aspects of Communism. No alternate opinions are allowed apparently...
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,
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.
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.
Ideally everyone should have his account hosted on a small instance managed by people you can trust, ettqer because you know tqem personally or beqause you trust someone who trust them.
Having huge instances which host a significative part of the userbase kinda goes against tho concept of decentralization. But in practice it rarely work that way
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
Told another user to take Trump's advice and drink bleach. He's allowed to say it but apparently not me.
Whatever. Reddit has always been a barely redeemable corpo platform. I'm hoping Digg comes back ActivityPub compliant like Threads and puts the final nail in that shithole's corpse box.
I received a 7 day ban for threatening violence. My comment was, "He should have spray-painted a swastika in red" in response to video of a guy who spray-painted "USA" on a presidential placard in Trump Tower. I'm done with Reddit after 11 years.
I just recently found out Reddit has achievements. I don't use their official apps or new desktop so I never saw them. When I see what Reddit looks like to most people it is so bizarre. Like completely different experience.
Thank goodness Lemmy looks and feels the way it should.
Reddit's AI report processing is terrible. I got permed for advocating violence, discussing a completely hypothetical self-defense situation in the passive voice. Literally anyone with a brain cell would have understood it was not advocating violence.
I recently deleted my active, 16-year-old, account after being told I was inciting violence simply by commenting that a particular GOP senator had himself to blame for an issue he was trying to pin on others.
I just came back from a 3 day ban. I was warned before. In the 10+ years I’ve been on reddit this has never happened to me. But whatever. Lemmy is a great alternative.
You sound like a conservative that doesn't know what your talking about, if it's based on sarcasm, but if it's based on bigotry, you had no place in reddit as surely in other forums. Nobody likes a obnoxious loudmouth
Agreed. It was mostly based on frustration on how the littlest comment now on Reddit gets you banned. My mistake for getting hot headed and calling him a name.
Dang, I called one an autistic dork and only got 3 days. Nothing against autistic people. I'm something of an autistic myself. I just knew it would trigger him. Then I mocked him in the unban request too for being a "thin-skinned bitch."
I've also said "I fully endorse Luigi and his slaughter of CEOs."
I'd love to go on lemmy full time, but it's just so much smaller, the libertarian scene is a rather sparce, there's no community for dumbphones, and the leopard gecko sublemmy is abandoned :c
Reddit has streaks now??
I mean back when duolingo has discussions or what they called it, you might write nasty stuff. But now, imagine being banned for the wrong translation.
I haven't used duolingo for a few weeks because my hack to have infinite hearts broke again and I'm too lazy to put in the effort even tho it's not that difficult actually
I'm gonna be real, Duolingo is literally only good for motivation and easy vocab review. It has been years since I used it, but the best advice I got on that website was when forums still existed and people told me that the translations for JP were shit and to learn somewhere else, which is probs why those forums got deleted.
If you have to use hacks to not be bored/deal with the bullshit, then just leave man. It's not worth the bird begging you to come back. Find stuff online, YT (unfortunately) is your friend for resources.
The thing is that I needed to learn a language but that duolingo motivated me to learn a language in the first place. It sadly never made me dig much deeper. Nothing else I've tried ever stuck. So for me it's not duolingo or learn a language seriously but duolingo or candy crush (never actually played that game but you get the point)
Gamified social media with streaks and fomo notifications for daily scrolling or posting or whatever is hilariously bad and transparent.
Every? It was news to me that even reddit does this. I must have left them all too early.
It seems I dodged so many bullets, I might be Neo.
Twitch also has them now for how many of someone's consecutive streams you watch
I use TikTok and I didn't know it had anything like that
That’s it, we are taking away the awards system.
Jk, you can have it back.
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The streak made me want to not log in days in a row because it highlighted how much time I had wasted on the site.
Even on old reddit they have these annoying and constant "achievement" notifications now.
I’m so glad I left completely (minus the random search result with no other leads, but no browsing) when the API fuckery started, corporate social media sounds like an absolute hellscape now.
I'm almost there, I had to block the reply button with ublock origin. Quite the habitual addiction.
Why not just nuke the accounts and be done with it
Honestly it's two niche debate subs that kept me engaging that there's no substitute for. I think with the reply button blocked I'll be able to delete my account again soon. Yep I've relasped before.
...and I mainly used those subs to deprogram from my upbringing. That's the real truth, I found it healing.
Fam if you need to use reddit don't feel bad about it. "The trick is not to ignore the mainstream, but to selectively raid it for things we can use." -M. Gunderloy
I hear you but again I've left out an important detail. Those debate boards have moderators who are mostly checked out since the API drama, so the influx of morons using ChatGPT to "think" for them without getting banned has become intolerable and incredibly depressing when considering the long term implications of that among youth.
The positive feelings are an afterglow.
Yep, they want you to login everyday FOR MULTIPLE YEARS
Well, I did that on my own to be honest. Not anymore, though, lol.
Same, I’m glad to be out of the cesspool.
Wha... do you get some kind of reddit currency if you make a post that breaks 1000 upvotes, with a multiplier based on your log in streak length?
Jesus Christ, these fucking dark pattern, microtransaction shit just needs to be universally banned.
Yeah honestly a social media streak getting bigger is a sign I should probably take a day off.
They have a “basement dweller” achievement if you hit two years.
Many many years and ass loads of karma....
But apparently LIKING posts can get you banned now. What a shit show.
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
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.
And nothing of value was lost
What did you do?
Not op but I got perma banned for fighting with people who were defending massive pedophile Dr disrespect. They were arguing that "it was legal that means it's okay". I pointed out that the US is fucked and certain states have consent laws at 16. Legally he could fuck a 16 year old. However that doesn't change the fact that he's a pedophile scumbag regardless of legality.
I was then banned for "child sexual content" :)
Sounds right.
Reddit has gotten so pathetic. Sad to see it fall so hard. If it was like this in 2012 I would have never signed up
Yeah, that's actually the average age worldwide
Not defending Dr Diddles, mind you, but the US is actually better than a lot of places thanks to having parts where it's 17 or 18 (and... Worse, depending on where you look)
I avoid YouTube/twitch drama like the plague, because you can't really tell if they support or criticize the streamers,
I got banned for commenting on a video of something like "guy loses it in van and runs down protestors" my comment was pointing out that they were running into the way of an already (slow) moving van and then leaping dramatically to the ground. It was like a grade school production of a Chinese insurance scam en masse.
I tend to think that 16yo is fine so idc, they do their things
However I still think Disrespect is a moron (for other reasons)
Going to get downvoted but I’m making my part by de-echo chamberifying lemmy
This is like the defining case of "just because it's legal doesn't make it okay." An 18 year old and a 16 year old is one thing. It's very different when it's a 30-something year old and a 16 year old. That's like a high school senior trying to get with a 12 year old.
There's a massive power imbalance in a relationship like that where the 30-something has basically total control. Even a 30-something with a college kid has issues imo, let alone a kid who's a sophomore or junior in high school. That's some Quamire from Family Guy shit. "I love high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age."
Half your age plus seven is the rule of thumb that I've heard. At 18, that means the lowest you should be dating is 16. At 32, it's 23. Etc.
Also, echo chambers are good, actually, and you can't change my mind. Life isn't supposed to be a constant argument, and the criticism of surrounding yourself with people who generally agree with you is a tactic that's been used to prevent people from simply cutting toxicity out on social media platforms.
Plus there are some things unworthy of argument. The existence of trans people, not an argument. Fucking a 16 year old as a grown adult is fucked up, not an argument. Holders of these anti-truths are just bad people covering their own failings
I know.
I’ll not agree and say it depends on the two people. It might also not be a relationship and just a one time sex thing, or other. But I’ll agree that it doesn’t sound good in general, but it’s pretty common and doesn’t always end badly.
I know this rule and I find it too restrictive at specific ages, and generalizing something that can’t be only related to age. It all depends on the personality and maturity of the 2.
My take: being attracted to minors when 23+ isn’t fine and pretty disgusting (when the main goal is sex or similar), but if the people talk a lot and learn about each other, then falling in love isn’t so disgusting and is understandable, although the adult should really pay attention to how they behave and should avoid any hierarchy
DE ECHO CHAMBER LEMMY VIA COMING OUT AS A PEDOPHILE YOURSELF. WHAT A TAKE.
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Not enough pedophiles here 😔It’s just your POV. I’d say that pedophile refers to children, and I don’t consider a 16yo person to be a child. Some can be mature enough, although it might be rare and should be handled case by case, instead of making a stupid generalization.
Jesus Christ. No they cannot. She isn't mature for her age, your just a pedophile making excuses to justify your attraction. That makes you a predator. Ew
Sure. You know better than everyone. Congrats. Doesn't have to be a "her" btw...
Funny that I got called a pedophile as well when I was a minor. Fun times. Being with someone way older isn't always bound to end badly, provided the adult isn't a bad person (which isn't easy in the world we live in) and that both understand the risks and adopt the right posture.
I also know other people who have been in a similar situation. Sometimes it went okay, sometimes not.
"I am a multi gender focused predator"
Ew.
Well the sentence that initially got me a three day ban was "Hitler did nothing wrong" which I'm aware doesn't look good on paper but it was a quote and not my own words. According to Reddit the decision was automated so I appealed what I thought was an honest mistake and that's when they probably saw my recent posts promoting Lemmy and talking about Palestine and decided to ban me permanently. That or they didn't like that I filed an appeal. I haven't used Reddit nearly as much since getting on Lemmy anyway so this is more funny than annoying but still a weird way to go.
Having gone cold turkey and just left, it's weird no matter how you leave. Realizing how addicted I was, was kind of hard for my psyche.
It's next to impossible to go back anyways, people are getting banned eventually. I've been seeing reports of people's 5+years acc getting shadow banned for very little reason it doesn't make sense. A comment removal, low karma, cqs scores, age is enough to trigger a full site wide shadowban. I've been hearing also temp bans turned into permanent almost as fast the temp ban ends
Sounds a lot like what happened on Xitter after Musk took over. I suspect they are intentionally targeting left wingers.
Spez loves Elon. Wouldn't surprise me if he was bending the knee to try and get Elon to buy Reddit.
I bet they're focusing on the old.r users, they've been wanting to get rid of that for awhile. If they shadowban you and leave on your own randomly, there won't be another mass exodus. That's conjecture though.
Anecdotally that fits my experience. I've refused to use new Reddit at every turn (save the app where you have no choice), and I got permabanned yesterday despite no real escalation in my rhetoric. I've always spoken my mind, and let fascists and conservatives know exactly how low I think of them, and until about a month ago none of it had copped me even a temporary ban.
They can buy plenty of shit with your karma, It's a book personally written by you about you.
It's just not any good for 'you'
I did not communicate that well. I didn't mean "just left" as in recently, I meant I left out of the blue 100%. When I'm done with something, I'm done. Did the same with lemmy .world. I don't log in and I don't look at any of the old places. Randomly, I get info from a search, but that's it.
Not OP but I got banned on reddit atleast 4 times. Zero bans on Lemmy though.
All for supposed harassment usually after having a disagreement in certain subreddits. Honestly could be anything their report system seems easy to abuse
Now, I don't tend to have those on Lemmy nearly as much, but when the pedophile I was disagreeing with reported me here the mods were chill to hear my side after issuing me a warning.
For both the more chill atmosphere and the better mods I like more here.
Very sub and subject dependent honestly.
Yea, but it's infested the whole site though, especially reddits current filters now shadowbans your accounts if you look at itwrong
Same, plus they said I was report abusing.
Check dubvee. You might be surprised.
Oh shit, how do I do that?
On bans I did mean sitewide as I know atleast veganhomecooks banned me (no clue why though I never interacted there. Just lurked). Fully understandable to think I meant communities with how I phrased it though lol.
Again though, I'd love to know how to check for bans. I'm very curious
I forget how I checked.
The 30rock community on dubvee’s instance made it into my “all” feed once and I tried to comment. That’s when I learned. I was super offended lol. I started by searching my name in their mod logs. Turns out I had been banned there for like 9 months. For something I said on some com that wasn’t even on their instance. Then they have some kind of scripts (?) that sync the com bans and automatically turn them into instance bans. It’s crazy. The amount of effort that went into their automated ban infrastructure and ban culture is … impressive?
That's sorta like reddit, they have crossban privileges
Sounds like you got crossbanned, basically certain subs will look at which subs a user visits and it autobans you, for example joe roegan sub is a common to get crossbanned from several subs if you ever commented on it. The sub itself makes fun of jrogan rather than support him
Lemmy. The support group for burned reddit veterans.
We were there. We put in thousands of hours of work. Years of moderating. Free work. Content creators. People who commented. Voted. All that karma ...
All gone cause you upvoted an anti trump or musk post. Or maybe you upvoted a photo of a tessler burning.
Maybe you didn't think Luigi should get the death penalty.
Don't worry brother. Upvote what you want. Be free with the rest of us.
Check out https://lemmy.world/c/iselonmuskdeadyet
I wonder if the reason is because 50501 started on Reddit and they are determined to not let it happen again.
They bent the knee. Hard.
Hello everyone. You're not alone. I got banned like for 4-5 times, using local Ukrainian words that may look like slurs, but they aren't.
I got unbanned, but I am still too scared to write anything about politics on Reddit. I want a working account there for IT questions.
Make another account then. I have a shit posting account for making comments I know will be dicey. Reddit mods are fat slobs don't let them stop you from living your dreams.
they will detect your alternate account through fingerprinting you
it's where I am currently, unable to use any of my 100% wholesome and positively contributing accounts because I shared the opinion of "Oh no, anyways" on a burning Tesla dealership post, got banned from world news with no explanation, asked for elaboration and did not receive it, and then continued to post in that sub with another account.
did I ban evade? yes. did I first attempt to find out why I was banned? yes. was I ignored and thus continued to participate with other accounts, being careful to say nothing even close to provocative with those accounts? yes.
didn't matter. they identified it as the same account, they banned it.
I just found out about this too, but on Samsung phones you can install an app on the "secure folder" and that's basically another device ID so even if you install the app there it doesn't ban you.
Recently changed my phone, and while my new phone is completely reddit free, I tried this "secure folder" thing on my old phone(installed the official app via apk but patched to remove ads) that already was banned with a completely new account and so far it's working well, I've left a few comments and such and haven't been shadowbanned.
Now I'll probably won't post or do much on it anyways, I'm committing to use it less and less, but I can't really confidently say that Lemmy fills out all communities as Reddit does
Yeah me too. Honestly I like knowing that I CAN use it if needed, specially if there's an obscure IT question I might need help with. But having it on a whole other phone let's me not want to use it because it would mean having a whole other device to take care of battery and ughh you lost me there , so that's my compromise, I keep it on my desk turned off until needed
How do you patch to remove ads?
Get the apk from apk mirror and then patch it using ReVanced manager
I recognize this as English.
I'll have to look into everything you said here. I may be old, but I'm always game to learn new tricks. Thanks.
This is too much effort. I'll wait and see if the Digg reboot is worth using.
It won't be. It can't be. It will have to monetize, then it will have to restrict, and you end up with the same problems Reddit has.
I was watching a "Town Hall" sort of thing on YouTube with the founders behind the reboot. They seem like the sort of people who are too rich not to be detached from the perspectives of the common person. So I think you're probably right.
That one looks fun too, hopefully they can end the monopoly Reddit has
Use a different email and a different browser. Turn off IP tracking in settings. You may even need to use a VPN.
or, yaknow... just fuggen leave that shitshow and be free right here
My solution is to browse subreddits without signing in so whenever I go to up vote or down vote anything I can't and think, "oh right," then go back to Lemmy (which is quickly becoming a higher quality experience anyways).
Reddit mods are fat slobs who can be easily duped, but Reddit algorithims will autoban you for making new accounts.
I'm basically exiled from it until I decide to get a new device and sign in on a new network other than my home or my work.
Luckily, I've never had issues with reddit mods, but I received a f*ck ton of global bans on r/reddit_ukr (getting carpet bombed by russian bots and the half of the comments are [deleted])
It's the time to discover the fediverse ig. Btw any ideas where I can dump a ton of random IT memes?
I guess my advice wasn't anygood, hardware bans and ip can go in effect if you get banned. I love Lemmy, but this community is still a young, subs for a lot of niche hobbies and shit posting dont really exist...yet.
I use voyager and kept scrolling through the reconmended sub's list until I found something I was looking for. The search feature is hit or miss, I didnt find anything for IT memes.
I haven't really checked this site out in a long time, but I found it helpful in the past: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
I think it's something like i7t12 ie /c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt but it could be just something that looks like that
There's a shitpost area.
they keep banning any other accounts I made there over being linked with the first one. I have tried unique email addresses and everything but they still figure it out within 24 hours, even when I 'm not allowed to post anything. So I just dont use reddit at all anymore.
you probably need to use a new device and on a network you havent frequently used. Unique email addresses dont mean anything if you're logging in with the same browser with the same cookies and "digital footprint"
Yep that’s why I’m here. They banned my 12 year account for sympathizing with Luigi.
I got banned for pointing out that ICE are a human trafficking terrorist gang
If you ever wonder why nobody calls it terrorism when America does it, it is because people are not allowed to do so.
They ban facts now? Wow what a dump, I hope everyone that works there is time-teleported into an Auschwitz shower in 1944.
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Reddit banned all the people that made it fun, now the only people left are the boring ones and bots lol
And porn
Even that is getting culled. Reddit recently nuked r/nsfw which is like the OG porn subreddit. Apparently the Reddit execs learned nothing from the demise of Tumblr.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
and not any of the fun porn like the stuff made out of bad taxidermy
Won't be long before it becomes the next 9gag
Its pretty idiotic too. What's the point in having a karma system if you're just going to ban anyone who you disagree with.
So is Lemmy the dumping ground for people getting banned on reddit now?
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?
Someone should start Blueit. See cuz they blew it, get it?
Welcome, don't step in the Tankies on your way in.
Actually, please do step on them, they might finally wanna leave
They might like it
Historically they love it when people get run over, especially by tanks.
Yeah they just don't like it if it's them being the runner over, it's a fairly common opinion
Why do we keep those near the front door, anyway?
They offered to build the front door for free and now that it's done it's difficult to convince people to come in through a different door.
we keep moving them but when their toilets clog and overflow building mgmt moves them back.
Reddit bans you again in absentia
Reddit created an account on your behalf and banned you again for this
if reddit bots could read this they'd be very upset
I've had my reddit account for 17 years and I received my first warning for inciting violence because I commented "this makes me want to make a whip and go to town on these people" (a reference to Jesus running out the money changers in the temple) on a video of a megachurch service showing a woman painting trump bowing to a cross.
My reddit account got a strike by an admin for describing the risks involved in traveling to the USA currently (abduction, torture for an undetermined amount of time). The appeal I made to that was accepted but it left a sour taste in my mouth.
Lucky you, you got handled by a moderator who wasn't a raging Trump whore.
I got permabanned after a week long ban for "threatening violence" when I suggested that if a Trump was elected (it was in Oct24) started directley Aiding Russia in their invasion of Europe, that they'd probably end up with a dead president. I appealed and suggested that I wasn't threatening anyone, and that whoever banned me, was politically biased and triggered. and they flipped out and perma'd me.
That's pretty lenient, most people get permabans
Welcome to the club!!!
I canceled my reddit pro, or reddit+ account, whatever the f*ck it is called, and the ads, the ads.... Ads that look like posts, or comments. It's almost making me 100% Lemmy too.
I kinda miss the ads with comments enabled but not to the point where I'd consider going back 😅
Reddit used to be good enough to get people to post daily without cajoling
There it is. Their chatbots need more training data and reinforcement feedback.
I was permabanned without explanation and reinstated two weeks later, again without comment.
I believe this tracks with what to expect should we ever see the tech-bro billionaires divide the world into monarchy fiefdoms ocer which rhey are each the unchallenged lord and master.
A shadowban was triggered by a simple comment removal and a completely new browsers, reddit wants all your browser info, they dislike if your using a browser fork too, besides only chrome or main ff
the second you get flagged for ban evasion you are pretty much dead in the water. and you'll have to move on to drastic, expensive measures to get around it. like a new device and probably a new network
even if your ban reason was false, if you make a new account, as far as they're concerned thats grounds for a non-appeal permanent ban.
I tried to like Reddit but every time I tried posting something I thought was original or thoughtful it would get auto deleted by a bot for not including the right "flair" or some other stupid shit.
Posting in r/showerthoughts was impossible.
Questions about dark matter removed from r/space
Lots more like that.
Showerthoughts was one I tried. I don't remember specifics but I tried a couple times to post actual thoughts I had in the shower and they got insta-banned by a bot so I just gave up.
Showerthoughts is a large sub so it's regulated.
That's the problem, the powers that b have deemed it necessary that we only have 1 of 2 ideas.
Either you're loyal to conservatives, or loyal to neo-liberals. Anything else is cause for a ban, and there will be no cavalry to defend you since you're not loyal to either side.
I came from TikTok to Reddit about 2 years ago and after some initial adjustments I found the experience quite liberating in comparison. But yeah there are a lot of rules that you only find out about by getting deleted or downvoted. Lemmy is quite literally the essence of what makes Reddit interesting without the weird bs so this is an overdue transition anyway (although I miss optional user flairs ngl).
Lemmy is just small enough at this point where mods don't have to rely on automated tools and things like required flairs to effectively manage their community. As it develops, things like required flairs, verified submissions, etc will become more normal.
For example, I'm watching Wheel of Time, and /r/WoT requires you to flair every submission with a spoiler level (books only, show and book, show only, etc). Lemmy can't really sustain good discussion on that yet, but when it does mods will need to start aggressively removing submissions if they're not properly categorized.
Because you didn’t read and respect the rules
Oh I did and even contacted moderators a few times to try to have posts reinstated after they were insta-banned by a bot. I just got tired of fighting with it every time I wanted to participate.
Oh yea that happens
Reading all these ban stories, I'm glad I left during the API thing! I don't like censoring myself.
I still haven't been told I've been officially banned, they just give me server errors all the time (only on my main account, not when going on any other account/incogni)
Maybe they managed to corrupt your data.
"Whoops! We accidently corrupted your data and didn't have any alerts setup for when this happens hihi"
I wouldn't be surprised tbh
You can check if your shadow banned by looking at your profile while not logged in. If it says suspended or can't find your profile, you were banned
Damn, reddit do be shadow banning
yea, if your on a pc it will say "profile not found"
This is a screenshot from PC
Maybe you got shadowbanned?
Apparently
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.
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.
And no Reddit moderator ever had a “agenda”.
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This seems wholly unrelated.
Just got 7 day ban for wishing that Elon musk poof out of existance. Fuck Reddit, and fuck the tyrannical Reddit admins.
Uh oh, did you suggest something that isn't aligned with corporate status quo enforcement?
My Reddit account was permanently banned for saying I hope Nazi scum Elon Musk dies soon. Had previously caught temporary bans for saying things like "We should overthrow Musk into the sea." in response to him having argued King Charles should overthrow the UK government. Reddit admins really don't seem to like it when you're righteously intolerant of evil scumfuck psychopaths who use their unearned power and influence to cause immeasurable harm to society, the world and its inhabitants. Things like that break Rule 1, threatening violence, they claim.
Although the permanent ban was only for a couple of days since I for once was successful in my appeal. I basically said death =/= violence. An obvious truth to anyone, except some Reddit admins apparently.
I've not really used Reddit since. Kind of lost my will to bother with a US based site that's clearly and predictably going in a US direction, i.e. spiraling down the fascist sewage. Instead I've been drifting over to here. Will see what the moderation over here is like.
My first appeal was not really an appeal and more a question but they ignored every appeal after that, I evaded a subreddit ban (accidentally was scrolling on an alt) for the most lame subreddit and made the most boring pointless comment as I do, it was like 3 words instant ban
But yeah that shit made me genuinely hate the site, there is no way at all to get in contact with a human, no email, no phone, just that one short limited character appeal you can send once.
Prior to that I had a temp ban for reporting stuff and it was like mod abuse or something, insane, it was against the rules, but if republicans incite violence its okay if they encourage suicides or whatever its fine
It's tenous at best, probably would've been banned again anyways, since you account doesn't really clear in subreddit filtwrs
I knew a Reddit admin IRL for a year or so back in 2010 or so. I visited him in the hospital when he was diagnosed with leukemia. I got my marrow tested to try and be a donor for him, and that bitch still doesn't remember me.
I got banned for saying people should engage in mass protest against the arrest of judges and prevent anyone from entering and leaving the building in which they are held until they are released.
I'll create a new Reddit account when I can be bothered to create a new email address.
What were you banned for?
I got banned after 15 years for asking why we can't organize to cyberbully Trump's current head of social media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_%28political_advisor%29?wprov=sfla1
This was in response to the White House calling Garcia a terrorist on their Twitter account.
I was ahead of the curve, and got banned in October 2024 for Promoting violence when I said "If a president decided to betray America's allies, and start directley helping Russia in its wars of conquest, America would probably end up with a dead president"
They basically told me to fuck off on my appeal, I had told them A) I wasnt threatening anything, and B) moderation is getting politically triggered and biased. and they permabanned me.
and I have since been Hardware banned from my main PC and my work PC, I still want to go back for some of the niche communities that havent emigrated over here yet, but I really cant be bothered to go and fire up a 8 year old laptop or something just for fucking reddit. its a cesspit and getting banned is largely a blessing in disguise.
Since when does reddit take a hash of your hardware?
that part of my statement wasnt based in anything I know for certain, I see it mentioned a lot, I know they're doing something with algorithms that auto-ban suspected accounts,
I wouldnt put it past them however. while I think my phone is comprimised anyway and unsuitable for going back to Reddit, I know that one way to get hardware id'd for good. is by installing that stupid reddit app, which I wont do ever
They absolutely get your IP and probably some cookie data saved on your computer. Not sure about phones, those are privacy nightmares. I got tagged for trying to get around an IP ban on a sub, so they absolutely track that. Cleared all cookies and trackers, unplugged my modem for a few hours so my ISP would issue a new IP, and once I verified that I had a new IP I was able to use the sub under a different account.
I tried something similar and even waited not hours but months before I even attempted to log in. My account would be fine but the moment I post I get shadowbanned.
Same account? Sure. New account? I’m surprised.
There's a reason why most of the people still there and ostensibly on the left are doomers. Reddit won't tolerate anyone else. This also has the effect of encouraging more people to become doomers and not take any action.
Big Cheungus
I suggested someone add an icon of torches and pitchforks to an email they were sending to company to complain.
Banned for inciting violence.
It's nuts, but once I learned that it was just an LLM doing content moderation (and probably the appeals, too), things made a lot more sense.
Spez is the exact kind of guy who would believe that community moderation is an "unsolved problem" and not, y'know, perfectly solvable by the same ol': ya hire people to do it.
Wait, but the ban message says that a bot flags it and a person reviews it
That wont help, neither will a vpn or using a different device lol, I tried them all, think it has to be a different device youve never logged on before on a different network, i lost interest and just use lemmy now, reddit lowkey made me do stuff less, like id read more about my hobbies rather than doing them, like watching ppl game instead of gaming, but for any hobby
I use iOS and that didnt stop me from making another account after I got banned. I have four burner accounts.
I have iCloud premium, using safari and burner mails I can make however many accounts I like!
I’m still on Reddit due to my RC hobby. The community here is too small
I have the same setup and they caught me within 24 hours. fuck em.
Nah thank you. Don’t wanna catch those nasty STDs.
You sure your ban is even active still?
I‘ve never been banned tbh. I keep my two remaining accounts for hobby and porn free of all things politics.
I have ios and each account on the browser with vpn and app got deleted? When I was banned I had 4 alts that all got banned instantly, all different emails and devices too
Tried all the browsers app never worked, browsers gave me 5 minutes before ban sometimes lmao
Thank you for informing me. I'll take a look in ten years if they are still around.
In any case, I knew I would be banned eventually regardless so I just did as much agitating as possible until that point came.
Feel that pain this year would have been my 10th year on Reddit. I was permanently banned last June for saying I hope the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus. It’s still blows I can’t post or comment on anything. I was part of a close nit group on Reddit involving a car subreddit and now it sucks to see people commenting on where I am and what happened.
Make a new account and tell them.
Try using VPN and different browser or delete local reddit data. Not sure if reddit allows VPNs anymore for account creation though.
Yea I’ve tried everything but no luck. New account, vpn, switched data, no go.
I'm curious are you using android? I have had two accounts get banned last yead and I didn't experience that.
No I have iOS.
Old info doesn't work for a while now
Honestly, though? Been nothing but relief since. I really thought I got more out of it than I did. Left in first exo though
If you're not a russian orc troll, you're not welcome on reddit these days.
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.
Yep, 11+ year Reddit user and I had never received a single ban save a few of those pre-emptive ones from overly zealous subreddits I'd never even interacted with. Then in the last 6 weeks I received escalating bans of 3 days, then 7, and just yesterday finally a permaban, without much change in my rhetoric. I've always been very hostile to fascists and conservatives on my account, and for 99% of my Reddit history that never got flagged at all. So fuck em, I'm not going to try and get back on, the Reddit of today is not the one I enjoyed using back in the 2010s.
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.
It's a bot farm.
Everything is just rage bait
Bot farm, rage bait, psy op.
got permed for suggesting that the time to protest is now, before protesting becomes illegal and prosucetable und law lol
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
My account just got suspended for mocking JD Vance in a joke thread. I appealed and got a permaban in response.
You still get banned here too. The mods can disagree politically and just ban you as they can on reddit.
I hope all their party favors are laced, sf tech bros prob goin to illenium
Ehhh... dosing someone unknowingly has to be one of the most fucked up, inhumane things that you can do to a person. Obviously fentanyl is prob the worst, but I'm thinking more about psychedelics.
Yeah no. That shit isn't funny.
I didn't say id do it, I said I hope they just happen to get laced
The party favors are pschedelics, the lacing is fetanyl, this is lemmy we can "curse" people without "inciting violence"
Ohh ok... Yeah you're right, killing people by lacing their psychedelics with fentanyl is totally cool 🙄
Oh, you can get banned here. It's not like this is like a place of free speech. It's just that the internet is kind of created little pockets of echo chambers. It is what it is. And like it was always going to be like that anyways. I just like it that it's not monetized by corporations that are bombing the shit out of children.
The idea behind lemmy (and every other decentralized platform) is not that you can't get banned. The idea is that f the mods of one instance decde to go crazy, are bought by malicious people, or if there is an hostile takover (like what happened to freenode), then the network isn't compromized, and ideally there are plenty of other instances with a moderation policy you agree with and where you can recreate an account
lemmy.world mods have already shown they're not interested in moderating fairly.
I jumped ship from that awful instance when they decided to block piracy communities.
Would love to see them fade into obscurity.
It takes special effort here, though.
It's not inevitable: some places are very laissez-faire.
Not that difficult. A year ago I was banned from lemmy.world for refusing to get into an argument with a mod.
Yeah, but world wants to be Reddit 2.0, so that tracks.
We should have all stayed on Usenet. It's decentralized and uncensored.
Only by the admin of your home instance, which is unlikely and normally comes after something very extreme (and can be mitigated by running your own instance, where you are in sole power over your account, so it cannot be banned globally)
But normally, you'll get banned by the community/certain other instance in very gruesome cases, but not your account.
But if any one instance pulls reddit stuff ppl will notice and can leave without losing the whole site and infrastructure
only place I've ever been banned from here was not paying attention to which "channel" I was in since I dont fully understand how Lemmy works, and I ended up posting a comment to a thread I saw come up on the main page of lemmy.world when it was actually a lemmy .ml link, and people over there, most of them dont take too kindly to you insulting their Russian overlords,
.ml by and large are too ignorant to recognize the Russians aren't their Socialist idols, they're just a Capitalist oligarchic mafia state. So you make one comment that is percieved as being targetting against the Putin regime and you're automatically assigned the label of a Pro Western NATOpill schill
Reddit censorship is out of control. I got a warning about ‘violence’ today. My crime? I reported that the guy who is currently spamming every Australian mobile phone with messages about out the ridiculous Trumpet of patriots party is getting spammed back. I said “couldn’t happen to a nicer fascist”. Ffs.
They keep sending me emails trying to get me to come back and I'm like "Unban my fucking account and I'll think about it."
My ban was for "Abusing the report system"
ie: Using it at all
Lmao yeah I guess there’s a lot of us here.
I doubt that very much.
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.
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
Absolutely! Especially
communitiesinstances like lemmy.ml. I just got banned for criticizing certain aspects of Communism. No alternate opinions are allowed apparently...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,
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.
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.
I don't care to argue politics with them, but outside of that subject, a lot of the .ml crowd have useful and helpful responses to other ares.
We all suffer from limited worldview. I'm not sure any of us do a particularly great job of seeing things from others perspectives.
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
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 :(
That's fine. "Defederation" will have less meaning as time goes on and there are different sections of the fediverse that support different ideals.
The more people that are afraid of "defederation" and adjust their behavior as a result, the more power it has.
Ideally everyone should have his account hosted on a small instance managed by people you can trust, ettqer because you know tqem personally or beqause you trust someone who trust them.
Having huge instances which host a significative part of the userbase kinda goes against tho concept of decentralization. But in practice it rarely work that way
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
Just for posterity in case this follows us here, there is a genocide going on in Palestine. Feels like a mantra at this point.
Israel has bots in reddit to gatekeep the narrative i believe they have taken over worldnews
The censorship on reddit is insane, I can't even post this picture there !
Yeah, can't just hang out over there being a decent human being, they want to the the new compliment to X
Told another user to take Trump's advice and drink bleach. He's allowed to say it but apparently not me.
Whatever. Reddit has always been a barely redeemable corpo platform. I'm hoping Digg comes back ActivityPub compliant like Threads and puts the final nail in that shithole's corpse box.
Do they really nag for streaks? Damn, it's sadder than I thought...
I hope I'm not the only one in here who nuked my Reddit account voluntarily after they started ramping up censorship.
Basically, I saw what was coming and bailed off that site while I was still ahead.
It's because they are sadistic, corporate bastards that need to be taken down! All corporate bastards need to be taken down.
We don't need corporations, we need all volunteer, donation-funded organizations.
I received a 7 day ban for threatening violence. My comment was, "He should have spray-painted a swastika in red" in response to video of a guy who spray-painted "USA" on a presidential placard in Trump Tower. I'm done with Reddit after 11 years.
I just recently found out Reddit has achievements. I don't use their official apps or new desktop so I never saw them. When I see what Reddit looks like to most people it is so bizarre. Like completely different experience.
Thank goodness Lemmy looks and feels the way it should.
Reddit's AI report processing is terrible. I got permed for advocating violence, discussing a completely hypothetical self-defense situation in the passive voice. Literally anyone with a brain cell would have understood it was not advocating violence.
I recently deleted my active, 16-year-old, account after being told I was inciting violence simply by commenting that a particular GOP senator had himself to blame for an issue he was trying to pin on others.
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.
I just came back from a 3 day ban. I was warned before. In the 10+ years I’ve been on reddit this has never happened to me. But whatever. Lemmy is a great alternative.
Shadowbanning is a tool of the demiurge
I just got banned myself for calling a moderator woke. F reddit
Woke is a compliment, though
Was that ironic usage of the word or did you just out yourself on your first day?
Needs more context. Calling someone woke because you know it will piss them off I think is fair usage.
Anyone who gets that upset about being called woke probably isn’t that great either.
I for one refuse to entertain "wokeness" as it is grammatically incoherent.
I may have
that Reddit mod
Doesn’t sound great for you…
You sound like a conservative that doesn't know what your talking about, if it's based on sarcasm, but if it's based on bigotry, you had no place in reddit as surely in other forums. Nobody likes a obnoxious loudmouth
Agreed. It was mostly based on frustration on how the littlest comment now on Reddit gets you banned. My mistake for getting hot headed and calling him a name.
Dang, I called one an autistic dork and only got 3 days. Nothing against autistic people. I'm something of an autistic myself. I just knew it would trigger him. Then I mocked him in the unban request too for being a "thin-skinned bitch."
I've also said "I fully endorse Luigi and his slaughter of CEOs."
Why is it so hard for me to get my permaban?
You have to be nice to someone they don't like.
Hahahhahahah
Lemmy isn't much better. We still need communities that don't allow mod abuse.
If you get reported enough, the mods will censor or ban you even if you're not breaking any rules.
Lemmy isn't much better!?
Whatever you say, man.
The instance you are registered in is one of a few that are the non fun parts of this platform
Lemm.ee is the funnest! No idea what you're on about.
at least there's a public mod log, thats nice.
I'd love to go on lemmy full time, but it's just so much smaller, the libertarian scene is a rather sparce, there's no community for dumbphones, and the leopard gecko sublemmy is abandoned :c