Reddit permabanned my account for speaking out against pedos.
I found that the members of r/luckystar were saying very sexual things about characters that, while 18, had very child like designs. And even if, they were saying shit like, "Cunny!" and, "Correction!" so, yeah.
I constantly reported all posts and comments like that I came across and eventually made a post asking why they were saying things like that. I wasn't hostile, and was in fact, rather calm about the situation. Meanwhile, they were all extremely rude and hostile towards my post, calling me names and such, and about 20 minutes later, my account was shadowbanned.
So, not only did Reddit moderation side with the pedos, they didn't even have the decency to tell me what I did wrong. Assuming how it all happened so suddenly, I'm just gonna assume the pedos all mass-reported my account for God knows what. Any and all appeals I've mad since then received no response.
I still stuck around for a few months after that, [that whole deal happened back in May of 2025.] but the extreme leftist political dooming invading every corner of the website I used made it absolutely miserable to use.
Tonight, I finally put my foot down and said, "I quit!" I discovered this website and made an account here. I guess you can use this post to welcome me to the Fediverse.
This isn't like reddit at all! Not even a bit! Here the up votes are blue!
No it's red. Everyone can have their own prefered expreience, unlike over on reddit, where you must do as corporate demands.
Mine are red, so fuck you!
I was gonna mention that line in my own comment, but I'm glad someone else mentioned it.
This place is literally the exact opposite of reddit in that regard. We welcome the overwhelming leftist political dooming. It grounds us in reality.
Heaven forbid leftists get a bit doomy when climate change is inevitably accelerating and fascists are in the process of consolidating their complete control over the most powerful country on earth.
I'm banned from "You Should Know" and only found out recently, got no clue why. Reminds me of those random reddit bans.
I really don't understand what both you and OP mean with "leftist doomerism". I can completely understand if you have a different leaning and don't wish to be part of a community that mostly disagrees with you, but is talking of the problems of the world "doomerism" to you?
Do you have another account or something? Yours is only four days old lol. Do you like specifically look for people who left Reddit or something?
...So you came here? 🤨
Ah yes, the Fediverse the bastion for check notes anarchists, socialists, communists, and other leftists. With three instances being known as the Tankie Triad. The major conservative communities are for leftists to make fun of conservatives.
Yup, no extreme left political thinking here.
Grad, ML, what's the third one?
Hexbear
Ah, sure
Just because you don't like it, doesn't make it wrong. And it is absolutely legal if they are 18+, at least where I live it is.
No wonder you were banned.
No they were not pedos by any reasonable standard if the characters were above 18.
EDIT PS:
If this was really about pedophilia, the correct place to report it is the authorities, and not to some moderators so they can hide the evidence.
The fact that this NEVER happened, shows that OP knows he was just pearl clutching, and didn't actually have a case.
They said it was about Lucky Star. That show is literally about a group of high school girls. They're not adults in the slightest so I'm not even sure why OP said that. None of the characters are 18+.
OK I have no idea what that is? When I google it I get a cartoon...
It's a slice of life anime about a group of high school girls.
But anime cartoons don't have actors of any age, so that doesn't make any sense.
😋
In view of this new information I find it pretty stupid to complain to the moderators, because being fans of that cartoon, they could likely feel the same way as those posters.
I do however absolutely agree that sexualization of children is wrong, and that was not the point I was arguing against. I thought we were talking about something where you could see the actors were 18+.
The problem of OP not providing a link to the context.
You're clearly cherry picking OP's comment there, conveniently leaving out what makes what they saw problematic.
Those terms are specifically used by the pedo "roleplay" portion of the anime fandom, there's not really any ambiguity there.
Like, on the first sentence, I'd agree with you. But the second sentence makes it clear that they saw the disgusting part of the fandom.
How would you even know enough about that portion of that fandom to know such things...? 🤨
I have no idea about that, but if these characters were above 18, it does not fall under pedophilia. There is absolutely no room for interpretation on that.
One is legal, the other is not.
And....the pedo defenders are here.
You can play that game all you want, a character that looks 5 and you say is 18+ or 200 years old...is still a fucking 5 year old looking character.
The fuck is wrong with you people.
You guys realize that you're talking about drawings right? Like, marks on a paper or screen?
Even putting sexuality aside it's like arguing over how old these "characters" are:
One of them is 5 years old, the other is 500.
But over here in reality, it's all fictional and doesn't matter because they're just a drawing.
Yea cause a drawing of a child that someone sexualizes is totally the same of line drawing...got it...
They're both just drawings. None of it is real. The only difference is the label.
I fucking hate this argument.
If someone used AI to generate a video of Epstein raping a child, would that be acceptable to you? The video isn't real either.
I hate to do this, but it's simple: anything that looks like real children is bad and should never be sexualized.
But anime? Come on. That's not how people look.
So in your mind someone getting off to a scene depicting something like that is totally fine as long as it doesn't look exactly like a real child? You realize it is meant to represent a human child, right? Is any sort of stylized drawing fine then because it doesn't look indistinguishable from a real person? There's hentai explicitly about minors (like, not even high schoolers, but like fucking middle school and younger...) being raped by old dudes.
Shit like this is why there used to be (and still is, although to a lesser degree) such stigmatization of anime.
No, because fuck AI and burning our future on that shit.
But you're okay with the content of the video being shared publically, in principle, right?
No no they're not, sounds like you enjoy loli shit as well...
I am absolutely not a pedo defender, there's a huge difference between being attracted to an 18 year old, who in my and most countries is of legal age, and being a pedo.
The difference apart from being attracted to children, is that at 18 years old, you are considered old enough to make decisions for yourself also called being of legal age.
Having sex with a minor on the other hand is automatically rape, as a minor is NOT considered old enough to make decisions for themselves.
I am disgusted that your post has an upvote. When the persons are above 18 there is no moral argument to call people attracted to them pedos.
USA however has a weird double standard in that regard, you are of legal age when 18, but cannot drink until 21????
This doesn't make the slightest bit of sense, you can buy a gun, join the military, but you can't have a drink?
USA is a pestilence of moronic double standards, and the country is suffering from am enormous degree of moral corruption, mostly originating in the insane level of Christian fanaticism, that is more similar to the middle east Islam, than to developed democracies. Of course similar moral idiocy exist in other countries too, but almost always driven by religiosity.
You literally are saying that it's ok to be attracted to children just as long as their backstory is they're over 18.... everyone knows that loli shit is fucking pedo shit.
Cool. Glad we can agree on that.
Except the characters you loli people are into are literally depictions of children, and you justify that shit by saying they're a 200 year old elf or some shit.
What?
Hey...hey stay with me... we're talking about you liking or defending those who like depictions of children and saying it's ok because you said they're 18+...
There's a very strong difference between what we think and what we do.
Being attracted to 18 year olds is absolutely legal. So what the fuck is your problem?
By your standard role playing a wizard that kills an orc would make you a wannabe killer!
The slippery slope pearl clutching around pedophilia is absolutely detrimental to actually protecting children against REAL pedophilia.
For fucks sake let's attack the real problem instead of chasing shadows!!!
Because you're not attracted to 18 year olds, you're attracted to children and justify it by saying they're 18. Huge difference.
You are outright insane.
Says the guy who's suggesting that it's ok to be attracted to children, because the characters are 200 year old elves... they're still children.
If you draw a baby wearing an actual diaper and arbitrarily call it a 200 year old immortal vampire, is it fine in your mind to depict it being raped by some random dude? I literally do not understand your thought process. Although, frankly, given the "difference between what we think and what we do" part of your comment, I'm not inclined to look on your thoughts particularly charitably.
Pedophiles run the world
No only the USA.
You’re kidding right? You haven’t noticed European leaders bending the knee to Israel?
Erm no they don't, and even if they did, I don't see how that automatically makes them pedophiles?
But we have seen a lot of evidence that pedophilia is widespread among the American elite.
So this week Slovakia’s national security advisor resigned and so did Lord Mandelson from the Labour Party in the UK. Both happened shortly after the latest file release because they are indeed very much in the files.
Also as a European we are so very much financing Israel’s genocide. Not sure what sources you are using that say we aren’t. Type in any EU country in any search engine of your choice. Add in “money Israel” or “weapons Israel”. Sure plenty of countries are also condemning Israel’s actions while also simultaneously paying for those actions.
Sure. But over here they had to resign in disgrace. Over in the good ol' US of A, they stay in charge and get to shit themselves on camera too.
Yep and that sucks. A lot of people have been working very long to fill the top ranks in the US exclusively with people who are at the very least on board with this kind of behaviour or willing to go along with just about anything blindly, most of which were replaced very recently.
In Europe we seemingly still have enough people left that we’re not compromised. At least enough that they don’t dare to give people a free-pass publicly yet. We’ll see if anyone actually gets punished though or if it’s just for show.
A few in Europe, and a lot in USA, and the whole thing being an American operation, there's a pretty significant difference.
Sure there were Americans involved, but it was arguably a worldwide operation. Plenty of ties to the UK, EU, Russia, Israel and various middle eastern countries. I’m happy to talk crap about the US (amongst other countries) but I prefer to stick to facts when doing so.
True, but not the people that actually rule the UK or EU, only for USA does this spread right to the very top of those that actually rule. And it also spreads way more widely among the top in USA.
What utter bullshit
Um I found a bunch of child molesters, reported them but got banned
But like I stuck around for months after and only left coz the socialist were telling me that the fascists I believe in are destroying the country, the rule of law and its institutions
/s
So the child fucking molesters weren't enough to make you leave but leftist were.
Fuck you
Lol, I'd like to see what they refer to as "extreme leftist political dooming" since it's probable that Lemmy has a relatively higher amount of material that would fit the bill.
Nervous glance at the towering pile of doom
Hmm? Oh, yes.
Welcome! We don't have pedos, but we do have our fair share of extremist leftists. I'd advice against visiting communities on the hexbear and lemmygrad instances if you are not pro-communism/russia/china.
Furthermore you might want to read up on the idea of "instances" and what makes the fediverse different from lemmy. It helps explain how communities work here, but you can also just figure it out on the go.
The lemmy.ml instance, for example, is the OG instance. It has a few far-left communities and users, but plenty of a-political communities and user as well.
My isntance, sh.itjust.works, is a general-purpose instance based in Canada.
You're on PieFed, which is different from Lemmy for some reason haha.
So long as you block all the loli anime.
Gods, yeah. There’s a lot of creepy shit floating around if you don’t have the NSFW filter on.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that we’re better than Reddit because the user base is better (we definitely have some amazing people though). Lemmy is better than Reddit because it’s decentralised and not under the thumb of a big corporation.
I'm glad nobody on this instance subscribes to that kind of content.
It's all that Moe guy.
Moe Lester?
You'd think with a name like that they'd have caught him by now
As far as I can tell, Piefed exists because some people didn't like that the lemmy devs are communists.
I haven't looked into piefed, I'm exclusively going off what pro-piefed/anti-lemmy users have said.
That's not right. If anything, the problem would be that they support aggressive authoritarian regimes or that they're more anti-west than communist.
You confuse not supporting America's hostile actions against foreign countries with supporting the actions by those governments.
The alternative stance, supporting hostile action against, China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, etc because they're "authoritarian" is not materially different from the most blood thirsty ghoul who supports hostility because they believe they are inferior people whose labor and resources should be subjugated by the west.
Presumably you're a liberal who understands Iraq and Libya are not a better places today because we "liberated" them from their authoritarian regime, and maybe you see through zionists who argue in bad faith that we can't support Palestine because the struggle for LGBT+ rights hasn't advanced as much, but maybe you've noticed a pattern that 1. being subjected to western media and education, you get a wildly distorted perspective of places America intends hostile action, and 2. Supporting hostile action against "the regime" from the west just means hostile action against those people. An Iranian might protest and organize to advance their struggle, the US starving and/or bombing them does not help them.
Are you saying the Lemmy devs don't openly support aggressive, authoritarian regimes, like Russia?
other than the main one , are the other ones "far left"
You could just peruse their history.
All aggressive authoritarian regimes are bad and we should support none of them. The only reasonable side is against all of them.
You can't stay still on a moving train. Your opposition to the west's enemies, from within the west, is literally just supporting imperialism.
Still waiting on that answer...
Not doing this, go justify imperialism somewhere else.
Just so we're clear, you're outright lying.
I can show you Desellines explicitly supporting Russia against Ukraine.
So the real question is why are you lying?
Yes, opposing the US puppet, or more likely, opposing the US prolonging the war and human suffering, because like every other case of the last 75, the US is the greater evil.
The real question is why I bother responding to this bad faith horseshit.
I left lemmy because of the nutomic, yogthos, and dessalines. horrible people who have too much influence/control on all things lemmy and will ban/silence you for anything. check out [email protected]
But then they could have used Mbin, which is older than Piefed?
Iirc wasn't it because python is easier for beginners to learn than rust and php, so it's easier to get more contributors and thus deliver features faster?
Piefed is way nicer to use than mbin, feature rich.
I've used all three mentioned. While I don't like the lead Lemmy dev, I actually just like Piefed more it's not just out of principal.
They're not commies, they're tankies.
Tankies are far removed from communism, they don't care for communist ideals or communist values, they only care for authoritarianism.
Ok, guess I'll go tell everyone part of an Actually Existing Socialist project to give up and shut it all down because some guy on the internet told me they're actually authoritarian.
Open source doesn't equal socialist lol
Otherwise, you'd have to argue that OpenAI is part-socialist since they have open source releases.
Actual Existing Socialism refers to countries that are working towards communism; socialist projects. Today that's China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, some may argue Venezuela, Bolivia, and others.
Ah, okay.
Now, I'm curious. What is socialism to you?
When the working class holds state power, a transitionary period as they build the conditions for communism.
Isn’t the UI very similar or am I missing something? I didn’t see any major differences when initially comparing them except PieFed having some more features like reactions and cross post comment loading (which I don’t think is a thing in Lemmy?). I have mostly used PieFed since then though.
Does piefed even have working apps yet?
Blorp dev here. Linking the GitHub page if you wanna see all the ways you can download Blorp https://github.com/Blorp-Labs/blorp
Voyager can feed on pie.
This really is the beauty of the fediverse: every instance has it's own character, and even if we don't agree on specific stances, we are still connected and it reduces the bubble effect massively. I believe this open discourse and the not-politial-motivated algorithm are the best way to reduce extremism, and if you don't want to engage with a group you can filter it. @[email protected] - if you find an instance which fits your believes better, don't hesitate to switch, you can export and import your subscribed communities easily. Welcome!
oh my god i actually thought lemmy.ml stood for lemmy marxist-leninist this whole time.
It does, but it is also a general-purpose isntance. It was long the default landing page on join-lemmy.org, but that is no longer the case. That's why there are a lot of people on there who aren't lenninist-marxist. It is still one of the biggest instances.
It doesn't, the Mali TLD was free/cheap for a while (no longer)
it is now, it was general for tech people. but its mostly ultra-left propaganda vomit. if you look at how they comment is extremely uncanny if not similar to how right wingers comment. i also notice they are trying to takeover political memes community too.
I mean, fuck reddit, but a character that is 18 years old is objectively not a child, nor would sexualizing them be pedopholia.
Also lol, this place is far more left than reddit.
I don't know the specifics, but it wouldn't be the first time artists say one thing for legal reasons but draw kids in sexual situations. "She's actually 2000 years old according to this backstory I made up, so it's OK"
Yeah, I was thinking it was one of those situations.
No, making a justification as to why an adult looks like a child does not make the situation less pedo-coded.
I've seen lucky star (like 15 years ago), there's no sex that I can remember being referenced.
It was just girls slice of life.
While there's certainly a lack of content (and by extension diverse voices) compared to Reddit here, there's definitely less corporate manipulation. It's a nice palate cleanser of that gross astroturfing fiefdom.
Genuine question, what does this mean? Is this slang about minors?
You'd be correct. When freaks like that see minor characters, they start saying shit like, "UOHUH CUNNY 😭💢" and, "BRAT NEEDS CORRECTION! 😭💢".
Now, to explain, "Cunny", [sometimes referred to as Cute and Funny to trick the censors and other people.] is a slang term they made for a minor female character's private parts. As for "Correction", they mean a bratty little girl needing, "correction." and by that, they mean... well, yeah.
So even IF they were attracted to their personalities, [which I'd understand, after all they are 18 and fictional characters.] They're basically self-reporting doing shit like that.
[Typing all that shit out is probably gonna get my account banned, but I just want to inform you.]
I don't think you're gonna get banned. You're not describing anything lewd (as in an act), just explaining the terms.
Were they against shit like street executions? Were they in support of shit like free school lunch?
Oh man I hate the extreme left!
I mean, this place is quite a bit further left than Reddit. A lot of leftist stuff on Reddit started getting banned after Elon got his fee-fees hurt over people mocking DOGE.
And, it’s kinda weird that the last straw was the anti-fascism rather than the creeps.
elon is the one initiating the 2 massive purges on reddit, because he complained to his parasocial fan SPEZ twice.
I was banned as well for commenting too much against the zionists... pedos and zionists are not allowed topics in there... welcome to Lemmy, btw
Fuck u/spez.
The reddit CEO is probably in the Epstein files too
constant reporting can apparently result in a ban, because "you reported too much" or whatever reason. reddit allows alot more bots to astroturf the site than usual. reddits far-left community is quite small compared to here. its more or lest center right beliefs.
reporting seems to be a extremely futile exercise on reddit, because only gets you banned in the end anyways.
Your mental block will never allow you to understand this but reddit is a right wing pedo shithole.
Help me understand: was this a subreddit you participated in for months or longer, before encountering a wave of objectifying comments? Or is it more like, you were a newb to the sub when you started pestering mods about a tone that was already established as normalized there?
Careful.
One of the mods of this sub will threaten to delete this post unless you can provide them with what they consider to be proof of your claims. They'll even go so far as to lie and say they tested your claims and found them to be baseless, despite clearly not testing your claims.
Don't spoil it for him. Let him realize this is just aa much of a shit hole but I'm a different color.
I got myself IP range banned lol. Why? I think the comments that triggered staff initially was saying establishment Democrats are scum on worldnews. That's all it took.
After that I kept making new accounts with various combinations of "spez" and "micro penis" while advertising Piefed everywhere and that pissed someone higher up off big time.
I'm guessing without context this is an anime.
There's a reason anime fandom is to be avoided at all costs now. Oversexualization of women in general AND the pervasive loli/childish """adult""" problem.
It's way too much of an issue.
Congratulations on getting away from that hellscape. My experience on corporate social media sites is you easily get banned for criticizing awful viewpoints but as long as you stick within certain parameters you can be an awful person with awful views, and mods give zero fucks.
I've been banned for calling awful open bigots "bad words". I reported their bigoted hate speech and crickets. I was permabanned for reposting a widely available photo that embarrasses trump. I even got disturbing death threats from a doctor in Florida for arguing with him about trump. I posted screenshots of him threatening my life on his yelp page for his practice and yelp literally just deleted those screenshots and scolded me for posting them. There's a doctor out there who fantasizes about murdering strangers and he feels empowered to share those fantasies because Facebook and Yelp proved they'll protect him if he does.
All these things cause me to find it hilarious when the right wing claims they are censored and banned unfairly. It's because they literally want to be able to say anything and never see a consequence. In my experience, they're mostly in that position. But it's never good enough. They happily create their own safe spaces where nothing short of Nazi viewpoints are tolerated, but they cannot stomach any perceived limit on their speech.
Well yeah, spez doesn't allow any criticism of Elon Musk. Of course they'll have to allow any other /s
spez wants to emulate/in love with musk thats why
Well, it's Reddit doing Reddit things, as always.
Reddit Mods who shadowban are the most gutless softcocks in the world.
Welcome!
Lemmy moderators and Reddit moderators are the exact same people, dude.
"Speaking out against pedos" is ableist language in exactly the same way that "speaking out against schizos" or "speaking out against neurotics" would be. Pedophiles and child molesters are in reality mostly disjoint groups. (That means they are not the same group of people.) Pedophiles don't automatically molest children, just like straight men don't automatically rape women. Most people who molest children are not sexually attracted to children at all; sexual assault is not about sexual attraction!!
If you mean child molester, say "child molester."
If you're the type to needlessly argue the difference, you're putting a very distinct hat on that says "I am emotionally invested in people's perception of child abusers" and I say child abusers as a catch-all for those who are in any way attracted to kids. Because pedos and child rapists are in the same group whether they touch kids or not.
It's similar, in my mind at least, to trying to separate the original WW2 nazis from modern day nazis by saying "The modern ones aren't gassing minorities and invading poland so you HAVE to clarify which one's you're talking about." As if they weren't all part of the same group.
In terms of what I'm actually trying to get across; be very wary of who you defend when trying to police speech, especially on the internet.
I understand nuance is a thing but even I had to stop myself from assuming you're the same as the "ackshually its ephebophilia so they're not a pedo" crowd
Pedantic but technically true. However language is fluid and context influences the decoding of meaning.
If you've got a problem with pedos, you might wonna step away from PieFed. Doesn't seem like you can criticize Epstein or the child sex traffickers of Israel over there.
wat
Go ahead and try. Not Israel, not Epstein, not even allowed to talk about the Hannibal Directive.
Are you talking about a particular instance or are you alleging that the entire platform is censoring everything about that?
PieFed