The mods at r/popculture pointed it out. And then the screenshot above.
The subreddit drama
The oligarchs are getting nervous. Good. I hope they are a scared. Fuck their platforms and their false backing of “free speech.”
Yeah, the easiest way to control people is when you know what they fear. And, now we know what they fear. They (media/social media/politicians) have been using our fears against us all along, time to see what it is like.
They won’t be scared until there’s another Luigi.
We all know what’s gonna happen next. The Admins will lock out the remaining mod and take it over for being “unmoderated” and install their own puppets like nothing ever happened.
It’s that whole “slash funding, complain it isn’t working, privatize” approach on a smaller scale.
they ban for upvoting “eat the rich” too.
yet reddit admins never had a problem with thedonalds posters litteraly saying people should be shot and other violent rhetoric for years. the key difference is this time the billionaire class got upset.
Welcome to Fascist America.
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Yea, my blessed Fediverse brethren, hear ye!
Mark thy holy lemmings, gird thy loins with smelling salts and prepare for the unwashed tides. The memes will be terrible and swift, and no one will be safe from the waves of idiocy.
Tremble, for the 2nd Dawn of the Age of Incelius has arrived, and the Reddexodus Reddux is upon us!
gird thy loins with smelling salts
I’m going to wrap so much ammonium carbonite around my junk
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Just nuked my entire reddit account due to this blatant censorship. Hello Lemmy and lemm.ee it’s nice to be here
Me too.
Welcome you two! We’ve got Star Trek, Linux and beans!
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Hopefully some other topics will become viable later.
Don’t forget communism!
Welcome I have been a reddit refugee for some time. And have been having a great time.
That’s why I’m here. Reddit started getting super censored so I was looking for an alternative and was directed here. It’s fucking ridiculous.
Same. I originally came here after they killed off 3rd party apps, then I figured out how to patch RiF again and didn’t spend as much time here.
The propaganda and misinformation have gotten to be too much. Advice subs are all fake AI stories. Admins are making a fuss about people breaking the rules, but refuse to disclose what the rules actually are.
I really enjoy Lemmy. The downside is that it’s not as easy to organize (and find) niche spaces like on reddit. I’m hoping the small communities have grown more since the first mass migration.
theres some niche subs that likely wont be replicated here anytime soon.
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I’ve been over here for a year off and on, Lemmy ain’t bad at all, could use some more resistance joining for sure.
Well I’m happy to be that.
I received a permanent ban from Reddit last week, and I’m here for the same reason. And Reddit IS turning facist, as the rich close ranks. Fuck them. Any “spirited” criticism of Trump/Musk is characterized as encouraging violence and results in temporary bans, many of which I received, until recently when I apparently crossed a line which was too offensive (to the Mods). Therefore…
the immense amount of bans they came last month, ongoing since nov 5th is just made some of us come here. they are going to keep banning, or make it easier to ban until only right propaganda is left, also the increased amount of on the ability to ban people that “report other people” has also increased. you can get banned for reporting someone or reporting “too much” apparently.
Welcome, sibling! I came over in the rush after the reddit API debacle. Some things I’ve learned in the last year:
We may not have Sprog here yet, but get to know the environment, including colorful fauna such as:
- Cephalopods that have Colonized the Skies.
- The embodiment of the habitual movements of a space captain.
- People that are kind-of like ossified remains.
- People whose entire self identities revolve around draconic coitus (and all the controversy this brings).
The vast majority of posts are made by, like, ten people, and I’m pretty sure they never sleep. I’m currently unconvinced that Flying Squid isn’t just a full colony of Humboldt Squid, constantly ramming into a giant submerged keyboard.
As far as controversies: Avoid the “tankies”. You will find them on Hexbear, Lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad. They will not be going away, since the original creator of Lemmy is, apparently, one of them, and seems kind of mad with power. They treat with no man, and are willing to do anything to convince you that authoritarianism is good, as long as it calls itself “socialism”. One would think they would have learned their lesson from “National Socialism”… They apparently have not. Not everyone from those servers is a tankie, but most tankies are on those servers. Think of Tankies as the lemmy subspecies of those trolls you shouldn’t be feeding.
Contribute to discussions! Especially on a place as small as Lemmy, lurking actively harms the community! Unlike most places, it’s generally fairly easy to figure out who’s being disingenuous and arguing in bad faith, and most people are very reasonable! (As long as you never say anything bad about Linux. Be forewarned. Do not engage unless your autonomic nervous system runs Arch)
Welcome!
Welcome to Lemmy, bud!
We have lots of Linux and Star Trek memes.
I highly recommend that when you update “all” or your “front page” - be sure to set youe filter for “Hot” results. Gets you the fresh, interesting shit.
Great tip! I’ll do just that! Thanks, pal!
They banned my old reddit account because I reported fake news that was being posted on r/conservative. Apparently subreddit mods can report users who use the report tool and can just get you banned.
I got permanently banned for pointing out that a popular sex advice subreddit was being run by a rapist…
They recently, meaning I don’t exactly know when it happened, gave mods the ability to report you for “Abuse of the report tool”. For the record, I’m a mod on some subreddits, and that’s an absurd thing to need. I’ve learned a few things about being a Reddit mod.
- It’s not nearly as hard as some mods make you think it is.
- If they actually experience difficulty, it’s probably cause they suck at being a mod.
- Subs that experience issues, are typically cess pools like r/conservative.
yea ive been reported for “report abuse” when the comments were legitimately trolls or obviously posting misinformation, crossbanning is also just as ridiculous. from what ive gathered, some mods are lazy into responding to every post being reported so they decided just to get rid of the reporter instead having to deal with.
I got a warning for a similar thing. They can disagree with the report, but warning/banning users for it is insane
i got hit with report abuse a couple times. there were legitimate comments that should be reported but not getting removed.
I got banned because I posted a comment on an anti vaxx sub (I was challenging one of their comments) and found out a lot of subs had ban bots that just watched who posted to subs they didn’t like. Whatever you do don’t put any thought into your mod work or look at the comment’s context.
It’s not like we don’t have mod drama but at least when you’re federated, stupid decisions get limited to a single instance and others can simply defederate. Does allow for pretty… erm, interesting views you don’t see on Reddit.
That’s the beauty of it.
The drama I prefer is power tripping mods who hate your username, hates that you use acronyms, and hates your server.
The drama I dont want is power tripping developers of Lemmy telling end users (us) what we can/can’t post using the software.
Reddit has gone full fascist. Wow. Never thought I’d see the day.
The cuck CEO loves Elon and is an enthusiastic meat rider.
Nothing wrong with being meat rider mate, catch on with the times.
I believe it is the fact that it’s Elon’s meat that makes it’s an issue. No one should do that.
spez does love musk and trump
I did. I left more than a year ago after I was permabanned for asking a question about whether someone would be banned if they asked certain things. Fuck those guys. I hear Digg is coming back though.
oh, reddit doesnt allow discussion of reddit ban in most cases.
Sounds a lot like Nazi Germany, or Lenin’s & Stalin’s USSR.
especially the subs were you are discussing help with reddit, and many subs dont allow it. Only time its allowed was when a sub has article talking about reddits enshittification.
There’s going to come a point when the things we can’t say may need to be said. A time when the message is delivered with blank comments.
[ . . . ] will carry a message of it’s own that becomes much more difficult to ban.
you cant eve say black person or demographic without getting reported in many cases, so i just use AA abreviate instead, when referring to the people most hurt by gop and economic policies.
Is the word “guillotine” censored too? Asking for a friend.
What about “Cheeto chopper”?
French knife
man we went from spacedicks hitting the front page to this
The fact that people still use reddit is insane to me.
They keep permanently suspending ppl so theyll wind up here, almost like someone working there secretly wants the fediverse to do well and is shifting the population over by permanently banning them (I dont really believe this before ppl argue like im stating a fact)
I now subscribe to this theory. Might dust off my old Reddit account and try to become a mod in my favorite subs so I can perma-ban all the top posters to jumpstart those communities in the fediverse…
I got banned for, I don’t even remember what, it was something really minor. Got a new account using Brave, and have been shadowbanned. Absolutely non-functional site for me now. Banning people based on upvotes though, holy shit. To suppress posts that people actually like? That’s the whole point of going there for me: the garbage gets knocked to the bottom where no one has to see it. Not anymore
reddit IDs people on thier browser fingerprint, among other metrics. if they see you hiding your fingerprint they will assume its botting and ban people regardless, (its not for all cases though).
That’s what I figured. It’s just become impossible to use so, i give up
i heard its very hard to become a mod, or even make a subreddit. because of the purges.
they either come here, or they go another site specifically for people who ban evades like : OF acct holders and people who promote links, im in that forum)
That was me until today. I haven’t been banned yet, but it isn’t for lack of trying.
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So sad…I loved Reddit…I’m so sad to see it come to this. I’m so sad for all of the young people who think this is how the internet should be……
Reddit has been doing this shit for years. It’s a big reason why I left. Spez (little piggie) was only the catalyst.
A few ban-happy,power tripping moderators did come over here, though. I don’t have specifics on that, I just know I’ve seen them, and I’ve also been banned for some real dumb shit. I just stay away from those communities/instances.
