I’ve confirmed this with multiple accounts now. If you promote the 2nd amendment, including training responsibly with others, your account will be autobanned within 60 seconds.
To be clear, my comments contained exactly zero calls to violence. They were simple comments stating every American has the right to arm themselves and that everyone should train responsibly, ideally with others who are more experienced.
I’ve had 4 or 5 accounts autobanned within a minute now. All immediately after posting pro 2nd amendment comments. These accounts were anywhere from 1 week to multiple months old. So they’re not brand new accounts that are being flagged for whatever reason.
Reddit is now complicit in the fascist takeover of our nation.
Lmao, so decades of child’s shooting up schools, 2a is a-ok!
Resistance to ICE gestappo, 2a banned?
Well it’s on brand for this country at least.
It’s Reddit. It’s a cesspool run by trash humans.
So yes, you can talk about guns and the 2nd amendment all you want when children are being murdered in school, but if fascists control the government, you gotta stop that, because you’re now an “agitator”.
Edit: Actually, to be fair, most Reddit users are good enough people to grasp that fascism has come to America and fascism is bad. So calling the site in general a cesspool isn’t necessarily accurate. The shitstains are mostly bots and a small percentage of trash humans. The real issue are the trash humans running the site and dictating the rules that have driven us all to Lemmy.
The real issue are the trash humans running the site and dictating the rules that have driven us all to Lemmy.
Well, I got bad news for you on that front, too.
I know. I’m not saying Lemmy is perfect. But the only censorship I’ve experienced was on .ml (surprise surprise) and I haven’t been banned, not even from an individual sub/instance.
It’s got problems but it isn’t Reddit levels of trash.
Lemmy allows me to support our Constitutional rights. That alone makes it better than Reddit.
The issue here is that there isn’t really a way to ban anyone. No matter how many times they vote or how many AI chat bots they use to keep their accounts active.
If you’re still using reddit then you are complicit in the takeover too.
I only continue to use Reddit to combat misinformation, defend our Constitution, and promote Lemmy.
I’ve never given them a dime. I block all ads.
Your traffic is measured by them and used to increase their numbers when making ad sales. Regardless of whether you have given them any money and blocked all their ads, you still count as traffic to the site, and that is what they are selling to advertisers.
So, yes, even though you don’t intentionally give them any money, the majority of the money they make is from the valuation placed on traffic to the site, which you continue contributing to.
I guess that begs the question, is spending the majority of your time on a generally censorship free site like Lemmy, but continuing to spend some time on the most popular site of its kind that does censor, in order to combat misinformation, defend our rights, and promote a better site morally wrong? Is it worth conbributing to their ad revenue? When you know the site is so popular it isn’t going anywhere anyway?
Either way, this is a Lemmy sub about Reddit and you can’t really know everything that’s going on with Reddit unless you’re logged in and contributing in some way.
Personally, I believe correcting misinformation and spreading awareness about our rights is worth continuing to login on a sporadic basis.
You aren’t changing minds online. Boycott them all already.
It’s not always about the people you’re arguing with. It’s often about people who might be reading the comment chains, and can be influenced
Bingo.
Myself, along with everyone else, have spent our lives being influenced by all sorts of things, both obvious and subliminal. I have absolutely read comments online over the course of my life, especially when I was younger, that helped make me more informed or forced me to challenge something I believed.
I wouldn’t know half the stats I know regarding politics if it wasn’t for comments left by informed individuals online that led me elsewhere to confirm those stats.
Combatting misinfo on corpo sites is a lost cause. They put their thumb on the scale.
I know the scale is massively tipped, but that doesn’t change that the majority of political knowledge I possess, including most of the actual hard data, was posted by informed individuals on Reddit, which I can usually find by organizing comments by “Best”.
People read comments. People get influenced by those comments.
You gotta siphon off the content and users while ad blocking.
I’ve thought a out that. Would people appreciate it if I were to repost a bunch if things from reddit all the time? I don’t want to start spamming
Would people appreciate it if I were to repost a bunch if things from reddit all the time? I don’t want to start spamming
They would if the content hasn’t been posted yet on lemmy.
I don’t feel sufficiently motivated to make a reddit account again, but if I did I’d focus on reposting from communities for which there isn’t an active equivalent on Lemmy yet. The long tail of niche interests is the thing that’s most missing right now
If you comment, yes. A bunch of copied headlines with no comments? No.
I use it for niche subreddits. Lemmy is lacking on that front. 🤷♂️
Be the change you want to see.
Why do you keep saying this without quoting what you posted?
Repeat what you said if it’s so normal
Ok.
Figured others had experienced the same thing and wanted to chip in their experiences or, if they cared enough, could test it out on their own.
Either way, the comment was auto-deleted by Reddit so I’m just paraphrasing anyway.
I stated that everyone should exercise their 2A right and arm themselves. And if they are already experienced with firearms they should help others who are interested arm themselves and help them train. I also pointed out that, in this political climate, if they want to chat with friends/family about purchasing firearms, they may want to use an end-to-end encrypted messaging app.
That’s it. That was the content of my comment. None of that is questionable. None of that breaks Reddit site wide rules. None of it is a call to violence. And, not that it matters on a privately owned platform, but all of that is supported by our Constitution.
Also, why did you say
Why do you keep saying this
This is the first post I’ve ever made about this. I’ve never even made a comment on Lemmy about this.
Quote it. What did the comment say?
Dude.
You’re a moderator.
Learn how to read.
When Reddit bans you for a comment they DELETE THE COMMENT.
I’ve already, in multiple responses to others on this post, tried to detail what was in the comment as closely as I could.
You sound like you want me to verbatim recreate a comment I posted that was deleted when you probably are well aware that Reddit deletes the comment.
Is this a mod power trip?
Screen grabbed.
If it were a mod power trip, your post or comment would be deleted lol
“As closely as I could” yet you seem unable to restate the content any better than “I supported the second amendment”.
If the pro-2A comments are automatically deleted, why are there subreddits full of them?
“As closely as I could” yet you seem unable to restate the content any better than “I supported the second amendment”.
Again, you prove you are a mod who doesn’t read comments.
Read my comments again. I responded to TWO people with a close approximation of the contents of my comment. In one I even stated “that’s actually pretty damn close”.
So do your mod due diligence and expand the comments and hit CTRL+F and do a search for “that’s actually pretty damn close” to view the comment where I tried to recreate the comment as closely as I could. I just didn’t do it in any of my comments to you because I don’t like you and I’m not repeating myself for you.
See, this is how I know in your other comment to me that you tested my theory and found it false that you didn’t actually test my theory. Because you’ve made it clear you haven’t read my other comments where I detail the contents of my Reddit comment that got me auto-banned. So there’s no way you could know the key words that all have to be in the comment to receive the auto-ban.
You keep yelling the same thing over and over again even though I’ve addressed it… which is kinda funny since you’re saying I didn’t read your comments
I’m glad they permabanned me now. I wouldn’t have left if they didn’t and being permabanned for what they did for, plus seeing stuff like this, plus knowing Maxwell is moderating on the network again, it’s a good thing.
Thanks Reddit and fuck you Spez.
I only run Reddit in a private browsing window. When they permaban me I reset the browser and close it, open up a new private window, create a new Reddit account with a throwaway email and I’m back in and don’t get permabanned again until I promote our Constitutional rights or tell a Trump supporter their mother shouldn’t have carried to term and get reported for hurting their feelings.
So I’m assuming they catch account hoppers via cookies.
I even have a browser script that auto-adds all my subs back so I don’t lose all my subs. There’s some nuance to that though as if the script auto-adds too many subs too quickly, you’ll get flagged and auto-banned. So I have to set the script to only add one sub every 5000ms and then leave that tab alone while it adds all my subs. I only care about the subs at all because Lemmy doesn’t have all the really specific subs I find myself sometimes needing to post on for answers to specific shit.
Yeah nah they can fuck off. They get no more traffic from me.
Your workaround is pretty cool though and if it works for you, yeah.
Mine was a strong account as well, I think I had around 150k karma and I’d actively be involved in a lot of subs.
I’d rather stay here now and help build this.
My first account was 13 years old with 250k comment karma and was permabanned without warning for saying “It’s OK to punch a Nazi.”
Yeah, focus your time on helping Lemmy grow.
Yeah see there you go. That’s a frame and put on the wall statement.
Mine was for agreeing with a Muslim woman on the Fauxmoi sub that the reason the bloke who disarmed that Bondi shooter and didn’t kill him afterward was that he’s a peaceful Muslim. That was my thought when I saw it, most Muslims I’ve met are exceptionally peaceful people. I said ‘I thought the same…thanks for your insight.’
That got a permaban. I appealed it and it failed. I’m not the only one I think, I’m certain there were a few others as well. So that’s inciting violence.
My interpretation is that the narrative of Islam or Muslims possibly being peaceful in nature isn’t one they want put out there. It doesn’t surprise me, as I said Maxwell is back on the site so it’s not hard to work out what’s happening.
I’ve noticed in the last year or so that more and more usernames on Reddit are the auto-generated ones you can opt to use when creating a new account. They all have the same general format. And it’s not like they’re all bots. For the most part they leave comments that are clearly not bot comments. My assumption is that so many people are being banned, so regularly, that when they come back with new profiles they’re just going with the auto-generated usernames because they know they’re just gonna get banned again, so why bother being creative?
Yeah that sounds pretty accurate. They’re definitely not bots.
You’re all over it.
I got that much karma election year just sharing information everywhere. Really enjoyed that account was making friends and shit. What they do is they send bots or something once they notice you are popular to report all of your posts. So that gets you suspended and then you appeal. Takes 24 hours to get it looked at and approved… then they send the bots right back at you immediately to report your old posts. Over and over and over and over effectively banning you without banning you.
That’s what they do to people that follow the rules.
Fuck Reddit.
how are you making throwaway emails? I found that a pita when I was trying to make an account (after they IP banned me or whatever) so I could access a few specific communities for help
reddit seemed to insta shadowban my account if I used any of those temp email generators, and creating an actual email on a mainstream service takes annoyingly long
I just create a new account on Outlook.com every time. Takes like 60 seconds, if that. Once I create it I only need it to get the Reddit confirmation email. Then I never need it again.
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I even have a browser script that auto-adds all my subs back so I don’t lose all my subs. There’s some nuance to that though as if the script auto-adds too many subs too quickly, you’ll get flagged and auto-banned. So I have to set the script to only add one sub every 5000ms and then leave that tab alone while it adds all my subs. I only care about the subs at all because Lemmy doesn’t have all the really specific subs I find myself sometimes needing to post on for answers to specific shit.
I am very interested in this. Would you mind sharing it anywhere?
Yeah, I’ll share it right here. It’s just a script you copy/paste into your browser’s console. Basically, you’re on a page that lists all your subs with a “join” button next to them. The script tells the browser to click the “join” button then move to the next one and click “join”, so on and so forth.
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Visit https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/ using your old account
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Copy link address of “multireddit of your subscriptions” you can see on the right side near the top.
It will give you a link address like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/[subreddit1+subreddit2...+subredditN]
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Visit that link using your new account.
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Open the console in your browser by pressing F12 and then click the console tab
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Paste the code below and press enter (everything I put between the =====)
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const sub = () => {
let btn = document.querySelector(".add.active"); if(btn) { btn.click(); setTimeout('sub()', 5000); } else { alert("You have subscribed to all the subreddits successfully"); return; }}
setTimeout(‘sub()’, 5000);
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Like I said, it can take a while if you have a lot of subs because of that 5000ms delay between each “click” to prevent Reddit from detecting you’re adding too many subs too quickly. So just leave that tab alone for a while. Then, make sure you refresh that tab when done, because sometimes there will be a few subs that the script didn’t work on for some reason and I just have to find them in the list and manually click the “join” button. Worked fine with every sub on the new account I created yesterday though.
So when I’m banned I just copy that big “multireddit of your subscriptions” link and paste it into a notepad window temporarily. Then I reset my browser, open it back up and open a private browsing tab, create a new Reddit account, and continue following the steps above.
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Finally! Only took them 20 years.
Are they axing all the conservative subs or just focusing in on the really fascist ones?
Oh… no, wait. I’m receiving a note. Nevermind, that’s not what is happening at all.
Only since a war us about to start and they have weapons already.
Suddenly spez’s masters fear it. After all its pretty clear he is just a well paid tool now with no acutal power beyond his bloated bot net driven opinoin engine.
I still get these /c/reddit post in my main feed. I’m going to go ahead and block this community. I’m really tired of reading about reddit. Its dead and really shouldn’t be discussed here at all.
Reddit truly is dead to me.
Funny how it’s been a thing for YEARS without autobanning. When it was “I need my guns to stand against tyranny if it shows up at my door”, there were no autobans. Now that tyranny is actually at the door, they autoban.
Yeah you’re just lying dude, this place has a weird hard on for lying about Reddit.
The 2nd amendment is brought up constantly there.
“I’ve totally done real work to prove this. No, I won’t show any of it.”
Try it yourself, champ.
Don’t let everyone do work for you.
You too dumb to create a throwaway account and try posting something pro 2A to test it out? Doesn’t take long. Maybe you could get your mother to help you.
I explained in another comment how to create throwaway accounts that can be banned without auto-banning future accounts. Learn to read.
Most likely related to the today’s murder of that woman by ICE
This is something I’ve been testing over the last 6 months.
That’s even worse. Indicates a planned action to shut down discontent.
As far as I can tell, it very much is.
Silence the agitators so the federal government doesn’t put pressure on Reddit.
We live in an age of cowardice as far as our media/corporations go.
Does /r/liberalgunowners even exist anymore?
It does, but OP says it doesn’t.
It can’t, OP said something happened so it must be true
You could stop talking shit and test it out yourself.
It’s not like I haven’t given all the details necessary for people to test on their own if they have doubts.
Try it and get back to us. I’m sure as a moderator your input after testing would be valuable to us all.
P.S. I screen grabbed this exchange.
You screen grabbed yourself being afraid to answer a question? Why on earth would you want to remember that?
I don’t need to try it because I see tons of pro-2A content that isn’t what you wrote, which I am assuming was a direct threat, since you’re afraid to admit it
And yes, I am a mod, one who hates misinformation and has debated removing this post since you made it.
You screen grabbed yourself being afraid to answer a question?
You’re a mod. Not a good one, but one nonetheless. Your job is to read. Read all my comments, including from today. What other questions do you have? People who aren’t full of themselves asked me good questions which led to me adding more details in some of my comments.
which I am assuming
Well, when you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME. Try to do it less. I assure you it was not a direct threat. Whether you believe that is of no consequence to me.
one who hates misinformation
Then test it out my man. What better way to confirm it’s misinformation? But again, to be a good mod you need to read ALL my comments to make sure you’re testing under the same set of circumstances that I’ve detailed.
and has debated removing this post since you made it.
A mod who removes posts for misinformation without verifying that it’s misinformation is no better than a bad Reddit mod.
Screen grabbed.
Tested it. Didn’t get banned.
You realize screen capturing your own admissions about your shortcomings isn’t a threat to me, right? Idk how else to say that lol. Sorry if it sounds mean dude but you need to back up your claims with evidence. If being asked for evidence triggers you this much, idk what to tell you
Reddit has been complicit in the rise of facism for a while.
https://socialistra.org/ for anyone who needs to see this
A quick lurk shows there are posts on liberalgunowners referencing current events. What exactly were you trying to post?
That should shut down /liberalgunowners.
And the /SRA.
I wonder if you can promote it in the conservative subs? Probably only if your entire account is right-wing bullshit to begin with.
They only killed off certain right wing subs when legitimate threats on there were posted against state police one time. They coddle the right and villainize those left of them.
