Good. I got banned just today for "inciting violence" then when I asked what I did they couldn't tell me. Musk pressuring spez into harsher moderation is probably part of why I was actually banned. I followed every rule but was active in left wing communities and it seems that's enough to be deplatformed under the trump regime.
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Holy shit, me too.
They said I threatened violence because in a thread about Putin potentially being sick, I said I wished he had a painful slow death.
Apparently even bloodthirsty dictators get to have their poor feelings protected by Reddit.
Fuck Reddit! I'm just gonna abandon that shit platform
I had two main accounts. My oldest account got permabanned for a joke about Nick Fuentes. After his address got doxxed and he pepper sprayed a woman who rang his doorbell back in December of last year, I said "hey as an incel he should be happy that the ladies know where he lives now so they can share a cocktail with him", and I added a cartoon gif of a Molotov. It was obviously a joke, but they said it was "promoting/glorifying violence". I ate the bullet on that one because they were technically right, even if they were a bunch of humorless twats.
My other account got banned about a month ago when I up voted a comment that was just a picture of Luigi Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. Again for "promoting/glorifying violence".
Elon Musk is a weak little crybaby and Steve Huffman is a pathetic coward.
Wait... What?
Sure, the first example is understandable.
The second!? WTF!?
Idek wtf i said lmaoo. Atleast you got told you were deplatformed for daring to disagree with the regime. I just got shown the door. This place seems much nicer though.
Well, I had enough of this bullshit, and together with news that Reddit's CEO was pressured by Musk of all people to curb dissent, I just deleted my accounts.
Bye Reddit.
I'm 100% a Lemmee guy now
I was Permanently banned for harassment because I asked a mod why they banned me.
Mind you, I’d ask, and they’d mute me for a week straight instead of just pointing out what got me banned.
lol I pray for their downfall; this news pleases me.
Harsher moderation followed by a bot farm the richest man payed for to report every account that is critical of Nazis.
I'm not even kidding. At this point the amount of comments on Lemmy that I've read that had 10+ year old Reddit accounts banned for "inciting violence" is crazy. I was one of them a few months ago. Told a dude denying a Nazi salute was a Nazi salute to "go to hell where Nazis belong". Was banned within an hour. Permanent and IP/Metadata banned. Instant response of "no" to my unban request.
This is not a unique experience either. Leave reddit like it's the plague. Digg died because of bad decisions. Reddit seems like it's gonna become 4chan but for the mainstream. I don't know if it'll die. I think they're purging anyone that has leftist profiles.
I'm just sad that I'm leaving all the marvel and action figure collector communities i was apart of behind. But yeah I don't plan on going back. It's gonna become infested with nazis sooner or later anyway.
Yeah that's probably for the best. I say this with no judgement as a former WoW addict. It's the time to do shit in the real world and get organized to resist these Fascist. Hit up PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) or DSA (Democratic Socialist of America) in your area. If anything it will give you a social life on Friday/Saturday (usually when they have meetups for PSL in my experience). PSL in my area even organized child care during meetups/protests.
Also, your local SRA (Socialist Rifle Association) if you have one. Basically the only place to train with a weapon that isn't filled with MAGA hats. But they have literally been overwhelmed since November so might have to deal with hogs in another course if you're interested in that. Again, depends on your location.
That's my experience trying to explore real life anyway. Your path might be different. Plenty of mutual aids to join. Lots of local organizations of any kind our leading the charge to resist ICE. Depending on your location that might be a Mosque, Synagogue, Church, Temple, etc. (Thats one of the main reasons they now legally allow ICE to raid them. Which is FUBAR.) Find out what works for you in your area.
You're probably right. I'm already armed so I'll probably check out some groups. I've been meaning to link up with some irl left leaning groups. Shouldn't be hard since I'm not far from Chicago.
Absolutely. Good luck comrade
Thanks !
The value of Reddit is the content which it is able to create. If users aren’t free to create content, there is not value.
It certainly was what people drove there. That doesn't make money. The only value that counts for the bottom line is the data ultimately for marketing purposes. And the reach and trust that makes it great to sell shit.
It'll also be a great propaganda vehicle. Which might be worth even more in the current climate.
Anyways Reddit is dead. It ran far longer than many thought. But I think the cadaver won't stay fresh long enough to be eaten.
I think many of the tech giants are becoming scared. Because it might be a bit of hassle to just use another platform ultimately it's fucking easy to migrate and the when the momentum is there it can go pretty fast. No one really needs Amazon or Facebook or Reddit. And people really are pissed off. Fuck them. All these valuations for tech are just ludicrous when in the end the main driver is selling people shit more effectively.
I’m fairly certain they misled investors on their last earnings call. I noticed some banned accounts suddenly had their ban lifted right before the call, and then reapplied right after.
On the last investor call, they said they had a lot of returning users. This was after their election ban hammers, and prior to the Luigi ban fest.
Can’t wait to see how they try to spin things on the next one.
They can just count all them bots as active users. Much like twitter
Hey cool beans we're the direct result of that! What good news!
I trust reddit as far as I can throw it these days.
Fuck Reddit.
I left when I couldn't use the word "idiot" because it was a trigger word.
Sure Jan.
Got banned over there a month ago, came here hoping to find something of a Sonic community in the same vein as the one over there (very involved in that fanbase, did a lot of my discussion on reddit), has not materialized yet, not enough fans over here, hopefully that changes at some point. I thought at first that it was the open support of Luigi's alleged actions that got me banned, I could be ok with that, I get it, supporting violence and whatnot, I broke the rules, and they were sensible rules more or less, but the longer I look at the current happenings over there, the more suspicious I am that it was because his name came up at ALL, multiple times. That's annoying. That feels less justified.
Also becoming more and more glad it happened when it did. Lot of overt, fascist appeasing censorship going on over there. Like it's not even subtle. There's no ambiguity in it, it's just "this post criticized or disparaged Musk or Trump in some way. (Removed from Reddit)."
Any criticism of conservatism is grounds for removal now. I can't believe it's gotten this far.
Is there any Sonic community on Lemmy? Did you make one? I'm a casual fan, but I'd join.
[email protected] is the biggest one I've found but it's VERY inactive. You'd be better off going to a Sonic forum like the Sonic Stadium message boards, but those are a little less penetrable than something like reddit because EVERYONE there is a huge, dedicated fan, and it can get really strongly opinionated.
I haven’t used Reddit since the api change but I suspect stating that Luigi mangione is a hero who did nothing wrong would get me banned on Reddit. Social murder is completely cool and ok. But actually killing the man who oversees the system of social murder? How dare you!?
Daily reminder that Reddit automatically gathers your data.
If you still have a Reddit account, change your privacy settings right now :
Good, Reddit has no place in the stock market and no amount of enshittification can save them from this fate.
have they resurrected that subreddit from 2016 era, name of which i will not repeat, but it was well fuck. i'm still not going to say it. it's not an "information hazard", it's a garbage sphere that accretes garbage
I have no idea what you're talking about and I'm intrigued.
there was a sub called 'the donald', wanna say there was an underscore in there, that started as a joke but was co-opted
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