I just got a ban for “encouraging violence”. Someone asked “what will you do to celebrate when he dies?” Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they’d put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians’ careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.
So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.
And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It’ll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.
I got perma banned for saying I hoped Marjorie Taylor green trips and swallows her own head.
I got my perma ban from saying “only a matter of time before Elon gets united healthcare’d” was on there since 2006.
Damn, is there really that many people getting banned? I’ve heard a bit about what’s happening but didn’t think it was a widespread thing.
This was announced by admin so it’s definitely widespread. Turns out they hadn’t even considered that someone can edit a post or comment and that you could be banned for upvoting something which, at the time, had no “violent” content.
So, one could theoretically go into a conservative subreddit and use comment (or post content) editing to bait-and-switch them into upvoting a death threat against spez?
What if Marjorie Taylor Green already tripped and swallowed her head?
Her being inside-out would explain a lot.
This is some Shel Silverstein style shade lol, I like it
ok im gonna steal that
I cackled reading that.
Badge of honor, I reckon.
Hilarious - literally and the fact that would trigger a permaban.
I appealed it too- they said after human review, I was inciting violence.
Oh my God, that’s amazing! We’re glad to have you
This is clearly a credible threat! The reddit community must be protected from this dangerous rhetoric.
I’ve been here since reddit backstabbed its 3rd party app devs, and even just since then, Lemmy has grown a LOT while reddit continues to enshittify.
Welcome aboard!
I feel like today is my first day but I made a serious attempt to move here when that happened. I just couldn’t get the apps to work on my android – I kept having to make new accounts when the one I’d set up would suddenly no longer log in.
But today things seem to be working beautifully!
There are quite a few mobile apps to choose from now. I’m using Sync with no complaints, but I haven’t done a comparison since I joined.
My main complaint with sync is that the premium version is just too damn expensive. At least give me a discount since I bought premium for Reddit sync ! Then again, it usually fails to serve me the ads these days, so I guess it’s alright.
The main complaint I have is that lemmy spoiler tags are incorrectly implemented by sync, so you can’t reveal what they say.
I still use it out of habit from Reddit days, but it’s annoying that something so easy to fix is getting ignored by the dev. The app is pretty much abandoned at this point despite still selling the premium subscription
Yeah it’s definitely way too expensive for an abandoned app.
The ads are barely noticable tbh. I just love the feel of sync.
I’m using Connect on Android. It’s worth a whirl!
Jerboa works pretty well. No premiums, no ads. It’s nice.
I tried to leave them, but didn’t know about Lemmy. I’m here now! After 13 years!
Yep, went cold turkey as soon as that happened, been here every day since and it’s so much better!
I came here when all the API drama happened, and I didn’t even use third party apps, I just decided that I didn’t want to help make that greedy little pig boy any money. Even still, I’m actually shocked that they’ve cracked down this hard. It’s hard to take serious, because it seems like they would destroy their userbase with this, but they’re doing it.
I also came here when all the API drama happened. I also checked out Sqabblr, which had a different name at first. There wasn’t much here and I was confused by the fediverse. I went on Facebook and that was a hot mess of garbage.
I went back to Reddit recently and it’s noticeably worse - probably a combination of chasing away great mods and our world just being what it is makes for people being awful at each other rather than at problems.
I’ve just come back here this weekend and there seems to be more resources to help me understand the nature of the fediverse. Ideally I won’t be back to Reddit.
Sorry to ramble, hope you have a great week!
Squabblr’s the one where the owner wuickly outed himself as a right-wing transphobe and caused a mass-exodus of early adopters, wasn’t it?
If that happened I missed it. There was never much traffic so I rarely checked it. The participants never came off as intolerant.
Yeah, the vibe was definitely left-wing before, and it was a shock to many of the more prominent members. You started getting the appearance of subs which were “this is to discuss how Jews control all the money globally” and prominent members who avoided saying anything completely explicit on the site, but whose twitter accounts would reveal them to be prominent members of swastika-using Nazi groups.
The owner declared himself to be “a free speech absolutist” and that he wanted to promote conflict on the site and a lot of people, myself included, just went “yeah, I see where this is going” and left.
That’s crazy. I haven’t been able to log in recently but it sounds like I’m still not missing anything worth experiencing.
I’ve no idea if they’ve changed course again. I went there out of curiosity after this post but it’s all hidden behind a log in screen and i couldn’t be arsed to sign up or try to remember or find my credentials.
But since you don’t really want to hide your content if you’re small and trying to grow, I’m going to assume that it’s insular and doesn’t want people to stumble on its content.
I came when Apollo died. Found Voyager and stayed.
Same. Apollo was one of the best third-party apps of any kind that I’ve ever used. F
I recently discovered Lemmy, and Voyager reminds me of the good Apollo times.
You did god’s work being here this whole time. Thanks.
Welcome to Lemmy, be sure to build your own subscription and block list. The updoots dont tally on your account (which I think is one of the healthiest changes), speak your mind, each comment stands on its own, and bad takes are not forever (Ive had my own fair share). If you dont like your mods, change instances or make your own.
Bad takes are forever here. It’s something I hate. Sometimes I’ll comment on something and then end up deleting it because I just don’t wanna get into it but it only deletes on your instance. I’ll still get replies from everyone who can still see it.
Also is it still stupidly complicated to delete pics here?
It does delete and propagate to other instances, but the process is not immediate. There can be some delay. I’ve had replies to deleted comments coming hours later if my instance was running behind.
Am I completely out of touch?
You’re federated when you post here. There are definitely instances that are a bunch of nazis, a bunch of instances that are really dumb, and more. It’s the internet. Everything you post is there forever. I like my instance, because it’s the best I’ve found. Finding and identifying your home instance is more important than blocking users and communities. That will be the next step. Welcome human!
I’m not sure I fully understand the instance thing. Example, I’m on Lemmy world now. What kind of thing should change if I change instances?
The point is that because there is no vote tally you just have to assume everyone is a normal person, there is no scarlet letter on your account by having -2500 votes, you, the readers have to put in the effort to judge someone (or determine if they are a bot). Except for your accounts home instance, there is no badge that says someone posts to hexbear or someplace that is a bit off.
I’ll still get replies from everyone who can still see it.
That might be an instance thing, sometimes instances are slow to update other instances, see my other comment for example.
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Yeah, I’ve gone through and did a bunch of subscribing and a little bit of blocking a handful of instances I know will flood my feed with stuff I find creepy. I actually spent a couple days deciding on the right instance to join. I’m looking forward to more people showing up, and it’s nice that everyone I’ve interacted with so far has been pretty chill.
Welcome! I’m full of shamefully bad takes I’ve not even uncovered yet, but I’ll continue to do what it takes to proffer then without bias or foreknowledge of their shitty values. 😅 Let’s be human together, fellow citizen. 🙃
This is the first time I’m seeing the retrolemmy.com server… neat! Welcome to the Fediverse (Threadiverse)!
We’ve been around for about 1,5 years. But recently we finally had enough active users to get on the join-lemmy.org homepage. Things got exponentially (and positively) wild since then.
I just joined a little while ago, there are blocklists here?
Also if you dont mind me asking, can you switch instances without creating a new account?
I use Jerboa as my app and in its UI you select the 3 dots icon and select “Block”, it then prompts if you want to block the instance or user who made the post.
As for switching instances, not at this time. Its a feature thats been requested, but is complicated to implement (stay tuned). On that topic, as stated above, there is no vote total, so other than moving your saved posts there is no reason to be sentimental about your account. Just abandon it and make one on an instance with admins you agree with.
May the Lord Flying Spaghetti Monster keep you and protect you, good sir.
Welcome. It’s better here and with more it will grow. Thinking about hosting even. Why not.
I finally made the jump. Hi all.
All the commenters sitting in the circle replying in a monotonous voice: Hi Blorps!
Don’t forget to offer them a can of beans on their way in!
I use Arch, btw
Their can of beans, complimentary jeans, and guide on how to not poop for three days are in the mail.
Hey, please stick around. Do not let the small number of subscribers demoralize you. The communities are small but active.
I tried coming over during the API drama, but seems like there are way way more users here now!
Yeah, that’s what caused me to switch. I’m pretty happy without reddit. I might open it once or twice a year or when Duck Duck go sends me there for my trouble shooting question.
I’ll give you 1000 internet hugs for every troubleshooting question you copy into the appropriate Lemmy community.
Hello blorps!
Welcome!
Yoo!!
Happy cake day 🎂
Hi blorps!
Got perma-banned from a 15 year old account for joking about Elon Musk needing to get Luigi-ed. Fuck that place. Never going back.
Elon needs to have a come to Luigi moment. Welcome to the free internet, sibling. Btw fyi, .world tends to be a little more aggressively moderated than some other instances like .ee; it’s nowhere near Reddit, and I wouldn’t even say it’s problematic, but folks have taken issue with their moderation before.
It’s a bit of give and take, but I doubt you’ll encounter a problem. If you do, just hop servers.
And watch out for .ml of course.
Ya I had a 12 year old account and 90% of my posts were about electronics and chemistry stuff. 90% of my comments were responding to people asking questions about my hobby stuff. Permabanned for enciting violence, when Trump said he wanted to annex Canada and I said we needed to prepare for war lol. FUCK REDDIT.
Similar situation here. Nice to see all the like minded folks though!
I got banned for harassing a mod
I still have no idea what they were talking about
I was on reddit for over 10 years
If we ever get our hands on the data, I think it’s probably a safe hypothesis that most of the banned users are anti-trump.
Gotta make reddit a safe space to support his reign or emperor Donny will have a temper tantrum and Spez is easily frightened into submission
I got banned for harassing a mod
I still have no idea what they were talking about
Here is how that works; a subreddit mod bans you, preemptively or otherwise. The mod-list for the sub is now permanently hidden from you. Subreddit mod(s) spam posts to their subreddit. You report post(s) you genuinely think are violating the rules over the course of a few months. Without realizing you are reporting one of the mods. A few more months go by. Reddit finally reviews your reports. The admin assumes you are harassing the mods of that sub. Receive escalating suspensions until banned.
Subs pushing Far-right, Russian and Islamic propaganda use it pretty effectively to silence anyone speaking out against their racist bullshit.
use it pretty effectively to silence anyone speaking out against their racist bullshit.
That checks out
Any response to a mod is harassment.
I got banned for suggesting that maybe all the conservatives young men (the “alpha male types”) should be sent to an island where they can fight in an artificial, made up war against each other and then when they return home they’ll be progressives.
LOL. I was just making a point that people who call for wars are often the ones who have never fought in one. Oh well. Getting banned from Reddit is probably for the best, I should be supporting Canadian services anyway.
Good idea. We can dedicate a small island where all ‘Alpha males’ fight against each other every year. The winner is the true Alpha
You could get at least 56 manga chapters out of this concept
You kidding? This is a whole light novel!
“I Entered An Alpha Male Contest And Now I’m Trapped On An Island In A Battle Royale??”
Some right wing troll said something akin to “so much for the tolerant left.” I replied “I don’t give two shits about your opinion dude. I’ll see you in the streets during the revolution.”.
That was my third account banned. I figured that shit was pretty innocuous. 😂 This was a few weeks back.
Fuck reddit. It’s probably for the best. They’re talking about paid subs coming next year or whatever. I hope reddit burns to the ground.
Your revolution sounds peaceful. I take your comment to mean “you might disagree but we’ll both be revolting together arm in arm against the billionaires”. I don’t even see where violence is implied lol.
It’s well on its way to becoming X(2).
Welcome!
There are rules here, but you can say fuck and also post images in the comments, which is kind of neat:
You can say “fuck” on reddit.
Just not “fuck nazis.”
You can’t post images in the comments on Reddit?
I think you can but only on the new UI. If you’re anything like me, no feature in the world could make me use that dumpster fire of an UI.
It depends on the subreddits settings, so it’s basically up to the mods (but only once the sub has a certain number of subscribers)
you can post links to images, but you can’t post actual images AFAIK.
I’ve definitely posted images in comments on Reddit.
Everyone please put your narwhals and your bacon in the trash, this is jeans and beans country
(But you can put bacon in the beans, and on everything else, and by itself … no sense wasting bacon)
Can we put narwhals in our jeans?
Idk my dude that might be some animal cruelty shit but if you manage I want a picture.
Only on https://lemmynsfw.com/
On nsfw they actually prefer you go around all narwhal-out.
What about all these stairs I have?
What about hot dogs? Beanie weenies are pretty good.
I’m starting to feel left out that I never got banned. Still not going back though
I don’t think I nuked my account when I left… I kinda want to log in & see if I got banned yet for stuff posted/up voted over a year ago.
Came here after the moderation tool censoring of ‘eat the rich’ and ‘Luigi’. That’s some billionaire protective bs.
Keep in mind, a couple of instances including lemmy.world have removed what they consider calls to violence when it comes to Luigi. So general support will be fine, but if you ever end up crossing a line, remember that there are plenty of other instances which allow you to say: Brian Thompson had it coming, kill the billionaires, hang Musk in the town square, and the only thing wrong with doing a Luigi is that random acts of terror against the owner class just aren’t sustainable (see Propaganda of the Deed assassinations in the late 1800s/1900s), you need an organized movement to support this kind of action.
At this point I consider .world to be Reddit-lite
Several specific lemmy communities have taken action against anti billionaire posts. I’ve since blocked those communities.
Yeah. I’ve definitely has comments censored, but only in .world.
Reasons:-
- Politeness
- Civility
- Propo
I was also banned there for refusing to get into an argument with a Mod.
Reddit Refugee here. Got my last “permanent” ban from that place. No idea why, don’t care. Greener pastures, I hope.
Today is Green MAR 10.
Reddit has loved that asshole forever. We forget that back in 2016 Reddit allowed a huge subreddit full of upvoting bots and trolls to post the most atrocious lies and slander and bullshit (/r/the_d**ald) on the entire site and it got so bad that it was the ONLY SUBREDDIT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF /r/all FOR AT LEAST A WEEK.
They pulled back when they saw their profits declining and the massive backlash going on but now that we’re in full fascism mode, reddit is going all out again.
Fuck that place.
Funny thing was they introduced the “filter out subreddits you don’t like” feature just before all that… and I was against that feature. Echo chambers were already a thing, why introduce a feature that’d only make it worse? Then /r/the_dick came along and they were the only subreddit I tossed into that feature because you know what, a broken clock really is right twice a day.
