Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

Everybody upvote Luigi content! Get banned! Leave reddit! Reddit crumbles! Fuck reddit! Go Luigi! Lemmy grows! Centralized social media dies! I eat a burrito. That last one wasn't really on topic, but it's happening anyways! I'm hungry.
- Burrito pilled Lemmy maxing
  
  Try explaining that term to someone in 1925. I'm proud of how far we've come.
  
  What about Lemmy-pilled burrito maxing, are we cool with that too?
- I've been banned twice in the past 30 days.
  
  I got permabanned a couple weeks ago for saying "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi"
  Like, why are you defending Nazis, spez? Huh?
  It solidified Lemmy as my permanent reddit replacement. No ragrets.
  
  Same. I used Reddit for 12 years. Got perma-banned last year for saying things about Israel that people didn't like, I guess.
  Moved to lemmy.
  
  5 of my accts were banned last month, all at once. one got temp suspended, and a triggered a sitewide ban for the others for some "reason. theres no reason to ban all others when it was just temp suspended. but they went extra out of thier way(any old and new accts that have years of seperation between a subreddit ban(if they dint get banned immediately after getting sub banned) they banned accounts.
  ex, i had 2 unused accts 5+years, and 1 recent temp suspension(then they look at other accts you were per banned from a subreddit in, and banned all of them). i had also a couple of unused throwaways that i started using from years ago(last month), and a semi-new acct that i use just in case of a ban that i dint use for 90days. and then 1 acct strictly used for 1 subreddit.
  only 1 survived but its still flagged by reddit, but have no ban on it right now. creating mroe than 1 acct just puts people at risk of getting banned.
- What's in your burrito? My favorite is adobada.
  
  I like beans in mine.
  
  Lengua
- Already got permabanned for saying he was justified, I like it better here anyway
  
  I got banned but their site is so shit the links to the message you got banned for never work. Been banned/warned enough times it's not a one off either.
  
  Same here.
- I agree. And now want to be your friend.
- i pointed out the censoring of luigi news in dec, and people actually believed that wasnt happening, and having all that trump rage post slop thats been posting in order to astroturf luigi news.

Citizen, you have been found guilty of wrong think!
- Thought police will be dispatched.
  
  Karma police will soon follow
- Please report for reeducation

Well that's just straight up fucking bonkers.
- Any more bonkers than anything else on Reddit since the exodus? Lol
- It's okay, we'll all be able to go back to Digg soon.
  
  Slashdot too?
- not surprising, on another site/forum where reddit users got banned for upvoting in attempt to mimic human activity on reddit to promote thier of accts later down the line, thats whats been happening. they are using some technical tricks trying to get around these bans, but reddit is quickly closing those gaps, thats why thier bans have been so aggressive lately. they overmoderate, and overbanned recently.

This is my first comment from Lemmy. Thanks again to whomever suggested it.

Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.
One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.
Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.
So let's not pretend that it's only big bad reddit doing this.
- I feel like there's a difference between various moderators power-tripping on their own little fiefdoms, and a site wide policy.
  
  A little, sure, but from my point of view (which you are happy to disagree with), very little.
  Personally I am a big Star Trek fan. I was stoked to see there is an actual dedicated Lemmy server for it, with many communities focused around everything Star Trek. But I disagree with their admin/moderation so much I had to change my account to another server. At some point ended up blocking the whole instance because I just cannot keep myself to just reading what others are posting.
  So even if I can use another server, I cannot use those communities. Similar if I were a vegan and would not agree with what some of the more extreme users are posting.
  There are not many active alternatives for these communities on Lemmy.
  
  Good point. The other important difference is that on Lemmy you can jump to a different server. Once you get banned on Reddit, that's it.
- Vegan cat food? What the frak, poor cats.
  
  its sickening how they pretend to care about animals and nature by being vegan yet its just egotripping and blatant animal abuse. If they actually care about animals they should be the first ones denouncing vegan cat food.
  
  Yeah. I'm a vegan and I took issue with that. Sure we can do scientific studies to see how cats do on vegan diets, but imo that further propels cat domestication which vegans should be against at the very beginning. We already subject cats and other pets to environments that aren't natural to their genetic history. And now vegans are introducing foods that aren't natural, even though taking cats off streets can be seen as the more ethical thing to do, given the alternatives.
  Lots of nuance here, but it's not fair to the cats. Any time vegans think for themselves instead of the real victims of animal slavery, they undermine their entire cause.
- Discovery is shit.
  
  cant believe that show went on five seasons, and it got worst every season too, and the obvious objective kurtzman was evident by season 4(female leads were the only sex left on the cast), the only likable characther, was michelle yeohs performance(you can see the acting is better than the others). Picard also was like that(the show couldve been good if done right, but picard(patrick stewart) seemed too low energy for the show.
  
  Never seen but just cause I am in edgy mood today: discovery is utter garbage. They should pay hefty health insurance to anyone who has seen it to cover therapy costs and eye surgery.
  It’s so garbage that the dump trucks drivers get confused and arrive at people living rooms if they turn it on.
  The only fitting spot for it is inside the latrine but wash it out as carefully after putting this shitty thing down the drain as if it was an especially nasty hangover poop
  That was quite pleasurable to write
  
  It had its moments, but everytime id start to like it theyd pull some shit that south park would make fun of
- Plus side here is that people can move to another instance and start commenting right away as opposed to being shadow banned for a period in certain subs and having to build up enough karma to not automatically have every comment flagged.
  People aren't stuck to the policies of instances they don't agree with whether it be reasons for bans or what instances are blocked or whitelisted.
- The motives behind the actions of these groups are vastly different though. A corporation silencing anti-establishment speech is not equivalent to lemmy moderators abusing authority in their micro-feifdoms. Still frustrating of course but the reasons and effects are quite different
  
  True, can't argue with that. I am maybe a bit too pragmatic when I say, I don't care about the difference because the outcome for me as a user is the same.
- Its decentalised nature doesn't get you removed from the whole network though unlike Reddit. You can always interact with other instances.
- Lemmy even has the option to disable downvotes, so they’re obviously using downvotes as some kind of purity test.
  Side note, there should be a way to soft block certain instances so you can see and interact with its federated posts but not send anything to the instance itself. You want to limit open discussion on your instance? Fine, but everyone else is still going to talk about you.
  
  if you block an instance, it doesn't block the users or their posts on other instances
- It’s enough to just make new account every couple months
  It’s a good practice anyway. Fresh start every month feels good. Privacy is much better this way on such transparent site as Lemmy. You reset any mutes/bans/fame you might have acquired. It’s win-win
  +It’s not like Lemmy has some kind of insane profile customisation fluff or account bound rewards
  Also remember to have a unique username for each site for best doxx protection. I use this Osint site sometimes for lulz and there are people who have same PayPal id (with real name shown) as their Lemmy account name lol. Lemmy may be tame but if you browse any deep chan sites opsec is of paramount and admins are hostile actors deep down there too that WILL post your data. Here I kinda trust admins just a little so that accidental true IP reveal seems like no big deal.
  However one day you may sign up to the wrong instance or instance may change hands and someone may post your data to some chan like alt right pit. This is a danger of entrusting your account to small private operators that are complete strangers with unknown motivations
  Never ever use your true email on Lemmy
  
  See my other comment. That is not really the solution since you will simply get banned again after a while, depending on how much you interact there. Unless admin/moderation changes, making a new account just gives you a bit of extra time using those communities.
- Yes, but that is like being banned on a specific Reddit. You didnt follow the rules. Reddit will ban you from the entire platform.
- at least here its more easy to just let them stew with eachother or for more sensible part of that community to just break off. in reddit its the site owner who ultimately decided how the site goes, here its the community itself. Though if majority of some community decides to just stick with some awful group, its quite bad for the minority that doesnt like the awfullness. But at least that is problem of our own making instead of what something some rich asshole decided and thus we can solve it ourselves too if we really want to. There is no way to unshittify reddit ever.
- It's way easier to do with Lemmy compared to Reddit. Because of its federated design, it's trivial to subscribe to a stream of all activity in a community (posts, comments, upvotes, downvotes, moderation actions, etc) and do things when particular actions happen. Unlike Reddit, on Lemmy you can get a list of who upvoted or downvoted a post or comment.
  
  Which I don't have a problem with. Having vastly different moderation policies can create a walled garden, but there are instances where a walled garden is just preferable. See how askhistorians was handled. It's better to have a platform that you can shape to your needs and the potential needs of your users. If it's truly useless, then nobody would use it
- That's crazy, had no idea that data was available to the mods of an instance
- Fr seeing in the modlog that people are regularly getting banned from parts of the fediverse for innocuous shit like "chronic downvoting" is so disappointing.
  Imo however you do or do not hit the little arrow buttons should never have any bearing on your account or standing, at all.
  I don't even understand why mods/admins have access to see how people are voting, fuck that bullshit.
- Yes, Lemmyverse will fragment, so it's important to choose sufficiently permissive instances or even run your own.
- if someone does that post it in yepowertrippinbastards and make a new sub on a different instance, id join, ppl can be made aware here
- gross, even STD is being defended here, who is paying for these shills. nutrek is such a badly written/show franchise right now.
- Does this happen on lemmy.world?
- I got banned from a vegan group once because I responded to a person talking about how “non-vegans must be sociopaths to not care about all the suffering of animals as they scream in pain” or something like that. I responded with a link to a study that plants do in fact scream when being injured. We just can’t hear it. Apparently they didn’t like that, lol.
  Edit to add: I didn’t just respond with a link. But something like “As much as I appreciate veganism I am not sure what to tell you. Because if avoiding screaming and suffering in your food source is the reason you became vegan I do have some bad news
  <link>
  ”
  
  Plants do not have a central nervous system to process pain and even if they did “feel pain” you’re still eating more of them by eating animal products…

“reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote calls for a violent revolution against the billionaire class and the fascist neo feudalist militarized police state enforced wage slavery and rent till death economics they have created to benefit their endless growth driven profits while ignoring upvotes of content that praise violence against leftists, women and other marginalized leftist aligning groups and ideologies”
There, FTFY
- after what they saw with luigi, and trying to suppress all news about it
  
  They are desperately obvious and its cringe. They were in full blast damage control censorship mode even before december 4th. I was VPN banned last summer just for saying that occupied indigenous people have a right to resist occupation by any means necessary as per international law in regards to palestine and IsNoTreal. So far ive jot been able to evade the ban even with a vpn. Wall street military and prison industry profiteers have become too confident and comfortable.
- Yes, this is exactly what it is. A call for violence against liberals? No worries. A statement that violence may be the only option left to fight a government controlled by billionaires? Banned.

- Fuuuuuuuuuck spez
  
  The police should check his hard drive
- That's the pedophile piss baby aka u/spez aka Steve Huffman, right? As in the guy that moderated a pedo sub?
  What a greedy little pis baby pig boy.
- Ew
  
  he just got hatched from a oligarchy alien nursery and dint come out fully formed.

Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?

Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.
God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.
ETA: I mention this because the current government wants to find anyone who does this.
The [unelected president] moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad.
- Or just open the thread on an mbin instance. Here's everyone that upvoted this thread.
  Edit: Downvotes (reduces) are less exposed, but as you said, someone can just run a fedi instance that exposes them to everyone.
  
  I think all reactions should be exposed.
  
  Piefed upvotes are private though
- I will save him the effort. I happily upvote things that contain the words Luigi and Elon.
  
  Because that word combination just makes sense.
- He can see me upvote people wanting to kill him.
- Though you cannot see votes coming from a blocked instance. (If your instance ever blocked another instance. Not valid for self hosted.)
- I'm probably ending up in a concentration camp anyways, might as well vent while I can... 🙃
- You just need to make a new account every couple of months

Basically declaring that they don't allow free speech.
"Hey, you have been liking things we disagree with and we need an echo chamber here, align with us or fuck off. Sincerely, the money hungry removed of the internet! Also heil daddy musk!"
- Of course they don’t. They banned me 3 years ago for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a Nazi.
  
  Excuse me? If someone says they want a genocide you have to wait until they take over, only then are you allowed to support violence.
  I'm against violence, I think that reasonable and even somewhat unreasonable people should be talked with. But if someone says "fuck you I will kill you" you should have the right to punch them, it is the same as self defence, because next time they will kill you.
  
  They permabanned two of my accounts during the election last year, just because I said I didn’t care when Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot. She’s a warmonger who’s called for violence against millions of innocent people. Not gonna clutch my pearls when anyone (even Trump) threatens her.
- Basically declaring that they don’t allow free speech.
  It's a privately owned platform. You never have an assurance of free speech on any of those, and on Reddit, the rot set in years ago.
  
  There is a big jump from "we are a private company and we have internal rules" to "we are a private company and our internal rules that directly go against human rights"
  
  I have a strange opinion, but here goes: The Right to Free Speech (Im in the US here), should protect you from censorship. Doing what Reddit is doing should be considered a Rights violation and we should be able to sue them into the ground.
- hypothetically speaking, if someone blew up their office HQ, that would send a powerful message. of course, if you have the balls to do that, there are some other offices that would probably be much better targets.
- To be clear, they're talking about banning right wing people. Reddit is one of the most liberal platforms you will find.
  You can't even talk economics on Reddit without being downvoted to fuck, or banned.
  I am a centrist, and I routinely had posts removed and got banned from communities for saying things from actual textbooks taught currently in universities.
  No one is attacking the free speech of the left unless it's radical and advocating for physical harm.
  
  Incorrect. I got banned yesterday for "Eat the Rich" and Luigi favoritism. I believe the post in question (you never know with a Reddit ban because they dont show you) was responding to someone's post that mentioned the French Revolution with a Guillotine gif and "Git-r-Done".
  Yea, apparently I was plotting murder or something by doing that.

Don't forget to leave bad review of reddit app and encourage others to move to lemmy in the review.
- Note that you actually need to review the app itself, not reddit. When I left a negative review about the whole reddit API mess, the review was removed and I was barred from leaving more reviews
  
  wow thanks for that, adjust my bad reviews.

15 years on reddit. Multiple accounts banned for slamming Nazis. So I'm here slamming Nazis. Long live Lemmy.

It's amazing how they tolerated people preaching for violence against women and immigrants for over a decade, but all of sudden their passion for non-violence is so extreme after a rich white guy gets killed.

Fuck Reddit

I've been a Redditor for 13 years. I read the Admin explanation and the Mods reactions and immediately downloaded Lemmy. I'm still gonna lurk just to watch the chaos but fuck that noise with someone else's dick thank you very much.

Warms my heart to see all the ‘new account’ badges in this thread.

I once got banned for "vote brigading" on Reddit because I upvoted a crosspost that was deleted later, so this comes as no surprise. They have been monitoring upvotes and downvotes since forever.
- Wtf is “vote brigading”?
  
  When one community goes in mass to affect the votes in another. E.g someone is doing a poll/vote, and you link that to somewhere else with the hope, or sometimes direct instructions to go vote on it in a certain way.
  That's why reddit has cross-posts and the np (no participation, disables voting in the linked content) subdomain that try to keep the votes separated.
  
  Yeah what the heck is that?
- I got perma banned after i joined NAFO as a mod 2 bannes for petty reasons and then the third and final ban. Always waited for the other bans to time out

Hey to everyone moving in from reddit. Don't forget that lemmy can't fill the void you're trying to fill without content.
Thanks to the federated nature of lemmy, we have infrastructure, we just need more creators on it.

Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you'll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.
This is the 2025 version of "The revolution won't be televised".

Thank God I'm not on reddit anymore.

Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.
Hmm. What does this pertain to?
kagis
https://www.theverge.com/news/606904/reddit-rules-bans-violence-doxing-elon-musk-doge
Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
That community, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was given a 72-hour ban on Tuesday, as reported by Engadget. Screenshots shared on X show multiple examples of the threatening posts. Musk later reposted the screenshots, claiming that the users have “broken the law.”
In a note on the subreddit, Reddit says it was banned “due to a prevalence of violent content” and that “inciting and glorifying violence or doxing” violate Reddit’s rules. An unnamed Reddit admin said the ban was meant to be a “cooling-off period” for the community.
Reddit also gave a full ban to a subreddit called r/IsElonDeadYet for violating rules “against posting violent content.” The unnamed admin said Reddit is taking steps “to ensure all communities can provide a safe environment for healthy conversation” in a post on r/RedditSafety.
Ah.
- Geez, I sure hope someone starts a fediverse version of r/IsElonDeadYet right away!
  
  I don't know how to do proper links, but wanted to let you know that one does already exist.
  https://lemmy.world/c/iselonmuskdeadyet
- That's what reddit is now, a place for people to vent, and have them cattled up if they become too much of a nuisance.
  
  its basically X and truth social posts without going to X. and mix in with some ragebaiting articles from non-reputable sources. you also have to be careful on subs like pics, news, funny, askreddit,ask for the same reasons. why are people ranting on reddit about X and truth social, when you are reposting it.
- Ok but if someone was to Luigi Elon that would be based. Or Elon can follow his leader and end it in a bunker. Don't overly care which way.
- is that sub even unbanned, i havnt seen it for weeks. right after whitepeopletwitter was banned, they started another huge ban wave that continued into FEB. definitely silencing all anti-conservative sentiment, the "progressives" posts that are allowed, get AstroTurf by trolls.

reddit died when it became a publicly traded company. now it is just another propaganda tool

🙋🏻‍♂️ +1 on having received a warning. I’m a simple man. I see Luigi, I upvote.
Day 1 on lemmy so am finding my way around still :)

Anddddd this is how and why I found lemmy.

Reminds me of back in 2013 when Reddit admins accidentally revealed that Eglin Air Force Base, a location often cited as the source of government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs, was the most Reddit addicted city in the world.
- To be fair, every Air Force base had higher than average Reddit usage back in the day. It was one of the few websites not blocked by default. I don't know when that changed, Because I was out before then.
  But yes, there are also the propaganda teams.
- I would expect Moscow or St Petersburg.
  
  Because you’ve been propagandized to hell. A lot of people have. Which is why everyone lost their shit about “Russian interference” over a couple of shitty memes from Russian sources during an election, but didn’t seem to give a shit about electioneering from domestic propaganda sources.
  You’re getting far more propaganda from your own country than any other foreign entity, I promise you.

Reddit going full mask-off 1984 huh? Next thing it’ll be illegal to downvote things Reddit likes to push… Or why even bother with the votes anyway, Reddit will just show you only the things that it deems good for you, like the benevolent Big Brother.
Fuck that place.
Also: welcome to all our new members! “We’re Not Perfect, But At Least We’re Not Reddit!” (TM)

I'm loving this. I had almost 15 years without so much as a warning and then suddenly several 3 day bans, a 7 day ban and a perma ban. They don't want people commenting negatively towards fascism.

At this point being banned might be a good thing to drive home the point that also my favorite of the old corporate internet platforms should be avoided. I'm doing quite okay on staying away from Meta and have long deleted my Twitter account. I can't get myself do drop Reddit somehow. Seems like they're only helping me get off my addiction

Fuck reddit.
- Yeah. Except for some niche subs I haven't miss it at all. And thanks to Privacy Redirect add-on, I haven't visited Reddit itself for a long time. Since it still has some useful info that floods the search engines.
  
  You can get a copy of reddit data from just before It happened, run your very own searchable database. No need to go there at all.
- We should streal r/place and do it yearly
  
  I guess it will just be full of Fuck Spez and Fuck [(un)elected president]

Exactly the same. I got critical of the right and all of a sudden banned for violence ? After 12 years ? And me NEVER calling for harm to anything.
But I got hyper critical of the right and that's what did it.
Reddit is and has failed.

I actually came here today because of this! So far so happy with Lemmy

Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?
- Banned after you upvote it
  See something that’s pro-Luigi? That’s banned content
  Pro-lemmy? That’s banned content
  Upvoted a post about hypothetically killing a Republican? That’s banned content
  Etc
  
  I got banned on Reddit, not by moderators of the sub, but by site admins for saying I hold similar values about CEOs like Luigid did.
  
  This type of behavior is never tolerate on Reddit. You disagree with a Redditor, straight to ban. No trial, no nothing. There's no journalists. We'll have a special subreddit for journallists. Under represent a Republican, believe it or not ban. Over represent a Democrat, also ban. Reddit has the best users on the internet.
  
  They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.
- It means accounts that consistently upvote posts that end up being banned.
  The naive take is that this will remove bot/brigade swarms that are collaboratively boosting content that breaks site wide rules. You can derive ulterior motives from this if you want but I'm pretty sure that's the basic premise.
  I have no doubt this will be leveraged by the far-right to sow more discord. They already have a history of raiding subreddits with false flag attacks to get them sanctioned until it escalates into full blown subreddit ban. This is all but formalizing the mechanism.
  
  I think the real implication of the system is that Reddit will also start banning you for down-voting posts too.
- Users with banned accounts can still be responded to and they'll even get emails about it

- One is illegal, the other is not.
  
  If they’re doing so in cooperation with or at the direction of anyone in government, it is also illegal.
- People get mad over government censorship, but condone corporate censorship if it's something they want censored.
  
  Going against an agreement you agreed to abide by is not censorship. If you don't like the agreement, don't agree to it.

Finally made the jump. Reddit is a right-wing cesspool of censorship.

10 years on reddit, surprised about my comments never getting the same traction as identical comments. 3 days ban for insinuating a billionaire performing a Nazi salute may indeed be a Nazi, second ban for insinuating violent action sometimes needs to be taken in defense of democracy. Permaban for (politely and positively) judging the looks of someone that asked to be judged through a photography, and clearly needed lo lift up their self-esteem.
I rage quit reddit and delete my account that I opened long ago with the Google account I have recently cancelled.
I decide that maybe it deserves a second chance, so I create a new account with the email I account I host myself in my own server with my own domain.
The exact same comments I posted, with the exact same content and intention now get thousands of upvotes (so clearly, I had been shadowbanned for years)
Fuck them. Hello community, looking forward to have constructive interactions here.

Grateful to be here and help this place grow. I’m so over Reddit.

Perma banned because I wished c-ncer on a pro-Israel troll. Is that an earned ban you guys think?
- Hell, I said all Nazis can go die or kill themselves. Perm banned. Reason why I'm here. Fuck that place.
  
  Samesies. All I said was Nazis should get punched. This is a much better place all around, so fuck spez
  
  ... But all Nazis can go die or kill themselves.
  
  I said "It's ok to punch Nazis" and my 13 year old account was insta-banned.
  Reddit it trash.
  
  Yup. I said things about Elon and Trump and how they are nazis supporting nazis like Putin commiting war crimes and I got a warning. Reddit can get lost.
- I got banned when I saw someone say trans kids should be hunted in schools, and I told them I wish they'd get hit with a brick.
  
  I got banned for making fun of Kemi Badenoch when she said autistic people are privileged. I said maybe she's jealous that there are people that know more about trains than her. That was apparently enough to warrant a permanent ban.
  
  Thats be wise you where too much of a pacifist in your response.
- I wished cancer on plenty pro putinist, pro stalinist, pro genocide pieces of shit and got permad as well.
  I have so much free time now.
  
  spez loves trump, and by extensive putin. he cant have that on his site.
- I had my 13 year old account banned on reddit and the 'final' statement was saying 'No, just the problems they deserve blame for' to a Zionist who accused all Lebanese people of blaming all of Lebanon's problems on Israel.
  Just saying that apparently is a call to violence against Jews...
  
  israel has been working overtime on thier censorship of anti-israeli sentiment, both on reddit , msm and IRL. quashing protests, and having celebrities and politicians shilling for israel. just like with luigi, they stop reporting the negative protests against israel because it starting to make them look bad.
- badge of honor for calling these people out, i was temp ban early in the war for pointing out knesset/bibi/netanyahu was the sole enabler and institor of the war and also leading up to it, he ignored intel by other countries that a attack was likely to occur and he orchestrated some things with hamas in the past too.
- I had an old account banned site wide for asking why there was an obvious gay guy on love island. Wasn't even a malicious post I was genuinely curious how he faked his way on there.
  Recently I got a temp ban for mentioning chatgpt on the books sub, someone was asking about a large selection of books and which were worth reading. I told him to get chatgpt to sort the list out by most popular. Apparantly even mentioning an llm exists there is a ban.
  Kinda get the second one as authors all think chatgpt stealing from them or something but yeah I was talking about sorting a large list
  
  Jesus… ITT I learned mods on Reddit are fucking snowflakes.
  
  Why the hell would you go on a book community, open a discussion post that is clearly asking for personal opinions and go "I dunno lol go ask chatgpt". I would've banned you too tbqh.
  
  i got banned from lgbtq+ sub, but i was able to repeal it, because the reportee misconstrued my comment. thats the only time my comment got repealed, i still block the sub though. lqbtq+ is such a spicey subject i dont bother commenting on subs like those.
- Not gonna lose a lot of sleep over a hateful asshole getting banned from a website.
  All hateful assholes believe their brand of hate is justified, just as you do.
  
  Zionists deserve all the vitriol they get.
  
  If you want to call hating on Nazis "hateful" then by all means but other than child rapists and rapists in general. I fucking hate Nazis and they can all go die for I care. That group murdered millions. They deserve all the hate they get, all the way till the end of time.

Someone posted this and that’s honestly scary. I hope more people abandon this sinking ship of Reddit.

Yeah I got signaled on reddit for saying something about Trump, Elon and Vance regarding to Ukraine. Nothing that hasn't been said, but I said they can fuck off and stop propping Russian imperialism and kidnapping children while commiting warcrimes. Guess Reddit is against that as they removed my comment and gave me a warning.
- Also biased admins, there are places that are manipulated for disinformation purposes. It is kind of scary, when the sceptical view point gets deleted or thread blocked for no other reason than harming their often made up narrative.
  Edit. Thread blocked as in you are blocked from posting and they can have a last rotten cherry on top
  (Admins = mods here, don't really know what kind of infra there is, though below more on it 👍)
  
  there are powermods, and some mods have control of 500 subs, i think 92 mods control just 500 of those subs,, and some of them might be admins too/ or at least friends with admins.

At this point, getting banned at reddit is a badge of honor.
- Uh...the "badge of honor" would have been quitting back during api-gate and not looking back. Getting banned now just means one participated after that time, providing spez with traffic and value, and helped normalize the behaviour that is only just now a bridge too far.
  Today, a ban is the "conciliatory prize of not thinking ahead".
  
  3rd party apps closing down I can see from a business point. Makes good business sense. Keep everyone on your shitty app and monetize it. I wasn't for it but understood the greedy fucks behind it.
  Now it's just different. Banned for going against Nazis, just means they are in bed with Nazis. That's the last straw.
  
  Nah, just circumvent with revanced and poison the well.
- I'm rocking a chest full of badges then.
- i also give badges to people who can evade it successful with more sophisticated methods, of and advertisers for thier business. its the people who uses hundreds of accts, not the troll propaganda accts, because reddit does very little about them.

I first saw this news over on Reddit, immediately searched for an alternative. Got home from work and now here I am

Haha aaaaand that’s how I got here

It's horrifying especially to think how Reddit never did anything about the fucked up things incels would say they wanted to do to underage girls and women, or the literally jailbait, racist, insanity they'd share. Basically that stuff was always okay, but if you want to defend yourself against your oppressor? Banned for upvoting despite you didn't even think the comment was "bannable".

Reddit sets the threshold for violent content really low. At one point someone asked if a prisoner who is medically revived from the dead has served their life sentence, I answered that you have to be irrevocably dead, and admins said that promoted or glorified violence. I made no mention of violence whatsoever, nothing I said encouraged violence in any way, and somehow even on appeal they didn’t realize how ridiculous that was.

I register on reddit 17 years ago. Before the great migration from digg. I remember /r/programming being the first sub to reach 100k subscribers.
I got banned for saying in the /r/europe sub that russia banning youtube in russia was a good thing because then we in the west would get less russian propaganda. Got banned for a couple days. Left and never looked back.
/r/programming is dead already since around a decade. All the good discussions moved to hackernews and lobsters.
EDIT: never forget that spez admitted to silently edit user comments that criticized him

Reddit being the go to place for federal workers to explain what is happening on the fednews sub given reddit shadow banning new accounts and anti VPN stance is rather ironic with federal workers hiding their names and using stuff like signal out of fear of what the administration might do to them.
- Even proxies are not safe, only the more sophisticated ones usually evade reddits detection for a while.

I got that warning yesterday and it finally pushed me to make a Lemmy account.

reddit permabans you for vague interpretations of things they consider "threatening"
its already a thought crime zone.
- You gotta say "we will vote to have the state do this" before your threats. It's like sudo for threats.
- i had so many of those bans, mostly of someone misconstruing my statement, which im agreeing with everyone on the sub/post. and people are very nosey they look into your post history and acct age.
  even making a vaguely implying something should happen is a threat for some reason. evey mentioning race can be touchey to. apparently your not allowed to say black, or demographic.

And that was the final push to get me to make an account over here. Fucking hell

It warms my heart seeimg all these 👶 emojis! Welcome all new lemmyheads!

Yeah that was my last straw with reddit

I hope lemmy servers are ready for another population boom.
- Anyone that's stuck with reddit this long probably thinks this sort of thing is a good idea.
  
  anyone who engages in the news and political, and adjacent subs, are addicted, they wont leave.
  
  Surprisingly, there are a lot of people who have still never heard of Lemmy on Reddit. I mentioned it in a post about this and got flooded with people asking me what Lemmy is and how to sign up.

Welp, just moved into Lenny, hello yall

Does saying "The only good fascist are very dead fascist" counts? What if I add that USA is a fascist country now? Will saying Donald is a pedophile still counts (I got banned for it already lol)? What about saying my favorite sport is nazi punching? And if I add that there's no such thing as "roman salute"?
Is Reddit about to drop a new t-shirt line "Protect fascist's feeling" or something?
- I said we used to have a method of dealing with traitors. Got banned for it.
  Fucking done with reddits shit.
  
  Same, in January, I said something to the line of traitors used to be publicly hanged, now they're elected and got banned for it. That was the last straw, came here right away and was happy to find the place striving compared to last time I tried it.
- You mean if someone said something like, "Trump and Epstein raping a 13-year-old is a matter of court record."?
- Yes, this is the exact mentality.
  I got banned yesterday for basic "Eat the Rich" quotes with the occasional Luigi or Guillotine animated gif thrown in here or there.
  Reddit is cracking down on anticapitalists for sure.
  
  Got in trouble for saying in reply to an "eat the rich" comment that they should be fed to something instead
  
  they also crack down on increased thier filtering drastically "botty and spammy behaviour too" even the slightest comment will trigger a ban, or comment removal.

My link for this was deleted. Huh. I didn't see this earier.
Anyways I think this is a dangerous chilling effect and reddit has a terrible track record for not using this as intended, so I can only expect Reddit Admins to use this beyond warning, I expect bans and this used in warrants/NSLs quickly.
Stop using reddit, stop going to reddit. And bring everyone you can to Lemmy. I want to be able to cut out my city subreddits like /r/Denver like a clean shit.