The word "Luigi" is now flagged by automod for violence on Reddit

Yoooo Nintendo should sue. Reddit is publicly traded.

That's a great point. Even if it's used as a verb, it could mean throwing a banana peel behind you while driving.
- Everyone named Luigi should sue for discrimination
Nintendo doesn’t want to raise the specter of association with Luigi Mangione. Heck, I bet they'd advocate for this, and would rename Mario's brother if they could.
- Bring back Green Mario
- You are drastically underestimating how much Nintendo loves to sue.
  
  Also, Nintendo's late CEO Satoru Iwata famously took a massive (50%) pay cut during a tough time for Nintendo, instead of laying off employees. So...
- hes the DLC.

Don’t upvote or you’ll get banned.

>Be user

>Use website's features as designed

>Banned
- sounds about reddit
- Sad Yoshi 😢
Nahh deff upvote and then never log back in..

Welcome to the fedi verse, we got our own neo lib acolyte mods on Lemmy.world and you will get some bans from them.

Rest of fedi is a decently safe space for proper discourse.

And remember folks, deny the parasite profit and engagement

Luigi did nothing wrong
- I got a comment deleted here for saying the French should send a guillemot... I mean -tine, as a gift to america, to go with their statue. I've said it several more times since then :P
Even better just don’t go on Reddit.
We have that here, it's called "crazy admins" but has a cure called ~~distro~~ instance hopping.
- Am I in a crappy instance and how do I jump?
Upvote and get banned and leave.

Time to welcome another wave of Redditors to Lemmy :)

Meh, I'm not so sure. We need to get used to the fact that reddit's fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023. That was a one-off thing that drove out all the OG users. The people left on reddit are the types that refer to it as an "app" and probably don't even know old.reddit exists. Those kinds of people will grumble but they aren't going anywhere. And frankly, that's fine by me.

Edit: lmao okay, okay, Lemmy got 6 new users today. I get it. My point that we're never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023 API changes has been proven wrong. Congrats everyone. Let's hope half of them actually stick around.
- I know that I just came from Reddit today, so... At least 1 person joined because of this fuckery lol
- A small number of reddit users leaving translates to a large number of new users here, comparatively speaking.
- Both me and my partner joined today. Problem is a lot of people don't know about Lemmy, I'd never heard of it before today but someone commented about it on reddit in response to reddit's latest nonsense.
  
  I'll likely stick around reddit for a bit and do my part to comment about making the switch. I can't blame people for not joining something they know nothing about.
- I'm stuck on there because /r/shorthand is inimitable (for now). !shorthand@lemm.ee, but it'll have to be bootstrapped.
- Not even with the other news of them warning people for upvoting content?
  
  It's what got me over here finally.
- I started the switch over after how grossed out I was with Reddit advertising betting on the elections, and the overwhelming number of bots and bad actors trying to influence people constantly in most of the subreddits. Since then, I’ve been promoting Lemmy, BlueSky, and the Fediverse as a whole on Reddit.
  
  I believe we are on the cusp of another great migration. The more enshitified things continue to get on Reddit, the more real people will leave for spaces like here. At some point it could just be mostly bots talking to other bots on Reddit.
- Also, obviously we want more users, but do we want that type of user? Remember what Reddit was before digg, before a few 'endless summers' that happen every year
- I'm also a Reddit refugee. :-) fuck spez
- Not sure. I am part of the new wave 👋so we will see.
- Your username is cool as hell.
- My point that we're never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023
  
  You never know. When Digg did a redesign basically all the Digg users fled to Reddit. You never know what is going to be the last straw. And since we're dealing with network effects, there can be this feedback mechanism where people leaving leads to more people leaving. It's hard to predict when something's going to tip over.
  
  IMO, it's just a matter of time. Reddit wasn't profitable and now that they're public their investors are going to demand growth and profit. That means enshittifying the site, and one of those changes is going to be too much. It could go on for years, but I'd be shocked if Reddit is still around in 10 years.
- reddit's fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023
  
  While Reddit might not have a single screw-up of that scale again, that is probably better for long-term Lemmy growth. I think we've forgotten just how ill-equipped the small handful of Lemmy instances were to cope with the 2023 influx. We have many more stable instances now, and the onboarding process is smoother.
- Welcome the six new users. We love you
- im an OG user, originally created for use of friendsafari on pokemon(i still have the og acct, that is flagged). i remember when they were there banning "illegal subs" like shoplifting and such, i know they moved to a international site(the users). they dint start aggressively banning til trumps first turn, like around 2018, now everything after that your comment is on thin ice every time.
- Yeah, we all know nothing in 2025 will ever be as consequential as what happened in 2023.
I just joined Lemmy after lurking on the Fediverse subreddit for the past few weeks. I'm always open to joining new platforms, and I'm a quick learner. I don't think my wife is willing to leave Reddit for Lemmy though... But I do suspect we'll see some more people joining after this and possibly after they start locking content behind a paywall too.
- 💚 Welcome
I'm glad I found this, Canadian owned!

reddit is this: and I don't think enough Canadians know.

this is 2014. 50million raised. led by Sam Altman

https://blog.samaltman.com/trump 2016.

"Trump is right about some big things." "Trump is right about the problem" "I take some risk by writing this" "this is not an ordinary election"

in a way reddit helped facilitate and validate Donald Trump as a mainstream candidate helping him gain popularity and credibility with /r/the_donald

Marc Andressan - "Marc Andreessen says half of his time goes to helping Trump at Mar-a-Lago" 2024

Snoop Dogg - “I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.” 2024

Donald Trump Was Peter Thiel’s Most Successful Investment. “Thiel is one of the conservative mega donors that has the ability to shore up candidates that might need additional support. His spending is targeted, and his ability to spend millions can be impactful,” Reddit was targeted, to be impactful.

Ron Conway - says "Crypto Economy" Is the Next Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity - 2021

yesterday, - "President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile"

Jared Leto - “We want to see your America in all its imperfect glory.”

now reddit is valued at $6 billion, off the data & memes of unsuspecting Canadians supporting their own threat to their sovereignty.
- made sense alot of us/military propaganda was directed at the political and news subs. soon came putins trolls after with the help the above investors.
- I did not expect Snoop Dogg and Tencent.
Took me a min to figure out this place but yeah been a long time redditor. I got an email warning me I upvoted something they didn't like so I joined up here.
- Welcome!
- I'm curious, what was hard to figure out? I assume it was something federation-related?
  
  I never really had a problem figuring things out (though I'm sure there are still things I could learn). The only difficulty was that when I was subscribing to communities, it was sometimes hard to know which was the "main" or "most popular" community. For instance, there are half a dozen fairly big gaming communities spread across various lemmy instances. Some get more posts, some get more comments. Reddit also had a few different gaming-related communities, but it was easier to figure out which were the bigger ones and which ones had a slightly different focus.
all you need to do is criticize musk and trump.

Nintendo is going to love this xD

That moment when I'd be behind a Nintendo suit lol

This is Winnie the Pooh-level censorship, Jesus...

Fr
reddit is just following facebook and YOUTUBES lead. reddit is just basically a reposting site for X and truth social.
- yes, that's how a shill ops work...
  
  i am not sure if reddit base will accept these narratives. sure they are able to place r/conservative on the front page but comment section there is a shit show. anyone asking questions gets removed lol
  
  you aint got to be reddit pro to understand what's that is about.
Not really, the community mod gets to say yes or no to the post. As long as Luigi Mangione coverage doesn't incite violence, it too can be greenlit.
- God forbid we incite violence against the people systematically killing us...

"I love Nintendo. Mario and [redacted] are my favorite characters ever!"

User has been banned for inciting violence

- gary bowser, the guy that goe sued by nintendo.

The enshittification of Reddit started when they hid new features behind API in order to push their shitty official app. Every next move just made the slippery slope steeper.

Started a much longer time ago in my opinion. I'd say around the time they threatened to ban the kratom sub and did ban the ketamine & steroids one

Reddit was much cooler 15 years ago. You could find anything on there
It's in free fall now.
- It's in free fall now.
the app is so ugly and cumbersome, i use the browser but reddit purposely slows the browser down, use a ton of memor and heats up yuor phone.

Mamma mia!

Reddit is a group of internet users with the vision of free speech, but directed by shareholder and policy makers.

So glad I ditched Reddit.
- Same, haven't missed it since.
- The facade of societal benefit with the hidden and actual motivation of profit, such is the whole world.
- the speech tending towards right wing content in order to drive traffic, works for facebook and youtube.
- vision
  
  That’s a polite way to say delusion

The fact that Huffman is scared of being Luigi'd makes me happy.

he does look like an alien? what does have to be scared about, he can just ressurect from a pod.

I knew Reddit was dying after they went public and immediately purged all the mods who didn't fall in line. It was disheartening to see so many users continue to shill for such decisions. Maybe it was a lot of bots, who knows. But watching this site explode in popularity after these new changes is encouraging. Everyone here should do their part to inform people of this place and continue to stay connected. Good luck everyone!

AFTER censoring luigi related news, and promoting trump, is a death knell, and reddit thought it was clever to "ban" a bunch of subs after musk complained about whitepeople twitter, they only backed off when the mods said they wernt inactive.
- Yup. Just deleted my ~7 year old account. Fuck trump and fuck spez
so many users continue to shill for such decisions

I think that something that a lot of people need to be reminded of here, especially ex Reddit moderators, is that the users have NEVER particularly been fans of the moderators. In fact the moderators on Reddit helped the admins bring Reddit to the point where it is now in the first place. Setting up automoderator to catch buzzwords out of context and make people's comments disappear without notice or a trace is just as fucking dodgy as the admins flagging the word "Luigi".

So no, it's not a surprise that moderators getting into trouble for not falling in line with the admins doesn't cause a mass exodus. Because most people don't give a fuck about the moderators and would be glad to see them gone. With the way they have been abusing automoderator over the years, it wouldn't make much of a difference if they were replaced by an automated system anyway.

So if you want people to come to Lemmy, stop acting like they give a shit about the moderator that treats them like dirt. Because that'll probably have the opposite effect. I know that it did on me when all the mods were crying about the API and their modding tools. Start offering more reasons for why USERS should come here.
- The mods here can also be equally ridiculous. That's just a problem with internet mods in general. It's a role that attracts petty tyrants.
The worst thing about the API changes wasn’t even that most people didn’t care or weren’t on board. It was that they were actively against the people protesting. In real life when this happens I always give some leeway because everyone has their own problems and they might be a bit annoyed by the protest action (which is part of the protest). But on Reddit?? People lost their fucking minds because they couldn’t have access to some subreddits for like 24h.

Sooooo many people failed to realize that even if you didn’t use third party apps that it would still affect you even if indirectly. They didn’t even have to do anything other than literally do nothing/something other that browsing reddit for a day. And they couldn’t. They vilified and downvoted the protesters and took the side of the billionaire trying to take advantage of everyone ruining Reddit in the process

That fiasco in pretty meaningless in todays world events, but fuck, I still find it a great insight into how much we can suck as a species
I modded about 30 sub's, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum. Apparently I was the "landed gentry". Haven't been back in almost 2 years now. Fuck spez.
this massive purge last month, is definitely revealing how dead reddit is without people using multiple accounts to comment in, wether to evade or to troll or to even use the site normally. for example after they had a big purge in december, we noticed how little activity there was in political subs , like there was very little engagement. after it the trolls came back everything went back to being "trump did this or that". making more than 1 accounts just risks you can ban, because thier filters are too stupid to discern if yuor ban evading or not.

I guess we'll have to call him Louie G now.

Short for Ludovici Giovanni.

Yep I bailed. Might post one last thing that will definitely get me banned but I saw the “rule” and immediately came to open a new account here.. fuck Reddit.

They really expanded their banning too. My ten year old account got banned for telling a guy that was defending the third Nazi salute to "go to hell". Was banned and then had the appeal just confirm the ban.

New account basically uses your Internet footprint to ban any accounts you make. I could get around it but it just is not fucking worth it at that point.

If they want to keep Nazis on their platform and ban the people that tell them to go to hell Reddit will be like 4chan quickly.

Hell, I feel every website is becoming 4chan these days. Twitter and Facebook are cesspools. Fuck reddit.
- The internet is being disabled as an information source or communication medium.
  
  The west fears an 'arab spring' reaction.
- I got banned today cuz some dude DMd me that he would hang himself, I send him a reddit care message and blocked him, I got banned for three days (they cited the care message) for harrassment, I appealed and was like bro reddit admin, they literally wrote me they would hang themselves how is me using reddit care harrassment and then they permanently banned me. Actually insane. My account had like 60k karma and was 7 years old. Reddit can go to hell.
- i had a 11+year old acct, whom i stopped using like 7 years ago, it was ban, because one of my throwaways had a temp ban, so reddit decided to look at any of your accts that are connected by device or ip, that was involved in ban evasion, and just ban all of them regardless, they usually only ban future accounts, but they banned all acct because a temp ban triggered it. the oldest acct is the one that dint get banned, for some reason.
  
  from what ive gathered they look at your IP address, your device (if you use the reddit app it gives them even more info on your device, your browser fingerprint seems to be important, they also use captcha v3, which is more advanced than V2, which records your site activities, cookies, posting and commenting behavior, of course ban evasion too. Also they compare your "bot activity" to other bot activity and just ban you.
- yep I got banned on a sub for something flagrant and tried to ban evade with another account and now every account I have is under a week suspension. Supporting literally anything that isn't reddit rn because of how much their moderation sucks
- Anywhere the rich gets to have their privilege, inevitably shits the pool.
  
  It is my hope to see a 2nd Constitution, designed to engineer excessive wealth out of existence. It has become clear that too much money drives people insane.

Tipping point for me. Leaving Reddit for good.

Same here. I figured it was a matter of time before reddit was entirely ruined after the api change and IPO. I stuck around for the niche communities, but they've all been overrun by bots.

RIP in pizza, reddit.
same. first comment here.
- You should have mentioned Luigi.

Just signed up here. I had my account flagged for upvoting on Reddit. Needless to say I was POed but so far I'm liking it here

Welcome friend. Lemmy is a nice place.
- No, it is an open place where CCP shills and Nazis and good people can all say what they want, filter what they don't, and communicate without shitty corporate overlords or trash mods having all the power.
How did you find Lemmy, out of curiosity? Seems like there aren’t a lot of Reddit recs for it yet.
- Not that person, but I found out about lemmy from reddit. There are people talking about it when this kind of stuff comes up.
- Honestly googled Reddit alternatives and the first search was from Reddit discussing Lemmy. Took a peek and now I'm here. I like Lemmy, just communities are a hit or miss due to inactivity.
- i heard it about over the API thing like 2 years ago, then forgot it. got sitewide ban 99% of my accts meant for different subreddits, and came here, after i remember lemmy. im on LEMMY and on another forum(meant for people who evaded bans and got sitewide banned, and i noticed some got banned for no reason as well.
- I actually heard about it a while back after the whole API block but never made the transition over till now
i came after part of the reddit february ban wave.

Made my first Lemmy account after this bullshit! Took a split second to figure out, but Lemmy seems super rad so far!

Welcome to Lemmy!
Lemmy tell you, you made the right choice.
It's a familiar enough looking place, with some good discussions. But what's super cool - at least to me - is that "Lemmy" isn't just Lemmy. There are people here using websites running all sorts of engines. Mbin is a different reddit-like platform that cross-communicates with Lemmy. Friendica is a Facebook-like engine that can talk with Lemmy. NodeBB is a traditional forum. Mastodon, Misskey, and Akkoma are Twitter-like platforms that can show up here, too.

It's a mesh network, with each node having different strengths and weaknesses, different UIs and UXes, and different rules and goals.

It's both familiar, and also something totally different, both at the same time.

Welcome to the wilderness!
- I think this is what confuses me, like, how? If Lemmy is like reddit and Mastadon is like Twitter how do they talk to each other. Do you follow someone on Mastadon via lemmy and then their "tweets" just show up on your front page?

So glad to be here. Reddit is compromised.

its not the servers or the domain name that makes reddit valuable, its us the people. we are what bring value to their platform. may freedom of speech live on ✊
No for-real, just came from Reddit as well, and so far this app is pretty amazing.
- Welcome to Lemmy. All I can say. 1 more convert has come into the fold.
- Which app do you like? There are many
Lemmy finally becomes active, reddit migration imminent
- Oh yea, this is gonna push people over the edge finally.
fr. I just wish there were more communities that were popular other than piracy. I guess the site just needs more users for that to happen.
- Start subscribing to communities across instances - it will drastically improve your feed quality and the overall Fediverse at the same time.
  
  In the Fediverse, note that when you hit "All or New" you're only seeing the instances that people on your server have already subscribed to at a previous point in time. By subscribing to new communities on separate instances, you're opening a gateway for other users on the server to start discovering it as well.

That sent me here as well. What a great way for them to advertise for a decentralized information exchange!

I got banned from Reddit for stating that fascists need to be hung while Reddit endorses fascist subreddits such as /r/conservative that spews hate.

Make it make sense.
- Yeah, it’s insane how that sub is literally full of constant calls for violence but none of the comments get removed. Very sus.
- Well, Reddit endorses fascists, so I think it makes perfect sense already, really.
  
  "Don't hurt my friends"
- Hanged*
  
  Fascists need to be hanged.
- r/con bans you for anything, most of its controlled by russian trolls anyways, well known fact. thats how whipped up reddit into a trump frenzy.
- I got banned for an assortment of things. Saying punch a nazi, Luigi did the right thing and Andrew Tate fans are fucking removed
I recently got banned for three days but I’m going to get rid of my Reddit. It’s only going to get much worse unfortunately.
- i had one acct left after they banned all my other accts when they decided a large purge last month, im just lurking there with that acct and only commented once on a niche sub, likely i wont be commenting on any controversial ones, and just spend it here instead.
Reddit is doing top tier ads for Lemmy.

is Luigi our tiananmen square June 4 1989?

An establishment threatening event that definitely never happened? Absolutely.

/s, viva green Mario!
great reference that actually might be what ends up happening here

I just got a 3 day ban. Here I am allowed to say that CEO assassination is basically self defense, right?

I'm proud of the active community we've built at https://lemmy.world/c/luigimangione It's a great space to post any Luigi content, that may or may not have a proper place in the larger communities on Lemmy. It's great that former Redditors can come to Lemmy and see a niche community like they are accustomed to having, without fearing censorship like they did on Reddit.

Fuck Reddit. Long live Luigi!

Thanks! I think I will.
funny thing everytime the police and the courts try to make him look bad in the pics, hes just too photogenic.

One thing I just noticed about this place is that posts get a lot of engagement, but there aren't a ton of posts. That means there are a lot of lurkers, but not enough posters.

So if you just came here from reddit, start posting!

I would. But first I have to figure out the controls
- If it helps, we wrote up a guide here: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users
  
  The guide was made for lemmy.ca, but it should be helpful for any instance
- yeah the way replies to comments are displayed is a little funny, and it's not very intuitive trying to find new posts, I set it to filter by new and it'll have a 7 month old post at the top, and a 3 day old post right under it and shit
There are lurkers but many of the active commenters are frankly just more active in voting and commenting. Lemmy has much more engagement than Reddit for commenters because it's a small community and the way comments are default sorted. You don't need to make a comment early to end up on the top of the thread. You just need to get about two up votes and it'll put you at the top. If what you said is worthwhile then you'll get a lot more after that

Edit: one of the benefits of this is it encourages high quality late comments. On Reddit those would largely get ignored, but here engagement like that is encouraged.
quick, spin up some onlyfans bots
- OF bots are currently concentrating using money(buying specific proxies ip services, new devices, multiple anti-detection browsers on evading reddits bans currently.
Aww but I like lurking
Probably because posting doesn't work often, or I'd be posting more than once weekly

Reddit is also banning and warning people for UPVOTING "violent" comments (or what they now consider violent and somehow right wing subs don't get the same censorship applied; or we'd see them removed about it). It's now a dystopia.

"conservative" subs are shill ops... just go through the comments, any reasonable right wing questions get removed and only removed fame bait is allowed to be posted.
and russian trolls while get removed almost always come back in full force, and its is allowed them to astroturf any cricticism of conservatives.
Get rid of the goddamn up/down vote system then. It sounds like it is headed towards youtube where they only show upvotes to create a fake "yaaay!" impression.
- reddit is mostly a hybrid of youtube and facebook.
Imagine how much harder the lives are for the mods of /r/nintendo

I eagerly await the Lugia memes to come.

Edit: not a typo , I’m expecting automod evasion.

Quite literally signed up for lemmy just now cause of this. So many of the sites that helped make the internet boring are committing self harm, twitter, fb, and now reddit - the old "decentralization" arguments were kind of boring to me but now I ache for the old internet and gosh darn it if the billionaires are making the best case against themselves.

I also left; I read about McCarthyism
Idk if you are old enough to remember digg but that’s what Reddit replaced when Digg made some changes to their policies. And so the cycle continues.
- The funny part about digg coming back is that their main selling point (absolutely stupid and tone deaf in this environment) is that they're using ai to moderate content so it "helps mods". It's going to crash quickly. Considering AI and making reddit go public are the reasons we hate the site now, it's destined to fail. Unfortunately the future is going to be built upon huge corporations attacking usage of anything but their services and alternatives popping up that people flock to. I fully anticipate bluesky to become ruined within the next few years.
  
  I'm glad something is happening to cause this shift, but causing massive amounts of misery and distrust is not what I thought would spur it on. Good news for those of us who know what life was like before fb and google ate the internet is it's actually really liberating seeing the internet as this wide open place again.
- And like the cycle of the seasons, the cycle ~~of the Avatar~~ begins anew.
i also joined a forum for people who fled reddit for ban evasion and getting banned out of nowhere too.

And with that- I have deleted my Reddit account that I have had for 13 years lol. Fuuuuck that. I don't even care if that gets reversed after Nintendo gets involved. This is ridiculous behavior.

Oh no! Look at all the unique unfiltered user content I'm missing out on by leaving reddit for Lemmy!

Just commenting to say I deleted Reddit yesterday in favor of Lemmy! Happy to be here 🥰 #freeluigi

Woot! I was banned but I still stand with you

The one thing conservatives where right about: Reddit is a censored hellhole.

but not according to thier context though, which they means thier racist, bigoted comments are getting deleted, rightfully so.

lol

- 😂 I'm stealing that lmao
  
  Respectfully 😇

Honestly think this is newsworthy and worth talking about here as well, if not moreso...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1j5cqq1/multiple_subreddits_express_concern_after_reddit/

Just the fact that someone gets noticed and potentially talked to if they just upvote, and not say anything, seems like something that's never been done before, and is a bit shocking to see.

_This _comment _is _licensed _under _CC _BY-NC-SA _4.0

im on another site where people use evasion methods to use mutltiple accounts, said upvotes are monitored by reddit and removed/ban the user quickly in some case like if you have multiple accts before doing the same thing and not commenting or whatever before. i think they just increased thier filtering of upvotes.
- This was said by a Reddit admin ...
  
  Relatedly, we are only warning folks that repeatedly vote on clearly violating content that instigates or promotes violence.
  
  So it does seem to specifically be about voting, and not trying to avoid bans.
  
  _This _comment _is _licensed _under _CC _BY-NC-SA _4.0

This happened to me for posting "Italian Plumbers Unite!" I got a PERMANENT BAN! I appealed and they denied it.

What are they afraid of?

Advertisers, stock prices, inverstors and other stuff like that. As in "losing money".

Meanwhile conspiracy and conservative subreddits still exist...

Yeah, banning the word "Luigi" is pretty rich coming from a former mod of /r/jailbait
- The mod probably put in the ban because Luigi Mangione is 26 years old now. Nothing to do with the trial or anything else really.

Damn, Now we have to say green mario.

Reminded me of this
- Oh my god, it's a self fulfilling meme!

Free Luigi

Can I have one? Jk. free Luigi!
Luigi did nothing wrong

Is waluigi banned too or do I need to find another place to publish my slashfics?

i highly object to the idea that you're shipping waluigi with anyone but luigi (the otp)
- Luigi deserves better 😭

What a sad sick joke Reddit has become.

I got banned for posting the name Luigi and an animated gif.

This is the final straw for me. Today, after years of accelerating decline, I deleted my Reddit account and made my Lemmee lurking official. My only regret is abandoning the the good people at Narwhal who always made Reddit better, but never had a chance to save it from its corporate-aspiring overlords. Good-bye!

Don't worry, the way things are going, they will probably find their way here sooner or later.
- I wish you meant the Narwhal team, but I fear you are right that the likes of Spez et al. will find a way to corrupt whatever public forum is large enough get their attention.

I used to have a profile image of Luigi the saint. Some reddit rat reported me and mods forcibly took profile picture down. Sheesh

Fuck Reddit. Censoring pieces of fascist conformist shit.

Green Mario Mangione is a pillar of our society.

Me reading posts on Lemmy about how messed up Reddit is:

Reddit and Lemmy (almost typed Reddy and Lemmit!) are their own versions of awful. Me and the mods over at the politics community have beef because they're QUICK to squash posts from us calling people out for being shitty anybody-but-Harris 'lefties' and abject alt-right trolls, but they leave that shit up WAY too long despite it being clearly against the rules. But at least I can call 'em out on their bullshit. Reddit, they'll ban you then ghost you. That's the world over there. Pick your poison.
- The difference is that you're on the fediverse. Their influence can only go so far. Same with your influence. That's the beauty. Nobody rules them all.

It's official folks, Reddit admins have actually lost their fucking minds.

This shit brought me back to trying to get into Lemmy. I'm sure this is the straw for others too. May reddit enjoy it's diggification.
- Yep that’s what brought me here. Reddit is gonna be just as censored as every other platform. Fuck that.
Reddit doesn't do anything about them unless the press gets involved. No way they'd crack down on their ~~slave~~volunteer labor.
They lost them in about 2014.

They're really digging their own grave with this shit. Green mario got a lot of work ahead of him.

more or less its going the way of facebook which is the primary right wing propaganda machine, followed by youtube. also reddit does nothing but repost X-itter, and TS posts anyways.

LUIGI LUIGI LUIGI

So I had an account under a similar name to this one, but it got perma-banned a few months back. Not even Luigi related. Remember when that Nazi incel Nick Fuentes got doxxed? I made a comment that basically said "he should be happy now that women know where he lives so they can come share a cocktail with him", with a gif of a Molotov cocktail. I thought it was pretty funny. Banned for glorifying/promoting violence. Against a Nazi.

More recently, my other account got perma-banned from r/insanepeoplefacebook for "hate speech" because of this comment:

So yeah. Fuck Reddit. Fuck Spez. Free Luigi.

It's a funny meme, rooted in reality for some communities, due to their conservatism or beliefs.

You can't even be a centrist on Reddit anymore and point stuff out about left and right policies and attitudes. You can be a full on Nazi or full on Communist, though. It's quite tragic.
- I'm not even a centrist. I'm a full blown Leftist. It's just a historical fact that religious assholes have spent the last thousands or so years going around the world trying to make everyone as miserable as them. I wasn't even talking about the average religious person. There are plenty of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists who don't go around trying to make everyone live the same as them. I was specifically talking about the whacko zealots, and I thought that was pretty clear in my comment. Apparently, talking about crazy religious people is a no-no on... [checks notes]... INSANE PEOPLE FACEBOOK.
wanna bet it was an incel/con that reported you. they love to als brigade other subs too. i also immediately block who im reporting, sometimes i just block them and move on. but i know they create a new acct to evade my blocking, because i see them in the comment string complaining about being blocked.
Ban basically proving your point too. Somebody in the cult didn't like what you said

I literally just deleted my reddit account. I will still go to reddit, but I will do so without logging in. Fuck them.

Exactly, use it for what you need from it but you aintt got to feed them your shitposts.

Seed fedi with your comments!

The powers that be at Reddit are snowflaking HARD.

I hope the next guy who Luigi's a CEO legally changes his/her name to John Smith or Jane Johnson or something extremely common.

As someone who has a name very similar to John Smith.

I volunteer as tribute.

I went straight to a perma commenting on what was going to happen with those inmates being moved despite the judge blocking it. It's not a huge loss since that is the second account perma'd in the last 30 days. And I've been using revanced Reddit so no ads. But they've become pretty insane about what is "hate, or violence"

it's about the panopticon; getting you to do the censorship. building a better cop in your head.

letting libs like reddit admins read foucault was like letting silicon valley billionaires read 'snow crash'.
- This is why they are being intentionally vague about what's allowed.

Fuck Reddit. Crap like this is why I joined Lemmy.

Exactly this! I am so glad I got introduced to lemme, which funny enough was recommended through Reddit. I am curious to how the mods are responding. “Hey you guys go to Lemmy which is an alternative to Reddit and way better.”

mario enjoyers in shambles

That site is unusable now, I got banned for saying the word guillotine, didn’t even use it in any context. I’ve tried going back and always get banned for ban evasion. It’s a garbage community now, the worst of the worst stayed there

yep, I knew going public would make reddit worse but it just has really been going down the shitter the last few years
from what ive heard commenting as a new USER is very hard to do now, it only takes your comments to be removed(depending on the way you are commenting), or getting reported by an oversensitive user or a filter to get you banned. i had to literally self-censor some words so i wouldnt get reported.

At this point, there is an outstanding opportunity to just gather up a bunch of people and have long discussions about random Luigi's Mansion lore.

or talk about LUGIA.

Yup. I got banned from a sub for using the verb "to Luigi" (someone)

now reddit is telling people to investigate the people upvoting and people who got "luigied" by the filters, as if mods are going to spend energy investigating every single instance.
Which sub?

Yeah I got a lifetime ban for “where’s Luigi?”

the game was actually called "Mario is Missing!"

So sad to see something that gave me souch die like this. Unchecked capitalism ruins all.

Everything that matters - the people and the communities - still exist. Spez was never the best of us, it’s the people that make that platform great (or completely insufferable like r/TheDonald and r/conservative). If they’re going to let everyone shit in that sandbox, we’ll all find somewhere else to hang, at least until the world burns.

I need a lemmy based replacement for MarchAgainstNazis since that mod team has been seriously compromised.

Can't sound like you criticize reddit itself or admin actions in any way, benign things being silently removed/hidden. can't say anything against actual nazi's now.

The beautiful thing about the fediverse is that you can be the change you want to see in the world
- unfortunately I'm not up for growing a new community myself right now, tbh I'm not doing a great job at attracting members to the one I did start so I don't think I should try and handle 2 already. I'm bad at social things in general but I try.

Reddit sucks because of the moderation, yet the current zeitgeist continues to be that this extra moderation is some wondrous, beautiful thing that improves everything it touches, and new platforms need more of it. Fuck that & fuck Reddit.

I have the opposite impression of the over-moderarion. Most Redditors seem to be annoyed by it, and against how it's stifling conversations
- Though that may be the case with references to Luigi, they'll happily abide by much senseless moderation like
  
  blanket blocks of comments containing links of any kind in subreddits such as r/mildlyinfuriating
  
  blocks of meta discussions
  
  strange ideas of brigading that treat a link to a post in another subreddit as "community inference"
  
  practical bans of subreddits airing grievances about bad moderation
  
  blocking any insult even when it doesn't amount to harassment
  
  blocking any expression of violence even when it's not incitement until it swings back & strikes against expressions of class consciousness that refer to Luigi.
  
  With newer platforms like mastodon & bluesky, it seems like more of the same: their advocates often gush proudly of their robust moderation & claim that their extra moderation is indispensable to a safe, non-toxic experience.
  
  I think all we need from moderation is removal of illegal content & perhaps offloading of off-topic content somewhere else. Rather than block offensive content, they could label it & let users decide whether to filter it out. Bluesky already does this, but they hardcode their in-house moderation, so users can't opt out as we saw when they blocked the Trump toe-sucking Elon deepfake video.
its overreaching , and overbanning/overmoderation they are currently doing. they want to sell REDDIT down the line.
- Right: the moderation is really to serve themselves including by protecting brands of commercial interests & advertiser revenue, but these platforms have deluded users into buying the pretext that it's an essential part of a "safe, non-toxic" culture.

Most of the time, if I say “Luigi” I’m actually talking about the character. Mario’s brother. The lil green plumber. Not the real life guy.

I’m not sure what’s gonna happen to discussion about Nintendo games but if first names themselves can be banned from being said (even if they take on a new meaning due to slang) there’s something seriously wrong with the platform.

Yep this is why I'm here 🤭

Still got my Reddit acct but yeah. I set up a Lemmy acct when I saw this. For insurance when the rest of Reddit fully enshitifies.

When you're ready to burn down your reddit account, use a tool to update all your comments and posts to refer to Luigi

I really can’t wait to see their next earnings call. They were anticipating users would be returning and their numbers would be up by the next one.

Omg was thinking this after looking at their ticker. want to go back a quarter and see what their q1 2025 plans were. I hate earnings calls. but goddamn has this made me invested in seeing something crash and burn. Now I want to hear mark zucc try to explain why usage of his hellsite is down too
- https://www.investors.com/news/technology/reddit-stock-q4-2024-results-rddt-news-ipo/
i saw on another thread that thier numbers declined recently, and you guessed it it was due to all the indiscriminate banning they did last month. this really tells us most of thier activity is mostly do to bots, OF, ADVERTISERS, AND both usa and russia/israeli trolls.

Doesn’t matter the mod nazis band me for ever and ever. Fuck that place.

I still use Reddit probably too much, but I still plan on upvoting anything Luigi related lol. If that gets my account banned then official goodbyes to reddit.

The fact that "luigi'd" as a verb has become pretty common slang very quickly, it's not crazy to associate it with violence.

Now we get to the actual matter. Several years ago saying "Someone should shoot that CEO" (which would be the same statement as something like "Hoping that CEO gets luigi'd") would not have gotten you banned. Wishing death upon someone is not the same as actual threats of violence.

Wishing death upon someone is not the same as actual threats of violence.

That was how internet operated generally... until now...
that was until the last few years, actually it wasnt a problem implying something should happen, until trump came along. even saying "implying somehting should happen" can be misinterpretation as a violence.

Luigi's Mansion 3

Ban that pervert for life.

Reddit really hates Mario's brother. What did Luigi do to your wife, spez? Mammamia that's an abomination

Luigi's Mansion 1 is one of my all time favourite games on Gamecube. Probably a controversial opinion but I feel like the sequels don't come anywhere near as close as the original.

Back on topic, what if someone in an Italian subreddit mentions another person named Luigi? There are many famous and infamous people with the first name.

This is what brought me here. Reddit is out, Luigi is IN

What about Luigi, the 1959 Fiat 500 from the movie Cars? Reddit is fucked up.

As well as suggesting someone who wears a swastika should be punched.

Crazy times we live in. Wolfenstein would have been banned.
- well actually they have cried about every "anti-nazi" game or show that has come out.

All those comments complaining. I wonder how many will actually take action and leave the platform.

political and news addiction, not possible. the only way is if they get banned, or shadowbanned site wide. i find my self sometimes endlessly scrolling for it, then it got annoying because my comments were getting misconstrued and deleted. i started filtering multiple subs over this.

It's better to use old reddit in references.

Sauce: https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeLuigi/comments/1j5lpfp/psa_the_word_luigi_is_now_flagged_by_reddit_for/

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1j5tcgj/after_an_rpopculture_moderator_is_suspended/

you can use the old reddit extension to automatically open up any reddit page as the old format.

Everyone just refer to his brother Mario

This is why alternatives are important.

Free Luigi. Free Palestine.

Cowardssss

This is not the year of Luigi...

Poor Luigi, man.

Always getting pushed aside as far back as the days of the original Super Mario RPG.

I think it’s already flagged on Lemmy too.

Our mod tools aren't that sophisticated. All mod actions are public.
- I'm free to Luigi all day long then?

(L)Fun fact, (U)auto mod can't detect hidden(I) messages (G)very well. Even poorly(I) hidden ones.

If you say his name 3x in front of mirror, they say he appears behind you.
- You wish.

The nintendo sub must have a hard time right now

Ended up getting banned on reddit a few weeks ago for showing sympathy for Luigi

was banned early last month, because r/technology was filled with trump news and i was reporting obvious misinformation, the site said you cant report other people like that, and i was banned. depending on the sub, there is a very vague way of reporting people.
- wtf that seems such an absurd reason for a ban

My Reddit account got permabanned because I replied to someone saying that scientists should open up their brain to study it. This cartoon suggestion was apparently a horrific violent threat.

Reddit is just gonna be bots by the end of the year

the filters took it literally, i assume you meant figuratively. I was banned in some of my accts for similar misconstrued statements.
- Considering the appeal was rejected I have no choice but to take it as the Reddit admins also taking it literally (even though appeals are likely automated as well)

Copped a permaban on reddit when I started taking about the Luigivolution, lamenting the current nightmare because some numpty couldn't properly set his windage, insisting that Nazi lives don't matter, and finally changing my nym to DutifullyPunchingNazis. I guess somewhere in there was the final straw.

i also noticed peoples posts about thier own health insurance experience were quickly buried as fast as the luigis one did too.

I got banned for talking about Luigi too much.

Mmmm, making some experiences...

And I'm over wondering why none of these links are in the archive.

I've had several bans for saying things like "where's Luigi?"

i had one temp ban on r/technology for REPORTING SOMEONE ELSE", and then reddit just decided to ban all my other accts for evasion i did years ago and those accts were deleted and also the new accts i specifically avoided said subreddit until like months or years later. and this sub was also discussing trump related news.

yes you can get banned for reporting other people. because the sub or reddit as arbitrary qouta how many you can do, before they deem it as a form of abuse.

Just woke up to my account being suspended for suspicious activity after getting a warning.

To the surprise of absolutely noone

Ehhhh! I justa wanna post a little bit here, eh?

TBF it doesn't automatically block or ban content, it just prompts moderation to review the post before it goes public. I approve of this, even though I don't promote reddit for any use.