So yesterday I received a 7-day ban for ‘encouraging violence’, for saying that Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit, somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and the ‘offending’ comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit’s rules with my ‘other account(s)’. Well that’s also bullshit because I’ve had exactly one (1) account in the 14 years I’ve been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think I’m gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
I’m here because r/pics bots are assholes and mods don’t reply to asking why they banned you, the auto ban says I was banned because at some point in my many years I commented on a subreddit they didn’t like. I carried on just fine, but when I was browsing one day with a different account I commented on another r/pics post and now both accounts are banned for 7 days for ban evasion. The bots still never told me what to do about it to fix it and they denied my appeal, so fuck em.
Deleted that app, and all my other social media apps, Facebook, instagram, x, Reddit, threads, etc. im tired of arguing with all the bots. But I need something to still be able to scroll, so here I am.
Reddit. Doesn’t. Want. Active. Users.
It wants bots. It wants HailCorporate promotional accounts. And it wants your eyeballs to look at their ads. It doesn’t want you to participate in any meaningful way.
Stop using the site. Stop pretending this site is intended to be used by real people. Be glad they’re doing this and not simply baiting you along with fake interactions while you’ve been shadowbanned and left to unwittingly scream into the void.
I did say I think I was gonna switch.
Imo that comment was made to reinforce your message, it wasn’t written as a message to you (because you had already decided).
It’s giving that vibe, yeah
I got a 3 day sitewide suspension, and (very surprisingly) a permaban from /r/fuckthealtright for calling a story about an Infowars employee getting murdered “uplifting.”
Lets kill reddit
Simple solution: don’t go on that shithole unless it’s to repost content here
I did say I thought I was going to switch…
Luigi is a hero
I got banned for asking why someone’s comment was banned. Crazy shit over there.
When anything is free but money’s being made, you’re the product (as we know) and Reddit seems increasingly worried about the quality of their product
More like there’s a concerted right wing effort to get everyone banned. That’s why the appeals are lifted. Then they report you again over and over until you leave. That’s what they are actually doing.
Honestly? Let them cater to them and accelerate the death of the site.
Makes sense. Bastards, fuck em anyway
I got permabanned for saying “trans women are women”, which they said was encouraging violence. So who even knows what’s happening there at this point.
Because that’s auto bans from right wingers reporting you en masse. Appeal it.
Yeah, those mofos are just batshit now.
Welcome reddit refugee!! Best time to ditch reddit was in july 2023 second best time is now
What happened in July 2023? Was that the APIpocalypse? That didn’t really affect me cause I barely use mobile.
Yup, API changes were around that time
Permabanned for “glorifying or inciting violence” by replying to a post about Elon Musk under a dinosaur poop meme, where someone asked “what should the would richest man do?” with “he should eat shit and die”.
Here for good.
Come on, they’re just protecting the most vulnerable people in society. If they don’t fight for the richest man on the planet, who will? /s
Much wow, such violence. Ban deserved, imo, yep. Fuck Reddit.
Welcome to the Fediverse! If you’ve been on Reddit for 14 years, you were attracted to what it once was. Lemmy is that, but a whole lot better, and your skills as a moderator will be highly valued here. In fact, if you are looking to start up any new communities hmu and I’ll see about giving you a hand.
Also, here’s your obligatory Saint Luigi blessing for the banned:
remember kids:
A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power
I have no skills as a moderator, sadly, I avoid responsibility as a lifestyle. Thanks for the warm welcome tho. :)
Welcome, glad to have you aboard!
Thanks, glad to be here!
Your not the only one, I heard others were reddit banned soon after their temp ban ended
I was perma-banned 11 hours before my temp-ban appeal was lifted. Then I was unbanned, but they sent a message saying my ban would stay. I think they’re just falling over themselves in their headlong rush to embrace fascism.
i heard mods were even complaining about this on modhelp sub, early in jan and feb, thier filters are still recognizing accts as ban evaders despite it being lifted sitewide, they are definitely and intentionally using an AI to filter ban alot of people, probably have certain parameters.
I’ve basically abandoned Reddit as well. I’ve been on for so long, but this bullshit makes me feel unsafe. If the platform is going to so blatantly side with those who would happily let me die for a few dollars (health insurance companies), then I don’t need to give them my attention or data anymore.
Welcome to Lemmy. Outside of niche subjects and local content I think this place has everything reddit does but with less bullshit. If people keep making the switch in large numbers we’ll build all those communities too and be better off for it.
I used the tool where I could import my Reddit subs to find similar communities here, and it surprised me how many communities I was a part of that the Reddit algorithm never let me see posts from. Also, it highlighted how much more infrastructure there is to build here. It’s exciting! Like the creative energy of expanding the Wild West but without the decimation of entire indigenous communities and the murder of innocent people and animal species.
I got shadow banned for making a popular post about dyi Luigi prayer candles on witches vs patriarchy. No warning no notification just a site wide permanent shadow ban on an old account with high karma. I feel like this is a better community though so win win I guess. Funny because I feel like they’re banning most real people and just leaving the bots lol. Tons of people post on shadow banned everyday this can’t be a healthy business model.
Witches vs. patriarchy is one of the only good places left on Reddit. Until they ban all of us there, at least.
Love witchesvpatriarchy in our family. I really hope a lot of the witches from there join in Lemmy. Tell your circles.
I don’t think it was the mods I think it was Reddit
Oh, for sure it *wasn’t the WvP mods.
Yeah, I was on Reddit for over a decade. And the changes especially in these past couple years have been so dramatic. I received a seven day band today for like the third time and finally deleted the app and here I am . No looking back.
Once the era of easy money ended a bunch of tech companies who are never profitable and never needed to be because of the 0% interest rates are close to it all of a sudden had to get really profitable really fast so they all enshittified very rapidly
