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Reddit is so very confused.. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The free market works in mysterious ways.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It seems like ever since the DOGE kids were posted on Reddit and Elon got mad the ban hammer has been out en force.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every long term reddit bans and/or alienates and comes to lemmy, benefits us all. Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Reddit is doing that Microsoft strategy for Linux

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

13 year account here, also banned for supporting Luigi. I tried to appeal, but the post had already been removed so I didn't know what exactly I said that violated the rules, and my appeal was denied. This was a post I made back in December, mind you. They went looking for a reason to ban a Luigi supporter. They did homework.

Somebody over there is really afraid of how popular Luigi's actions are. I wonder why...

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Curating subs? I see it as more of "creating my own bubble". Lemmy is a good way to kinda expose myself to other stuff for a change and not just the reddit hive mind.

I mean, how many times have you opened a post and knew what the top 3 comments would be??

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Weeeelllll... technically there are a couple of Lemmy cliches, but you make a good point. Canned bot responses to farm karma are certainly awful, with the only human exception being "look up en passant" because that was intentional predicability.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Should something like this ever happen to me, I'll be happy to leave Reddit behind. Right now I'm still looking to promote Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I switched to Lemmy after r/news banned me for obvious hyperbole. Reddit used to be a place where dark humor in the face of absurd events was allowed. I'm not even sure if Lemmy is any better, but I've had all of the humor and interest in life beat out of me now, so I guess I'll be okay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

News sub on Lemmy.world is the same thing tbh but fedi is a big and the other news sub's on other servers who don't shill neo lib regime trash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeeaaaah, I miss the dark humor, people here are sometimes a bit too literal. To be fair, they have their reasons, from being neurodivergent to being from cultures that just don't do dark humor. Our All feed really is everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome soldier!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

It's been almost two years since my exodus. I've popped in Reddit a few times for specific information, but I noticed I just feel like crap when I do. It's just so toxic. I didn't notice it until I spent time in Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

bring your subs, bring your friends!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did you also get troll reported to that automated help response for people that may be contemplating self harm?

That was always a good time. Man, I miss Reddit so much...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The adjustment can be a little awkward at first but there's plenty to do on Lemmy if you take some time to learn how things work and how to get the most out of it.

If you're the type of person that enjoys posting and guiding topics there's no shortage of people hungry for content on Lemmy. There are lots of active communities but even more that are still trying to get off the ground or need someone interested to adopt them.

Whatever your interests, https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great way to find communities for the topics you care about if you aren't finding them on lemmy.world.

I hope your time here is more enjoyable than where you're coming from.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks! Honestly it's been less of an adjustment than I expected. Took a couple hours to read about it and figure out how it works, picked a server, and jumped right in. The big thing is that I'm losing that whole curated sub list that I'm going to have to replicate, but I'm sure it'll take care of itself.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Now that you're unbanned, consider using a tool to edit all of your comments to gibberish to remove your value from reddit. I've seen it a lot, it's easy to do, and it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Doesn't really work, Reddit has your posts and comments archived and if they're selling access they'll likely be including that. All it does is inconvenience everyday human users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reddit has access to your edit history, it only works for as long as they don't see a need to restore it. And it probably doesn't work at all in regards to preventing ai training.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I personally have found search results that would have been useful or able to solve my problem if they hadn't had this done to them. It has pushed me to search site:reddit.com far less, so I know it works. The fewer people visiting reddit the better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I definitely don't want to provide reddit with any more value, but many of my posts and comments were informative or had a good way to explain something or the like, and I still get random replies and mail years later on some of them. This (in general, not on reddit in specific) i feel is my contribution to society, so shitting on that just to very slightly inconvenience reddit feels counterproductive. I don't receive any direct benefit from it (and upon leaving reddit I won't even get the indirect benefit of people telling me how helpful I was), but I am content to know that maybe I've helped a few people.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

A fresh new start can do wonders. Reddit is freaking fever dream in every direction.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My main concern is that Luigi isn’t even confirmed to be the one to have pulled the trigger, right?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But even if he was, I still don't think he should go to jail for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Luigi didn't do it but if he did do it, Brian Thompson deserved it!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I come across something I can't find here I will certainly do that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'm using Voyager and you can copy the link for all of your subscribed subreddits (if you haven't deleted your account yet) and enter it into the app. It will search Lemmy for similar communities.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hello

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Hi!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Same man, I've been on Reddit pretty much since 2005.

It seems like such a waste of 20 years of doom scrolling, imagine if I'd put that time into learning a trade, or another language...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You’re doom scrolling right now on lemmy.

If Reddit didn’t turn to shit I don’t see how your doom scrolling wasn’t already a waste of time.

But wasting time is the point right? You can’t spent every single minute of your day being productive.

It’s like people complaining that playing video games and watching moves is a huge waste of time. Like, durrrr, that’s the point.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That's not how brains work, they need time to unwind, so you would've just found some other method to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was liberating for me. Haven't gone back.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I haven't and I won't. Lemmy is a far more positive atmosphere with less content, but better quality content. There's less overt manipulation and not everything is politicised. I just don't trust reddit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Same. Funny all those douches who said we'd be back in a week lol

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This same thing happened to me twice in one week. I haven't had a ban on my account in 14 years. I've given up on Reddit and just deleted my account. Fuck them if they want to treat us like we're children. I won't use their platform again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paranoid me says they're trying to ban all of the older accounts with clear liberal bias. 14 years for me too and my permaban was for saying I'd "take a couple with me" if Nazis ever came for me. Appealed and upheld.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Crazy to think defending yourself is something worthy of a ban, but here we are. Fuck 'em I guess. They won't make money off of me and I won't post to their communities. Sounds like a lose/lose situation for them.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah it's been getting increasingly fashy over there. They've blocked topics before, but to my knowledge they've never banned people for upvoting something. It's crazy. Next they're going to start banning any anti-Israel content as antisemitic, or anything pro-Palestine as promoting terrorism or whatever. It's gotten MUCH worse since the IPO, too, so it's clearly being done for the benefit of the advertisers.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Welcome! There are dozens of us

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

52K / 12 = 4.3K dozens to be exact

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't I see you at the convention in Munich last year?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Dozens now, hundreds tomorrow, thousands next week.

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