Arguably there is now more censorship on Reddit than on twitter.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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What would be funny if this meme came from twitter. Which was posted on Reddit.
Well, a few hours ago, I got permanently banned from Reddit, again, but this time with no explanation messages, or any recourse.
I suspect it was from my contant mocking of Musk and Trump, and the GOP in general.
Fuck them.
What's Twitter?
A rich kid's personal Attention Gathering App.
I bow down to your intelligence.
When Twitter-man did the salute, I deleted my old account (hadn't used it in years anyway) When Facebook-man said "no more fact checking," I deleted my old facebook (only kept it to keep in contact with, like, 2 people) When Tumblr-man banned the porn, I deleted my tumblr (you can guess why I had it) When Reddit-man said he wants to paywall the biggest subs, I deleted my reddit (also got banned but I prefer to say I did it for a better reason)
I've seen news that tumblr has changed/is changing, and they're even implementing some form of activitypub (Fediverse) integration. I don't have stakes here, just curious: does that change your position any, as an ex-user now on fedi?
I doubt it, unless I find specific content that only exists on that platform if those changes do occur. I have some very specific, LEGAL, interests that are fairly niche and hard to come by, and I have little interest in social media, so I often only create accounts on something if I actively like the content, either nsfw or sfw. Here, for example, I am here for sfw content.
Things i have stopped using- X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Lays, McDonalds, Burger King, Netflix, Walmart. Things where i have minimized consumption - Amazon, Best Buy, Steam, YouTube. Things where I am tied in and can't make a difference- Android, Windows, AWS, Gmail, Intel/AMD, MS Office (official productivity tools). Actually i don't mind going minimalistic to F over US companies.
I haven't gone that far, but I refuse to use Facebook, or Amazon.
Facebook, because it's a shithole of ignorance, stupidity, and cruelty, and it brainwashes older people.
Amazon, because they hurt local Mom and Pop businesses, and I don't like the way they treat the warehouse workers.
I agree with all the Linux comments but another thing you could do is use FOSS self-hostable front-ends to those proprietary services like invidious and newpipe (android) for youtube, redlib for reddit, nitter for twitter etc. You don't have to host them yourself, there's already plenty of people hosting their own instances.
Aside from removing ads which you can already do with an adblocker (which takes 1 revenue stream away from them) it lets you browse privately without any data collection which would be sold to advertisers (taking away their 2nd revenue stream) plus it frees you from the clutches of the algorithm, it helped stopping my ADHD from leaving me 2 binge yt vids for hours on end.
About the Android, he can replace it with GrapheneOS if he got almost any Pixel device
But then you're buying the phone from google, which is not great if you're trying to boycott google.
i use gmail but i use thunderbird to check it . working on a new address. if your using Windows consider running something like OOshutup10+ to stop M$ spying. we use LibreOffice at work except the one office lady can't use anything but excel . Linux on my home pc's , wish we could at work.. Good job on the stopping , i'm currently doing the same. F the US.
switch to linux
Just build your own open source versions of all that and you'll be fine
you are not supporting it. you ARE the problem. dont blame the tech or deranged illusionists like elon. it is the people. and while everyone is high horsing like mad at reddit/twitter etc. you still cant speak out that google, meta, apple and microsoft are exactly the same shit.
YOU are an insult on humanity if you use those. and everytime it takes ages for imbeciles to move. "nooo, eVeRyyBoo0dy uSes wHats App. i nEEd t0 be oN th3re." no, you are a POS for using whatsapp, twitter, meta, reddit or an iPhone. ...and the crying starts.
yup I got shadow banned from that hell hole after saying something mean about the orange in chief it's so pathetic, it wasn't even super bad I commented 'welcome to Trump's america' under a post about inflation skyrocketing I was on the site for 12 years no problem
it's crazy to me I didn't know they were so beholden to the right. it used to be the fascists got mad reddit was banning them. to.be banned over simply light jokes is so dystopian
not to mention.. their ban detection system is fucking 1984 shit
I was only on for 6 but it still sucks.
I got perma-banned for saying that the US Military won't give a shit about what is happening because they only care if it involves bombing muslims. The "reason" they gave was that I was promoting hate-speech somehow.
The chronically online incels look for things to mass report. It's part of their ongoing campaign to shove the Overton Window far right.
Reddits content moderation are cubicle farm employees that barely look at content; nevermind actual context or intent. They're clearing tickets to make quota. Right wingers exploit this to control discourse.
You can try doing it yourself. Look for frivolous things to report as offensive. You can get quite a bit of things removed.
I did report some stuff in the past when I had an account, but usually it was either because it actually violated rules of a sub (Such as "Memes only" and someone posts a random screenshot with a rage bait title) or because it was actually straight up awful shit, I did get a few accounts banned as a result but they were posting actually vile stuff.
After a decade there I also got permabanned. And then I got permabanned 3 more times with alt accounts for saying some pretty innocuous shit, but almost always political.
I finally got the message. Fuck you Reddit.
I can talk all I want. It's easy for me because I never had a Twitter Account.
Hope everyone who wants to leave has the strength to break the habit of using the app <3
I only had an account explicitly to follow a small set of NSFW creators who only posted to Twitter and nowhere else, so yeah, pretty easy to let go of that.