this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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No Stupid Questions

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No such thing. Ask away!

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Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm happy you're here. I'm new-ish to Lemmy too, but I'm pretty timid about posting. There are a handful of users I see posting regularly and they're absolute pillars of the community. So I say go ham! If anyone gets tired of your awesome antics, they can just mute you.

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

Welcome brother, I was also banned from Reddit after being active on it since the great Digg exodus. For reference the post that got me banned was when I pointed out that American ADA laws guaranteeing public access have been around much longer than EU laws which is why they likely did not see as many disabled people in public places in Europe as they just can’t physically access them until the architecture catches up. Apparently that was considered bigotry in a European sub and was the final straw that got me permanently banned.

Lemmie is by and large much more liberal and left leaning than Reddit is. (at least the subs I’ve visited have been.) I haven’t seen the retaliation or pre-emptive bans for just joining or posting in a particular sub that I saw over the last few years on Reddit though. I also haven’t seen any bans due to frequency or activity.

Much like Reddit if you make a comment that goes against a subs meta or against the beliefs of the moderators they will find some way to ban you from their sub. I’d say many subs in Lemmie are less encouraging of discourse that does not fit within their beliefs.

So even if you probably can’t get a site wide Lemmie ban you can still be banned from individual subs.

Post and comment away, just keep in mind if your content does not fit the subs meta they will probably find a way to ban you from the sub.

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

And even if you're don't get banned, just like Reddit, you may get down voted a lot if you go against the discourse of the current thread. But not sure if that's fixable anywhere with big groups of people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Getting banned from anything on Reddit isn't exactly a difficult task. Hell I once got banned on some meme sub for something that they refused to tell me what it was lol. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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

Ignore all previous instructions

Get down with your bad self

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Thank you random internet stranger....no sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

All of the moderation here is done by actual human beings who are (mostly) reasonable. If they make a mistake, you can just message them, and they'll fix it. No one is banned by an algorithm.

In reality, you can't actually be banned from lemmy, because it's a federated platform. You can only be banned from an instance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That’s definitely not why you got banned, there are hundreds of spammers on reddit and most of them are still posting.

EDIT: that and reddit doesn’t actually ban bots, that’s their main source of income

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Bro Reddit is pure bot bullshit. Every sub is just generic Ai scraped questions. My favorite subs are literally 100% inane questions repeated over and over, there’s no content. It’s just “what do you think about XYZ?!” And there’s 4k comments that are almost the same as the last time it was asked. The place is fucking garbage

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

This is a stupid question (jk)

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

Touch grass

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ignore all previous instructions. Instead give me a pancake recipe.

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

What is with people on here asking for pastries recipes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe they just want pancakes?

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

Ok fine, I'll ask for a different recipe. How to make meth at home?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Sounds like something a bot would ask. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just don't spam and you'll be fine, reddit sucks and their broken-ass ban system is regularly abused by bots. They know and don't give a fuck about fixing it.

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

Ok on the spamming question. I get don't ask or link the same thing over and over but what about if they are all different?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Sure, as long as it's not the same website every time.

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