What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy?
What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy?
Except the obvious fuck spez / steve huffman stuff, what are the things that get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances Lemmy?
Specifically, I want to know where is the line drawn, regarding the recent NYC Shooting incident involving the corporate shithead.
These days? Posting positive comments about GrapheneOS would probably get you chucked off the site.
I can comment on something conservative, calling the people morons for being duped, and not get banned from every single left wing area by some power tripping shithead mod that thinks those comments are going to drive positive traction to those conservative spaces.
Some reddit mods are utterly fucking useless, and definitely need to go touch some fucking grass.
Edit adding a screenshot since someone's butthurt enough to downvote: context was calling Jordan Peterson problematic
I got perma-banned for condemning Israel's genocide in Gaza. Several mods accused me of being an alt-right neo Nazi MAGA cultist. 🙄
Bro, genocide is bad no matter who is doing it.
Saying Nazis should get punched'll get you banned on reddit in my experience
I got permabanned for saying I would like to see how Eisenhower would treat some Nazi marchers in Wisconsin. Apparently, that is not a commentary on how far the Republicans have shifted, but is actually advocating violence. I haven't been supplying Reddit with free content since. Their loss, I had a pretty decent amount of karma, so I probably was contributing to the popularity of their site.
Got a recent one for you. I was permabanned from reddit a month ago for saying I didn’t care that Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot, because Liz Cheney is a warhawk who has called for bombing millions of people.
Banned for “glorifying violence,” not because I agreed with it or endorsed it. Just for saying I didn’t care.
They even banned an alt I used for work stuff, just for being associated with the main account. Ban upheld on appeal.
I don't agree but I see the reasoning. They are gonna lose advertisers if they allow anything like that on their site. Especially if its a US politician. "I don't care if putin gets shot" might not have gotten you a ban, but a US politician definitely is gonna get a ban, since reddit is a US company.
No. Maybe there’s some indirect concern about advertisers, but it’s mostly narrative control and propaganda.
Look at this recent ceo shooting. The rich know they have to convince us that their lives matter more, and that we have to consider them untouchable. It’s how they maintain their position and protect themselves from accountability from their own evil & violence.
Posting tons of links to Lemmy posts, for one.
- Links to archive.org
- Talking about downloads, how to circumvent DRM, software to do the above.
- Links to anything but youtube on /c/videos . (r/videos respectively).
- Talking about lemmy (in some communities)
- Alternative links to youtube videos that got banned for some reason or another.
I haven't visited reddit aside from the stray search result or very niche question every few months (no general browsing or any contributing since I made this account), you really can't post archive links? Why? DMCA BS?
I once got banned from a community for sharing a zelda decompilation project on archive.org. Others have reported issues with reddit and banning people for sharing nintendo power magazines. Fun times.
Modern day internet, you can talk about things, but you have to talk around certain companies, like nintendo or else risk getting banned/taken down. But with the fediverse, i can own more of the system. If world ever goes down, I can still use my personal instance to communicate for instance.
Maybe you were in some seriously shady subs with pimple nosed little snotbags acting as mod, but none of this was ever a problem for me in the subs I frequented.
Probably a lot of the guillotine talk you see around here.
Getting banned from Lemmy is orders of magnitude easier. During my 10+ years on reddit I can only remember one occasion when I got banned from a sub but it has happened on Lemmy multiple times over the 1.5 years I've been here and comments being removed is a regular thing.
On reddit you need to actually break the rules. On Lemmy it's enough that a mod doesn't like what you're saying.
On Reddit I got banned from subs I'd never posted in for participating in other subs. The content of my posts didn't even matter.
And the sub doesn’t even have to be related. I got banned from commenting in r/thatsinsane for a comment in r/karma4u, can’t even remember commenting there.
If Reddit implemented proper blocking, it wouldn't be a problem.
The quantity of fuckheads who kept brigading from their cesspool into a regular subreddit was infuriating.
I got banned twice on reddit just because my account was new. So I figured "f reddit" if that's how they treat new people.
Feel free to report power tripping on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
What Reddit were you on? Many subs especially leftist learning ones would ban you even if you just subbed to a sub they didn’t like
leftist learning ones
I think those "leftist" subs are more like tankie subs
Getting banned doesn’t really have the same impact. In both cases, you can still register with a new email, but on Lemmy, you can also choose a different instance.
Openly writing that bad people finally should realize their actions have direct deadly consequences, not only for them... or expect what comes.
Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It's almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.
Oh yea reddit gets so strict sometimes. Like I get mods not wanting to get people to start spamming community names, but sometimes a relavent conversation comes up and it's really too strict to not even allow a mention in a relevent conversation.
There was also a fad to spam links to communities, some of them made up. Entire chains of comments would just be nonsense. A crackdown on that would make sense.
Here it's not really an issue. There I'd usually consider a link to a community without additional text to be spam.
Saying that literal Nazis deserve to be killed.
No you get banned for that here too.
Or even just punched in the face. Or making fun of self identifying Nazis has been enough to get me temporarily banned.
Lol fuck reddit. Section 230 make them immune form legal issues anyways so thats just reddit being such a dick
Asking who deserves to die (because I was suicidal, and not much better)
I say this quite often.
I've never been banned from Reddit but I was threatened with a ban by a Reddit admin when I reported a right wing troll group who was obviously using sockpuppets to harass people and spread racist bullshit in some local sub. The admin message said I was abusing the moderation system by reporting them and if I didn't stop I would be banned from Reddit. I was never banned but a few weeks later all of the sockpuppet accounts I reported were banned by the antievil operations team along with one of the mods in that sub.
I’d argue there’s a lot of similarities, since most people left due to Spez and the IPO. I left when Spez and co fucked over the Apollo app dev.
This excludes the tankie instances. I saw a lot of “death to Israel” and other shit before I filtered those instance that would probably have gotten them nuked on reddit. Stuff like that will be the main differences. Here there isn’t any worry about how marketable the platform is to advertisers. Which is mostly a good thing.
Using a VPN can get you banned in reddit.
.......well now my ban makes more sense.
I can't even view reddit (logged out) with my vpn on. :<
Replacing the "www" with "old" works wonders
I got a three day suspension on reddit for telling automoderator to eat my ass. I don't think that would happen on lemmy.
I got permanently banned and IP blocked for delivering a full-on rant to one of those do-not-reply automod emails!
Eat my ass
/s
are you me?
I think the CEO got what he deserved.
Carefully now, you're on lemmy.world so that doesn't really apply.
Ehh...
I think "I don't feel bad for the CEO" is okay, but "Deny, Defend, Depose" can get a comment removal on .world
But then, its lemmy. Theres a lot more instances that are more leinient.
Apparently not advocating for spreading knowledge of jury nullification. Lemmy.World is (mostly) banning it and now I need to find a new instance because I consider that to be the endorsement of our (American) government's system of "bend over and take it."
They kinda sorta reversed course on that.
Following a discussion in our team we want to clarify that we are no longer requesting moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification in the context of violent crimes when the crime in question already happened. We will still consider suggestions of jury nullification for crimes that have not (yet) happened as advocation for violence, which is violating our terms of service.
Okay, that kinda makes sense in that context. I can at least see where they're coming from.
I can't recommend SJW highly enough. Big enough to be stable but small enough to only have a handful of admins who are all very reasonable and very easy to reach and discuss things with
I once crossposted porn and got my ten+ year account permanently suspended. Why? Someone reported the content as revenge porn.
Mind you, I didn't upload it, but merely shared it from /porn to /blowjobs or whatever it was. I have no idea if all participants consented to the upload or not.
Entire account gone, all appeals within the month of allowed appeals automatically denied.
Linking the WSOP website literally anywhere on Reddit:
For a second, I was wondering why they'd ban links to the World Series Of Poker.
Total aside: anyone else noticing sports gambling absolutely exploding in the U.S. the last few years? It's gonna be a problem, guaranteed.
I've never heard of it, and checking it out it makes zero sense to ban for linking to what is clearly a decent website by decent people.
I believe it, just expressing my confusion.
I've been away from Reddit so long I forgot when it was hard to find WSOP 😂
Posting with a new account apparently. Last time I made a reddit account I made a few comments in various subs. A few hours I went back and found that every single thing I posted was deleted without a word from the mods. I hadn't even posted anything controversial but new account = bad I guess
To be fair, this is usually a spam mitigation thing. Most places that do it have an automod that just deletes anything posted by an account less than x days / weeks old, rather than a human going through and doing it manually. It's usually in the rules of the sub
A variant is requiring a certain amount of karma for the same reason
Yea, sometime I just want a throwaway to vent on how shitty my life is, then after typing like 5 paragraphs, I click post. I get an automod saying my karma is too low.
Ugh, that shit just makes me wanna end myself even more (figuratively, of course).
Yeah it's kind of like the crisis hotline hanging up on you because your 2 minutes is up. Insultingly impersonal!
I remember commenting in a sub and getting bounced by automod because I didn't meet a karma limit. Which is fine, lots of subs have karma limits. But it felt really high- I had a couple thousand karma at the time- and the mods explicitly wouldn't tell you what the actual limit was.
So I guess you're just supposed to let automod bounce you occasionally til you manage to hit their magic number.
Yeah, some instances are the equal and opposite of voat. Just as extreme, in the opposite direction
I've had multiple comments deleted on Lemmy about the UHC shooting.
Being a tankie
Hmm maybe.
I think r/sino is still around?
Having an opinion
Pointing out incarnations of MLK's white moderate, being sincere about my personal experiences in context of intersectionality, encouraging the means of change that've historically been successful, or even educating others with pure facts about their system of representation has resulted in me being banned from Reddit and Lemmy core communities all the same.
Lemmy is certainly "better" in many ways. But, please keep the ego in check. We're still failing in perhaps the most important facets.
A tongue in cheek comment encouraging killing someone who's a danger to others.
Source:
tech-related, my account got shadow-banned because I posted an article about signalapp that included some bio of founder Moxie and some info about hacker culture
My favorite is when I say that as a minority and communist I bought guns to defend myself from neoliberals. Experiential truth is the bull in their china shop of an ideology. It's a perma almost anywhere on Reddit.