Hey Reddit, how's it going? Reddit:
Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.
Lemmy is what reddit used to be.
I’m glad Lemmy is here as an alternative to Reddit censorship. It really is rich versus poor in the U.S. instead of the right versus left that media propaganda tells us.
Dont mind me just slowly transitioning over to Lemmy
I regressed back to Reddit for a bit. I'm back for good after I found out they're also suppressing anti consumption movements.
Reddit can keep all the NPCs.
What are they doing exactly?
Yiggity yikes.
I came back just a few days before this rush began and boy does it feel prescient
Im here bc the app I used finally broke after the api changes years ago.
I like it but I do not understand the whole instance thing
It’s just like email. It mostly doesnt matter what instance you choose as you can talk with almost any other instance. There are a couple instances that have been defederated from most other instances, but they are few and far between. Anyway, it’s exactly like email.
Think of an "instance" as a server (or servers) where Lemmy is being hosted. So, lemmy.world is hosted by one entity while lemm.ee is being hosted by another. They just have different servers, but they can interact with each other.
They have really unleashed the hounds recently it seems. I wonder how long before they start banning NSFW content.
Getting banned by reddit for posting rather innocuous comment is probably a good thing. Its UI is garbage anyway.
I got myself permabanned for saying even sharks don’t like Russians on a story about a shark attack. On that website since 2008, guess it was a good push in the right direction, it’s been getting shittier.
You must have missed the memo. Russia is fighting against sinful wokeness . Therfor you are in the wrong.
For anyone that still has a reddit account, if you have any good community subreddits, tell them to relocate to Lemmy :)
Might have been your post that brought me to Lemmy, too. Saw lots of folks saying they got warnings for Luigi/other content I am interested in, and decided I am out, too.
Will spend a couple weeks encouraging people in some of my niche communities, and then no more reddit.
After 12 years and over 900K Karma, I got permanently banned for repeating an opinion that I've posted many times over the past decade. Then Trump gets elected, and the exact same opinion gets me a permaban.
Now I'm hearing that they are banning people for UPVOTES! I wondered why Reddit had decided to throw in with the Nazis, and I this week I see in the news that Ohanion wants to buy TikTok. The new owner of TikTok will be personally chosen by HitlerPig, so Zuckerfuck has been kissing up, and now Ohanion wants in on it. HitlerPig will award it to whomever kisses his ass and pays him the most.
14 year old account for me. Mod of a million plus sub. 700k karma. Built fucking subreddits into real communities. Banned over a joke I made for a decade. Reddit is dying and we now have a new federated home.
Which community? I'll spend my unbanned account posting that you're over here on Lemmy.
Welcome aboard, the place is comfy and only really needs user numbers at this point.
I'm here because I replied to "let's not give them an inch" with "let's give them 9mm" and was permanently banned from politics, no recourse. That's the most left leaning sub on the website.
When they took API access away I was pissed but I stayed. But taking away my free speech, seriously? They can go fuck themselves.
that sub was, but it was taken over by a right winger that allowed astroturfing against the "left"
But do you think 'nine millimeters' would have passed?
ever since trumps first term, thier ban have been come very heavy handed against left leaning comments more so than right wingers, i pointed it out so many times over the years that this was happening. there was suspicion that r/politics was taken over by a right winger, that wanted to seem like both sides, its pretty obviously who was getting banned and what was getting posted.
Reddit doesn't want users participating in the site. They want eyes looking at ads and that's it. Look, don't touch. We've got bots for touching.
Lurkers are more lucrative than posters.
i have adblockers on, so they never get ad revenue anyways.
Other than the sweet sweet LLM training comment money….
BUT NO ACTUAL POSTS! LEAVE THOSE FOR ADVERTISERS!
Shit, they perma'd me for constantly agitating in non leftist subs... I can't help it.
Don't leave us in suspense - what was the opinion?
I said that the traitors in the White House are lucky that we are such a tolerant country. In many other countries in the world, and even more in the past, on the evening of January 6, 2021, after their Insurrection failed, HitlerPig and all his henchmen would have been dragged out onto the White House lawn, and publicly executed.
I've written that many times, but after the Inauguration, it got me banned.
China's not going to let tiktok fall out of their control. If it gets sold it will be to someone beholden to them.
That’s the problem with these corporations — the foundation is rotten, and they have no principles beyond more money. It has been this way for some time.
Now, we have an economy where the arbitrary whims of billionaires and our king is the main determinant of their share price. This is how Reddit kisses the boot.
They would exhume my grandmother if it increased share price by one tenth of one percent.
I created my first Reddit account in over a decade and was shadowbanned almost immediately. I didn't even get a chance to post a semi-"controversial" opinion! The site is total garbage these days.
Most of the main subs auto shadowban anyone that hasn't provided a verified email. So it's possible you're not banned site wide yet.
Reddit currently has a beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images obviously but people post hentai and fish for more. In the comments, they give each other advice/describe their activities.
Reddit doesn’t care.
theres also pedophelia adjacent going in some of the medical subs, minors who were positng about possible skin issues was than DM for more pics, i think they shut that avenue down really quick.
I’m afraid to say that’s not even the worst thing I’ve seen on Reddit and know continues to exist there. This is about bending over and showing their fealty to billionaires.
I mean… Lenny has rape.pet also
Suppressed_news is still around.
People saw this coming from miles away since the rumors came out of reddit going for an IPO.
Question is why people keep getting outraged?
It's okay to be outraged by outrageous things even if they are obvious.
We were pissed then and we're pissed now. The only difference is there's a real alternative. Lemmy is a lot more polished these days.
I love how in r/conservative and r/antiSemitismInReddit (Ignore the name, they mean anti-neozionists and are willing to shame Jews who protest against Israels actions as well, they even have a tag for them), they always complain about reddit being biased against them when it is quite the opposite. Take Jibrish, bringing his Eve Online gaslighting and trolling from the r/eve community to the r/conservative community, also running around shamelessly in r/RedditSafety. Reddit is effectively Silicon Valley psyop, meant to gather data and keep an eye on the tendency of the more educated lot on the Internet (as well as keep them in pro-neozionist bubbles by pushing them in major subreddits like r/worldnews).
Hell, read or search about maxwellhill on YouTube. Some have taken that the fact that the account has logged in for private chats as having disproved that claim when all it proves is that someone, albeit lawyer, family member, or otherwise, has logged into the account. What can't be disputed as a conspiracy theory and can be easily confirmed is that Ellen Pao, former Reddit CEO, revealed Ghislaine Maxwell who along with Epstein essentially ran that, a Silicon Valley psyops, was present at the same Silicon Valley Christmas celebrations as her and other influentials. This is the level of manipulation, where there is money there will be a will to manipulate.
Reddit has absolutely no problem complying or letting US federal authorities and intelligence agencies access to all of the information they gather on your account on their backend. There used to be subreddits where you could report moderators, "karmawhores", who trolled and abused their power. They were banned from the platform even after complying far more than other subreddits that got to remain. Forget pointing out the genocide of Palestinians, there was a time where you would even get banned from worldnews for calling cryptoscams confidence games. After Trump's first term and the T_D disaster, the conversation seemed to shift from that failed insurgency (at the time) to a reddit spearled meme stock economic destabilization attempts. Reddit is subjecting yourself to be manipulated for the opportunity to participate in some communities, and they know it.
I had a post removed for simply criticizing Reddit's moderation rules. It was cited under Reddit Moderation Rule 3. Amazing how dense they are about their userbase.
Reddit is cooked
Lets hope. Found Lemmy only just today and super glad I have.
Welcome!
Welcome. I tried Lemmy a few years back but it wasn't nearly as polished and way fewer people. Like BlueSky... But in 2025 I guess I'm here to stay.
It's pretty cool over here and none of the cool user names are taken yet
Welcome!
LOL no they are not. 97% of the users don't give a fuck about any of this and will never leave. Reddit can ride it out just fine. For example, look at the cesspool FB turned into.
The power users are the content of reddit. If the power users leave reddit losses its appeal.
Reddit doesn't have the internet infrastructure FB has where they were able to monopolise the internet of whole countries in certain parts of the world.
And the wider they cast this dragnet the more users will be caught up in it, the more will slowly leave, the less content will be created, the worse the platform will get.
I think for the future of reddit you only need to look at digg.
Every single Reddit user I know IRL cares a lot about this, my friends won't shut up about it lol. Until now there haven't been good alternatives.
Permanently banned last week. Mods didn't care for my thoughts on Luigi and Trump/Musk (they're joined at the hip AFAIC, except Trump is definately the bottom, despite his diaper issues), and the madness of MAGA. Reddit is firmly in the facist camp, just like Timmy Cook, i.e. they will follow the money and the power; their capitalist instincts are pure. Fuck them all.
I got banned for saying j hope Donnie gets assassinated lol
I got an account warning for suggesting the French knew what to do with oligarchs.
NOTICE: You have been permanently banned. Reason(s): "not sucking dick".
Real CTH hours. Old enough to remember when that whole sub got nuked for posting John Brown memes.
Its truly nuts over there. I have now had 5 different accounts perma banned and im tired of evading their fingerprinting just to bypass each pan for similar comments. Like nothing that the general public would find controversial even remotely.
i had 5+accts banned to, was able to evade previous attempts for misconstrued statements, because i was using reddit from a university computer,.
It's crazy to think how hard people work to evade the system that is designed to get you to leave.
Like, it speaks to the addictive nature of social media. How many hours? How much research? How many different angles of attack? All to... what? Shout "Donald Trump is a bad president" into the void amid a sea of bots and /r/HailCorporate influencer accounts? (Incidentally, RIP HailCorporate).
the ones that are evading with 100s of accts, are there to earn money from reddit. they use paid services, like proxies, anti-detect browsers, ip changes and new devices.
Redditor since 2010 here. I didn't try that hard. I got banned from politics, thought it was a one off. Then got a post removed for criticizing Reddit's moderation policy. So now I'm done for real.
I tried jumping off after the API removal but Lemmy wasn't as populated back then, and there was no immediate effect to me. More garbage, but I muted several subreddits a day and carried on. Now there are real alternatives.
I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the RDDT stock price has dropped 40% in the last month, and it's not surprising. That site is a sinking ship.
And insiders dumped $59m shares in late January. Shocked, I tell you!
It’s the way of business these days. They got their money. The ship can sink now. The users suffer.
Good. The dildo of consequence is rarely lubed
The stock is so comically overpriced. Over 100 p/e. Nobody at Reddit is crying because it can't stay inflated forever. They're likely already all out.
Let us hope so.
After 50+ accounts suspended, I'm fucking done. It's just shit.
I mean with that language of course you got banned. How dare you critique Reddit's moderation policy? It's explicitly against their rules.
Did you forget to close your sarcasm HTML tag? Can't tell if Poe's law applies here.
I had my first from 2012 to about the 2020's then I went two more mains before I fucked off for good. I might go back for certain niche uses but even then I might not. It's been a long while and once this place picks up steam we're gonna leave spez's disaster in the dust
I've been editing my thousands of comments over the past few days (via a script obviously). Fuck them.
For awhile, some people here were saying they were undeleting some stuff like that, but mine was banned before I had a chance to try.
Welcome!
Here are cute !animalswithjobs@lemmy.world to improve your mood before you wander thought the lemmyverse.
I'm subbed there, but it never shows up on my feed for some reason.
I’m so happy to move on from that shithole. It’s a massive psyop at this point.
/r/conservative and /r/conspiracy are still open... What a fucking shit-ass website. I don't get why they don't just # rm -rf the whole fucking thing already.
Clearly they're pissed that people are still using the site. They've made efforts to stop it by making shit redesigns, releasing a shitty app, user profiles, shutting off the API and trying to force people to use their shit app.
They must be seething that people are still using it and they've found a new way to try to get people to stop. Of course, they could shut the site down, but these are execs we're talking about - their forté is ignoring every elephant in the room and then creating "solutions" that completely miss the problem.
I mean none of those other policies affected me. When APIs were removed there was much more bot spam but I muted thousands of subreddits and it was acceptable.
Now they're banning me for criticizing the moderation policy? Do they think they're the Thai king? I'm just using alternatives now.
sad how conspiracy sub got co-opted by russian trolls and right wingers, i was there before trump took office the 1st time, and it was a completely different sub.
They're in the business of selling "organic" content to AI companies, but those AI companies don't want advertiser-unfriendly language in their datasets.
Advertisors are dumb as fuck. Like, clearly if their datasets contain language that is not "advertisor friendly" then who the fuck are they trying to advertise to?
"Wow, all of society is doing this stuff. But this isn't very friendly. The people doing that stuff certainly wouldn't like if we advertised the stuff they're doing!"
I think maybe the problem is that places like Reddit were essentially a “third place.” It just happens to be a virtual one. You can’t monetize a place, unless you also provide a good or a service. a restaurant at least provides food and drinks. bowling alleys provide games and food and drink. What does reddit provide aside from the place? Other than annoyances such as Ads, 1984 level moderation, etc.
Attention Extraction modeling. Thats how social media platforms monetize. I started working what the same kind of technologies but it was to predict how clients should customize their products to tailor behavior input. These corpations trade in behavior modifaction and RTD auction with political clients. A good example when it goes wrong is the Myanmar /Facebook masssacre.
Probably because they both have mods. Almost every banned subreddit gets the ban because it's unmoderated.
Banned 3 years ago
I don't appreciate the Luigi praise or the DOGE leaks, either, but I recognize that I'm in the minority on Lemmy (lol) & idk to a certain extent I respect freedom of speech. The DOGE email leak is public info, in that it was leaked to the public....
In any case, we're all in agreement: R!ddit deserves to die. Just because they were the first runaway success public forum doesn't mean they own it forever. Especially when they shit the bed, suppress freedom of speech, kill 3rd party apps, & farm out user data for AI scraping.
I don't condone wanton violence either, of course.... but at the same time I recognise someone like Hamlet as a tragic hero. His most famous soliloquy, the "To be or not to be" one, is largely about whether you should stand up to tyranny, even though it may cost you dearly to oppose tyrants, or whether you should try and keep your head down and try to profit personally as a coward.
Yes, it's better to achieve those goals through non violent means, but you need to draw a moral line. Luigi drew his.
Time to leave reddit altogether
Reddit may actually be doing a lot of people a big favor.
Today Trump's DHS went out and arrested a Palestinian student at Columbia for participating at a protest a year prior. Our federal agents are becoming like the KGB- hunting down political dissidents.
I believe that is just a start. I think people would be wise to be careful about the things they post online. If you do post content you believe the administration may not like, I suggest making an anonymous account with an email not linked to your personal name.
I have a hunch that people will be arrested in the near future for posting things online.
On Tyranny lesson 1 "Don't obey in advance'
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html
My account there is 19 years old and I’m starting to spend more time on Lemmy than I am Reddit.
My forum timeline’s been webcomic/livejournal forums > ytmnd & digg > reddit > lemmy
(Social media’s been Chat clients > MySpace > FB > Instagram > BeReal & Pixelfed)
You already did, didn't you?
Already happened bud, already happened.
never heard of r/supressednews, what kind of environment was it?
It hurt daddy's feelz
Good. Welcome to the new home. It feels like Reddit 2009.
I came here with the API changes, but I knew there would be future waves. It’s so nice. I believe in Lemmy and the promise of federated media to help technology work for humans.
Lemmy has been my #1 discovery of 2025
Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.
Reddit is compromised.
I’m done as well. Fuck them.
Man the censorship is just vile too. It's not like "Oh this incites violence" it's "anything and everything that we and our shareholders don't agree on is gone".
Worst part is if any other countries went after them then they would just restrict it to US news.
Classic capitalist gotcha. Turns out that prioritizing shareholders (a 3rd party leech entity unrelated to the operations or customers) is always going to lead to censorship. Like the generic “shareholder” needs stable status quo to figure out how to exploit the poors in most efficient way and violent revolt doesn’t guarantee a higher than inflation result. Modern capitalism in America is straight up a mental disorder similar to hoarding. You don’t need the money nor the stock but you’re willing to fuck over literally thousands of people for a minor gain. It should be studied … but studying this doesn’t help the bottom line so fuck any progress it’s death and destruction for %% daily return. Fuck all this
They are Streisand effecting the information though because the more they censor, the more people will talk about it. There’s already been a news article published by The Verge. It’s going to backfire so badly lmao.
Make advertisers into bad words "hellofresh the rich" " squarespace the ceos"
Mark Zuckerberg needs to be facebooked
I think you mean "Nintendo the CEOs"
I just tried this out after wiping all my comments, let’s see if I get a ban
This is, excuse me, fucking brilliant
I fucking love this and I'm stealing it
Reminds me of how RTGame censors the word 'fuck' with the word 'Youtube' on videos posted to Youtube
You're youtubing kidding me.
they already banned "Luigi" so good luck discussing Nintendo games.
Reddit says they care about freedom of speech and liberal views. I realized a long time ago that their view of liberalism is to allow people who follow their narrative and ban people who don’t.
care about freedom of speech
So did musk when he bought twitter.
Companies don't care about your rights. They care about your money.
It's a real shame. There is a treasure trove of information on there for niche topics, and years of researching problems and questions etc. It really sucks that it's gotten to this point.
We gotta archive everything
Since ~2014 I would search reddit before google for information. I'm sure as traffic picks up here it will become a better source.
I've only been here a couple weeks myself and the amount of new users has skyrocketed in the last week from what ive seen.
I do miss some of the niche subs over there , some of them are here too but not nearly as much engagement...yet
Fuck reddit
It’s insane how crazy it’s gotten. I got like IP banned because I made a pretty calm but snarky remark at someone telling people they didn’t care about a kid dying because they weren’t donating to the funeral (which like, wat).
So I’m hoping it’s at least a little better here
What's worse in its way is that reddit policies basically state that once a subreddit has been banned they are free to ban any new attempts at the subreddit that might pop up.
Welcome! Enjoy your stay, and if you see that we're missing a community you want, be the change you want to see in the world!
I’m kind of surprised r/50501 hasn’t been banned yet for inciting violence…
Don’t worry, they’ll be on the chopping block. But the good thing is the group is everywhere. They are on Substack, as well as here on this app. But they are a very small group, and they are aware that they’ll be next so they posted on Reddit to everyone that they exist on Lemmy which is how I got introduced to this app.
Blame Murica!
Time's have changed And Trump is getting worse He won't obey the judges He just wants to shart and curse
Should we blame the immigrants? Or blame society? Or should we blame the Billionaires like Thiel?
No! blame Murica, blame Murica With all their MAGA conspiracies And flippin'hats made overseas
Blame Murica, blame Murica We need to form a full boycott It's Murica's fault.
We have moderators here too. Significantly more adequate, I would even say nice, but still. And they delete messages from time to time and even ban people. So keep being vigilant.
The difference is here you can check the mod log to see what actions have been taken and what reason was given for it, and power tripping admins can’t reach beyond their instance.
On reddit side, they are hiding more and more the reason why they are banning, and are only giving vague reason why this or that acct is getting flagged. th
Yep, users and communities can shift away to a new instance if they want. While the fact that there might be 3+ communities on different instances all covering the same topic is a weak point, it's also a strength in this regard, so it kind of evens out. And if you really want to, you can make your own instance.
I attempted to post an original comic on Lemmy to what is basically the only comic strip sub. It was probably the only comic that had been posted that week that wasn't on reddit first. It got removed for profanity. The profanity in question? "Balls".
I posted it to reddit after that, and it hit the front page of r/all. Not to toot my own horn, but that's some good fucking original content that the comic strip sub on Lemmy could have used.
Every subreddit that is banned needs to be recreated on Lemmy out of principle. Unless it's gonna get our guy sued.
Cries in all my favorite niche subs being ghost towns here… but it’s ok, general subs got it going on alright :-)
I for sure don’t want another /The_Donald.
Idk c/conservative is pretty cool
I mean they can make it... don't think anyone would federate with them, though.
Huh, seems my reddit app stopped working at the perfect time. Place will probably end up a shithole soon enough.
it's been a shithole for many years. now it's just a worse shithole filled with and run by nazis
Side note for anyone seeing this.
You can get a re vanced version of the app.
It basically gives you premium reddit for free.
If only lemmy posts showed up on search engines, reddit would be finished.
Appeal to duck duck go?
There’s also slamming Reddit with more Lemmy talk. Maybe seed the standard Lemmy apps as Reddit apps and see what shakes out.
Some posts do show up on google but very few
Nothing much better here.
Today they canceled me one comment cause of a "Fuck Putin", while arguing with a Russian troll.
Really thin skin. (on Europe@lemmy.ml).
Infinitely better here.
On Reddit they ban you, you’re done, you can’t use the site anymore.
Here some shitty tankies ban you, nothing changes, you can still access and use the thousands of other communities on other instances.
for a normal user its finished, if your an OF/advertise, they use paid services to evade ban partially. reddit is getting more sophisticated in detecting many methods outside the usual ones to evade bans. if you heard of anti-detection browsers(which create instances of browsers) and you can spoof your browser/device id , and they also proxies and new devices. i heard they make all that money back and more even if they spent money for services.
Well, '.ml' doesn't exactly stand for "Mildly Liberal."
But unlike Reddit, you can block the entire .ml instance if you'd like.
In fact, if you don't get along with .ml, do yourself a favor & block the Hexbear instance if your home instance hasn't already.
I thought it was Milf Lovers...
I think it stands for mindlessly Lenninist.
Well, no, it's the TLD for Mali
Also are hexbear still around? I don't think I've seen them since the domain issue. Not sure of feddit.uk have defederated, I've been banned or they just don't exist any more.
It's not perfect but the advantage here is you can choose whose administration you want to be subject to. Avoid the tankie instances and you'll usually be OK. Lemmy.ml is particularly pernicious since it's run by the developers and sort of masquerades as a general purpose instance--but it is hostile to any who don't support their extremist ideology.
I say fuck Putin all the time and haven't had any issues since I left that place.
Dude! How the FUCK aren’t you triggered by 19 unanswered messages? I would have flipped my shit after 2!
Its message requests that I just ignore
Can you just mark them as read then? I can't just be here living my life while random people on the internet have unread messages /s
Have you all read 1984? First they will make thing illegal. Then they will hide away what is illegal. After that someone will learn something was illegal. Once they are found out, that illegal thing will be completely changed so there is no evidence anything was illegal to begin with.
I would not be shocked if try to scrub these bans so users can’t see if a community was banned.
Elon is haunting Reddit
Consider committing ritual Reddit suicide
r/redditseppuku
When you have to appease the share holders to make the most money, you need to dissuade everyone from exercising free speech they could inhibit shareholders from getting ad revenue from Nazi companies that support Nazi Reddit.
Aaron Swartz must he rolling in his grave to see how the open and free internet he co-owned and designed is now a corporate circle jerk cuck fest hell bent on sucking off Trump and the other oligarchs.
Suppressed_News is still around.
It is afraid
Ye... Reddit is run by one entity , while there's absolutely also foul eggs on lemmy it's way better over here , you can allways leave a badly maintained instance and go to a better one if you want.
I'm gonna get downvoted to oblivion, but leaked isn't public. I posted a link to leaked Starcraft: Ghost build on Web Archive. This game got removed from there.
You'll get downvoted because you're wrong. They're government employees, the fact that they were trying to hide their identities doesn't magically make it not public information.