Lots of people have been banned, across all their accounts, with no recourse, and new accounts suffer the same fate
My fiancée lost over a third of her followers overnight, and asked a mod she knows what was happening.
She was told that anyone who had been banned, for any reason whatsoever was being indiscriminately purged, with device fingerprinting and other mechanisms used to keep them from finding a way back in
Apparently it has been happening in stages, so that’s why there are waves of mass-bans
Reddit seems determined to cut themselves off at the knees, so here’s hoping that Digg and Lemmy can shine and learn from the mistakes of Reddit
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Remember kids, now is the time to slowly edit your old posts and comments replace them with AI gibberish and then after a while slowly delete them.
I was having almost 3 year old account on reddit, mostly account was not in use or even if i use there was no posting and commenting most of the time. But recently I’ve got shadow banned on reddit, appealed like more then 10 times but not a single response from the team. And speacial part… They call themselves the heart of Internet lol 😂
My wife got a 3 day ban last week in a hamster subreddit. She got a 7 day ban today in the Reddit ratty channel after somebody had a pic of a wrapped rat in a paper towel. Wife said wouldn’t it look cute in a taco wrap. Go figure.
Why isn’t it translating to increased user numbers on Lemmy?
I may be anecdotal. I got banned and came to Lemmy a couple months ago.
Reddit has also removed discussions about Lemmy and other Reddit alternatives so many users may not even know of our existence.
i checked out that sub, theres like no posts on there for months, except for “ee shutting down” even then theres no posts.
I have never been blocked or received any warnings from Reddit, I mainly used it for the home improvement subs. I made one comment criticizing Israel and my account has been banned and my IP blocked. 😂
Yep
I apparently incited violence.
I never knew saying “bad bot” to a nazi apologist was so offensive
Oh and even softly calling out an obvious bot account lol. Nope can’t have that.
I’m good here on lemmy since the API debacle.
i just gave up after being:
- permanently suspended for absolutely no apparent reason about a year ago
- countless frivolous comment and post removals
- being permanently suspended again on my new account for saying something bad about the united states
it’s all VC crap now anyways, and huffman is a little bitch. go over there now and check out /r/popular or /r/all and it’s all bot reposts, bot comments, ai slop, and fucking “what movie/film/timeyoutookashit reminds you of this?” posts. they’re absolutely no good for any news any more, whether it’s media/grassroots/groundlevel/societal.
i don’t understand how they think they’ll gain value when their goal appears to be to strip any and all of what provided any value in the first place: unfiltered human contribution and interaction.
fuck reddit
*Safe for Work
Heh. I’ve been blocked from a programming subreddit for being ‘too directly helpful’. Apparently the dozen to-and-fro conversations weren’t enough to show that OP needed more concrete direction.
Hilarious if that sees me banned from the platform at some point.
Some mod didn’t like that you were able to convey instructions better than them.
What are you? Some kinda asshole?
It started when Elon Musk intimidated Reddit into banning a subreddit. The sub “r/whitepeopletwitter” was deleted by a frightened Reddit CEO Steve Huffman because people there were posting the names and information of the young hackers Elon deployed in the Treasury Department. Those hackers stole Americans’ personal, private data. they are traitors. The people in this subreddit were punished, because Musky had a big temper tantrum. Even though this sub was allowed to return to Reddit, activist content still gets banned under the guise of deterring violent threats. People have been banned for even merely upvoting pro-Luigi Mangione content on Reddit. It’s censorship. I put up with it and I regret it now. Having to write without even remotely suggesting violence was hard. I’d slip up and get a temp ban. I was finally permabanned for using an old saying, “stomp Nazis,” on a thread about people evicting a NeoNazi from a punk concert. I didn’t really think about it, and it’s what people used to say, it was not a legit threat of harm. Meanwhile, I had trolls chronically threatening to make liberals like me cry all the time. Sorry, but that IS a violent threat. I know these trolls are surely ugly enough to bring tears to my eyes, but normally tears fall because of physical pain. So I deleted my account and destroyed the Reddit app. That’s one less fool to look at all the ads there, which keep getting more flashy and prevalent. It didn’t feel good to be censored this way. Im glad for Lemmy. Reddit censorship sucks, I’m now in the habit of being hypervigilant for anything that could be construed as violent content, even when writing here.
Yep
As we say in my country:
Shit’s fucked
Agreed.
For someone who claims to love jokes and free speech, Musty is extraordinarily thin skinned. Guess I wasn’t supposed to notice his black eye lol
Punks not dead! 👏
Like… why though??
Banning with impunity like that to the extent of keeping you or anyone in the household for coming back forever no matter how small the transgression… is insane.
I’ve had MANY unsavory back and forths with people over the last 12 years on Reddit but to just say fuck you never ever ever come back and we’ve made steps to ensure it is weird. Batshit crazy
I can only think they’ve decided to change course and go all in on manufacturing consent… Remove all the real users who might spot a bot and use LLMs to say whatever you like
It’s pretty wack. I’m just hoping Lemmy flares up again, like it’s so heartening to see it taking off, but at the same time it’s a bit disheartening to see a lot of threads with only like 2-3 comments.
I just have to teach myself to not comment on reddit anymore, or interact with anything there. Eventually hopefully never return.
Do they want to just be a read-only platform for bot-generated content?
Yes, you summed it up perfectly!
I got banned for saying that I check the obituaries daily, hoping <to see trumps name >.
Me too but it was this hat.
Just a guess. Trying to reinvent themselves as a conservative platform?
I think they at least want to be seen as sympathetic to conservatives
The reality is that they always were. Reddit was never “left-wing”
But it’s about what’s publicly visible and “known”
I also firmly believe it’s to crush the idea that the majority of people don’t like what’s happening. Feels like standard censorship to me. If you look around, and it feels like everyone is against you, you have much incentive to speak up. Nobody wants to stand alone. Reddit is such a huge platform for discussion–they want to use that power to shape what is ‘normal’.
That’s a really good point
Perception is reality
This is literally why I joined Lemmy :) I got banned, not for advocating violence or racism but for calling out a mod for removing posts that were not breaching any rules.
Initially it was a 3 day ban, I appealed it and they turned into a permanent one lmao.
I am a moderator somewhere (not reddit)
It’s easy to just ban people, but not actually helpful
I always wait until the hate speech comes out. Offensive speech is one thing, but the population of the forum lets them know in their responses that they are out of line
The ban doesn’t happen if my ego is insulted, it’s saved for the pointless troll (and even then, only if it keeps going after being warned) or when something is truly hateful
Yeah, bans for hate speech etc. are perfectly understandable but being banned for stepping on someone’s toes is pathetic.
It’s also the fact you can’t really appeal it that irks me, they just say they looked at it and will uphold the ban without further comment.
