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deltreed ,
@deltreed@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit is garbage because of the mods.

Aeri ,
@Aeri@lemmy.world avatar

They will also just casually full bore ban you because you were mass reported.

That’s what someone I talked to theorized happened to me.

I was banned for posting “I think my right to punch Nazis should be protected by law”.

Not kill, murder, maim, I didn’t even name any groups where there was a lick of grey area, Nazis, the one group that since WWII, everyone has agreed are alright as a universal bad guy.

Etterra ,

Dude I once got banned from a sub for quoting the first Captain America movie. Punch a Nazi every day!

buttfarts ,

I had a 10+ year old account with like 1.5m karma get full stop banned for reasons behind my comprehension. I wasn’t doing any overt racism, misogyny, violent rabble rousing… Nothingworse than vehemently disagreeing with somebody and calling them an idiot or a clown.

I only suspect I triggered a nerve which got me mass reported to an extent that I got caught in the dragnet. Being disagreeable was a ban worthy offensive maybe??

Overly sensitive fuckwits with brittle feelings. I am the same ol’ dumbass I always was but the culture shifted towards “business casual” away from being more like “diet 4chan”

WoodScientist ,

I had an account of similar magnitude banned. Why? Because on January 6th, on the very day, I wondered aloud why there weren’t soldiers repelling the crowd of insurrectionists trying to overthrow our democracy with machine gun fire. I’m sorry, but if a crowd of thousands of people shows up with the intent of hanging the vice president and overthrowing the government? Well, you made your choice if you’re in that group. The correct response to a group like that is to first give them plenty of warning. But if they persist, use whatever force is necessary to repel them.

Other things I’ve been banned for:

  • Telling an overt bigot posting in an LGBT sub to go kindly "go die in a fire."
  • Suggesting, before the ruling, that if SCOTUS ruled that the president was completely above the law that he should simply drone strike Supreme Court justices to produce a majority on the court that would repeal his new powers.
  • Evading bogus bans.

At this point I’ve got a lifetime ban from there. And you know what? I’m fine with it. The policies on reddit remind me of the blind “zero tolerance” policies that have screwed over so many in American high schools. When I was in high school years ago, the standard was “zero tolerance” for violence of any kind. If a bully attacked a victim, they would both get in trouble. Being the victim was no defense. It was zero tolerance, zero thought. And that is the standard that is now used on reddit. They’ll still allow racist dogwhistles and entire subreddits run by hate groups, but as long as you don’t cross a handful of explicit lines, you’re fine. You can openly celebrate the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Gaza, but tell one bigot to go die in a fire, and suddenly you’re banned.

Wynnstan ,
@Wynnstan@lemmy.world avatar

“If ever there was a time when force is appropriate, a mob violently forcing their way into the Capitol would be it.”

RangerJosie ,

Nobody likes reddit. Nobody. Everyone is just stuck with it and spez’s dumbass moneygrubbing bullshit.

Twelve20two ,

I wonder how long that’ll last now that’s it a public company (or will be? I actually haven’t kept up on it too much)

nl4real ,

I’ve made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn’t quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.

mossy_ ,

What’s your favorite forum?

nl4real ,

Civfanatics. I actually joined up long before I ever signed up for Reddit. It’s probably the one site besides Youtube that I’ve consistently used since middle school.

mossy_ ,

It’s about the Civilization games?

nl4real ,

Yes.

beliquititious ,

Lemmy still has a lot of problems reddit does, just smaller and weirder. It’s probably not possible to create a “perfect” social media platform, but there still seems like room for a new type of social network that’s federated but isn’t a clone of something else.

Sleipnir ,

I still use reddit for looking up information even after deleting my account. Yesterday i decided i wanted to compile the zen kernel for fedora. And reddit had the best guide for doing so. And what settings were worth a damn.

PugJesus ,

“Ruins the internet”

I happen to remember the forum culture of the mid-late 2000s. It wasn’t that great.

phoenixz ,

It was pretty great, actually. So much creativity, everyone has a normal voice, no YouTube celebrities

PugJesus ,

So much creativity, everyone has a normal voice,

…

You might be wearing nostalgia goggles.

stoly ,

It started out great. It went to shit.

stoly ,

I do recall that people were extraordinarily toxic online. Reddit for a few years was a breath of fresh air but then got too big.

InSamsara ,

Wish I could experience it

PugJesus ,

It had unique pieces, and a lot that I genuinely miss. But… there was also a LOT of bullshit that wouldn’t pass muster nowadays.

RangerJosie ,

It was better though. Wouldn’t call it good. But definitely better.

PugJesus ,

Gotta disagree with that. I remember the rampant elitism and tribalism, the shock-culture, isolation of communities, casual bigotry that would make modern 4chan blush, arbitrary forum rules irregularly enforced, etc etc etc.

For all the modern internet’s problems, its communities are much more connected, it’s much more accessible and less elitist, that shock-culture died out, the casual bigotry became contentious instead of accepted, and corporate running the show on most of these sites means that appeals and reversals are much easier than when you would rub some mod the wrong way and get permabanned from a forum you were a long-time member of. Never happened to me, but I saw it numerous times.

GenosseFlosse ,

Yes, but if you didn’t like one forum you just move on to the next. Today there are very few active forums left.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

My account has been banned for like 2 years but I can still watch porn so idc.

Reddfugee42 ,

It was dead to me over here until you posted about it. Want a reddit hate circle jerk updoot buddy?

P4ulin_Kbana ,

I enjoy using Reddit.

Reddfugee42 ,

Damn you for that

/s

P4ulin_Kbana ,

Username checks out /t

Stern ,
@Stern@lemmy.world avatar

bans controversial subreddits

They are ruining valuable conversation by banning GasTheKikes and Jailbait. My free speech!!! /s

duckduckohno ,

So many on Reddit bitch and moan about reddit. Just delete your account and use alternatives if you hate it so much.

Kolanaki ,
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I was one of those. Before Lemmy, nothing was truly an alternative for Reddit. There were alternative Twitter-like sites up the ass and Facebook; but nothing similar to Reddit’s layout/presentation.

Laborer3652 ,

Thats… why I’m here.

MonkderVierte ,

Forgot

  • APIcalypse
  • sold user content to AI
  • let’s only Google index.
RememberTheApollo_ ,

• A website built by unpaid users and mods that Reddit wants to profit off of.

PanArab ,

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rustydrd ,
@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

Look, I also left Reddit because it got worse, but this just reads like “I said something racist and people got mad” to me.

leftzero , (edited )

It’s already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.

There are no users left. It’s bots all the way through, like maggots in a rotting corpse.

Buttflapper ,

It’s already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.

Asking people to post on their sub is fuckin hilarious to me. Like that’s some major, pressing issue in anyone’s life.

“Sorry, I can’t hang out today. Wholesome Memes subreddit needs me to post there! I’m doing it for the shareholders! Without them, reddit would never survive!”

Like… Is this how he expected that to go…???

scbasteve7 ,

If you read it, the mod certainly didn’t beg. They just mentioned that they’re still blocking bots and to not be discouraged from posting original content.

Also I find it highly doubtful that the mods of that subreddit are concerned about shareholders. Why would a mod care about money when they’re not even getting paid? They most likely just care about keeping the community alive.

Not to take away the point. Which I think is something most Lemmy users have realized ages ago, reddit is so full of repost bots that it makes gallowboob look like a saint. So much in fact that after two days, not a single original post has occurred in a subreddit with a reported 17 million followers.

Buttflapper ,

Why would a mod care about money when they’re not even getting paid?

Better question, why the hell are they volunteering for free to moderate a paid multimillion dollar publicly traded company? The mods on Reddit have a God complex. They literally think that if they don’t do what they do then the entire website would fall apart. Like a nurse in a hospital. It’s insane

Hackworth ,

Many left with the API closing, and the site did fall apart, soooo…

Blisterexe ,

holy fuck, i didnt know it was quite that bad

KevonLooney ,

Except… it looks like people did start posting. So the users were crowded out by bots before and they’re posting now. That just shows that Reddit isn’t dead, but it does have too many bots.

I mean, I’m sure many people here wish there was more non-bot content. It’s annoying to see something on Reddit and come back here and see the same thing.

RangerJosie ,

Saw a stat the other day, and I can’t speak to accuracy. But the claim was that like 58% I think of all content online is bots.

houstoneulers ,

17m members and only 2 posts in the last 24 hours as of right now lol

leftzero ,

It’s tragic, really. Reddit used to be great. Enshittification sucks.

Jumuta ,

Restricting search results to reddit is still a nice way to filter out corporate junk and just get honest end user opinion on things. As much as I hate the management of the platform now, you have to remember that Reddit didn’t always used to be shit. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

JameUwU ,

Except companies have learned the meta, and now a bunch of search queries for Reddit are filled with ads on Reddit. (not to mention you have to use google to get their results now.)

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Eh, I still get Reddit results through DDG. They may not be fresh, but they seem to still be in the index, and honestly, that’s fine because I only really care about the older content.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.

Daxtron2 ,

It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.

Grass ,

at this point I get like 75% fuck spez/etc post edits instead

bitwolf ,

You still have to filter through bots posing as real people replies on some posts high in google results

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