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.
I was still using it for researching stuff (mostly via the Kagi forum search) - but it’s the only website that does not work with MullvadVPN on. Getting tired of having to deactivate it. By now Mastodon and Lemmy easily satisfy my needs for tech news/discussions.
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 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.
Yep, I got a frikking lifetime IP ban a few months back for saying “Fuck Elon Musk all the way to hell” in r/politics - apparently some fanboy decided that was “inciting violence”. Fuck Reddit, happy to be part of Lemmy.
What was that subreddit about?
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.
Trump/Musk (they’re joined at the hip AFAIC, except Trump is definately the bottom, despite his diaper issues)
Didn’t Musk’s son tell Trump he wasn’t the real president? You know the one who started showing up publicly right after the Luigi thing, who we should probably just nickname Kevlar?
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.
I’m pretty sure CTH was sacrificed upon the altar of “fairness” after the media forced reddit’s hand on T_D.
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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
They have really unleashed the hounds recently it seems. I wonder how long before they start banning NSFW content.
Reddit is cooked
Lets hope. Found Lemmy only just today and super glad I have.
Welcome!
Welcome!
Thanks!
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.
You even found your way off the biggest instance! I’m impressed. Most new users just go to World, but it’s not the best for the network. Indeed, my first account was there.
Haha Yea i was looking for something nit quite as large, but not feel like im in a desert. So far, so good.
I like my instance so far, can recomend
It’s pretty cool over here and none of the cool user names are taken yet
Are you telling me your user name is usually taken when registering for a new service, AoxoMoxoA?
It was more a joke about Urmomsweetass’ user name
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.
half of it is bots, and the half is addicted to politics and news subs(includes any subreddit that talks about the above), and then theres the entertainment subs: like sports, movies,etc.
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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.
im actually very private about my reddit use to other people, i seen them you shouldnt post sht or scoff at it. mainly because Some jobs monitor thier subreddits, eventhough the employer doesnt control it,
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.
they are allowing open AI and google to scrape reddits data for themselves, and google is giving them some privileges, and i assume REDDITS AI monitoring system for banning is using google or open AIs tech.
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. i partially applaud them and also try to err on the side of caution, your making things worst for people by creating accs soon after getting banned and commenting so fast, i was saying on that forum that they should chill down thier activities until the purge dies down.
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.
politics was one of the first subs i got banned in a old acct, now deleted. and then one from aww, when i responded why people though Michelle obama was called a certain way, wtf you asked for the answer,
Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrections are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy…the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. The need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks.
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.
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.
Capitalist cunts.
Don’t leave us in suspense - what was the opinion?
They like pineapple on pizza.
Aww, I like pineapple on pizza :0(
I upvoted you on Lemmy for being on topic, but I downvoted you in my heart.
Haha, that’s fair!
Shit, that might get you banned here as well… /s
Well, that is an actual war crime.
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.
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.
you made acct at a bad time, they went hard on banning people last month, and ive been hearing on other sites that they were banned almost immediately after commenting once, thier bot sensitivity filter is so high, that any comment that was removed was considered a “spam activity”
Gotta love the appeals process of submitting a form and getting absolutely zero response or indication of status. Appeals going straight into a garbage can with no one reading them lmao
I’m pretty sure that appealing a temp ban (my 3rd, all in a short time) led to them issuing a permaban my account. None of the posts violated the rules they claimed.
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.
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.
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.
Now I’m hearing that they are banning people for UPVOTES!
Only upvotes involving Mario’s brother, so far. Presumably the “issue” being that he has too much support and the time between posting and it being moderated away it’s getting enough votes to still have significant visibility which is what they’re trying to avoid.
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.
THIS
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!
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.
Shit, they perma’d me for constantly agitating in non leftist subs… I can’t help it.
China’s not going to let tiktok fall out of their control. If it gets sold it will be to someone beholden to them.
Same here. Got Banned from r/WorldNews for talking about Luigi when that CEO incident happened. Perma-banned a day later.
What was the opinion that got you banned?
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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.
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.
Seeing that non-right sided medias are picking this up is good. Hopefully it builds more traction and if they can even say something as simple as “Lemmy is an alternative” we can see healthy growth. I know r/conservative is probably loving it but in the last month I’ve seen them advocate for more violence than any other subreddits. Yet they remain free and open. Gotta love how contradicting reddit has become since the blackout.
not contradicting at all if you consider them as part of the putin/musk propaganda apparatus
putins trolls control the sub, and the mods. not an accident why they are constantly on the front page all the time. and then theres the subs that “pretend to be both sides”
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they also looked for same device, browser fingerprinting, behaviour pattern, reddits banning filters is the most aggressive of any social media, and site.
Lol same. I’m finally starting to realize it wasn’t a me thing. I’ve really disliked the general flow of reddit for a while but it’s just such an easy thing to open up and scroll through. Didn’t know alternatives like this existed
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
Is it really down to shareholder demand though? I’ve a suspicion that it goes a bit higher than that.
Reddit is compromised.
Elders of Lemmy:
Reddit has been compromised for a while now. 2016 opened them up. The API fiasco blew the door down. r/place exposed it and exploited Reddit for what it is. And we’re now seeing the new course of direction continue.
How did r/place expose anything?
Ok. Thanks.
Doesnt that kinda go against the whole point of r/place? Kinda fuckin stupid
After 50+ accounts suspended, I’m fucking done. It’s just shit.
For anyone that still has a reddit account, if you have any good community subreddits, tell them to relocate to Lemmy :)
