Honestly, I’d be interested to hear about your adventures.
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Then you get also permabanned from a lot of lemmy instances for thought crime ?
As if Lemmy was any better.
Great thing about Lemmy is you can’t get banned from the whole thing because you pissed off a single touchy admin.
That’s true, but you easily get ostracized for trivialities.
Decentralization blunts a lot of what individual self-important admins can censor. Communities that aren’t constantly harassing their moderators and moderators who aren’t banning people tend to flourish relative to those that are endlessly squabbling and strangling one another.
We’ve already seen a number of Lemmy instances fail when their user base grew too toxic. And we’ve seen new instances take off by being release valves for individuals who want to form communities uninhibited by bullshit.
I got a 30 comm multiban for saying “Winnie the Pooh” 😀 that’s gotta be like, a kill-streak or something right?
Unlikely. It’s one guy running multiple comms. I got similar treatment. Then I think the guy who runs piefed has me blocked as a Tankie across all of his new instances.
So I’ve doubled you up.
Not going to lose sleep over it. There’s still plenty of content to enjoy.
that’s what I figured 😁 I went and added the mods of those comms to my own block lists so none us will bother eachother. there is a lot of really nice fediverse to see so it’s nbd.
but I’m definitely tagging you as TURBO TANKIE BLOCK COCKER
Tough but fair
Also ban evasion is easier if it does happen.
Well, at least for now Lemmy hasn’t reached the level of Reddit, that’s good, that’s already a divine miracle.
Well, just because it has 0.000000001% of reddit’s audience. People is equally shitty here as on reddit.
It’s extra funny because you got downvoted. People don’t realize you can get banned here just for voting in a way they don’t like, and not even on a post in that particular community that banned you.
The donwotes you mention (and that I can’t see, because I disabled them in settings) perfectly demonstrate my point.
I was hopeful some form of reddiquette would be revived here but that lasted about 3 months past the API changes.
How so? Are you a free speech absolutist who feels threatened when other people use their freedom of speech?
I’m not the person you responded to but, I also run with down-votes disabled. I found that paying attention to them was negatively impacting the platform and creating an echo chamber based off populous opinion. Since turning them off, my experience on the platform has been quite a bit more enjoyable. It’s not that I really have a mentality that is different than what the populous opinion is but, I much prefer not seeing them as it removes the potential of “oh this post has been downvoted” because that makes you go into reading it with an already poisoned mindset.
I totally understand where this is coming from but I started on an instance that doesn’t have down votes and moved to a different one because I wanted to see when I’m downvoted. More often than not it is because I was misunderstood and even if not, I want to know where I am. I remember a discussion where I later realized I was heavily downvoted and would have “read the room” better if I knew (time proved me right after all but I digress)
I can definitely understand that as well. I rely on someone replying to the comment if I say something that is unclear or misinterpreted. It allows me to have better feedback anyway then trying to figure out where I went wrong on my own, plus it avoids being able to dismiss it as “well maybe it was just a unpopular opinion so it was downvoted”. I also find effort a huge factor as well, meaning that if someone went through the hassle/effort of responding to my comment then chances are it’s not an opinion type deal and more of either I wasn’t clear or there was a misunderstanding. (when the reply is opposing of course)
Are you equating votes to speech? To me votes are the opposite of that. They are just a lazy shortcut.
That said, you can use your freedom of speech with me at your will. Until I find you boring enough to just silence you (aka, block).
So what is your point? What makes downvotes so bad?
They are just a lazy shortcut.
Can’t you read?
I first thought you equated being down voted with being banned but your point was that being banned for down votes illustrate your point that Lemmy isn’t better than reddit.
I just… left.
They didn’t ban me; I banned them…
I made a random comment about a movie’s premiere date on r/FauxMoi without realizing that FauxMoi had blocked my old reddit account years ago. (I have absolutely no clue why FauxMoi blocked my first account.) Reddit viewed me using a new account to comment on FauxMoi as “ban evasion” and now I’m perma-banned from reddit. I received no warning, no notice, I had no idea I was even banned from commenting on FauxMoi.
Every time I make a new account, regardless of the email or where I make the account, the ban follows me. I tried to explain the mistake, that I hadn’t realized my old reddit account was banned from FauxMoi and that I’d take down my (perfectly innocuous, on-topic) comment. Nope. They didn’t care. I’m just fucked. Thanks mods at FauxMoi, hope yalls choke.
It’s a familiar situation, but I didn’t last long on Reddit. My first account was banned after a few months because of one picture.
Although I’m not entirely sure. I also made a scandalous revelation and people were unhappy.
What was the picture of?
I said billionaires should be put to the guillotine.
I asked why the CIA hadn’t killed Trump yet. That, and upvoting a comment of a user who later got banned, got me banned.
I was added to a moderation list on Bluesky for following someone on Twitter and subsequently muting them, and then forgetting I had followed them when I used a tool to migrate all of my follows to Bluesky. Which is just a stupid mistake, but what about people who are following notable bigots because they’re journalists and have to keep tabs on what they say?
Being banned for upvoting someone’s comment seems similarly tunnel-visioned. If you’re upvoting their pun about the moon or their helpful cooking suggestion or their computer build tip, getting banned because you didn’t check their entire post history before upvoting is absolutely insane to me.
Guilt by association is only a thing if it’s actually association.
Same
Honesty can be deadly. :3
I got banned for repeatedly tagging a global warming denier in posts about climate change
I told homophobes they were pieces of shit and got permabanned for it
Well, that was pretty insulting to pieces of shit…
Hey! Me too!
I left when they killed Apollo and third party apps altogether. The only way I viewed Reddit was through that app, so Reddit was dead to me at that point. I used a tool that edited all of my old comments, deleted my 10-year-old+ account and left forever.
Linked that Bill Hicks standup routine where he encourages marketers to kill themselves. Must have hit too close to home for some loser admin who nuked my account for inciting violence.
I blocked all the tattler bots and a bunch of the witch hunters on AHS. Then I spoke my right leaning mind. Shortly after made a bunch of pro-Luigi jokes.
I got “VPN banned” despite not using a VPN lmao
Granted I haden’t used the service since the API changes anyway, so no loss there, but I did get a pretty big chuckle when i finally found that out.
Never got banned from reddit.
Got banned from .ml for “xenophobia” (calling someone a Russian bot)
Got banned from blhaja too for “transphobia” (saying that leftists should focus on taxing the rich instead of giving subsidies to trans ppl)
A quick review of your comments confirms they got it right. Fuck you
Op asked why we got banned. I said, lol. That’s what this thread is for.
And? Get fucked transphobe, go back to reddit.
No thank you. I like using third party apps. I don’t need to see or interact with those instances anyway. There’s plenty more where people can accept that having a different opinion does not make you a something-phobe.
No. You can not-have trans rights without fascism. Otherwise, 100% of the earth has been fascist for the entire history of humanity.
This you, punchy?
You know, I’m really fucking tired of people like who think calling their ignorant and asinine beliefs “an opinion” gives them immunity from criticism or retaliation.
Yes that is me. Someone’s beliefs are their opinion, that is correct, whether they are ignorant or not.
I’m not saying I should be immune for criticism or retaliation. In fact I wish my comment was criticized so I can know what part of it people disagree with. Instead I’m met with “go eat farts, transphobe”.
In my opinion, claiming that “it is possible to not have fascism and whatever ‘trans rights’ means to you at the same time” is not transphobic.
It’s been explained to you by others, you aren’t ignorant, you just don’t care. Imbibe schmegma, scumbag.
This instance isn’t one of them, go devour flattulence.
I’m awaiting my ban from lemmy.world for being a something-phobe if that’s the case. I don’t think repeating xenophobe and transphobe is original though. What should they ban me for? I would think the logical next step is racism, but that doesn’t end in phobe so it would be a waste of an opportunity.
I got blocked from the subreddit I created because I made it private due to the API debacle and refused to make it public until they undid the decision.
Yeah… We’re waaaaaay better over here on Lemmy…
Better. Not way better.
There’s a certain degree of toxicity and messiness that simply comes with interacting with the general public. I’m not sure how one can build a system open to people, yet simultaneously not open to flawed people.
I dunno, if this meme (all be it humorously) is accusing the Reddit user base of having a thoughtpolice that does insinuate quite a large sense of superiority which is just absolute pack mentality. Lemmy is almost exactly and fundamentally synonymous to Reddit, hence a lot of people moved over to Lemmy after the end of third party app support.
So the only real argument one could make in pointing out the positive difference between the two. Is that the users of Lemmy may have a bigger hatred towards capitalism or think user support is more important than habitual comforts.
Lemmy hasn’t yet calcified from corporate takeover, this makes it similar to younger reddit, and I argue better.
Remember when Elon Musk had that black eye and said his son punched him? I said “can’t blame him”. Which is, of course, glorifying violence.
