The only times I've been back in at least two years are when posts here force me to go there for the content I'm looking for. Hate when that happens, but I take solace in the fact they're losing money on me due to using ad-blocking & a browser that forgets everything by default (Firefox Focus).
That bugs me, too. For images, at least, Lemmy can host just fine. It just takes an extra step to copy the image or link and add it to the post. Considering that Reddit blocks a lot of VPNs, hosting the image here means better visibility (for the many people here who use VPNs.)
Besides, who wants to give Reddit the extra views? I sure don't.
If no one talks about the shitty things reddit does outside of reddit, no one will have any way of knowing until it happens to them personally, because reddit itself is clearly censoring that stuff.
I understand that point of view but I sorta see it more as mourning what was once a good* site that I spent over a decade being a part of. Like using a similar analogy, it's like keeping up with that ex that you loved very much but broke off from after they got addicted to fentanyl and started pawning your things or something.
*good as in not a money and data hungry corporation, the userbase has always been a bit shit but it wasn't this kind of of aggressive shit
Don't talk shit about your exes, it's poor manners and makes you look bad, besides. Many think you should extend to your exes some courtesy, at least, and most of us get that.
Complaining about the actions of companies? I don't owe fealty to any company on Earth, fuck them and fuck Reddit
I got a new device and I thought "hey this is fresh and clean I wonder if I could start a new Reddit account!" Then the first thing my device asked me to do was sign in to google. Literally can't do anything on that phone unless I divulge my Google login which certainly reveals my identity and last 30 years of internet activity 🤦🏼‍♀️ Cover blown. I need to get tech savvy and find a way around this.
I got banned for inciting violence (from a supposedly leftist sub) because I said we should burn every single nazi\ confederate flag without exception on a post about a guy in a homeless encampment with a nazi flag hung outside his tent.
Oh I'm pretty sure the admins have banned me site-wide since I called them out for doxing a trans coworker to the mods of a far-right UK subreddit, I have a laundry list of ridiculous bans including joking about a dog shooting another dog in the same post as Garry Tan's name, I'm not defending Reddit.
Its just that last time I went to r/bannedFromReddit it was AA cesspit.
One was for saying that Hans Kristian Graebner (the Neo-Nazi known as Stonetoss who was had his IRL name leaked online) deserves to get the Brock/Allen Turner treatment (having his RL name put on blast everywhere).
One was for "inciting violence" - I was joking about mosquitoes getting cancer under a picture of a mosquito perched on a cigarette
One was for pasting the list of DOGE staff (it's a government job so it is public record) because Elon whined to his buddy Spez
The final permanent ban was for saying that the mods of r/cybertruck are losers.
Same here. All mine were ridiculous in a similar vein.
The permaban was for agreeing with a Muslim that the bloke who disarmed that Bondi shooter and didn’t shoot him was because he’s a peaceful, forgiving man who couldn’t do it which was in fact the truth.
I don’t think I was alone, I think a few got banned at the same time. I was already here before then because I could see the writing on the wall.
i think the closest mine was to a real "advocation of violence" was when i posted my daydream about krasnov dying like elvis, only it happening on camera so it's more ignominious. and a whole lot of weegees and luigi twerking gifs because if you are not rebelling against the absurdities and injustices of existence in even the teensiest ways and making yourself laugh, what are you doing?
i've posted here about the Robert-François Damiens because i pushed the boundary that far (and no further) and got away with it.
I was banned for pointing out a mods hypocrisy of removing some ads while keeping others even when the sub specifically had a rule for no ads. Reddit admins called it harassment when I only sent one message to the mod and reported their reply for breaking the TOS/Moderator Code of Conduct.
My post on that sub didn't appear to have trolls or right wing losers in the replies.
Lmao I am freshly banned from Reddit (including all of my alts which are not linked to my main account somehow) for suggesting they protect pedophiles (they do). I don't miss it, half of it is bots nowadays anyways.
My flair in one of the big subs on Reddit is degrading to mods. I got a mod who was on the way out to assign it. 🤞 the admins don't drop the banhammer.
58 Comments
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 106d
There's a very simple solution to this: don't use Reddit.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 106d
The only times I've been back in at least two years are when posts here force me to go there for the content I'm looking for. Hate when that happens, but I take solace in the fact they're losing money on me due to using ad-blocking & a browser that forgets everything by default (Firefox Focus).
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 105d
That bugs me, too. For images, at least, Lemmy can host just fine. It just takes an extra step to copy the image or link and add it to the post. Considering that Reddit blocks a lot of VPNs, hosting the image here means better visibility (for the many people here who use VPNs.)
Besides, who wants to give Reddit the extra views? I sure don't.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d
Unfortunately, most of the interesting niche hobby discussions are going there these days.
axh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 106d
Are you suggesting they should ban Reddit before Reddit bans them?
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 106d
That seems like the best option to me.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
my rude i vore your username
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 106d
Lemmy is only marginally better for sub bans.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
Yes, that's true, but Lemmy isn't a central platform like reddit.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz · 56 pts · 106d
Coming to the fediverse and using it to complain about reddit always feels like going on a date to complain about your ex to me
egrets@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 106d
I don't disagree, but by the same token, this is specifically !reddit@lemmy.world that you're in advocating not talking about Reddit.
That one guinea pig community probably wouldn't appreciate me telling them not to talk about guinea pigs.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 106d
Fair enough. I admittedly did not notice the community, I was browsing my all feed.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 105d
If no one talks about the shitty things reddit does outside of reddit, no one will have any way of knowing until it happens to them personally, because reddit itself is clearly censoring that stuff.
Pattylay@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d
Me in 3030 AD getting crucified for discovering the lemmy haters!
njm1314@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 106d
Coming to a community whose purpose is to talk about reddit and complaining doesn't seem any better...
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 105d
I understand that point of view but I sorta see it more as mourning what was once a good* site that I spent over a decade being a part of. Like using a similar analogy, it's like keeping up with that ex that you loved very much but broke off from after they got addicted to fentanyl and started pawning your things or something.
*good as in not a money and data hungry corporation, the userbase has always been a bit shit but it wasn't this kind of of aggressive shit
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d
Don't talk shit about your exes, it's poor manners and makes you look bad, besides. Many think you should extend to your exes some courtesy, at least, and most of us get that.
Complaining about the actions of companies? I don't owe fealty to any company on Earth, fuck them and fuck Reddit
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 105d
Being an ex-redditor is the only personality trait for a lot of ones here.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
i mean, when i was freshly kicked i had some processing to do. but like, beep's been here a while.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 105d
its not as bad as it was during the reddit API pricing changes
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 106d
Just waiting for "Reddit bans r/reddit" for the circle to be complete.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 105d
That's hilarious but I have a question. How would people who were banned from Reddit be participating on r/bannedfromreddit?
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 105d
VPN and/or a fresh IP/Device.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 105d
I got a new device and I thought "hey this is fresh and clean I wonder if I could start a new Reddit account!" Then the first thing my device asked me to do was sign in to google. Literally can't do anything on that phone unless I divulge my Google login which certainly reveals my identity and last 30 years of internet activity 🤦🏼‍♀️ Cover blown. I need to get tech savvy and find a way around this.
nulltape@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
Reddit's getting on the VPN ban thing, unless you've got your own IP it blocks popular VPN hosting IPs.
Kurtagag@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 105d
Thats a good question! But maybe their ban was only temporary.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 106d
Weren't those just troll farms though, full of right wing losers upset they couldn't be openly racist enough?
Makhno@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 106d
I got banned from reddit because users were cheering the harming of trans kids, and I told said users I hoped they'd get hit with a brick.
Reddit is a right-wing shithole with a neo-liberal facade.
magnue@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 106d
You were banned for inciting violence. Which is the reason for every ban I ever got:
I didn't notice a political correlation.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 106d
A rule that is all too often conveniently & unevenly applied.
charokol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 106d
You tend to not see the posts where the rule has already been applied
Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 106d
I got a warning for saying I wanted to shoot (in Reddead Redemption) children (who were being pests on voicechat).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
i have to say, there were days when after dealing with the really pesky kids in my wife's class i fired up the old fallout
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 106d
Rope? What about piano wire
luthis@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 106d
Too quick
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 106d
Didn't say how high we tie it. Just to the point of discomfort when on tiptoes.
_lilith@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 106d
nice so it cuts in and tightens over time
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
The banhammer gets triggered by a certain combination of names and acts of violence.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 106d
I got banned for inciting violence (from a supposedly leftist sub) because I said we should burn every single nazi\ confederate flag without exception on a post about a guy in a homeless encampment with a nazi flag hung outside his tent.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 106d
What do you think [neo]liberal is?
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
Oh I'm pretty sure the admins have banned me site-wide since I called them out for doxing a trans coworker to the mods of a far-right UK subreddit, I have a laundry list of ridiculous bans including joking about a dog shooting another dog in the same post as Garry Tan's name, I'm not defending Reddit.
Its just that last time I went to r/bannedFromReddit it was AA cesspit.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d
Oh I agree with that, just when I got banned a while ago the bannedFromReddit sub was even further right than mainstream reddit
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d
I got several ridiculous bans from reddit.
One was for saying that Hans Kristian Graebner (the Neo-Nazi known as Stonetoss who was had his IRL name leaked online) deserves to get the Brock/Allen Turner treatment (having his RL name put on blast everywhere).
One was for "inciting violence" - I was joking about mosquitoes getting cancer under a picture of a mosquito perched on a cigarette
One was for pasting the list of DOGE staff (it's a government job so it is public record) because Elon whined to his buddy Spez
The final permanent ban was for saying that the mods of r/cybertruck are losers.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 105d
Same here. All mine were ridiculous in a similar vein.
The permaban was for agreeing with a Muslim that the bloke who disarmed that Bondi shooter and didn’t shoot him was because he’s a peaceful, forgiving man who couldn’t do it which was in fact the truth.
I don’t think I was alone, I think a few got banned at the same time. I was already here before then because I could see the writing on the wall.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
i think the closest mine was to a real "advocation of violence" was when i posted my daydream about krasnov dying like elvis, only it happening on camera so it's more ignominious. and a whole lot of weegees and luigi twerking gifs because if you are not rebelling against the absurdities and injustices of existence in even the teensiest ways and making yourself laugh, what are you doing?
i've posted here about the Robert-François Damiens because i pushed the boundary that far (and no further) and got away with it.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 106d
I was banned for pointing out a mods hypocrisy of removing some ads while keeping others even when the sub specifically had a rule for no ads. Reddit admins called it harassment when I only sent one message to the mod and reported their reply for breaking the TOS/Moderator Code of Conduct.
My post on that sub didn't appear to have trolls or right wing losers in the replies.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 105d
Ehh I'm not missing much from reddit. But when I'm modding a console, all the helpful posts are on reddit.
Sucks when I hate the website and everything about it, but there is information on there you cannot find on lemmy.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 105d
Make a new post and copy and paste it so the next person finds it here
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 8 pts · 106d
Thats really funny.
nulltape@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 105d
Lmao I am freshly banned from Reddit (including all of my alts which are not linked to my main account somehow) for suggesting they protect pedophiles (they do). I don't miss it, half of it is bots nowadays anyways.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 106d
Why do I hear the Larry David credits song in my head?
1984@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 105d
Makes sense. :)
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 105d
Fuck you, spez.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
Reddit moment
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
My flair in one of the big subs on Reddit is degrading to mods. I got a mod who was on the way out to assign it. 🤞 the admins don't drop the banhammer.
Pattylay@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
Can it ghisllaine
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d
beep why are you providing enough citation for us to figure out what the fuck is going on. bad beep.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 76d
When Aaron passed away and Ellen came on reddit went to hell in a hand basket.
And Spez went full retread...