My 10 year account got banned for voicing criticism of the fascist State of Israel
What got you banned?
Banned? No. Other way around. I banned reddit from my devices after the API fiasco.
I enjoyed some few-days bans for saying that USA is not a greay country to live in. And a bit longer bans for saying Israel is doing warcrimes. But never permanent. Curiosity brought me to lemmy but this platform feels tad empty
I definitely miss the niche hobby/interest-specific subs here
For voicing criticism of Hamas and crime against humanity targeting civilian. Funy
I got banned for making a comment about some hockey player needed attempted murder charges for using his skate blade to slash a rival players throat during a game. Blood spirting out all over the ice. I was banned for inciting violence. When I asked how what I said was inciting violence they perma banned me. I then came here.
I just stopped using it. No ban necessary.
I did get one or two temporary bans some years ago. First time was for criticizing their censorship. The second time was for sending the middle finger emoji to Spez.
I’m not going to go out of my way to delete my dead user or posts or anything. It’s not my problem. Quite frankly, I just don’t give a shit about their site.
Left reddit in the api blockage
Now I spend my days shit chatting with MLs
Not banned but forced to use their shit app. They shut down Reddit is Fun, fuck them
Same here, I still have RIF installed too just so I can look at the icon and be sad.
I deleted my account, remade another
Defended lgbt people and fought against racists
Got banned for being a bigot I think a few weeks later.
I have no idea why anyone would want to stay there, but I hope they do or the Lemmy communities will get overrun by nutjobs
There was no way to argue against the ban either. Seems that the current strategy is just reporting people who hate trump. As long as you have the right keywords, it might even be automated at this point
Whereas, on Facebook, nobody gets banned, and racist comments get promoted because they have the most engagement… and the racists whinge that Facebook is getting blocked for kids
I was sitewide banned for criticizing war thunder owner Gaijin on their own subreddit by saying they are biased to make russian vehicles always perform better than other nations at the same battle rating.
As far as I understood from others it’s because subreddit mods have the power to sitewide ban… For some ridiculous reason. And in this case nobody at Reddit gave a damn or dared confront someone as big as Gaijin for someone as little as me.
Edit: at least I think that’s why. Reddit bans are ambiguous as fuck. I remember trying to figure out why exactly but the message was similar to “banned because you broke tos” or some bullshit like that, with no link to an actual comment.
Reddit does seem to give subreddit mods a good deal of credit in their flags of users.
But a lot of it is dishonest, if you get traction criticizing a powerful group, they will find an unrelated reason to ban you. Because we have no rights to fair enforcement of the rules, they don’t have to bother to make their accusations believable.
Israel is the main one I’m familiar with that they do this for, but all sorts of other stuff too.
Oh yea. If you as much as bring up the word goy you get shadowbanned immediatelly afaik.
Getting banned on reddit was how I first learned about lemmy, but tbh I see the same kind of shit-flinging here, and I go back and forth. There’s a kind of smugness here about not being like reddit, but I think it just feels different because people who would be targets on reddit get to be flingers here.
Funny enough I have never been banned on reddit, but I have been banned on .ml memes for stating that not everybody in the military is a fascist pig and some people only join because it’s one of the easiest ways to get family healthcare with no deductible in the USA. (Literally why my father joined) But obviously since I’m not actively sucking CCP knob the mod banned me, rule 1 as is the way with the shit mods here. No forums immune from it! Overall I would say I’m much happier on Lemmy because of the more genuine seeming human interaction, which I think is a result of being a smaller community and maybe having less bot traffic and astro turfing.
I think the interaction is a LOT better here - for one thing the community is so much smaller you get tons more replies here, which is more engaging and feels more being seen and heard. I still feel a strong one-answer-is-correct atmosphere, like you mention on .ml memes. But I guess that just means some subjects simply aren’t discussable objectively, because that involves questioning your own ideas, which is seen as enemy infiltration. I’m slowly learning to avoid the echo chambers, but far from successful yet lol. Overall I heart Lemmy.
I feel you there, I actually love Lemmy BECAUSE I loved reddit. Sure it’s a shit show now, but to me Lemmy feels the way reddit did like pre 2015 where communities were smaller, not as many people had heard of it etc. Around 2016 it all started going downhill fast, I’m forever thankful to spez for fucking with the api stuff as that drove me out and found Lemmy (well I found kbin first, but through kbin found Lemmy) which feels a lot like reddit of days gone by. In the end Aaron Swartz is who I think made the reddit I love, and after his passing in 13 things started sliding in the wrong direction.
Not banned, just bored.
This is not a banned users refuge.
Today is my 3 year Lemmyversary, so I’m not exactly a new user. I mostly left Reddit after the API change, but did continue to use it lightly. Got banned about three months ago for commenting on a story about the IDF torturing a one year old baby in order to get information from the boys father. My comment said basically I can kinda see the terrorists’ [against Isreal] point.
Honestly being banned for anti-Israel/anti-Zionism rhetoric is kinda a badge of honor.
I didn’t get banned. I left after the API change. I was already reducing use naturally, and what time I did still spend there was mostly to mod a very small niche hobby sub.
Without the mod tools I used before the API changes, plus the influx of MAGA-bots on reddit as a whole, I could longer mod the sub in a way the community asked for and that I was comfortable with. So I resigned, wished the remaining mods well, and went about my way.
There were other subs trying to go dark and impact reddit’s advertising opportunities, and reddit was banning some of the mods doing that sort of thing. I decided even if reddit changed course, I was past the point I could ever come back to it.
There was so many good apps before the Big Ban. Still hurts.
Dito, not banned, but left with the API change as well. Still keep RIF on my phone just so that if anyone sends me a redditink I get a 401:forbidden and have to reevauate if I actually give a shit enough to view it in a browser. The actual app is just as bad as ticktok when it comes to nicking every data point that isnt nailed down.
Got banned from a subreddit, didn’t know, commented on a random post on the front page on an alt, got instantly banned permanently across all accounts.
Had a new one on a new phone for a bit, appealing a comment removal got it caught and banned, mightve been logged into my old one in safari at some point. Funny enough, 1 day later they appealed and put back up the removed comment, undoing my ban (that comment was enough to ban me too, it was saying covid shouldve taken out some of the old politiicans so they wouldnt all be senile running for senator) but since I had another ban/strike in place due to them connecting my new account to the old one it’s still permanently banned. They only appealed the new ban which means nothing, just that the comment 5 ppl saw stays up.
If you want to keep your comment because lemmy is awful for niche content like blender, comics, etc. (idk why ppl always say to post here for that, barely anyone comments on my niche interests and you see no one elses post which is the main reason to go there, I dont want to post 99% of the time and likes are meaningless) If you need help/advice lemmy is pretty solid, but for something like talking about episodes for a new show as they come out, it’s not great.
