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.

  • PeterisBacon@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Just got my ban for saying how Luigi is my favorite super marios brother. Like on the racing ones, how accurate he can dome someone with a turtle shell. And he is insanely fast. Like dude can go from one side of the map to the other in speeds unexplainable.

    They banned me for violent comments.

    I appealed with a ‘eat shit, DDD Spez’

    • AloneYogurt@lemmy.world
      124·
      10 days ago

      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.

      • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
        621·
        10 days ago

        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

      • glepswizardhat@lemmy.worldOP
        501·
        10 days ago

        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.

        • AloneYogurt@lemmy.world
          251·
          10 days ago

          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.

          • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
            161·
            10 days ago

            not contradicting at all if you consider them as part of the putin/musk propaganda apparatus

            • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
              7·
              9 days ago

              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”

      • molestme247@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        10 days ago

        Hey they got me long ago but permanently banned IP address maybe? Tried new numbers, new emails, and glad after the last few days

        • Contemporarium@lemm.eeEnglish
          9·
          10 days ago

          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

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          they also looked for same device, browser fingerprinting, behaviour pattern, reddits banning filters is the most aggressive of any social media, and site.

    • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
      38·
      10 days ago

      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.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
    185·
    10 days ago

    Make advertisers into bad words “hellofresh the rich” " squarespace the ceos"

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    130·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      611·
      10 days ago

      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.

    • Cocopanda@lemmy.world
      53·
      9 days ago

      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.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      33·
      10 days ago

      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.

    • misteloct@lemmy.world
      24·
      9 days ago

      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.

    • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world
      19·
      10 days ago

      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.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      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.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      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.

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      China’s not going to let tiktok fall out of their control. If it gets sold it will be to someone beholden to them.

    • j0ester@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      Same here. Got Banned from r/WorldNews for talking about Luigi when that CEO incident happened. Perma-banned a day later.

      • imvii@lemmy.caEnglish
        28·
        10 days ago

        Same. And I have reddit and their nonsense ban hammer to thank for it.

      • OrloNorppa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        15·
        10 days ago

        Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.

        • parmesan@lemmy.world
          10·
          9 days ago

          I saw someone in a reddit thread about Lemmy earlier complaining that it wasn’t “user friendly” enough because someone posted an infograph on how the Fediverse works. Even though all the infograph was explaining was that you log into one instance and can freely interact with the rest from there…

          I’ve always thought the internet should be more decentralized and being able to log in without seeing tons of bots, reposts and propaganda is literally the best aspect of Lemmy for me. This feels like what social media was meant to be. I wish there was an easier way to get people to understand that.

        • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
          8·
          10 days ago

          We definitely have our own bots and spam problems. Instance admins work diligently to keep the situation under control, and so far, they’ve been pretty successful. I’ve seen a few waves of it in my almost 2 years here.

          I don’t think there’s a way to make the problem go away completely, but I think this model has proven more resilient so far. I believe in it.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      14·
      10 days ago

      I came here with the API changes, but I knew there would be future waves. It’s so nice. I believe in Lemmy and the promise of federated media to help technology work for humans.

    • SausageWallet@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      I first joined reddit in 2011 and Lemmy definitely reminds me of early reddit. Except back then I probably lurked for about a year before I even made my first comment or post. I joined Lemmy about a month ago and I’m slowly starting to participate already.

  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
    1111·
    10 days ago

    I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that the RDDT stock price has dropped 40% in the last month, and it’s not surprising. That site is a sinking ship.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        17·
        10 days ago

        It’s the way of business these days. They got their money. The ship can sink now. The users suffer.

      • Wooki@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        It’s an executive sell off, they’ve got their money so they’re happy. Now they need to make bank for the company for the next fiscal report in order to sell more. Watch this space. Reddit enshitification isnt over.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 days ago

      The stock is so comically overpriced. Over 100 p/e. Nobody at Reddit is crying because it can’t stay inflated forever. They’re likely already all out.

    • Wooki@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 days ago

      I suspect that would be from the executive sell off and nothing more . They’ve been doing everything they could to fatten their personal wallets so I’m not surprised a c-suite selloff has resulted in devaluation

  • brax@sh.itjust.works
    1052·
    10 days ago

    /r/conservative and /r/conspiracy are still open… What a fucking shit-ass website. I don’t get why they don’t just # rm -rf the whole fucking thing already.

    Clearly they’re pissed that people are still using the site. They’ve made efforts to stop it by making shit redesigns, releasing a shitty app, user profiles, shutting off the API and trying to force people to use their shit app.

    They must be seething that people are still using it and they’ve found a new way to try to get people to stop. Of course, they could shut the site down, but these are execs we’re talking about - their forté is ignoring every elephant in the room and then creating “solutions” that completely miss the problem.

    • gamer@lemm.ee
      45·
      10 days ago

      They’re in the business of selling “organic” content to AI companies, but those AI companies don’t want advertiser-unfriendly language in their datasets.

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        25·
        10 days ago

        Advertisors are dumb as fuck. Like, clearly if their datasets contain language that is not “advertisor friendly” then who the fuck are they trying to advertise to?

        “Wow, all of society is doing this stuff. But this isn’t very friendly. The people doing that stuff certainly wouldn’t like if we advertised the stuff they’re doing!”

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
          25·
          10 days ago

          I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.

          Think about it.

          All major websites are censoring language and content that could even remotely be construed as adult-friendly or “harmful”; the fact so many US states are outright banning porn sites (I know it’s like a hydra, but the point still stands); the entire world is sliding right back into fascism; I even feel like Hollywood is stepping away from things like violence and vulgarity.

          It’s all a fucking sham and I fucking hate it. Let us swear; let us jack off to the weird shit we want to jack off too; just let people be people.

          Why does there have to be a small but extremely powerful subset of people who can run the entire world and dictate what the rest of us can and can’t do?

          • B-TR3E@feddit.org
            111·
            10 days ago

            I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.

            When would that have been? Humanity never was puritan and it never will be. The UK were and some hicks in their former colonies think they still are but humanity or civilisation are not limited to the area between Texas and Alaska. Actually It has barely arrived there.

            • KillerSpacePotatoes@lemmy.world
              3·
              9 days ago

              They have some warped idea of what the past was like and want to drag us back to a time that never was. A time when you couldn’t even show married couples in the same bed on TV.

          • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            10 days ago

            The thing about the puritans were that they had harsh rules that existed to try to keep their flock from sinning. They failed as such things always fail.
            A good example of a common practice from the time was that part of the pay of a young man working on another mans farm was the bed of their eldest daughter at night. It made identifying the father of the child easier.

            This one practice alone made the puritans a lot more rational than this current cancer on society.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 days ago

            I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.

            And it’s not just the conservatives. The self-identified progressive places do it too.

          • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            9 days ago

            let us jack off to the weird shit we want to jack off too

            That’s been grounds for defederating some Lemmy instances in the past.

          • misteloct@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 days ago

            “And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Wayne Gretzky.

    • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 days ago

      I think maybe the problem is that places like Reddit were essentially a “third place.” It just happens to be a virtual one. You can’t monetize a place, unless you also provide a good or a service. a restaurant at least provides food and drinks. bowling alleys provide games and food and drink. What does reddit provide aside from the place? Other than annoyances such as Ads, 1984 level moderation, etc.

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        10·
        10 days ago

        Well, they used to provide a convenient way to find information on niche shit.

        But they’ve done all they can to make sure that all they are now is just some place.

        • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          10 days ago

          They didn’t do shit. Our words, and google did that. lol Edit: sorry, I didn’t mean that to sound as harsh as it might.

      • Aksumite@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        Attention Extraction modeling. Thats how social media platforms monetize. I started working what the same kind of technologies but it was to predict how clients should customize their products to tailor behavior input. These corpations trade in behavior modifaction and RTD auction with political clients. A good example when it goes wrong is the Myanmar /Facebook masssacre.

        • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          Yes, that provides some value. But, not to the people that use it. That actually provides extreme evidence on why not to use it.

          • Aksumite@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 days ago

            Agree. You wont find any one working in the tech industry that allows their family or friends use social media platforms. You will find that almost every day to day apps, (linkedin, whatsapp, instagram, Facebook, snapchat, reddit, pinterest, etcetera), contributes to the polarization that we see more and more of today. Some of these work together but often it is a big competition of who can get your attention.And their are addictive. Alternatives would have to be completly opposite and decentralized…unfortunely we will be stuck with these for a real long time.

            • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              10 days ago

              By polarization you mean Nazi propaganda shoved down our throats on purpose by the Nazi CEOs. The polarization only ever seems to go one way…

              • Aksumite@lemmy.world
                21·
                9 days ago

                Manufacturing consent but on steroids. Since everyone turns to social media to form their opinion on all Matters

              • Aksumite@lemmy.world
                11·
                9 days ago

                Basically every region of the world you will find division among the populations due to different perceptions of reality. For instance, when you search for the same keywords as me, we will get different either suggestions in the auto complete or different search results, even though we both could be in the same city. You can see this patterns where ever they are allowed, (China for instance banned many of them because of this), its called microtargeting.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      sad how conspiracy sub got co-opted by russian trolls and right wingers, i was there before trump took office the 1st time, and it was a completely different sub.

      • finder@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        Same man, I miss the old “sane” conspiracy sub. Seriously, the shit on there now makes the old sub look sane.

    • misteloct@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 days ago

      I mean none of those other policies affected me. When APIs were removed there was much more bot spam but I muted thousands of subreddits and it was acceptable.

      Now they’re banning me for criticizing the moderation policy? Do they think they’re the Thai king? I’m just using alternatives now.

    • PunnyName@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      Probably because they both have mods. Almost every banned subreddit gets the ban because it’s unmoderated.

    • kava@lemmy.world
      542·
      10 days ago

      Reddit may actually be doing a lot of people a big favor.

      Today Trump’s DHS went out and arrested a Palestinian student at Columbia for participating at a protest a year prior. Our federal agents are becoming like the KGB- hunting down political dissidents.

      I believe that is just a start. I think people would be wise to be careful about the things they post online. If you do post content you believe the administration may not like, I suggest making an anonymous account with an email not linked to your personal name.

      I have a hunch that people will be arrested in the near future for posting things online.

    • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      My account there is 19 years old and I’m starting to spend more time on Lemmy than I am Reddit.

      My forum timeline’s been webcomic/livejournal forums > ytmnd & digg > reddit > lemmy

      (Social media’s been Chat clients > MySpace > FB > Instagram > BeReal & Pixelfed)

  • MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca
    57·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • Alloi@lemmy.world
    593·
    9 days ago

    got banned for telling a trump supporter to go fuck himself after he joked about the 51st state among other things, im canadian. also i upvoted luigi content and got permanently banned. not just one email, but all connected emails as well.

    im out. that place is a censored shithole. fuck reddit. i hope they ban all the real ones so they come here.

  • rockettaco37@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    9 days ago

    Well… that’s just going to be most American sites going forward. That’s why ultimately platforms like Lemmy are so important. What a lot of people here in the States don’t realize is that this is a war on information.