When October 7th happened, it was horrifying and Reddit became a political warzone. People on Reddit were calling openly spreading hate and calling for genocide. I reported those users, because it was against Reddit TOS. I was banned for a week. None of those users were punished.
Over the next month, I was banned from every major news sub and beyond for speaking out against the IDF’s actions in Israel. No comments I made broke subreddit rules or Reddit’s TOS, but moderators banned and muted me anyway. I reported moderator abuse to Reddit and they ignored it.
This week, I reported multiple people again for calling for genocide. I was permanently banned for “report abuse” citing a report I made THREE WEEKS prior with someone calling all Palestinians terrorists and advocating their murder. That user is still on the site and never punished.
Report abuse is meant to protect speech and discussion on Reddit, but it’s being weaponized as a tool to silence criticism of Israel. Multiple appeals have been denied despite there being no justification and no violation of Reddit’s rules.
My secondary account was banned (“ban evasion”) the moment I commented in a sub from which my primary was unjustly banned for commenting negatively on the IDF. Reddit is refusing to honor its own rules and actively oppressing speech its administration doesn’t agree with.
June 10 or 11 of last year was the last time I went into that place.
It felt like the end of an era to me.
Well guess what? I’m having a perfectly grand time here on Lemmy, and now I also watch a lot of physics and cosmology videos on YouTube, instead of doomscrolling in that other place.
Now I’m finally getting the hang of electron spin, the strong and weak forces, and even have a little better insight and understanding on what “E=mc^2” actually means. And this is all directly related to slamming the door shut on Reddit and throwing away the key, six months ago.
There are a lot of assholes here too.
But the framework of this place is built on a different system of principles, and many of the pests around here have been quarantined horizontally, instead of protected and nurtured vertically.
I had an account banned from a community here for trying to explain to some people that Biden is not committing “genocide” anywhere as he does not have the authority to do so- and that there’s a lot of nuance to the situation that they should look into.
BLAMO! Banned.