Thank you Spez for banning my account of nine years for voicing my political opinion! I made many contributions to communities over the years and now you’ve lost that so good fucking bye.
I recently lost my 13 year old account for telling a Nazi troll that their actions have consequences.
Still trying appeals but not optimistic.
Literally thousands of unpaid work done as a moderator of 4 subs during that time.
… Im so bitter.
Now I’m bitter for you too.
Who is going to create content or mod subs if they kick out all of us veterans?
AI… And they’ll be the users too!
Now create another account and repeat the same steps until they ban your IP
You get an achievement for that? Cuz I’m eligible.
Still on Reddit? Use a comment and post wiper now, before you get banned.
Seriously, shareholders kill what they invest in it’s surreal.
It’s always been like that. They’re parasite - they ruin the thing they latch on to, then they jump ship with fat stacks of cash and move on to the next product to kill.
What opinion got you banned?
Perhaps a comment about Louie G.
Funny thing, I’ve been calling him Manny G
That’s perfect. The more aliases, the better
OP conveniently omitting that detail suggests that popcorn may be in order.
I said billionaires and oligarchs should be luigi’d.
I don’t want to doubt OP too hard, but yea, at least tell us what you said so we are not blindly siding with you
I agree with applying healthy skepticism to any and all stories. At the same time, I can’t blame a recent Reddit refugee for not fully trusting Lemmy yet. They don’t know the environment here. It makes sense for someone to be apprehensive about repeating a thing that just got them banned somewhere else.
But I hope OP feels comfortable enough here to share their story some day.
Probably just practical observations for how to improve things
Or just expressing his love for a certain Super Mario Brother.
I got a warning for upvoting a Luigi post (or a post that reddit deemed as “wrongthink”), the bot didn’t say which sub or post that triggered it so it’s kind of impossible to say for sure or even avoid getting banned from upvoting something they don’t like.
Or a racist and violent tirade.
They’re all just baseless theories until they reveal what they actually said.
Does Reddit ban for racism ?
only if you upvote something that might condone violence against racists
Honestly, I shouldn’t still be pissed about my ban but I can’t help it.
I was on reddit for over 10 years with millions of fake internet points
Sitewide banned me for no discernable reason
It’s been a couple of months and they still haven’t even bothered to respond to my appeal
Now that I see how reddit’s going down the tube, I don’t even care if they respond at this point
I’m done with it
Same here. No reason. No response. Fuck those guys. And fuck Spez.
Man… I wen’t through so many permas on reddit. I am so happy that the alternative is forming
We’ve been here for a few years, but we’re grateful to have new people!
Ready for the explosion of users! I hope Lemmy is ready as well.
My account was 17 years old when I was banned without explanation.
I have said some wild stuff and never been permabanned. What did you post?
It was what I upvoted not what I posted.
Kinda nice to get banned though. I was banned from xitter for liking a comment critical of the muskman, it really helped reinforce that I needed to be done with that place though. Maybe I’ll move on from Reddit before that happens…
My account was 11 years old when I left. Destroyed all my data, thank you very much
Once you’re banned, do your previous posts and comments get deleted? Or do you just lose access to them?
You just lose access
You can still browse and your comments still remain up. But you can no longer post or comment further. I’ll still get upvotes / replies to old comments. I just can’t respond
Don’t be distressed about it, dad. You’re here now. You’re safe.
Thanks for clarifying!
Hey at least you got banned! I just keep getting network errors on mine which is clearly shadow banned since logging in on any other account on the same device does work normally.
And just think, you guys were the ones who didn’t leave back when it was going down the shitter because you disagreed with the opinions of the people they were banning.
This isn’t even exactly a haven for wrongthink either. /r/fatpeoplehate couldn’t exist on Lemmy, so most people coming over aren’t even really concerned with political opinions being silenced, so much as they care about their particular political opinion being silenced.
It absolutely could exist. It’s just likely that a lot of servers would defederate them. That’s kind of the beauty of federation.
Well there ya go. Turns out the fediverse isn’t about freedom from corporations - and it’s just about creating your own brand of filter bubble.
Turns out, those are sort of the same thing. You are given the power to shape your feed how you want it instead of how some corporation wants it.
Yes, but federation controls that on a wider level by adjusting what you’re allowed to see and interact with. Therefore, someone above you gets to control that still. That’s the point I’m making.
If everything federated by default, and users could sign up for filter lists or something to make it easy - sure. But that’s not how it works.
Lemmy even did the same thing Reddit is doing now, where if you mentioned a certain topic they were banning people; but they walked it back. I believe it was even the same topic of Luigi and “advocating violence”.
Therefore, someone above you gets to control that still.
There is nothing stopping you from running your own Lemmy instance and choosing to federate with whomever you choose.
Lemmy even did the same thing Reddit is doing now
Which Lemmy instance? If you don’t like it, just join a different one.
This is all the beauty of not only federation, but also open source.
It really depends. World is friends with pretty much everyone with a few notable exceptions. There are definitely instances that care about that, but you can’t force an isolationist instance to communicate with you.
Freedom goes both ways. It also means freedom to form a bubble.
