Except the obvious fuck spez / steve huffman stuff, what are the things that get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances Lemmy?
Specifically, I want to know where is the line drawn, regarding the recent NYC Shooting incident involving the corporate shithead.
- Links to archive.org
- Talking about downloads, how to circumvent DRM, software to do the above.
- Links to anything but youtube on /c/videos . (r/videos respectively).
- Talking about lemmy (in some communities)
- Alternative links to youtube videos that got banned for some reason or another.
Maybe you were in some seriously shady subs with pimple nosed little snotbags acting as mod, but none of this was ever a problem for me in the subs I frequented.
I haven’t visited reddit aside from the stray search result or very niche question every few months (no general browsing or any contributing since I made this account), you really can’t post archive links? Why? DMCA BS?
I once got banned from a community for sharing a zelda decompilation project on archive.org. Others have reported issues with reddit and banning people for sharing nintendo power magazines. Fun times.
Modern day internet, you can talk about things, but you have to talk around certain companies, like nintendo or else risk getting banned/taken down. But with the fediverse, i can own more of the system. If world ever goes down, I can still use my personal instance to communicate for instance.
Which sub? Ninty is probably in their pockets lol.
I believe it was the /r/games ? Its been a loong while.
Being a tankie
Hmm maybe.
I think r/sino is still around?
Openly writing that bad people finally should realize their actions have direct deadly consequences, not only for them… or expect what comes.
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Having an opinion
I can comment on something conservative, calling the people morons for being duped, and not get banned from every single left wing area by some power tripping shithead mod that thinks those comments are going to drive positive traction to those conservative spaces.
Some reddit mods are utterly fucking useless, and definitely need to go touch some fucking grass.
Edit adding a screenshot since someone’s butthurt enough to downvote: context was calling Jordan Peterson problematic
I think the CEO got what he deserved.
Carefully now, you’re on lemmy.world so that doesn’t really apply.
Ehh…
I think “I don’t feel bad for the CEO” is okay, but “Deny, Defend, Depose” can get a comment removal on .world
But then, its lemmy. Theres a lot more instances that are more leinient.
Getting banned from Lemmy is orders of magnitude easier. During my 10+ years on reddit I can only remember one occasion when I got banned from a sub but it has happened on Lemmy multiple times over the 1.5 years I’ve been here and comments being removed is a regular thing.
On reddit you need to actually break the rules. On Lemmy it’s enough that a mod doesn’t like what you’re saying.
Feel free to report power tripping on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
On Reddit I got banned from subs I’d never posted in for participating in other subs. The content of my posts didn’t even matter.
And the sub doesn’t even have to be related. I got banned from commenting in r/thatsinsane for a comment in r/karma4u, can’t even remember commenting there.
If Reddit implemented proper blocking, it wouldn’t be a problem.
The quantity of fuckheads who kept brigading from their cesspool into a regular subreddit was infuriating.
I got banned twice on reddit just because my account was new. So I figured “f reddit” if that’s how they treat new people.
Getting banned doesn’t really have the same impact. In both cases, you can still register with a new email, but on Lemmy, you can also choose a different instance.
What Reddit were you on? Many subs especially leftist learning ones would ban you even if you just subbed to a sub they didn’t like
leftist learning ones
I think those “leftist” subs are more like tankie subs
At least here there is a public modlog.
Which I think is fascinating. On Reddit, I’d get a post removed with a mail that says something extremely vague. Zero transparency.
Now you get extremely vague mod logs instead 🤷
Probably a lot of the guillotine talk you see around here.
I got perma-banned for condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Several mods accused me of being an alt-right neo Nazi MAGA cultist. 🙄
Bro, genocide is bad no matter who is doing it.
Posting with a new account apparently. Last time I made a reddit account I made a few comments in various subs. A few hours I went back and found that every single thing I posted was deleted without a word from the mods. I hadn’t even posted anything controversial but new account = bad I guess
I remember commenting in a sub and getting bounced by automod because I didn’t meet a karma limit. Which is fine, lots of subs have karma limits. But it felt really high- I had a couple thousand karma at the time- and the mods explicitly wouldn’t tell you what the actual limit was.
So I guess you’re just supposed to let automod bounce you occasionally til you manage to hit their magic number.
To be fair, this is usually a spam mitigation thing. Most places that do it have an automod that just deletes anything posted by an account less than x days / weeks old, rather than a human going through and doing it manually. It’s usually in the rules of the sub
A variant is requiring a certain amount of karma for the same reason
Yea, sometime I just want a throwaway to vent on how shitty my life is, then after typing like 5 paragraphs, I click post. I get an automod saying my karma is too low.
Ugh, that shit just makes me wanna end myself even more (figuratively, of course).
Yeah it’s kind of like the crisis hotline hanging up on you because your 2 minutes is up. Insultingly impersonal!
Yeah, some instances are the equal and opposite of voat. Just as extreme, in the opposite direction
Linking the WSOP website literally anywhere on Reddit:
I’ve never heard of it, and checking it out it makes zero sense to ban for linking to what is clearly a decent website by decent people.
I believe it, just expressing my confusion.
I’ve been away from Reddit so long I forgot when it was hard to find WSOP 😂
For a second, I was wondering why they’d ban links to the World Series Of Poker.
Total aside: anyone else noticing sports gambling absolutely exploding in the U.S. the last few years? It’s gonna be a problem, guaranteed.
I’d argue there’s a lot of similarities, since most people left due to Spez and the IPO. I left when Spez and co fucked over the Apollo app dev.
This excludes the tankie instances. I saw a lot of “death to Israel” and other shit before I filtered those instance that would probably have gotten them nuked on reddit. Stuff like that will be the main differences. Here there isn’t any worry about how marketable the platform is to advertisers. Which is mostly a good thing.
These days? Posting positive comments about GrapheneOS would probably get you chucked off the site.
