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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I finally got the kick I need to go 100% in on Lemmy. I don't know why I am surprised. At one point they said shadow banning was only ever supposed to be used against bots, but reddit doesn't care anymore.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have been banned twice and shadowed banned many times at reddit. And that was before the spez stuff.

I think it was my states subreddits mods causing me trouble I think.

One time I made a comment on a post about nazis in town and said "Let me get my bat". That got me a permanent ban.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you can't find your bat let me know. I'm sure I have a spare one somewhere.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I got permabanned for saying that Donald Trump is incapable of testifying in court without incriminating himself.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

How did you get banned for that? There's no way that's the whole story.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I used the phrase 'give him enough rope to hang himself'. apparently this is advocating violence, or something, or some trumpy mod got his feelies hurt.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I see. Reddit is real touchy about calls to violence, and many subs have really dumb bots that trigger on key phrases. "Hang himself" probably did it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit is real touchy about calls to violence

Yeah but that's a standard phrase that has nothing to do with violence, and that's been around forever.

It has the same meaning as someone who paints themselves into a corner.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The crowd at reddit is losing the cream and it's just getting lower quality.

I also got banned for calling out someone making a disingenuous argument.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

To be fair, comments on Lemmy are essentially the same low quality as on reddit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For the most part that's the whole of society, people in general seem to have become quite shallow in the last 15 years it's wild to think people have so much to say but nothing to talk about. It makes holding conversations extraordinarily difficult for me to have because i get exhausted being the sole contributor of any substance.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For the most part that’s the whole of society, people in general seem to have become quite shallow in the last 15 years

I know I sound like a broken record wearing a tinfoil hat, but I would argue a lot of that is not actually regular everyday people, but astroturfers and conflict bots being used by those who wish to discourage regular people from having conversations, or want to shape a narrative in their own specific direction that benefits just themselves.

If all the regular people could talk to each other and come to agreement on things, imagine the level of power they would have. Those who are in power now would want to discourage that from happening.

If you can't control the 'Town Square' then the next best thing is to destroy it, by polluting it so that no one can use it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm banned from like a hundred different subs. Most I've never even been to.

At some point their auto ban bot decided that because I sub to a bunch of subs with 'porn' in the title (wordporn, skyporn, food porn etc etc) that not only am I NSFW but that I also deserve to be banned.

Either that or I pissed off one of the mega mods.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How old is your Reddit account?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was drifting away from Reddit a few months before the first mass exodus i found a few sites and communities i like. I do say the structure of the fediverse (or lack thereof) is quite refreshing.

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