I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.
I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.
Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.
I didn’t want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn’t comment or post for the first month.
Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn’t take long before it inevitably became political.
I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.
But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.
I’m not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.
I appealed, I do not expect a reply.
Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.
This time I lasted only 2 months
Edit:
They manually reviewed it and kept the ban!
I got banned for racism … for making fun of Vogons. They’re not even a race, and more importantly, they don’t even exist.
My cousin’s permaban was for saying “I won’t let a single Saiyan live” in a dragon ball sub. Saiyans are not real.
And then actual, unchecked racism is rampant.
And then actual, unchecked racism is rampant.
This is the key. Moderation is both heavy-handed AND not fit for purpose.
Facebook had the same problem a few years ago, and they “fixed” it by not bothering to moderate any more.
REDDIT is heading towards that. it will be a clone of X ANd facebook. the admins arnt bothering to listen to most appeals anyways.
Its definitely Ai moderating that, it look for key phrases or words, like “live, or something referring to unalive”
Don’t forget reddit also allows pedophilia from creeps like srgrafo to have massive subreddits with over 100k people in it.
What?
Don’t worry bro, it’s just anime girls, they only look 14, they are actually adults so it’s fine.
-srgrafo
Wait, srgrafo’s a pedo creep? When did that come out?
who is this srgrafo person?
He is is tje guy behind r/Chloe which is underage anime girl porn he draws.
I guess I just didn’t connect those dots. I figured drawing people skinny was just a stylistic choice.
I hope you didn’t threaten to feed a vogon’s grandmother to the ravenous bugblatter beast of trall?
No, that would have been an automod ban – and perfectly understandable.
My cat’s name is Clark, which gradually sometimes became Clark-a-doodle, which became Doodle, which became Doodlebug, which became Bug and occasionally Buggle.
When I’m frustrated with him, it’s now sometimes Frettled Gruntbuggly.
My cat Martha somehow became “Muffin Sweetie”.
I got perma’d a month ago for posting links to .edu domains showing proof that UV light damages your eyes.
Some guy was claiming “the CDC/FDA doesn’t know shit because I used to start into the sun to spite the people who told me not to.”
I got a redditcares and then a site wide shadowban.
No action on the appeal.
I decided not to make another account and to try quitting the internet, when that failed I decided to go to Lemmy instead of reddit again.
When Lemmy gets shitty like that hopeful I’ll be ready to disconnect for good.
When I got permabanned on Reddit I took the opportunity to step away from scrolling. I got a lot accomplished and my mental heath improved. Since Lemmy is slow, it works well, I can’t spend hours here. Unfortunately my baser instincts took over and I find myself scrolling the news app for hours instead…
Yeah the API changes were a good excuse for me to re-evaluate my Reddit and internet habits. I’ve found Lemmy and Mastadon refreshing, and honestly I love the vibes of folks on Mastadon since folks are way less doom and gloom than some of the folks here on Lemmy.
Since abandoning Reddit, I’ve picked up running and biking, gotten back into model railroading and started reading books again. I tried getting back into drawing but that petered out with some disruptions in routine due to travel before I’d fully got drawing integrated into my daily life again. Basically I think I’ve become a better version of myself since leaving Reddit (and honestly a bunch of that was more to do with me than Reddit)
Yeah I definitely feel better now that I’m not looking at reddit.
Still doom scrolling on Lemmy but like you said it’s slow and imo it’s a bit less hyperbolic.
I feel like you can have actual conversation and exchange ideas here as opposed to the reddit dunk off.
reddit now hates people dropping links, they ban people for that now.
I guess it messes with the LLM training
hoping Digg 2.0 is something of value
Is Lemmy Digg 3.0 or Slashdot 4.0 (i.e. Slashdot →Digg→Reddit→Lemmy)
Is there a new digg or are you referring to lemmy?
Digg has been working on rebranding recently, to try and capture some of the fleeing Reddit refugees.
Since you seem to know about light and eyes: Huberman often suggests direct bright sunlight into the eyes. Is that wrong or is there a trade-off between advantages and damage? (Although, direct in Hubermans sense means unfiltered and not looking into the sun, but possibly close to it from my understanding, so is that the important difference?)
I know that he’s not always right, but eyes seem to be his special/original area of expertise. Also, I didn’t follow him much for quite some time, but I remember the sunlight into eyes.
I don’t really know about light and eyes, I just know that UV radiation is bad for you and I know that academic quality evidence for this is abundant.
It was easy to find multiple .edu and .gov sources that explicitly state that UV is harmful to your vision.
When people say things like “bright direct sunlight to the eyes” to me it reads as “touching grass is beneficial.”
You don’t need to look at or near the sun, there’s plenty of sunlight bouncing around on a sunny day. You also don’t need to expose yourself to UV so sunscreen is still a good idea.
Thanks for the explanation.
when lemmy gets shitty
Do you not read the modlogs? The same shit happens here.
But with Lemmy’s decentralized nature, you can always join a different server with less shit admins and still interact with the same people (more or less). The worst the other instance admins can do is ban you from their own servers or defederate.
It’s the same shit with a different name. Reddit is a bunch of smart people that act stupid, and lemmy is a bunch of stupid people that act smart.
Decentralization doesn’t mean shit if you have to keep jumping ship the moment someone does something you disagree with.
Give lemmy another decade and I guarantee you It’ll be a decentralized shitshow. I hope I’m wrong, but look around. It’s already happening.
At least you have a modlog to look at, right? But yeah, moderators will do as they please, and I won’t always agree with it. Not too bothered
On second thought, let’s not go to Reddit. It is a silly place.
You can get banned from reddit for saying you would have shot Hitler.
dont even need to say anything, looking at it wrong will get you shadowbanned: posting too fast, too much, or too similar to another comment, or positng too soon after account creation will get you banned. or somehow your browser or ip changes to suddenly too.
you can get banned from reddit for saying that people like Hitler shouldn’t exist
what in the absolute fuck
Censorship and fascism.
its how facebook operates, they just want users to doomscroll the site, and dont want actual users.
i don’t even understand what is happening in the screenshot. the comment you replied to seems to make the case that he is at fault, and used it as an example to someone defending someone else who incited something but didn’t actively participate. what’s the context here?
Yeah, they attempted to go abstract to try to prove I don’t entirely know what
i think they either agree that he was culpable or they used the assumption that you would find him culpable as an argument that inciting violence does make one guilty to some degree.
the problem is there isn’t really any evidence that the left called for his head (especially a head that big; even the shooter knew he couldn’t penetrate that dome with mere bullets), and certainly not anyone of significance… while the jan6 was incited by the most powerful person in the world.
I was on for 12 years, nearly a million Karma, and was banned in February, right after The Goblin met with Spez, for a comment I’d previously posted many times without an issue.
I evaded the ban for a while, but they got better and better at finding me, and banning me. It seems like once they identify you as a ban evader, they start going through the suspension protocol. First it’s 3 days, then a week, then it’s permanent.
I missed it at first, then I realized that I missed the old Reddit. The new Reddit really, really sucks. I just miss the active guitar and cat subs.
It’s difficult to leave my niche subs, but fucking hell there’s soooo much bot content. Like, I come to lemmy and am suddenly reminded of how humans talk.
50% WAS bot content, mostly propaganda, by like 2023-2024. and then the non-propaganda bots(the one who trying to build up thier OF profiles, or link dropping service).
it seems reddit starting to unilaterally removing random posts and content on thier own now.
I missed AskHistorians for a little while when I left, but I checked back recently and it’s clear that all the interesting history questions were asked and answered years ago. All that’s left is “what if Hitler had three balls instead of one?” over and over again.
I know what you mean. Half the answers, if they even answer it all, were links to the last 2 or 3 times the question was asked.
i was part of the february purge too, for REPORTING misinformation about trump. on r/tech, that gave me a temp ban, then a triggered a full multi account ban, with no explanation at all. reddit was testing thier newly deployed AI moderation in FEB.
What is “a ban evader”
ban evasion, is when either get subreddit ban, or sitewide ban, and create new multiple accounts to post in the same subs you got banned, or if you got shadow or sitewide perman ban. you used a different device and ip to get around that ban.
at first it wasnt a problem for reddit, if you avoid the subs you got banned, or if arnt a serial ban evader. now they target all your accounts if they can connect you to same person, that havent participate in the sub for a while.
Someone who has been banned, but they start a new account under a new name. Reddit prohibits that, and will ban you again.
For every legit user banned for even casual talk of violence against Christian fascists, they replace them with a dozen fucking bots.
or, reddit is only going after the lowest hanging fruit, and leaving propaganda bots mostly untouched. they only do something when public complaints makes a stink about these bots. i noticed this trend, propaganda bots are rampant, but there more or less very little way to remove them. the massive purges, filters have been going after real users, OF accounts, or link sharing types. by the way it only sets back the latter 2 anyways temporarily, while IRL who arent using ban evasion methods are permanently banned.
which sub was this? was r/conservative, you get banned very easily, plus any bans you recieve automatically flags your account by the site, and some mods have connections with admins.
And AI-generated user profiling. Like say if you hate fascists in general, admire a certain Luigi and even talk about committing violence against fascists, the mods/admins will pull up that profile and use it to slap a ban.
They like hobbyists. They don’t want hobbyists talking about progressive politics and propaganda of the deed.
That’s worthy of a ban!? What a dumpster fire. Stay away from reddit. It’s honestly surprising it’s even worse since I left…
They made a system that’s supposed to have ai flag stuff and people review it, then the humans used it as an excuse to be lazy and click through all of them.
i feel like its AI all the way top down. AI flag stuff, ai review it by looking for keywords, and AI issuing the ban, and the rejection of appeals in most cases. ive only seen it rarely when the admins UNBAN someone, on the shadowban sub. its very rare to get unbanned these days. usually shadowban were reserved the worst offendors, like repeat trolls,etc.
How were you top 1% commenter in only 2 months?
Something isn’t adding up
Surprised me too
Apparently everyone is a top commenter now
I suspect they include lurkers in their statistic. All you have to do to be in the Top 1% is be in the Top 50% of people who actually comment.
I got perma banned without a single word. Hadn’t done anything other than maybe miss a few rules on a sub, but nothing which warrented a ban. Maybe a headsup that I forgot a rule. The level of dictatorship they run over there is pretty wild. Fairly certain it’s just A.I/bots running wild, flagging for all the wrong reasons. The worst part is that they don’t even read or answer the appeals. I literally sent 10 over the course of a year, because I had so much information stored for my health journey. Did they care? Nope.
Same here. Ive been banned twice for no reason and no answer from reddit
