I just got a ban for “encouraging violence”. Someone asked “what will you do to celebrate when he dies?” Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they’d put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians’ careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.

So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.

And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It’ll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.

  • TheChickenOfDoom@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    49 minutes ago

    Reddit has loved that asshole forever. We forget that back in 2016 Reddit allowed a huge subreddit full of upvoting bots and trolls to post the most atrocious lies and slander and bullshit (/r/the_d**ald) on the entire site and it got so bad that it was the ONLY SUBREDDIT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF /r/all FOR AT LEAST A WEEK.

    They pulled back when they saw their profits declining and the massive backlash going on but now that we’re in full fascism mode, reddit is going all out again.

    Fuck that place.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    5 hours ago

    I came here when all the API drama happened, and I didn’t even use third party apps, I just decided that I didn’t want to help make that greedy little pig boy any money. Even still, I’m actually shocked that they’ve cracked down this hard. It’s hard to take serious, because it seems like they would destroy their userbase with this, but they’re doing it.

    • tbs9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 hours ago

      I also came here when all the API drama happened. I also checked out Sqabblr, which had a different name at first. There wasn’t much here and I was confused by the fediverse. I went on Facebook and that was a hot mess of garbage.

      I went back to Reddit recently and it’s noticeably worse - probably a combination of chasing away great mods and our world just being what it is makes for people being awful at each other rather than at problems.

      I’ve just come back here this weekend and there seems to be more resources to help me understand the nature of the fediverse. Ideally I won’t be back to Reddit.

      Sorry to ramble, hope you have a great week!

  • sweddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    6 hours ago

    Got perma-banned from a 15 year old account for joking about Elon Musk needing to get Luigi-ed. Fuck that place. Never going back.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      5 hours ago

      Elon needs to have a come to Luigi moment. Welcome to the free internet, sibling. Btw fyi, .world tends to be a little more aggressively moderated than some other instances like .ee; it’s nowhere near Reddit, and I wouldn’t even say it’s problematic, but folks have taken issue with their moderation before.

      It’s a bit of give and take, but I doubt you’ll encounter a problem. If you do, just hop servers.

  • PassionatePrincess@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    Can confirm, have made the move. It was only a matter of time before that place went down the fascist watch list.

    Facebook, gone. Amazon, gone. Reddit, gone.

    Gotta get rid of my Google account next.

    • MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I lean right and they banned me. It’s not about being left leaning or right leaning. Either you’re far one way or another or you’re not welcome anymore.

      • socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        37 minutes ago

        They definitely don’t like the far left, they’re banning people for saying “eat the rich”. Amidst leftists that’s protected cultural speech, it’s our version of hello.

        What they hate right now is mostly pretty random, but I think they’re going for a pro authoritarian schtick. It’s a bold move, cotton.

      • wanderingmagus@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        And meanwhile all the mods over there are doing everything in their power to show absolute loyalty to u/spez when he doesn’t even pay them lol. Fuck u/spez.

    • Ambiance6195@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Good luck. Assuming you have a smart phone, it’s either Apple or Android. But I get the feeling that you are not an apple simp, and most Android devices require Google to even set up.

  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    7 hours ago

    Everyone please put your narwhals and your bacon in the trash, this is jeans and beans country

    (But you can put bacon in the beans, and on everything else, and by itself … no sense wasting bacon)

  • Roundeyegweilo@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    7 hours ago

    Some right wing troll said something akin to “so much for the tolerant left.” I replied “I don’t give two shits about your opinion dude. I’ll see you in the streets during the revolution.”.

    That was my third account banned. I figured that shit was pretty innocuous. 😂 This was a few weeks back.

    Fuck reddit. It’s probably for the best. They’re talking about paid subs coming next year or whatever. I hope reddit burns to the ground.

    • misteloct@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Your revolution sounds peaceful. I take your comment to mean “you might disagree but we’ll both be revolting together arm in arm against the billionaires”. I don’t even see where violence is implied lol.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      59 minutes ago

      I think that’s one of the things that everyone on Lemmy can agree on politically

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      5 hours ago

      Bro, if the feds go through the trouble of setting up a honeypot to catch anti-nazi-oligarch folks, then they’re dumb as fuck. They could just start a Lemmy server.

  • acme401@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    8 hours ago

    Hi. I made it.

    Just deleted my 13-year-old account. I’m fucking pissed how much effort I put into that fucking place. The hardest thing was overwriting my content so they don’t grt to keep my work. It’s done, fuck that place.

    • nicky7@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      manually or with a script? i just saved a local copy of my post/comment history for my own archive, but i want to replace all my comments with a short “i quit for [reasons]”. 17 year old account… there are a lot of comments to swap out. I’m afraid of i script it, it’s going to trigger something and they’ll lock my account before i can complete the edits.

  • LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    7 hours ago

    Yep all three of my accounts got banned from Reddit yesterday for no good reason. Everyone should seriously leave that trash heap asap