So yesterday I received a 7-day ban for ‘encouraging violence’, for saying that Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit, somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and the ‘offending’ comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit’s rules with my ‘other account(s)’. Well that’s also bullshit because I’ve had exactly one (1) account in the 14 years I’ve been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think I’m gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
Welcome, glad to have you aboard!
Thanks, glad to be here!
I’ve basically abandoned Reddit as well. I’ve been on for so long, but this bullshit makes me feel unsafe. If the platform is going to so blatantly side with those who would happily let me die for a few dollars (health insurance companies), then I don’t need to give them my attention or data anymore.
Welcome to Lemmy. Outside of niche subjects and local content I think this place has everything reddit does but with less bullshit. If people keep making the switch in large numbers we’ll build all those communities too and be better off for it.
It was liberating for me. Haven’t gone back.
I haven’t and I won’t. Lemmy is a far more positive atmosphere with less content, but better quality content. There’s less overt manipulation and not everything is politicised. I just don’t trust reddit
Same. Funny all those douches who said we’d be back in a week lol
13 year account here, also banned for supporting Luigi. I tried to appeal, but the post had already been removed so I didn’t know what exactly I said that violated the rules, and my appeal was denied. This was a post I made back in December, mind you. They went looking for a reason to ban a Luigi supporter. They did homework.
Somebody over there is really afraid of how popular Luigi’s actions were. I wonder why…
Welcome! There are dozens of us
Didn’t I see you at the convention in Munich last year?
Dozens now, hundreds tomorrow, thousands next week.
52K / 12 = 4.3K dozens to be exact
My main concern is that Luigi isn’t even confirmed to be the one to have pulled the trigger, right?
But even if he was, I still don’t think he should go to jail for it.
Luigi didn’t do it but if he did do it, Brian Thompson deserved it!
It is too much pressure for Reddit to have this many users. They’re doing their best to get rid of them. It’s just too much to handle… Poor Reddit
Help Reddit’s well-being by leaving it and join Lemmy today!
“Damn users trying to comment on stuff. Just shut up and keep scrolling instead. Our bots can handle the comments.”
lmfao fuck reddit cause this is so true
This same thing happened to me twice in one week. I haven’t had a ban on my account in 14 years. I’ve given up on Reddit and just deleted my account. Fuck them if they want to treat us like we’re children. I won’t use their platform again.
Paranoid me says they’re trying to ban all of the older accounts with clear liberal bias. 14 years for me too and my permaban was for saying I’d “take a couple with me” if Nazis ever came for me. Appealed and upheld.
Crazy to think defending yourself is something worthy of a ban, but here we are. Fuck 'em I guess. They won’t make money off of me and I won’t post to their communities. Sounds like a lose/lose situation for them.
Yeah it’s been getting increasingly fashy over there. They’ve blocked topics before, but to my knowledge they’ve never banned people for upvoting something. It’s crazy. Next they’re going to start banning any anti-Israel content as antisemitic, or anything pro-Palestine as promoting terrorism or whatever. It’s gotten MUCH worse since the IPO, too, so it’s clearly being done for the benefit of the advertisers.
Reddit already heavily censors anything pro-Palestinian.
14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).
If I come across something I can’t find here I will certainly do that.
I’m using Voyager and you can copy the link for all of your subscribed subreddits (if you haven’t deleted your account yet) and enter it into the app. It will search Lemmy for similar communities.
Same man, I’ve been on Reddit pretty much since 2005.
It seems like such a waste of 20 years of doom scrolling, imagine if I’d put that time into learning a trade, or another language…
That’s not how brains work, they need time to unwind, so you would’ve just found some other method to do that.
You’re doom scrolling right now on lemmy.
If Reddit didn’t turn to shit I don’t see how your doom scrolling wasn’t already a waste of time.
But wasting time is the point right? You can’t spent every single minute of your day being productive.
It’s like people complaining that playing video games and watching moves is a huge waste of time. Like, durrrr, that’s the point.
Aye, it’s just escapism one way or another.
But no, we must be active 100% of the time.
We don’t have to do that wank “/s” here do we??
Curating subs? I see it as more of “creating my own bubble”. Lemmy is a good way to kinda expose myself to other stuff for a change and not just the reddit hive mind.
I mean, how many times have you opened a post and knew what the top 3 comments would be??
Weeeelllll… technically there are a couple of Lemmy cliches, but you make a good point. Canned bot responses to farm karma are certainly awful, with the only human exception being “look up en passant” because that was intentional predicability.
The adjustment can be a little awkward at first but there’s plenty to do on Lemmy if you take some time to learn how things work and how to get the most out of it.
If you’re the type of person that enjoys posting and guiding topics there’s no shortage of people hungry for content on Lemmy. There are lots of active communities but even more that are still trying to get off the ground or need someone interested to adopt them.
Whatever your interests, https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great way to find communities for the topics you care about if you aren’t finding them on lemmy.world.
I hope your time here is more enjoyable than where you’re coming from.
Thanks! Honestly it’s been less of an adjustment than I expected. Took a couple hours to read about it and figure out how it works, picked a server, and jumped right in. The big thing is that I’m losing that whole curated sub list that I’m going to have to replicate, but I’m sure it’ll take care of itself.
If you happen to use or try the Voyager app they have a migration tool that is supposed to work well.
Every long term reddit bans and/or alienates and comes to lemmy, benefits us all. Welcome!
Reddit is doing that Microsoft strategy for Linux
I think there is a very simple solution to all your problems with reddit…
It’s been almost two years since my exodus. I’ve popped in Reddit a few times for specific information, but I noticed I just feel like crap when I do. It’s just so toxic. I didn’t notice it until I spent time in Lemmy.
