After a year away from Reddit, curiosity got the better of me : reddit

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After a year away from Reddit, curiosity got the better of me (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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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!

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I got banned for racism ... for making fun of Vogons. They're not even a race, and more importantly, they don't even exist.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 26 points 6 days ago (10 children)

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.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope you didn't threaten to feed a vogon's grandmother to the ravenous bugblatter beast of trall?

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[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (13 children)

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.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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..

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 6 days ago

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)

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

reddit now hates people dropping links, they ban people for that now.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I guess it messes with the LLM training

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[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 52 points 6 days ago (2 children)

To further clarify on the point you were making in the post, he didn’t just mean he was going in spirit. He fully intended to go, but he was prevented from going by people who knew when to tell him “no.” He even physically grabbed his driver and the steering wheel of the car in a tantrum insisting that he be taken to the Capitol instead of the White House.

Everyone should have watched the January 6th Commission hearings, but now it’s like they basically never even happened.

[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wish he had actually gone. I imagine things would have been easier.

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago

I gotta be honest, in no way do I think anything would change if he had gone. Unless he got shot by a cop (lol), he still would have been impeached, McConnell still would have declined to convict on that impeachment, Garland still would refuse to even think about prosecuting a former president, the maga crowd would still crowd around him, and dems still would have lost in '24. MAYBE the Republican talking points would sound more insane by an nigh indistinguishable amount.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On second thought, let's not go to Reddit. It is a silly place.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 points 6 days ago

*A fascist place.

[–] reddifuge@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You can get banned from reddit for saying you would have shot Hitler.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

you can get banned from reddit for saying that people like Hitler shouldn't exist

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

what in the absolute fuck

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Censorship and fascism.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

its how facebook operates, they just want users to doomscroll the site, and dont want actual users.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, they attempted to go abstract to try to prove I don't entirely know what

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 16 points 6 days ago

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For every legit user banned for even casual talk of violence against Christian fascists, they replace them with a dozen fucking bots.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago

America is, and has been, steeped in violence for so long that I always get a kick out of it when they get all "fainty" and "weak in the knees" when you type about violence. Hell, they wouldn't even show us Osama Bin Laden's body because they thought it would collectively "upset" us yet there are network serial killer crime dramas on TV every day of the week. Now that's entertainment! What an interesting and dissonant time to be alive.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Stop wasting time in Reddit

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 13 points 6 days ago

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...

[–] CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

The two worst things you can do on Reddit: Discuss politics, discuss politics in mainstream subs

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I got permabanned from Reddit for asking the question as to how long will it be until an ICE agent gets shot.

That, According to the Reddit AI admins, was inciting violence, racism, and hate.

For just asking a question.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

not saying i agree with the ban, but "just asking a question" doesn't mean shit. there are plenty of questions you could pose that could incite violence, racism, and hate

reminds me of the south park episode dances with smurfs

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