I’m so confused by how Reddit is being moderated now. I had someone follow me to various subreddits, responding to every comment I made with a particular anti trans slur, (the one that rhymes with “moon”, not sure if I’m allowed to say it here) and a demand that I join the “41 percent” (which basically means “kill yourself.”) I reported their account, just once, and it was the first time I’d ever reported anyone. A few hours later, I was permanently banned for “abusing the report button”. I tried making another account and was instantly banned. The accounts of other people in my household have also been permanently banned, which is the most confusing part of all of it.
The account that was harassing me is still up as far as I’m aware. So, apparently it’s fine to call people slurs and tell them to die, but they’re not allowed to complain about it.
So, I’m new to this place. I was told it was better.
Here it’s Russia-China-loving Marxist Leninists you gotta watch out for ;-;
Yep, my first account was made on the wrong instance and I was like “wtf is wrong with everyone here? Like I get corporations fuckin’ suck, but communism???”
They’re also HUGE babies and will claim -ism, -phobia, etc. by stretching the littlest thing.
I almost made my first account on Lemmygrad because I love puns and didn’t know that they were ACTUAL tankies.
Thankfully, I found out in time and made my first one on the also politically sus but in a different way .world 😄
I made mine on lemmy.ml because my app instructed me to “choose an instance,” so I did. I didn’t know all these instances had cultures or whatever.
I’ve never tried to get an account on
.world, what are their politics like?It’s such a big tent that there really isn’t any prevailing culture. Some people just like to shit on it because it’s the largest instance.
You’re right and you’re not: like the Democratic Party, it’s a big tent encompassing multitudes.
But also like the Democratic Party, the leadership aka mods and admins (as well as the political communities) is thoroughly dominated by Neoliberals with tendencies towards authoritarianism and prizing negative peace over justified tension.
Could have been worse, such as explodingheads, or its less funny named successor.
I get corporations fuckin’ suck, but communism???
It’s not even actual communism either, but more like tankie-ism. Stalin’s USSR and Mao’s China weren’t communist either, but more like dictatorships / autocracies dressed up with ‘communist principles.’ But I digress, maybe.
Those came from /r/genzedong and similar tankie boards, so they came from there.
I tried making another account and was instantly banned.
Reddit does not like ban evasion, and they have the means to check.
The accounts of other people in my household have also been permanently banned, which is the most confusing part of all of it.
So an IP ban more or less, and that is more draconian than I remember.
Glad you saw the darkness and turn toward the light though!
Must have been an admin that got reported
It’s better here. About a third of the accounts are LGBTQties. Check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ for all your trans related needs. Welcome to the nicer part of the internet.
Reddit isn’t close to free speech in any way. Far-right admins and owners disrupt anything but the most bland discourse, and ban people for stupid, and silly reasons.
Social media comes and goes, and reddit is fucking GONE. It became a stock traded corporation, and instantly lost all credibility. It’s just another billionaire owned media at this point.
You might as well post on full nazi x.com, then wonder why you get banned when you speak out for LGBTQ rights.
Yeah, this is better. Not perfect, but better than bluesky for the same reasons.
I don’t want you to commit suicide. I want you to be happy, educated, and productive without nazis or religious jerks bothering you for any reason.
Why do you expect free speech on a private platform?
I’m not trying to troll I’m trying to understand people’s perception of free speech.
The idea of reddit was an open platform. I guess some people just expect the rug to not get pulled from under them.
Open only until the private entity closes it. Free because they monetize your info. Social media is a cancer on society.
A valuable person has joined the fediverse yay 🥳
No good deed goes unpunished on Reddit.
I caught a temp ban for something similar, and decided to never return.
They accused me of “abusing the report button” for reporting a post that was advocating violence to advance the political agenda of a far right, ethno-nationalist, religious fundamentalist ideology.
Reddit admins are terrorist sympathizers when it advances the class interests of the site’s owners.
I got banned for some of the most benign shit on reddit. I also saw them do nothing about right wing hate. But to hear the story from right wingers, reddit is an echo chamber for the left and they are persecuted unfairly there
I got banned a couple years ago for the same thing.
Moderators can report reports as ‘abusive’, and Reddit basically accepts their word without bothering to actually check anything.
Naturally, certain groups have been exploiting the fuck out of this situation to silence opposing viewpoints.
You could appeal the ban, but most likely Reddit won’t read it and you’ll get an automated response.
As for the repeat ban, you’re running into Reddit’s ban evasion features. They use IP address and browser fingerprinting to track you, even when logged out. Easily defeated, with a little effort - assuming you want to.
Moderators can report reports as ‘abusive’, and Reddit basically accepts their word without bothering to actually check anything.
This. They want to keep the useful idiots that are doing their bidding for free on board. Thus encouraging megalomania and overzealousness btw.
The few mods who were better than that have left long ago.
Congrats on the IP ban, those are usually reserved for serious offenders. Take it as a badge of honor, honestly.
Better get an IP ban on CG-NATed network.
You got ip banned. Consider that Reddit is owned by Corpo Nazi simps and main admins are Evan Nazis themselves, that should clear up the confusion
Unfortunately transphobia and homophobia persist here too. Maybe less visibly than reddit at least.
The differense in the Fediverse is that absolutely no instance admin here needs to show “user number up” to some owner. On the contrary, it costs actual money to run the instances so there’s an actual incentive to just throw out bad actors as soon as they’re identified.
And even when it’s otherwise, people can defederate those instances. Yes, the internet became a worse place every time antisocial people got a less restricted outlet (starting with Something Awful and 4chan, now they have basically all of mainstream social media + private Discords/Matrices/Telegrams for those who want to organize in secret), yes networked harrasment organized on those made the “don’t feed the trolls” an irrelevant advice if not used by said trolls themselves (seen gamergate people using the term to mean “do as we want you to”), but the old internet was a better part.
I was banned for calling out antisemitism a half year ago. They’ve been on this bs for a while now. And you were told right. It is considerably better here imo. Still many of the same issues, but moderation is definitely less gross and frustrating, and the people are generally more interesting and interested. Much smaller crowd, though, obviously. Welcome!
Would you mind linking your old account or some old comments? I’d love to have something substantive to show off to people who don’t believe how fascist Reddit is these days
I mean, that’s reddit we’re talking about
Both of my accounts got smacked with the permbanhammer unreasonably harshly especially considering the “offense” being that I said Neo-Nazis should be named and shamed.
Reddit admins are Nazi sympathizers and the entire platform is rotten.
Cool story.
