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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I've been using reddit a bit the past couple weeks, it's getting pretty dry in the fediverse, especially for local content. I got permabanned from our local Reddit communities thread over literally pretty much nothing about a year and a half ago, basically questioning a power mods opinion on something, and then after getting temp banned, asked what the heck like if you aren't agreeing with me just respond with something, and then I got permabanned.

Anyways I wrote them a kind note today asking to be unbanned, as it is a pretty big sub (343k users for a city of 1.5M), and a good source of information. Told them like look, I'm pretty boring and I can behave, like could you prevent me from having to create a new alt account and let's let bygones be bygones?

The response I got was really condescending, they banned me from mod mail, and basically it was just a really weird response. All they had to say was no, thanks, and I would have moved on with my day. I think some of the mods are suffering from some pretty serious mental health issues these days, if not a god complex in the slightest. Reddit is a really really unhealthy place, and thankfully those people reminded me of that. I quickly deleted the app from my phone, and I think I'm done for good this time. The fediverse may be drying up a bit, but at least most of the people on it can behave like adults.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 12 points 7 months ago

Idk if it's drying up just because it's slower with responses. I think we're just used to the reddit shitbots constantly responding to us on reddit. The slower pace is better because here, there's actually people responding, not bots.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I will singlehandedly try to make the fediverse more interesting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You do, thank you for your work!

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 2 points 7 months ago

Well I can't not share all these sovcits with my Lemmy pals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

(343k users for a city of 1.5M),

You can maybe try to create a community here? If a lot of people are on Reddit, you might get some on Lemmy as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately that same community is about 460 people on Lemmy. There's been three attempts thus far, the main 460 person community seems to be the one that's sticking. At the beginning a couple of the regulars posted on the communities reddit sub, and were instantly threatened with permabans, and any mention of Lemmy on their sub apparently gets deleted and results in bans. I couldn't make this shit up, it's pretty unhealthy. But there is tons of local content on the reddit sub. We were an affected family that were involved in a local crisis last fall for example, and it was really useful for that as well, to connect with other local affected people in a way that couldn't be directly tied back to us by any adverse parties, so we could voice frustrations and support each other. Thankfully I have an alt account that is unbanned, so I could use it for that. But it's still really irritating, I'm a grown adult, but it still just bums me out that people can act like that, I dunno.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't even bother appealing bans. That's what alt accounts are for

[–] BilboBargains 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's one of the few remaining options on Reddit. I heard from Holiday Fart Cruise that Facebook doesn't permit alt accounts to exist for long.

These platforms have their uses for local information, as a lurker, but interacting with them gets shittier by the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Reddit is at end stage enshitification. I don't even know how people tolerate that app or the website. It speaks volumes when there was a robust third party access marketplace.

I just wish the local content would relocate somewhere else. Once people wake up, and it does, that's it for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I've had an alt on facebook for years. Just give it a realistic name and fill in all the crap about its likes and dislikes education etc and make it join some groups.

As long as it's believably a person they leave it alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah it was a momentary lack of judgement. I'm actually a bit embarrassed for myself that I wasted a few minutes of my day kindly asking people I already know are unreasonable weirdos to not be unreasonable weirdos for a moment. I had a laugh to myself about it last night afterwards, and now onwards we go!