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Except the obvious fuck spez / steve huffman stuff, what are the things that get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances Lemmy?

Specifically, I want to know where is the line drawn, regarding the recent NYC Shooting incident involving the corporate shithead.

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[–] RizzRustbolt 1 points 9 hours ago

These days? Posting positive comments about GrapheneOS would probably get you chucked off the site.

[–] UnhingedFridge 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I can comment on something conservative, calling the people morons for being duped, and not get banned from every single left wing area by some power tripping shithead mod that thinks those comments are going to drive positive traction to those conservative spaces.

Some reddit mods are utterly fucking useless, and definitely need to go touch some fucking grass.

Edit adding a screenshot since someone's butthurt enough to downvote: context was calling Jordan Peterson problematic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I got perma-banned for condemning Israel's genocide in Gaza. Several mods accused me of being an alt-right neo Nazi MAGA cultist. 🙄

Bro, genocide is bad no matter who is doing it.

[–] kreskin 28 points 1 day ago (8 children)

sympathizing with Palestinians.

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[–] Goodmorningsunshine 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Saying Nazis should get punched'll get you banned on reddit in my experience

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I got permabanned for saying I would like to see how Eisenhower would treat some Nazi marchers in Wisconsin. Apparently, that is not a commentary on how far the Republicans have shifted, but is actually advocating violence. I haven't been supplying Reddit with free content since. Their loss, I had a pretty decent amount of karma, so I probably was contributing to the popularity of their site.

[–] surph_ninja 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Got a recent one for you. I was permabanned from reddit a month ago for saying I didn’t care that Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot, because Liz Cheney is a warhawk who has called for bombing millions of people.

Banned for “glorifying violence,” not because I agreed with it or endorsed it. Just for saying I didn’t care.

They even banned an alt I used for work stuff, just for being associated with the main account. Ban upheld on appeal.

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[–] dual_sport_dork 93 points 2 days ago

Posting tons of links to Lemmy posts, for one.

[–] mesamunefire 69 points 2 days ago (5 children)
  • Links to archive.org
  • Talking about downloads, how to circumvent DRM, software to do the above.
  • Links to anything but youtube on /c/videos . (r/videos respectively).
  • Talking about lemmy (in some communities)
  • Alternative links to youtube videos that got banned for some reason or another.
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Probably a lot of the guillotine talk you see around here.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Getting banned from Lemmy is orders of magnitude easier. During my 10+ years on reddit I can only remember one occasion when I got banned from a sub but it has happened on Lemmy multiple times over the 1.5 years I've been here and comments being removed is a regular thing.

On reddit you need to actually break the rules. On Lemmy it's enough that a mod doesn't like what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least here there is a public modlog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which I think is fascinating. On Reddit, I'd get a post removed with a mail that says something extremely vague. Zero transparency.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Now you get extremely vague mod logs instead 🤷

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

On Reddit I got banned from subs I'd never posted in for participating in other subs. The content of my posts didn't even matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

And the sub doesn’t even have to be related. I got banned from commenting in r/thatsinsane for a comment in r/karma4u, can’t even remember commenting there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If Reddit implemented proper blocking, it wouldn't be a problem.

The quantity of fuckheads who kept brigading from their cesspool into a regular subreddit was infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I got banned twice on reddit just because my account was new. So I figured "f reddit" if that's how they treat new people.

[–] ComradeMiao 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What Reddit were you on? Many subs especially leftist learning ones would ban you even if you just subbed to a sub they didn’t like

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

Feel free to report power tripping on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Getting banned doesn’t really have the same impact. In both cases, you can still register with a new email, but on Lemmy, you can also choose a different instance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Openly writing that bad people finally should realize their actions have direct deadly consequences, not only for them... or expect what comes.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It's almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yea reddit gets so strict sometimes. Like I get mods not wanting to get people to start spamming community names, but sometimes a relavent conversation comes up and it's really too strict to not even allow a mention in a relevent conversation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm still fucking pissed off, a Reddit mod banned me sitewide for a week for mocking someone using windows on a steam deck, fuck it, I deserved it, BUT SITEWIDE AND FOR A FUCKING WEEEEK

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That dude absolutely deserved to get mocked. What he did is the definition of heresy.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Saying that literal Nazis deserve to be killed.

[–] njm1314 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

No you get banned for that here too.

[–] whaleross 15 points 2 days ago

Or even just punched in the face. Or making fun of self identifying Nazis has been enough to get me temporarily banned.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reddit doesn't need a reason to ban you. It can be anything because they function on arbitrary laws known only to themselves.

[–] FenrirIII 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Criticism of Israel got me banned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol. What was the exact comment?

I love Lemmy for this.

I said "Fuck Israel, Fuck Hamas" on here and haven't gotten banned.

[–] FenrirIII 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There was no exact comment. I was banned from every top-level news sub for calling out the disproportionate reaction from Israel becoming a genocide. That was back in December last year. Their official reason for site banning me was "abuse of the report tool" because I was reporting everyone calling all Palestinians terrorists and/or advocating for their collective deaths. Advocating violence is against Reddit's ToS, except if it's Pro-Israel violence.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Using a VPN can get you banned in reddit.

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[–] ultranaut 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've never been banned from Reddit but I was threatened with a ban by a Reddit admin when I reported a right wing troll group who was obviously using sockpuppets to harass people and spread racist bullshit in some local sub. The admin message said I was abusing the moderation system by reporting them and if I didn't stop I would be banned from Reddit. I was never banned but a few weeks later all of the sockpuppet accounts I reported were banned by the antievil operations team along with one of the mods in that sub.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’d argue there’s a lot of similarities, since most people left due to Spez and the IPO. I left when Spez and co fucked over the Apollo app dev.

This excludes the tankie instances. I saw a lot of “death to Israel” and other shit before I filtered those instance that would probably have gotten them nuked on reddit. Stuff like that will be the main differences. Here there isn’t any worry about how marketable the platform is to advertisers. Which is mostly a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I got a three day suspension on reddit for telling automoderator to eat my ass. I don't think that would happen on lemmy.

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[–] cabron_offsets 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think the CEO got what he deserved.

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[–] Etterra 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Apparently not advocating for spreading knowledge of jury nullification. Lemmy.World is (mostly) banning it and now I need to find a new instance because I consider that to be the endorsement of our (American) government's system of "bend over and take it."

[–] QualifiedKitten 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They kinda sorta reversed course on that.

Following a discussion in our team we want to clarify that we are no longer requesting moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification in the context of violent crimes when the crime in question already happened. We will still consider suggestions of jury nullification for crimes that have not (yet) happened as advocation for violence, which is violating our terms of service.

https://lemmy.world/post/22920690

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