I was promoting Lemmy in the place that I was supposed to.
I’m surprised they even allow such a subreddit to exist
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Well... people keeps mentioning alternative with like less than 100 users, and also spreading what I call the "Tankie Dev FUD" (as if the devs have any control of any instance besides lemmygrad and lemmy.ml). So its probably a good way to seem neutral, while causing confusion on where to migrate and splinter the migration.
(Plus, with all the dissent gone, they could just go ahead and do anything with zero resistance)
Honey pot?
Here is the offending comment:
It did not violate any community rules. Reddit doesn't make any sense.
An admin banned you and disguised it as a ban from mods.
(Or perhaps a mod is secretly just an admin / bootlicker for the admins)
I got banned for rule 9 according to the person who banned me yet the community only has 4 rules 🤨
What makes you think it was an Admin and not just a mod of the group?
Admins have full control. Steve Huffman admitted to editing users comments, hiding admin actions as mod actions is not unthinkable.
Reddit makes perfect sense: having you there is no longer profitable.
Fuck them to be honest..
Damn, they are probably going to ban me next
Hope not, your doing good work!
We're on thin ice! After this latest exodus, I think reddit realizes how dangerous lemmy is becoming since they had to roll the bans back immediately
But you’re so friendly though.
I mean, it's not like you are rude on Reddit either
Yeah everyone always says I am an asshole and sure it is true but a lot of these bans are not about being an asshole. It is censorship of content.
Banning people who have better decorum does make them look pathetic though. Hopefully normies take notice.
I see you making sarcastic comments without the "/s"
not a good look lol
Considering the sub in question is /r/redditalternatives, you posted this in a thread about alternative communities on lemmy, and there's a reply to your comment which promotes more lemmy (and mbin) instances that isn't removed... I really really doubt the reason for the ban was you mentioning Lemmy. That would be very inconsistent of the mods, and actually suggest a vendetta against you personally rather than lemmy.
Did you reply to the message asking what rule you broke? Like the ban message instructs you to? Might have also been an accidential ban.
It did not violate any community rules. Reddit doesn't make any sense.
Sadly, sidebar rules on Old Reddit aren't real and so can't be relied upon. There are in fact more than just four rules. There's nine of them.
That said, even with the expanded list of rules I can't find any that might apply. Unless their automoderator is so heavily sensitive to non-civility that the very word "cuss" is seen as bad language. Which I very much doubt. It does mention that linking to websites containing malware leads to an immediate permaban, but I doubt that's the case here?
We are in the information war against corporate regime...
It is silly to expect for them to let us win.
Revolution will not be televised but people in the know, know
I got permanently banned on both my accounts from the entire site for "violating reddit TOS".
When I submitted my appeal asking what I was banned for they immediately responded saying that my appeal was denied, but still never told me what rule I apparently broke.
10+ year old account with hundreds of thousands of post and comment karma. I was top commenter on several large subs. I had helped tons of people with things over the years in DMs. All gone in an instant because one admin decided to go on a little power trip. And there is of course zero recourse as the user. You're just gone.
Reddit has been a shit hole for a long time now.
Is that subreddit just kept around as a honeypot?
Certainly has the vibes of something like when they finally caught the pirate bay guy and then the FBI or whoever it was kept the site up just to track users who didn't get the memo that it was compromised.
I can’t think of a better reason
Reminds me of Something Awful's lolocaust
Gotta ban you before you delete your comments
I mentioned it in this group before - was just like you. 10 years. 3Million in Karma. Perm Banned. After 2 years of being banned I appealed and was reinstated.
You waiting for 2 years to appeal or it took them w years to reinstate your account? Lol
I initially appealed and was rejected. I just moved onto other social media and spending less time with it in general. But about a month ago there was a discussion in this group regarding the move to free speech initially on X and then on Facebook. There was speculation that reddit would stop being so heavy handed with their bans. So after 2 years I appealed again. Said the required I promise not to break the rules, and the next morning I was up and running again.
Most, but not all, groups on Lemmy actually allow free civilized discussion. And bans on Lemmy are hardly ever permanent. Reddit should learn from Lemmy.
I don't know if I agree on the Lemmy portion lol. I will readily admit that I definitely deserved a few of those bans but the rest were completely made up by an angry mod or automated because they saw I was regularly being downvotes (again no differing opinions allowed in most places it seems).
I think moderation on a site like this is difficult no matter what. Reddit has the problem of something like 6 people having ultimate say over the entire site with absolutely zero way to contact them or anything. Then the individual sub moderators are some of the moth pathetic power tripping bottom feeders known to mankind. I got banned from subs for leaving comments criticizing other subs that they hated. Simply for leaving a comment on that sub they didn't like (which I was also not a fan of) they automatically banned me from a handful of other subs immediately lol. So stupid.
Lemmy has the same issue with individual moderators being ban happy losers that will just make up a reason for a ban instead of allowing an opinion they disagree with to be seen. But at least there aren't a small handful of people here who can ban you from the entirety of the platform (unless I am mistaken and they totally can).
Huh, pretty sure the mods do this on purpose. I mass edited every single comment of my account (roughly 6 years of shitposting) into a promotion for Lemmy.
Just checked it out. Nothing happened. Accept one mod from 40kLore who saw it, banned me and asked me to dm him if I’m not a bot.
Welcome to the club
I politely asked a mod about a subreddit rule and got a sitewide banhammer for harassing a mod
I appealed a few weeks ago and they never responded
Their system won't let me send another appeal because it says I've already sent one
I had been on reddit for over 10 years, the whole thing is absolutely wild to me
I was livid until I found Lemmy, I much prefer this over reddit. It feels like old reddit and I even got my 3rd party app back!
Welcome!
Anyway... So have you heard about Linux?
Don't appeal directly from your account. If you do a search you will find a general appeal link. Then you fill in your user name and make your appeal
Has anyone tried promoting alternatives via images? Obviously mods can still see them and hand out bans, but bots can't automatically detect them if they're deep fried enough.
Yes, cant find the post, but someone posted the image from the GlobalSwitchDay post onto reddit and it got removed and a warning or temp ban or something:
Love it!
Moderation shouldn't be a thing. I miss Usenet kill files. Let users moderate for themselves.
That's called Peer to Peer networks.
P2P will require users to store the data itself.
Which means, if images are also allowed, CSAM will be an issue.
Most "normies" (for lack of a better term) will just delete the app/program if CSAM got on their local copy of the content. Like who wants risking jailtime for social media / forum?
Brair is a P2P communication app, and its "Forum" feature does not allow images, which I suspect is because the Developer didn't want CSAM to become a problem, and can't think of a moderation solution (it currently does not have any moderation tools, the public Briar forums are a true "Free Speech" place, theres nothing to stop hate speech there, even racism, but luckily, Briar is so small/niche that I haven't see such comments yet)
So if we want P2P"Reddit-like" platform to share memes, such platforms need a moderation feature, perhaps a group of people appointed to view and mark images as CSAM via consensus voting and prevent it from spreading throught the network.
Getting suspended or banned for almost saying nothing is not new on reddit.
It a right of passage for any self respecting shit poster...
If you are towing the regime lines, you are a bootlicker.
Do they still hand out temp bans for upvoting spicy leftwing content?
Probably just a bug. /s
Anyone with an account have a view of the mod list? How many mods were added in the last year?
Your comment reminded me of something. After they finally unbanned me I went to see what was up in some of my favorite groups. I went to the mod list and literally half of them, though still listed, were permanently banned. Why are they banning the people working for free for them?
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