this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
576 points (98.3% liked)

Technology

64101 readers
8218 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] SoftestSapphic 34 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] T00l_shed 10 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

The police should check his hard drive

[–] T00l_shed 1 points 11 minutes ago
[–] Gewoonmoi 16 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Perma banned because I wished c-ncer on a pro-Israel troll. Is that an earned ban you guys think?

[–] Makhno 14 points 50 minutes ago (2 children)

I got banned when I saw someone say trans kids should be hunted in schools, and I told them I wish they'd get hit with a brick.

[–] Jaybird 2 points 40 minutes ago

Thats be wise you where too much of a pacifist in your response.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Lucky_777 12 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

Hell, I said all Nazis can go die or kill themselves. Perm banned. Reason why I'm here. Fuck that place.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 4 points 40 minutes ago

Samesies. All I said was Nazis should get punched. This is a much better place all around, so fuck spez

[–] AbidanYre 61 points 3 hours ago

Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago) (3 children)

Does saying "The only good fascist are very dead fascist" counts? What if I add that USA is a fascist country now? Will saying Donald is a pedophile still counts (I got banned for it already lol)? What about saying my favorite sport is nazi punching? And if I add that there's no such thing as "roman salute"?

Is Reddit about to drop a new t-shirt line "Protect fascist's feeling" or something?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I said we used to have a method of dealing with traitors. Got banned for it.

Fucking done with reddits shit.

[–] underfreyja 4 points 1 hour ago

Same, in January, I said something to the line of traitors used to be publicly hanged, now they're elected and got banned for it. That was the last straw, came here right away and was happy to find the place striving compared to last time I tried it.

[–] bitjunkie 6 points 1 hour ago

You mean if someone said something like, "Trump and Epstein raping a 13-year-old is a matter of court record."?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Yes, this is the exact mentality.

I got banned yesterday for basic "Eat the Rich" quotes with the occasional Luigi or Guillotine animated gif thrown in here or there.

Reddit is cracking down on anticapitalists for sure.

[–] frog_brawler 7 points 2 hours ago

Reddit is a piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

At this point, getting banned at reddit is a badge of honor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

Uh...the "badge of honor" would have been quitting back during api-gate and not looking back. Getting banned now just means one participated after that time, providing spez with traffic and value, and helped normalize the behaviour that is only just now a bridge too far.

Today, a ban is the "conciliatory prize of not thinking ahead".

[–] Lucky_777 4 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

3rd party apps closing down I can see from a business point. Makes good business sense. Keep everyone on your shitty app and monetize it. I wasn't for it but understood the greedy fucks behind it.

Now it's just different. Banned for going against Nazis, just means they are in bed with Nazis. That's the last straw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Makes good business sense. Keep everyone on your shitty app and monetize it. I wasn't for it but understood the greedy fucks behind it.

Not understanding how greed and control are different manifestations of fascism is still on you. Corporations always align with fascists because a corporation is essentially a small kingdom where a handful of Lords make all the decisions for the peasants (workers/consumers).

Plenty of us saw where this was headed because of the API drama.

[–] DicJacobus 16 points 3 hours ago

reddit permabans you for vague interpretations of things they consider "threatening"

its already a thought crime zone.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?

[–] conicalscientist 2 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

It means accounts that consistently upvote posts that end up being banned.

The naive take is that this will remove bot/brigade swarms that are collaboratively boosting content that breaks site wide rules. You can derive ulterior motives from this if you want but I'm pretty sure that's the basic premise.

I have no doubt this will be leveraged by the far-right to sow more discord. They already have a history of raiding subreddits with false flag attacks to get them sanctioned until it escalates into full blown subreddit ban. This is all but formalizing the mechanism.

[–] finder585 1 points 8 minutes ago

I think the real implication of the system is that Reddit will also start banning you for down-voting posts too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

Banned after you upvote it

See something that’s pro-Luigi? That’s banned content

Pro-lemmy? That’s banned content

Upvoted a post about hypothetically killing a Republican? That’s banned content

Etc

[–] InputZero 3 points 56 minutes ago

This type of behavior is never tolerate on Reddit. You disagree with a Redditor, straight to ban. No trial, no nothing. There's no journalists. We'll have a special subreddit for journallists. Under represent a Republican, believe it or not ban. Over represent a Democrat, also ban. Reddit has the best users on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I got banned on Reddit, not by moderators of the sub, but by site admins for saying I hold similar values about CEOs like Luigid did.

[–] MTK 64 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

Basically declaring that they don't allow free speech.

"Hey, you have been liking things we disagree with and we need an echo chamber here, align with us or fuck off. Sincerely, the money hungry bitches of the internet! Also heil daddy musk!"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Of course they don’t. They banned me 3 years ago for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a Nazi.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

paywall it, have bot create content, ban all humans.

reddit is the internet of things.

load more comments
view more: next ›