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.
Posting tons of links to Lemmy posts, for one.
- 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.
I haven’t visited reddit aside from the stray search result or very niche question every few months (no general browsing or any contributing since I made this account), you really can’t post archive links? Why? DMCA BS?
I once got banned from a community for sharing a zelda decompilation project on archive.org. Others have reported issues with reddit and banning people for sharing nintendo power magazines. Fun times.
Modern day internet, you can talk about things, but you have to talk around certain companies, like nintendo or else risk getting banned/taken down. But with the fediverse, i can own more of the system. If world ever goes down, I can still use my personal instance to communicate for instance.
Which sub? Ninty is probably in their pockets lol.
I believe it was the /r/games ? Its been a loong while.
Maybe you were in some seriously shady subs with pimple nosed little snotbags acting as mod, but none of this was ever a problem for me in the subs I frequented.
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.
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.
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
That dude absolutely deserved to get mocked. What he did is the definition of heresy.
I don’t know what subreddits you were on, but on the ones I’m a member of, it doesn’t looks like r/ is seen as a bad thing.
It was whitepeopletwitter, 1.5 years ago. My comment was removed for something not in the sidebar rules, then or now.
Unfair + bizarre
The mod situation has always been strange. Mods can NEVER be changed once a community is made (unless a super mod gets involved). Makes it easy for individuals to control entire communities without any say within the communities themselves (within reddit).
Lemmy is a bit better as you can just up and leave an instance community that is being strange. But its a similar issue. Voting per year (or just periodically) a mod could have good results…if done right. Im actually not sure what the best way to do it is, but having overlord mods is not the correct way thats for sure.
There was also a fad to spam links to communities, some of them made up. Entire chains of comments would just be nonsense. A crackdown on that would make sense.
Here it’s not really an issue. There I’d usually consider a link to a community without additional text to be spam.
Saying that literal Nazis deserve to be killed.
Or even just punched in the face. Or making fun of self identifying Nazis has been enough to get me temporarily banned.
Asking who deserves to die (because I was suicidal, and not much better)
I say this quite often.
Lol fuck reddit. Section 230 make them immune form legal issues anyways so thats just reddit being such a dick
No you get banned for that here too.
sympathizing with Palestinians.
You mean antisemitism.
How is being pro Palestine, the country which once housed Jews, Muslims and Christians of Semitic backgrounds and others anti semitic?
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
Without / there is no way to know
There are alot of Zionists on here. They could’ve been one of them
Check modlogs lol
Are there any Jews living today in areas ruled by the Palestinian authority or Hamas?
Or do you want to go back to rule by the British Empire or Ottomans?
Hamas only came in to existence because of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. I do not condone their behaviour but this was literally all cause by Israel trying to occupy a people who were doing just fine before.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At least here there is a public modlog.
Which I think is fascinating. On Reddit, I’d get a post removed with a mail that says something extremely vague. Zero transparency.
Now you get extremely vague mod logs instead 🤷
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
leftist learning ones
I think those “leftist” subs are more like tankie subs
Feel free to report power tripping on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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.
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.
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.
Using a VPN can get you banned in reddit.
…well now my ban makes more sense.
Not in my experience. I’ve been browsing Reddit exclusively via VPN for 10+ years.
Either your VPN’s IPs are unknown to Reddit or it’s not working as you expected.
…or they’re not, in-fact, banning people simply for using VPN. Or is that not a possibility even?
I can’t even view reddit (logged out) with my vpn on. :<
Replacing the “www” with “old” works wonders
Reddit doesn’t need a reason to ban you. It can be anything because they function on arbitrary laws known only to themselves.
Criticism of Israel got me banned.
Lol. What was the exact comment?
I love Lemmy for this.
I said “Fuck Israel, Fuck Hamas” on here and haven’t gotten banned.
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.
Meanwhile I see comments of people being removed for misspelling Palestine. I think it highly depends on the community/mod
same.
I got a three day suspension on reddit for telling automoderator to eat my ass. I don’t think that would happen on lemmy.
are you me?
I got permanently banned and IP blocked for delivering a full-on rant to one of those do-not-reply automod emails!
Eat my ass
/s
I think the CEO got what he deserved.
Carefully now, you’re on lemmy.world so that doesn’t really apply.
Ehh…
I think “I don’t feel bad for the CEO” is okay, but “Deny, Defend, Depose” can get a comment removal on .world
But then, its lemmy. Theres a lot more instances that are more leinient.
Probably a lot of the guillotine talk you see around here.
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.”
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.
Okay, that kinda makes sense in that context. I can at least see where they’re coming from.
I can’t recommend SJW highly enough. Big enough to be stable but small enough to only have a handful of admins who are all very reasonable and very easy to reach and discuss things with
Saying Nazis should get punched’ll get you banned on reddit in my experience
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.
