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I have been using Reddit for the last couple of years. It feels like it got worse ever since u/spez banned 3rd party clients which requires me to use revanced reddit now. Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad. This is just pure censorship at this point. And you want to know the best part Reddit has done NOTHING to stop this issue.
Nintendo fandom is feeling super defensive rn
i have the perfect solution, but it might be a tad extreme: don't use reddit. BAM. there it is.
I used to be big contributor on reddit and it's has been completely taken over by power users who are just shilling. Many subreddit mods are actually in bed with businesses and take straight up bribes or have their own conflicting interests.
This also exists on Lemmy
So they have a bot check to see if you've posted in a sub they don't like, which then auto-bans you if it finds you there.
The thought police are unpaid volunteers using bots now, I guess.
its called crossbanning, if the mods of a sub feels like another sub is too controversial they will premetively ban you, now with the new reddit filters, your at risk of getting sitewide banned.
famous one is participating j roegan sub, and you get banned from multiple subs, but j rogegan sub is only criticizing him, not fetishsizing his gop support.
Equally ridiculous as the holy war some idiots are leading against the TanKieZ
The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.
not surprised. when lemmy got popular all the mods from Reddit created their little communities because power feels good.
which requires me to use revanced reddit now
Actually it doesn't require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.
As a pedant myself, that's some top notch pedantism.
cheers
Thanks, it's why I'm here
That's some good pedantry, cryptids. Bake em away, toys.
I like that you used the “bake em away, toys” callback on a thread with usernames of Watermelon Albert, Ramen Shaman, and Lousy Corn Muffin.
It sounds like y’all are preparing a potluck.
DON'T PUT MY TOYS IN THEY OVEN!!!!
i'm surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn't getting any better
Lemmy really helped scratch the Reddit itch. I was lucky enough that my app of choice (boost) was also available for Lemmy, so the transition was pretty seamless (actually, more seamless than it would've been sticking with Reddit, since I left over the API shit, which would've forced me over to their half-baked app).
The only thing I really miss is the sheer volume of users, especially in more niche communities, but the posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity than Reddit, so that helps.
Always remember Alien Blue. That was a great app until spaz and co bought it.
Same same Boost bro :)
yea im a ton of niche subs, that isnt on lemmy unforunately,.
Create the niche subs and fill with some content. Then hopefully other users will join.
posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity
I mean all y'all are generally less likely to be expressing your anal glands on the internet here. I like it.
I totally know what you mean, but it is kinda funny to say you quit cold turkey on a structurally identical platform lol
Tepid pheasant?
frigid poultry.
Getting rid of Apollo support was my final straw.
Ive been on it for over 15 years now and in most ways its gotten worse. For one thing there are FAR more bots that are posting and commenting. Quite a few times Im sure replies have been from bots looking for more "engagement" as thats reddits bread and butter. The ads are getting more prolific, with some "hey what do you guys think about x product" becoming more common. The moderation in some areas has gone a bit bananas. I used Redact to erase my comments in all forums and got permabanned in one for doing so because Redact posts a self link. No warning, just a ban. The only thing thats improved is that a lot of trolling a-holes have also been banned so there are less outright vitriol than there used to be. And some of the worst subs are gone. But its not going in a good direction overall.
banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.
This happens on Lemmy too. Power Tripping Mods aren't exclusive to Reddit.
Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.
Some people might do that, but then you have two communities with even less users.
People made alternative subs on Reddit for that very reason, too. They just were more likely to be buried by the other, bigger subs.
On the other hand, it is impossible to be banned from all of Lemmy. Power tripping admins do not exist here.
I wouldn't be so sure. I could point to .ml and BlahajZone. Both have some questionable admins.
.ml is alot worst, because you only need to interact with someone from that instance you get a typical response. i never had a negative interaction on the trans instance.
My issue with the trans instance is that they expect you to behave a certain way in a control freak sort of way, which left a bad aftertaste. They wanted me to sincerely apologize for a fucking light-hearted comment. And I say that as a gay man who knows damn well where the boundaries are.
Fuck Nintendo.
With a rusty trident.
This particular example isn't specifically a reddit problem; it's a power tripping moderator problem. A problem that has existed long before Reddit, and will likely always exist on all forms of social media. Even Lemmy. Hell, we have a couple communities specifically to point out instances of admin/mod power tripping.
that is true, before that i was Y'a answers and a few accounts in particurlarly was lukring in most of the categories, mostly the political ones. i was in a health forum long time ago and a mod had out for me, and kept targeting my post as you can "say black because the mod thinks offensive for black people, and we finding other excuses on other posts to be condescending. the worst one was the forums with the services(long story) they acted like all knowing gods because they been in the services, and started spamming because i was advising another user that the mods were being very rude to her.
Literally r/BannedFromPyonyang behavior
fyi, it's pyong yang.
Now if you have an alt and you accidentally comment there without knowing you got banned on another account, you get instantly permabanned across all accounts, like they know you're banned so they'll ban you for upvoting/downvoting content from that sub or posting a comment, yet will still show you that subs content with no warning.
This happened to me. Power tripping mod on my local sub banned me for a months-old comment dumping on some trumptard, had no idea and kept participating on another account, got all my accounts banned site-wide.
That's not a legit reason to ban someone.
I created a new account to post in my regional swinger subreddit and it immediately got deleted by a power hungry mod. He said my post was low effort at the same time as there was a literal dick pic with the text "hit me up" on the subreddit's front page. I tried to post again with a little more detail but my post never showed up so I messaged the mods directly. They responded a few days later that they had approved my post. Thanks for nothing reddit and reddit mods.
I haven't stopped by any swinging boards in a while but do the mods still like to treat them as personal harems
This is just an extension of the political ban waves that became huge in 2020 / 2021.
now we saw political ban waves from nov-dec 24, and JAN-april too because of musk and trump. actually it was MUSK that triggered all the massive purges recently, since he complained directly to spez.
unfortunately the bans also included the correctly banned people, not the indiscriminately banned people and they all fled here too.