Which is sad - I've been using Lemmy exclusively for 5ish years now and the smaller communities haven't really taken root. Reddit still controls the long tail of internet discourse
the funny thing is the only indication that this happened was keybase alerting me that my proof was gone.
I can login and use reddit as usual, but nothing I do has any effect. It's like I am in a sandbox. Try to view my profile publicly and it does not exist.
But what is keeping you from making a new account and rejoining the same subreddits, except perhaps losing a hundred million magic internet points?
Basically what happened was I wrote a post, and some guy responded to me with a firehose of personal insults. I called him a troll in reply, and within 30 seconds of posting said reply, I was permabanned as a first offense, without any possibility of appeal.
Mods be powertrippin over there.
/r/news locked/suppressed [0] as 'Politics'.
I sent a Message to modmail:
Me: Calling this 'politics' makes me ask who's on the an alphabet payroll... Just saying.
Reply from modmail: This message makes us think you haven't bothered to read the rules... Just saying.
Then I was muted from /r/new modmail for 28 days, while also being perma-banned from /r/news.
Months layer, I had left a normal comment on a different thread with a 'mobile' secondary account on /r/news, and found both my desktop and mobile accounts locked for 7 days because the /r/news comment was considered 'ban evasion'. Despite having otherwise commented on /r/news from my mobile account in the meantime with no repercussions.
It was within the subreddit rules and reddit TOC to do all of this, I acknowledge, at the same time it's almost like Reddit is hitting that vibe of StackOverflow from a few years ago where mods can just power trip and make the place less useful for everyone...
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1es7sbp/us_considers_...
It is almost like there are many opinions in that place.
Update: translated Hamakom article - you can judge for yourself whether you think this is a reliable source of information: https://www-ha--makom-co-il.translate.goog/1058990-2/?_x_tr_... “ IDF and Shin Bet in joint statement: The war is pointless and everything is stupid” doesn’t convince me, likewise whatever they’re trying to say about Natanyahu’s wife.
That said, getting into an argument over which word to classify the senseless murder of innocent men, women, children, journalist, medics, etc. in the context of a multi-decade illegal occupation, seems like a distraction.
Follow the sources here in case you're interested in having some sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Another example:
Apple subreddit allows developers to self-promote their apps on Sundays. I posted an app of mine. Mods removed it and banned me for 100 days from the subreddit because I had 4 comments within the last month and not 5. This is despite me having lots more comments and posts (multiple posts/comments over 7000 points) over 7 years and in last 2 months instead of last 1 month.
"Hamas must be destroyed"
and
"JK Rowling doesn't want men in women's bathrooms"
Edit: I'm not complaining about moderation do what you want, but the statement above is true, I have been banned for writing those things, and if anyone has any experience with Reddit, it should be fairly believable that Reddit would ban an account for writing them.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055918 and marked it off topic.
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
You can't "no true scotsreddit" your way out of this issue because it's an overarching issue with the platform itself. Even 4chan has more better protection against influence campaigns, it's pathetic how Reddit's own administration lets itself be defined by it's lowest-common-denominator.
Depends on the community we're talking about here but I found Lemmy to be a great alternative for tech communities.
The app is not impartial in the content it chooses to push. I got identified as a target for very specific content and in the context of this discussion, it's the polar opposite of what reddit used to be.
Only if you go there for rage bait content.
Small subs are better than ever. And no Lemmy is not an alternative.