Reddit improved their anti-ban evasion system, cuz it’s the sixth or more failed attempt at evading a permanent ban. Never more, I am staying here.
FUCK YOU, SPEZ!
Ridiculous, and there’s no appealing it either. Now if I want to check out my niche communities I need to load Reddit in a private tab with a VPN to scroll around my “inactive” account, but I never comment.
Please don’t bring that attitude to lemmy. I just want peace. I honestly don’t know what you did but chances are its not going to be welcome here
They literally banned me for “abusing the report feature” like I’m sorry are you asking me NOT to report heinous bigotry?? Fuck reddit and fuck spez
I finally overwrote all my comments and deleted my account. 16 years there, but as soon as I checked the front page this week before deleting, every comment and post was the same old “this” and “take my upvote” and vitriolic hate toward different or uncommon opinions, zero dialogue, such a mess
Thanks lemmings
You forgot “and my axe”, “to shreds you say” and “I wish they didn’t remove awards so I could give you one”, or maybe even the ‘rare’ “take my angry upvote and leave”?
Yeah I like that we can actually hold real conversations here, as far as ‘real’ goes of course.
And pun chains, and a guy quoting a Simpsons episode followed by 12 more idiots quoting the rest of the episode. Painful. I see that shit in lemmy but not nearly as much.
Plenty of that shit on here mate
Yup. It feels like I am usually talking to individuals here, which is much more enjoyable than flailing in an overwhelming monoculture.
Y’indeed I love seeing notifications here and reload every few minutes to see if someone replied to me (not now obviously because I’m high and forgot to reply to you earlier and it’s also taking me a good few minutes to type up this reply).
On Reddit I usually hoped that everyone upvoted, of course, and that none of them reply. Especially when I argumented with someone, because I’m actually really bad at argumenting about things I perceive as negative. […]
The rest is just a stoned tirade (I didn’t want to delete it because I find it amusing), there’s no Tl;Dr to be made, just don’t read it unless you choose to make me a god and want to use the genoxidedev1 lore to practice that new religion. Anyways:
[…] I’m also bad at argumenting about things I’m good at, which only leaves me being good at argumenting about things I’m bad at, but I’f im good at argumenting about things I’m bad at it would mean that I’m good at argumenting about me argumenting about things I’m good at, so, if we use that logic for all the other things I could be doing I’m actually the best at everything. Wow. I just lost an argument against myself, cool or something.
Just replying to you so you have a notification to check 🙂
That was quick, thanks! Have one back
Bestowing +1 Dopamine
2 people giving me positive status effects in such little time, I wonder what the boss fight is gonna be…
how do you see reply notifications on kbin
Hold my updoot, I’m going in
I had stopped using Reddit but hadn’t deleted my account, your comment reminded me to do that. Just deleted it. :)
Nice. The increase in content is not worth the headache and tedium.
I evaded my lifetime ban for more than 5 years on my new main.
The hell are you posting there?!Yeah these posts by people who consistently get banned always have me feeling a little skeptical (no shade on OP if legit).
r/fuckyouinparticular did their ban some random person for 3 days to me even though I don’t even use my reddit account anymore and just let it sit there taking space on reddots servers
r/oddlyspecific
I’m in the process of deleting my posts in a few accounts in preparation to delete them.
Reddit isn’t the same place it was when I first signed up. On so many levels it proceeded to get worse year after year. Shitty mods, paid political bot brigading to drown out discussion, general discourse devolution, innovation decline of generally loved features are some of my biggest complaints of that platform.
Don’t get me wrong reddit was always a bit of anarchy, but the best comments somehow managed to rise up. Not so much anymore. Maybe I’m just getting old and some of the comment contents don’t interest me in the same way it used to.
I don’t mind being part of this community even though some of the sub’s have less activity. The activity seems to be of a better quality for the most part imho.
For me I don’t miss reddit at all.
I got banned for ban evasion when I logged in at a public library. I have never been banned before. I appealed and got denied.
It was a 10 year old account 50k karma, just like that. A little upset but what can you do?
Quit reddit lol
Maybe they wouldn’t have problem with ban evasion if they weren’t giving out bans the drop of a hat
Everything is being automated. The Admins are automated. The mods are increasingly automated. The subs are filled with botspam. The comments (have always been, but are now overwhelmingly) filled with bot-chatter.
The end goal of Reddit is to automate away anything that might cut into the company’s bottom line. I’m convinced they’re going to functionally do away with the comments section sooner or later. Just set up a byzantine set of bureaucratic hurdles that no human can actually clear. Then all that’s left is the bots, and all you are allowed to do is look through the glass at the simulation.
That’s not exclusive to Reddit.
Looks at 196 here on Lemmy and their massive pissy baby ban list.
Edit: If you disagree, go look at the bans and their reasoning in the mod log. It’s insane, and I mean that word in the literal sense. Some fun things: they ban people for not agreeing with them vocally enough. They’ve banned people for arguing that the world isn’t beyond saving if we try. They’ve banned because (and I quote) “Get out of here with that my children matter shit”. It’s a lunatic brigade run by a clown.
196?
196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
They are something else. Think like TheDonald was on Reddit, but for trans people and memes.
My first exposure to them was a thread by a mod saying that you MUST post absolute and unconditional not just approval, but promotion of what they say politically or you will be banned. It was fucking wild and nearly put me off Lemmy altogether.
You spent like a whole day arguing about what centrism is and calling everyone disagreeing with you stupid. That’s why you got banned from 196. You know all that is public, right?
I spent about an hour and kept getting reply notifications, just like the one I got now for this (now over a month old) post. I reply. I like to interact. It’s not arguing, it was legitimate discussion, and yes, I was discussing how people like to strawman others. To my mind, it was civil.
The message I got from the mod was - nearly word for word - “get the fuck out of here with that my children matter bullshit.”
I did not misrepresent the situation.
As an addendum, the thread were I was banned was not my first exposure to them. You may be conflating two interactions.
Start your niche community on lemmy then advertise it in some other groups. You might be surprised how much better it is here.
Sounds like you need to join the LeMLM. Pick your favorite niche community and pledge to post something to it daily (if possible, or at least as often as you can).
Then recruit 2 other people to go adopt their own niche communities. Then each of them recruits 2 more, each of them will recruit, and so on and so on. Pretty soon your downline is pumping out so much OC you’ll forget all about Spez and his sad little fiefdom.
Reddit is a lost cause.
I still use it as a read-only debugging tool through search engines. It’s great for finding a way to open up your 2009 dell laptop and replacing the WiFi antenna
I still have a bunch of accounts but it’s actually not a friendly site to use. I remember telling friends about it back in the day and they’d try and use the site, then they’d come back and be like “everyone on that site is an asshole.” I’d explain it in some dumb way but it’s basically true in essence. I even modded some default subs like 10 years ago and it was the first time I started hating the site.
Even hobby subs had these issues. Like the top post in r/synthesizers would be about some youtube personality and people debating about drama. People who post actual music and productive things don’t get upvoted. Saying you liked the “wrong” people got you made fun of. Super trend/hype based as well. I posted asking for advice for a product to buy once, and was heavily discouraged from getting what I thought was the right thing, I got it anyway, and now it’s basically a meme as the top recommended product for that purpose on that sub.
Basically moved to forums and discord servers for a lot of interests and it’s so much better than reddit. Early 2010s was the golden age for the site back when there’d be those reddit meetups and stuff.
I get the feels dude
The easiest way to lose interest in a new found hobby is look at it’s subreddit.
Just ask Spez’s best bud u/drewiepoodle about how to evade bans, they’re an expert.
Who is that? 🤔
Got banned for harassing mods because I was asking why I got banned automatically for participating in a different subreddit. As soon as I sent my second request asking why I was banned, I got permabanned.
Me too, they are far too quick to bring out the perma ban. My 10 year old account went from a minor subreddit ban (for asking why a mod banned someone else) to global perma ban within 12 hours. In fairness I reported the mod and said he’s a neckbeard but that shit isn’t worth of global perma lol.
Overall, I think this is good news for lemmys future tbh
OMG me too!!! What the fuck!!!
