Well, it's /r/Canada, which is just a right winged mod-controlled shit hole. All the progressives went to /r/onguardforthee a long time ago.
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Yeah. Onguardforthee aren't much better in their own way either.
I left Reddit with the API fiasco and never looked back. Happier without it.
r/Canada is literally run with conservative propaganda efforts in mind. It's not surprised that any attempt to pull people out of the echo chamber is met with an instant ban.
It was like a mini The_Donald for awhile. Mods there want to keep control of a potential propaganda channel.
I look at the comments and they’re absolutely vile. The community has become so fucking toxic it’s unbearable.
So, maybe it's best to not invite people from there to Lemmy?
I was hoping to bring awareness in case anybody else was sick and tired and wanted something fresh.
In any case, every time I visit Reddit and look at my local subs (Montréal, Québec or Canada) I look at the comments and they're absolutely vile. The community has become so fucking toxic it's unbearable. And I also realized how my mental health actually improved since I left that community.
I used to dread seeing that I had messages on Reddit. My first thought would be "Oh, what did I do now?". On Lemmy, I'm much more interested in seeing any responses to my comments.
I reported you because I disagree with you
😂
Lemmy feels like the internet used to. Not about ads and algorithms, but just people interested in things asking questions and engaging naturally.
3 or 4 times people reported me as a risk to myself on reddit, and this suicide prevention hotline bot would then send messages with long lists of number to call.
Turning this tool into a weapon against me, simply because I am pro-vaccine was just pathetic and gross.
Yeah I got those as well a few times. A kind of sarcastic way to tell you to off yourself when people disagree with you.
I make a new username every time I see a message in my inbox.
Boo! 👻
/r/canada is a cesspit with a white nationalist mod.
The sane Canadians always stuck to /r/onguardforthee
Replace Lemmy in your text with Facebook, Discord, Telegram or any other forum like group or simply imagine someone posting here to go to Reddit instead, seems a bit spammy doesn't it?
I suspect there is something going in on reddit in general. The moment you mention Lemmy, you get down voted.
Yeah and I feel like the users there don't care at all about all the privacy issues and how Reddit aggressively exploits it's users now. And they're using AI with bots to basically generate content using old posts or comments and repost.
It's like any other social network like Twitter and Facebook. I tell people that they need to leave for their own good, but nobody gives a damn.
It's driving me crazy because I see the problems. I see how it's affecting people. I can explain it to them and they'll understand. They still refuse to leave. It's like telling them they're drinking poison and asking them to stop but they're drinking it because everyone is going it anyway.
My guess would be that it really had nothing to do with Canada. It had to do with you complaining about their subreddit and you telling people to leave it. I would have removed it as well. Dunno if I would have banned you. I would have had to seen it a number of times before I banned you I think.
I wouldn't be surprised that they removed it based on not being a link to certain news sources that they seem to require. Permaban, though? That's not rules related.
Yeah. That's definitely a mod that had a little too much zeal.
I likely would've removed the thread for being offtopic, but not permanently banned you.
I've seen a few posts today from people complaining about being banned for promoting Lemmy.
Imo, the way to promote Lemmy isn't by spamming "JOIN LEMMY", but rather by meaningfully engaging in the community, and looking for ways to naturally bring up the positive points of this platform.
Like, if I saw a bunch of straight up ads for Lemmy (like this), I wouldn't be here now. I joined because people were having actual, real conversations and recommending Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. That's what we need to "advertise": Good, engaging conversations.
I was banned from r/pics for a comment that read
And my ax
...on a thread. When I went to appeal, the admin couldn't explain how anyone arrived at the decision, or even show the context around the comment, but upheld the decision nonetheless.
You won't miss Reddit. I don't.
I’m leaving that sub now as a protest.
Imagine looking at this as someone who has never heard of lemmy. You are pulling people off the forum to a place that seems to have a poorly obfuscated "fedish" in the title in order to "talk". IDK I can see how people might assume you are a spam bot.
Find a news article from a Canadian news source about Lemmy, register a new account, post it in r/Canada without any editorializing. 🥹
This could frankly be considered spam. Would be appropriate to ask the mods before promoting.
R/quebec is just angry péquistes and r/montreal is angryphones and foreign students. R/Canada is toxic af . Yeah, reddit sucks big time now.
Same problem as Canada itself. Too many Canadians.
You need more moose or elk. Whatever that big brown 4-legged animal is.
Or Canada geese. Take those bastard's back. Evil shits dominating our canals. Feathered Canadian cunts.
You guyz are pretty chill, let's keep it that way 😘✌️
The mods there are super sketchy. I wouldn't be surprised if any of them are on someone's payroll.
I got permabanned from /r/canada on Reddit for promiting Lemmy and the fediverse.
/r/canada hates mites. I thought everyone knew.
Join the club. I've been banned from so many subs for bullshit reasons in the last 3 years I can't even keep track of them all.
The cancer has taken over Reddit.