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[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 hours ago

Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?

[–] Yerbouti 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

Does saying "The only good fascist are really dead fascist" counts? What if I add that USA is a fascist country now? Will saying Donald is a pedophile still counts (I got banned for it already lol)? What about saying my favorite sport is nazi punching? And if I add that there's no such thing as "roman salute"? Is Reddit about to drop a new t-shirt line "Protect fascist's feeling" or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

I said we used to have a method of dealing with traitors. Got banned for it.

Fucking done with reddits shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Same, in January, I said something to the line of traitors used to be publicly hanged, now they're elected and got banned for it. That was the last straw, came here right away and was happy to find the place striving compared to last time I tried it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 minutes ago

You mean if someone said something like, "Trump and Epstein raping a 13-year-old is a matter of court record."?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Yes, this is the exact mentality.

I got banned yesterday for basic "Eat the Rich" quotes with the occasional Luigi or Guillotine animated gif thrown in here or there.

Reddit is cracking down on anticapitalists for sure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

At this point, getting banned at reddit is a badge of honor.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Banned after you upvote it

See something that’s pro-Luigi? That’s banned content

Pro-lemmy? That’s banned content

Upvoted a post about hypothetically killing a Republican? That’s banned content

Etc

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

reddit permabans you for vague interpretations of things they consider "threatening"

its already a thought crime zone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Reddit is a piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

paywall it, have bot create content, ban all humans.

reddit is the internet of things.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Basically declaring that they don't allow free speech.

"Hey, you have been liking things we disagree with and we need an echo chamber here, align with us or fuck off. Sincerely, the money hungry bitches of the internet! Also heil daddy musk!"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Of course they don’t. They banned me 3 years ago for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Excuse me? If someone says they want a genocide you have to wait until they take over, only then are you allowed to support violence.

I'm against violence, I think that reasonable and even somewhat unreasonable people should be talked with. But if someone says "fuck you I will kill you" you should have the right to punch them, it is the same as self defence, because next time they will kill you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

They permabanned two of my accounts during the election last year, just because I said I didn’t care when Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot. She’s a warmonger who’s called for violence against millions of innocent people. Not gonna clutch my pearls when anyone (even Trump) threatens her.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Basically declaring that they don’t allow free speech.

It's a privately owned platform. You never have an assurance of free speech on any of those, and on Reddit, the rot set in years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There is a big jump from "we are a private company and we have internal rules" to "we are a private company and our internal rules that directly go against human rights"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Based on what I read in the posted article, everyone is making a big leap here. Of course I expect you all to be right in the end based on Reddit being a shitshow, but we don’t know what the content they are referring to is exactly.

For all we know, they are only referring to stuff like human trafficking or child porn. The statement is vague.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Its so obvious Reddit is just swarming with bot users. Not sure why most users haven't just come to Lemmy already.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I once got banned for "vote brigading" on Reddit because I upvoted a crosspost that was deleted later, so this comes as no surprise. They have been monitoring upvotes and downvotes since forever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Wtf is “vote brigading”?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

When one community goes in mass to affect the votes in another. E.g someone is doing a poll/vote intended to be private or limited to a certain group/community, and you link that to from somewhere else with the hope, or sometimes direct instructions to go vote on it in a certain way.

That's why reddit has cross-posts and the np (no participation, disables voting in the linked content) subdomain that try to keep the votes separated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

When one community goes in mass

Slightly off-topic, but it’s en masse, not “in mass”

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

Nobody elected the mods or the admins. And the management has shown itself to be, at least, MAGA-adjacent.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote calls for a violent revolution against the billionaire class and the fascist neo feudalist militarized police state enforced wage slavery and rent till death economics they have created to benefit their endless growth driven profits while ignoring upvotes of content that praise violence against leftists, women and other marginalized leftist aligning groups and ideologies

There, FTFY

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

after what they saw with luigi, and trying to suppress all news about it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They are desperay obvious and its cringe. They were in full blast damage control censorship mode even before december 4th. I was VPN banned last summer just for saying that occupied indigenous people have a right to resist occupation by any means necessary as per international law in regards to palestine and IsNoTreal. So far ive jot been able to evade the ban even with a vpn. Wall street military and prison industry profiteers have become too confident and comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They ban for literally anything probably because their Reddit moderation is handled by AI. The simple fact that many reports = certain ban regardless of behavior is reason enough not to be in that cesspool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

their Reddit moderation is handled by AI

They also have a number of fascist mods who abuse their authority to arbitrarily ban anyone saying something they don't like.

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