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Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 8 hours ago (19 children)

Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.

One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.

Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.

So let's not pretend that it's only big bad reddit doing this.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like there's a difference between various moderators power-tripping on their own little fiefdoms, and a site wide policy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago

A little, sure, but from my point of view (which you are happy to disagree with), very little.

Personally I am a big Star Trek fan. I was stoked to see there is an actual dedicated Lemmy server for it, with many communities focused around everything Star Trek. But I disagree with their admin/moderation so much I had to change my account to another server. At some point ended up blocking the whole instance because I just cannot keep myself to just reading what others are posting.

So even if I can use another server, I cannot use those communities. Similar if I were a vegan and would not agree with what some of the more extreme users are posting.

There are not many active alternatives for these communities on Lemmy.

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

Yes, Lemmyverse will fragment, so it's important to choose sufficiently permissive instances or even run your own.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Discovery is shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

cant believe that show went on five seasons, and it got worst every season too, and the obvious objective kurtzman was evident by season 4(female leads were the only sex left on the cast), the only likable characther, was michelle yeohs performance(you can see the acting is better than the others). Picard also was like that(the show couldve been good if done right, but picard(patrick stewart) seemed too low energy for the show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Never seen but just cause I am in edgy mood today: discovery is utter garbage. They should pay hefty health insurance to anyone who has seen it to cover therapy costs and eye surgery.

It’s so garbage that the dump trucks drivers get confused and arrive at people living rooms if they turn it on.

The only fitting spot for it is inside the latrine but wash it out as carefully after putting this shitty thing down the drain as if it was an especially nasty hangover poop

That was quite pleasurable to write

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

same here, never saw the series, just enough of the clips to know the seasons go through obvious cycle, evident of many other people posted, a big convoluted "danger" that ends up in the last episode of a season which is a letdown. rinse and repeat, also kurtzmans go-to for ignoring the criticisms by fans of previous seasons, by dropping the arc of the last season entirely, additionally. both picard and STD have lifted material they read on memory alpha and memory beta(non canon) wiki, which the NOVELS are part of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't know but I know that hating on franchises isn't worth my effort nowadays aside from some short dopamine burst now and then. I have learned with Last Jedi that panta rhei and all, I can always have my own head canon which is mostly EU and TCW 2008 and maybe some other thing I like.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s enough to just make new account every couple months

It’s a good practice anyway. Fresh start every month feels good. Privacy is much better this way on such transparent site as Lemmy. You reset any mutes/bans/fame you might have acquired. It’s win-win

+It’s not like Lemmy has some kind of insane profile customisation fluff or account bound rewards

Also remember to have a unique username for each site for best doxx protection. I use this Osint site sometimes for lulz and there are people who have same PayPal id (with real name shown) as their Lemmy account name lol. Lemmy may be tame but if you browse any deep chan sites opsec is of paramount and admins are hostile actors deep down there too that WILL post your data. Here I kinda trust admins just a little so that accidental true IP reveal seems like no big deal.

However one day you may sign up to the wrong instance or instance may change hands and someone may post your data to some chan like alt right pit. This is a danger of entrusting your account to small private operators that are complete strangers with unknown motivations

Never ever use your true email on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

See my other comment. That is not really the solution since you will simply get banned again after a while, depending on how much you interact there. Unless admin/moderation changes, making a new account just gives you a bit of extra time using those communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The motives behind the actions of these groups are vastly different though. A corporation silencing anti-establishment speech is not equivalent to lemmy moderators abusing authority in their micro-feifdoms. Still frustrating of course but the reasons and effects are quite different

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

True, can't argue with that. I am maybe a bit too pragmatic when I say, I don't care about the difference because the outcome for me as a user is the same.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is actually what got me to swap as it reminded me some content will be banned, and so the social media I've had for over a decade and thought was going to be the only classic site to retain freedom of speech and expression had proven itself that they will not be afraid to start taking baby steps towards controlling and censoring media. And in the contents section of this post was a person spreading the news of this alternative. So here I am.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

if that is your primary motivation, i have bad news for you... you might have to move on. here you will get bans for downvoting "the wrong" comment or post as well.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Citizen, you have been found guilty of wrong think!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago

Please report for reeducation

[–] pastermil 29 points 10 hours ago

Thought police will be dispatched.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago

I remember Reddit. I used to like it there.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violating the upvote morality statute.

[–] [email protected] 224 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (26 children)

Everybody upvote Luigi content! Get banned! Leave reddit! Reddit crumbles! Fuck reddit! Go Luigi! Lemmy grows! Centralized social media dies! I eat a burrito. That last one wasn't really on topic, but it's happening anyways! I'm hungry.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Already got permabanned for saying he was justified, I like it better here anyway

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

I got banned but their site is so shit the links to the message you got banned for never work. Been banned/warned enough times it's not a one off either.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't forget to leave bad review of reddit app and encourage others to move to lemmy in the review.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Note that you actually need to review the app itself, not reddit. When I left a negative review about the whole reddit API mess, the review was removed and I was barred from leaving more reviews

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago

wow thanks for that, adjust my bad reviews.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Well that's just straight up fucking bonkers.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. Except for some niche subs I haven't miss it at all. And thanks to Privacy Redirect add-on, I haven't visited Reddit itself for a long time. Since it still has some useful info that floods the search engines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You can get a copy of reddit data from just before It happened, run your very own searchable database. No need to go there at all.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I hope lemmy servers are ready for another population boom.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Anyone that's stuck with reddit this long probably thinks this sort of thing is a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

anyone who engages in the news and political, and adjacent subs, are addicted, they wont leave.

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