Bye Reddit

I was invited to be a mod by other small mods cause they want to grow a legit community not those ai slob subs with bot mods. Then my task just post and engage and never auto ban just anyone. Talk to them if there is a problem. Then I just keep posting naturally in my 2 subs. Then the next day I got banned with no reason and my sub got hammer ban. I get notified I broke the rules. I appealing and nothing happen. I don't know if wanna go back.

The offending comment was straight up just "x character joins a terrorist cell and y character is tortured to death by secret police"

If anyone is curious I was comparing the ending of the musical Wicked to the book. I even used spoiler tags and quotes :(

Bam, sitewide ban. It wouldnt strike me as so shitty if I hadnt been keeping tabs on a literal hate sub they havent done anything about for months that is inciting like actual tangible violence against LGBTQ+, Jewish, and Black people and is at the point now of just posting names they think are jewish from journalistic publications. Like genuinely wild shit.

Cant help but feel like it's fully mask off now so fuck spez, bye neo nazi hell, hello Lemmy. The enshittification over there ramped up the rage engagement and algorithm and its spiralling out, been a foot out the door for a while now and this was the last push.

I sometimes use Reddit as a search engine to solve various problems, where there is a chance to find something, but if you want to publish something, then the pain begins, posts are blocked by some kind of filter. I know this is done to protect against spam, but as a newcomer to this social network, I don't understand how to solve this. It's like you have to be chosen, do everything by their rules, and even write to some moderator personally about this problem. This social network has long since ceased to respect freedom of speech, just like 4chan, where the same thing happens. That's why I was looking for alternatives and came across Lemmy, which respects freedom of speech and has different servers with their own rules, which is very cool, but I would really like as many people as possible to know about it.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46031056

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ngq4zl/republicans_voted_to_block_a_subpoena_to_release/

The Heritage Foundation spinoff SPN holds a yearly event where all their policy think tanks across 50 states get together and discuss strategy. This year it was in my city. I had the absolute gall to publicly share their list of speakers and donors that they sent out via a mailing list that literally anybody could join.

Apparently some rich asshole that loves guns got very angry bc somebody they care about was on the list of like 100+ speakers, and surprise of the century, the people getting rich destroying our country, don't want it publicly known they're associated with the people and policies destroying our country.

They started repeatedly threatening to hunt me down and shoot me and my family.

I posted to a local subreddit asking if anybody knew who he was to please get him help because I am literally afraid to go to law enforcement about this. I'm about 99% sure I know who this guy is. I don't want to call him out, I don't want anything but for him to just leave me and my family the fuck alone.

The city and state where I live has always been corrupt as fuck, and I'm pretty sure the lawyer that is threatening me is tight with local law enforcement based on his social media. I spent the majority of my life living in corrupt towns in the deep south. I was taught by my own mom at a very early age, if something happens, don't trust the local police, go to the FBI.

Unfortunately, the U.S. is corrupt as fuck right now and the people that held the conference in my city also currently "run" the federal government. This exact scenario has been something I've worried about happening since Jan 20th, 2025.

Honestly don't know wtf to do at this point. Mainly just posting this to document all this. I guess if this dude fucking kills me, somebody please start a gofundme to help get my family to Canada safely.

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/national_politics/rouses-co-owner-engulfed-in-controversy-after-photo-shows-him-at-trump-rally-outside-capitol/article_bccd9d5c-5101-11eb-87fe-dbd4f2ac96c7.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/comments/1mveky5/comment/n9qu0xp/

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488

I got a reply to a comment I made about how upsetting that picture going around of Trump and Ivanka on a motorcycle when she was younger is. Somebody replied something along the lines of "a dad should be able to take a picture with his daughter," and I replied back, thinking maybe he was just kind of oblivious and didn't understand why it was so upsetting.

Then I looked at his comment history, and now I want to puke. I reported him but given that one of his comments has already been removed (can't even imagine what that one must have said to get removed while the others haven't) I'm guessing Reddit isn't going to do shit about it. Maybe this guy is just trolling, I don't know and I don't care that shit is not ok.

Banned on Reddit for the following:

I'm not one to believe conspiracy theories whatsoever, but the one I would not be surprised by is how he and Leon have made so many comments / slip ups that strongly imply that stole this election.

It'd be one thing if it was just once, but the sheer amount of different ways they've said it is mind boggling:

• they rigged the election and now we won
• don't worry about voting ... we got plenty of votes
• you won't have to vote any more
• he (Elon) was very effective and he knows those computers ... and we ended up winning Pennsylvania
• if he (Trump) loses I'm fucked - how long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?

Given that Drumpf and Leon are currently in the process of dismantling our government for their own personal gain and that Drumpf is completely incapable of NOT bragging about his crimes in front of everyone it worries me that it may actually be true and we will never know it.

This has been one long annoying situation reddit put me in.

Basically, I belonged to random acts of cards (since 2017) one day I was messaging people asking for their mailing info and I guess I messaged too many people in a short period of time. I got temp banned for 3 days. Then it happened again even though I tried to be careful. Got perma banned. So I made a new username because damned if reddit is going to stop me from engaging in one of my favorite hobbies. Had that username for about 5 months and something signaled to reddit that it was me, circumventing my [very stupid] ban in the first place.

Now every time I tried to make a new username (tried deleting cookies/cache, using a VPN, etc.) it gets banned within a few hours. It’s been EXTREMELY frustrating and unfair. It’s not like I was engaging in malicious behavior!!!

So I finally said fuck reddit admins. They have ignored all of my appeals so I’m here.

I don't know what you using in browser, but you should try https://phtn.app/ it's a much better interface for any instance of lemmy

Thanks dev!

I've been reading a lot of comments lately about people getting banned for really mundane things. Some as much as upvoting a comment.

My 11 year old reddit account got banned. I still don't know exactly what I said but I believe it was for talking about the US invading Canada and how we Canadians would fight back.

I think the funniest thing was getting banned from r/politics for posting two lines from the lyrics of Kidnap the Sandy Claws - a song from a kids movie Nightmare Before Christmas. A KIDS MOVIE!

"Kidnap the Sandy Claws, throw him in a box. Bury him for ninety years, then see if he talks"

I don't even remember the context of posting it, but it was about Santa Claus. You know, a fictional character.

Pathetic.

I just got a ban for "encouraging violence". Someone asked "what will you do to celebrate when he dies?" Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they'd put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians' careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.

So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.

And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It'll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.

So, I'm joining to say Hi. Just got permabanned from Reddit, and my appeal denied.

They're really big on punishing the victim there. You make a post, someone attacks you in one way or another, and if you respond YOU get the penalty.

My case was that I posted pictures on an LED lighting sub, asking advice on under-cabinet lighting. Well, some people, instead of answering the question started shit with me about the clutter on my countertops. I called one user out on that, pointing out that that was NOT what I was asking about, and he apologized. Cool...

Some other busybody wanders in to the conversation to tell him that he had no need to apologize. I called THAT guy out, pointing out that his "input" wasn't asked for, nor wanted. I don't even think I called him names, but I DID tell him to basically mind his own fucking business.

I get banned, for "threatening or glorifying violence". I've been through the conversation a dozen times at least, trying to find the whole "violence glorifying" part, can't find anything at all, and my single appeal that I was allowed got denied.

I just want a site where I can browse communities like Reddit (I used it a lot for tips on home maintenance, LED projects, lockpicking as a hobby, etc.), but where there is an ACTUAL appeal process and not a lot of HOA Presidents in training with the keys to the castle.

I hope I found the right place. It seems cool so far. :-)

Sometimes, I'd scroll Reddit because something would link there, but in the case of making a new account, I can't post anything, even comments because there's a minimum karma limit on almost every sub.

The deal is that Lemmy doesn't have the number of users that Reddit has. I suppose I'll make new communities. That'll help.

An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.

If you still have access to your account, screenshots of the last “offending” post or comment would be great. https://lemmy.world/c/banhammered

it's literally an iconic post

expandable image, the "OP"s account

(Yes, my reddit client still works... but barely)

EDIT: its just playful banter, if a little ditsy. The point is about the uploader getting all that karma from posts alone

Reddit thanks itself:

Nice fellows over there.

Reddit is facing a crisis both in its user base and its finances. After protests and backlashed ravaged the platform in the wake of Reddit opting to charge for access to its API, the company’s valuation has been sliced.

TechCrunch reports that the Blue Chip Growth Fund at Fidelity, a major financial services provider, has reduced its estimates of Reddit’s holdings following an already poor estimate earlier this spring. Fidelity now estimates that Reddit’s holdings could be around $US15.4 million as of May 31, which is down over 7% from the fund’s estimates of $US16.6 million from this past April. This new figure is is also a reported 45.4% slide since Reddit secured Series F funding in August 2021, when an asset manager acquired the platform’s shares for $US28.2 million.

Reddit did not immediately return Gizmodo’s request for comment on the valuation.

Hi lemmings, did anyone make the effort to gather a list of (major) Reddit communities and their equivalent on Lemmy? Some obviously just kept their name (hail anime_titties, which is NOT what you think it is :)), but with others I cannot seem to find similar communities in Lemmy. If anyone knows of such a list I would be much obliged, especially anything that would be frontpage material. Cheers! Edit Found https://sub.rehab/

The API changes has taken effect. The third party apps we love and will miss are now dead. Twitter burns, Reddit is crumbling, Facebook fizzles, Tumblr fades to obscurity and the metaverse failing before it even takes off. The internet we grew to love and live in has suffered a great blow. And while we lament, we grieve and we wish it weren’t so, the inevitable is here. We must face the cards we are dealt with.

But reddit and these social media is not the end. The community is on the move. Off to greener, freer pastures. Off to places where the grip of corporate greed could not touch. There, people from all walks of life try to build something, to begin anew and make homes for themselves.

My voice may be drowned out among many. I may be but one anonymous user on the internet, but it is my hope that my sentiment is shared by many- that I am not alone in wishing, hoping to spread this plea and appeal.

As we migrate away from reddit, I and hopefully many others will join the call, the humble request for developers both old and new to consider building apps and contributing their talents to the fediverse.

Help me, help us, the community, as we trudge through the hill of infancy once more. As the day or two after reddit rolls, we hope to strengthen your resolve as we humbly ask your consideration in developing apps, or contributing to the community by sharing your expertise in UI, code, tech and more.

All this in the hope of building better alternatives, better homes, and a better internet not just for ourselves but our children and their children.

Corny? Yes. But it is my hope to rouse your creative spirit once more. Build the apps you want, teach those who are willing if you want, create the content that you want or provide your inputs in the development of the fediverse as a whole- anything, just so that we might, through a collective united community effort create something greater than what we have, here and now.