I have been using Reddit for the last couple of years. It feels like it got worse ever since u/spez banned 3rd party clients which requires me to use revanced reddit now. Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad. This is just pure censorship at this point. And you want to know the best part Reddit has done NOTHING to stop this issue.
i’m surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn’t getting any better
Lemmy really helped scratch the Reddit itch. I was lucky enough that my app of choice (boost) was also available for Lemmy, so the transition was pretty seamless (actually, more seamless than it would’ve been sticking with Reddit, since I left over the API shit, which would’ve forced me over to their half-baked app).
The only thing I really miss is the sheer volume of users, especially in more niche communities, but the posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity than Reddit, so that helps.
posts on Lemmy imo tend to be more quality over quantity
I mean all y’all are generally less likely to be expressing your anal glands on the internet here. I like it.
yea im a ton of niche subs, that isnt on lemmy unforunately,.
Create the niche subs and fill with some content. Then hopefully other users will join.
Always remember Alien Blue. That was a great app until spaz and co bought it.
Same same Boost bro :)
I only use it for reviews of products or answers to questions about Linux. But the Linux community is getting stronger here on Lemmy
Lots of activity over at programming.dev
It feels like actual people too. Thats nice.
I totally know what you mean, but it is kinda funny to say you quit cold turkey on a structurally identical platform lol
Tepid pheasant?
frigid poultry.
too icy bird
Getting rid of Apollo support was my final straw.
banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad.
This happens on Lemmy too. Power Tripping Mods aren’t exclusive to Reddit.
Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.
Some people might do that, but then you have two communities with even less users.
what about the c/europe drama that got locked on c/powertrippingbastards then
On the other hand, it is impossible to be banned from all of Lemmy. Power tripping admins do not exist here.
which requires me to use revanced reddit now
Actually it doesn’t require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.
As a pedant myself, that’s some top notch pedantism.
cheers
Thanks, it’s why I’m here
That’s some good pedantry, cryptids. Bake em away, toys.
I like that you used the “bake em away, toys” callback on a thread with usernames of Watermelon Albert, Ramen Shaman, and Lousy Corn Muffin.
It sounds like y’all are preparing a potluck.
DON’T PUT MY TOYS IN THEY OVEN!!!
I used boost for a solid year and a half after the 3rd party app ban. Now I use Boost for Lemmy.
i have the perfect solution, but it might be a tad extreme: don’t use reddit. BAM. there it is.
This also exists on Lemmy
I am outright abrasive and hostile to .ml mods for their tankie lies and .world mods for their Nazi bootlicking, and despite having many posts and comments removed I have not been banned from a single community as far as I can tell.
I’ve been banned from communities on completely different instances for things I’ve said that clearly personally offended some powermod or another.
Haven’t seen what you’re talking about for .world, if anything I still think it’s too leftist
True, but at least on Lemmy you can switch instances. Or switch to PieFed, or use any other media that supports activitypub.
Reddit is reddit. You can’t just go on another platform and “connect” to a subreddit.
At least on Lemmy it’s mostly one part of it, and honestly being banned from that part is probably a good thing
but the amount of moderations and filters is much more oppressive on reddit. politics is usually the ones that get people banned on both platforms
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Fuck Nintendo.
With a rusty trident.
The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.
Removed by mod
Which community banned you?
IDK I have ADHD and don’t feel like digging through my history to find it, but it was the main one with the most subscribers.
in my case it was public freakouts, I was just commenting on the front page to get karma up on an alt and that one was there so I commented (was old but I never posted/commented just kept using my main account with my full unqiue firstandlastname as my username lol) Eventually realized I should maybe not do m that because multiple irl had come up to me saying theyd seen a post or comment.
Whats odd Is I dont rememebr being banned, like I remember seeing that sub on my main account still on the front page.
I did look through my history and found out I had been banned from that sub 3 months before, odd af that they instaban and don’t just stop you from seeing or commenting there instead since they clearly monitor and see all.
Wait you got banned, on Lemmy, for belonging to two lemmy Nintendo groups? I am highly doubtful.
[…] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]
So it’s guilt by association.
Ive been on it for over 15 years now and in most ways its gotten worse. For one thing there are FAR more bots that are posting and commenting. Quite a few times Im sure replies have been from bots looking for more “engagement” as thats reddits bread and butter. The ads are getting more prolific, with some “hey what do you guys think about x product” becoming more common. The moderation in some areas has gone a bit bananas. I used Redact to erase my comments in all forums and got permabanned in one for doing so because Redact posts a self link. No warning, just a ban. The only thing thats improved is that a lot of trolling a-holes have also been banned so there are less outright vitriol than there used to be. And some of the worst subs are gone. But its not going in a good direction overall.
The bots in the comments of reddit are insane. I swear I’ve noticed you can’t change the vote on them either. If you downvote and scroll away and come back it’s back at where it was and your vote is gone.
I wonder how much spez gets paid for that garbage that removes it as a functional social site and puts it squarely in ad media.
Literally r/BannedFromPyonyang behavior
fyi, it’s pyong yang.
Nintendo fandom is feeling super defensive rn
I used to be big contributor on reddit and it’s has been completely taken over by power users who are just shilling. Many subreddit mods are actually in bed with businesses and take straight up bribes or have their own conflicting interests.
reddit and large subs have all upped thier filters, so its actually harder to comment in subs that have high traffic. the niche subs are probably safe subs(the rule is if the sub has a sets of rule like the sidebar on lemmy, then you know its monitored heavily.
Yup if you take a look at new posts on any big sub reddit its either bots karma farming or influencers shilling. It’s just too hard for new people to onboard on sharing as:
- min karma or account requirement
- absurd 50 rules that trigger auto mod
- shadow banning so new users have 0 response and get demotivated instantly
So aside from smaller subreddits it’s just trolls and bots talking between each other.
I suspect a lot of mods are actually employed by those companies directly.
they have straight up affiliates they reccomend openly over anyone else like in hosting subs with “deals” for redditors
It’s been a thing for years, way before api shitshow
Yep joined lemmy around API controversy. It’s been like 2 years on lemmy for me. Loving it
its called crossbanning, if the mods of a sub feels like another sub is too controversial they will premetively ban you, now with the new reddit filters, your at risk of getting sitewide banned.
famous one is participating j roegan sub, and you get banned from multiple subs, but j rogegan sub is only criticizing him, not fetishsizing his gop support.
If you want to avoid censorship you picked the wrong lemmy instance to join lol
