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.
People made alternative subs on Reddit for that very reason, too. They just were more likely to be buried by the other, bigger subs.
Some people might do that, but then you have two communities with even less users.
On the other hand, it is impossible to be banned from all of Lemmy. Power tripping admins do not exist here.
I wouldn’t be so sure. I could point to .ml and BlahajZone. Both have some questionable admins.
.ml is alot worst, because you only need to interact with someone from that instance you get a typical response. i never had a negative interaction on the trans instance.
My issue with the trans instance is that they expect you to behave a certain way in a control freak sort of way, which left a bad aftertaste. They wanted me to sincerely apologize for a fucking light-hearted comment. And I say that as a gay man who knows damn well where the boundaries are.
i try to avoid instances like that eventhough i support lgbtq+ i just had a bad experience on reddit where they mistakingly banned me for saying something they MISCONSTRUED, BUT THEY QUICKLY unbanned because they recognized it wasnt a violaiton lol.
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.
not surprised. when lemmy got popular all the mods from Reddit created their little communities because power feels good.
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.
So they have a bot check to see if you’ve posted in a sub they don’t like, which then auto-bans you if it finds you there.
The thought police are unpaid volunteers using bots now, I guess.
they also have something called crowd control , which limits the amount of traffic, or whoever is posting on the sub.
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.
This particular example isn’t specifically a reddit problem; it’s a power tripping moderator problem. A problem that has existed long before Reddit, and will likely always exist on all forms of social media. Even Lemmy. Hell, we have a couple communities specifically to point out instances of admin/mod power tripping.
that is true, before that i was Y’a answers and a few accounts in particurlarly was lukring in most of the categories, mostly the political ones. i was in a health forum long time ago and a mod had out for me, and kept targeting my post as you can "say black because the mod thinks offensive for black people, and we finding other excuses on other posts to be condescending. the worst one was the forums with the services(long story) they acted like all knowing gods because they been in the services, and started spamming because i was advising another user that the mods were being very rude to her.
Literally r/BannedFromPyonyang behavior
fyi, it’s pyong yang.
Nintendo fandom is feeling super defensive rn
If you want to avoid censorship you picked the wrong lemmy instance to join lol
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
