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WesternInfidels feddit.online WesternInfidels@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-01-29
#52 · (edited) Quote Reply

I’m new to this, is substack not the place to be for writers?

2026: Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

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jdr lemmy.ml jdr@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-07-28
#53 · Quote Reply

an ad spend When you're off the used car lot, 'spend' is still only a verb, and the word you wanted here is maybe 'purchase' or 'deal'. 'The spend', 'the ask', and other cheese should stay back with the pre-owned Pontiacs.

I wish they'd sunset this shit

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eleitl lemmy.zip eleitl@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-05
#54 · Quote Reply

What's a Reddit?

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FauxLiving lemmy.world FauxLiving@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-10
#55 · (edited) Quote Reply

I mean there's gut feeling and then there's real actual evidence.

Exactly.

It's one thing for Reddit to be taking action against automated posting and just be doing a shitty job. At least they'd be TRYING to fight against this source of toxic societal corrosion.

It's a whole other kind of immoral to see that their anti-bot activities are simply cover for the enforcement branch of their ad sales department. Bots are not against the rules at all, spamming communities to create false consensus is A-OK with Reddit as long as the check clears.

Fuck Spez even more. I heard he was a moderator on r/jailbait for quite some time, btw

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😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈 lemmy.world MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#56 · Quote Reply

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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wabafee lemmy.world wabafee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#57 · Quote Reply

On the internet, no one knows you're made of cups

MICROPLASTICS

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motruck lemmy.zip motruck@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-23
#58 · Quote Reply

You mean a company that owns a platform is operating it only to make money? Shocking. You already were fooled once with the first reddit exodus. Now it is just shame on you for expecting things not to go this way.

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Crozekiel lemmy.zip Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-07-22
#59 · Quote Reply

I don't know who this guy is, but the fact that he is crying on twitter about being shadow-banned on reddit tells me I don't really give a fuck about him, his opinion, or his perceived slights against him.

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samus12345 sh.itjust.works samus12345@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-03
#60 · Quote Reply

The person in the email strikes me as a contradiction. On the one hand, they're posting their pronouns presumably to indicate some sort of support for inclusivity? On the other hand, they're actively strong-arming and bullying a person into paying for normal access... I'm sure it's fully lost on that person. It feels so discordant to me.

It's a form of rainbow capitalism.

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THE_GR8_MIKE lemmy.world THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-03
#61 · Quote Reply

Fuck reddit and all the admins that attempt to run it.

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THE_GR8_MIKE lemmy.world THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-03
#62 · Quote Reply

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Dude needs to go play in traffic.

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#63 · Quote Reply

I don't know who this guy is, but the fact that he is crying on twitter about being shadow-banned on reddit tells me I don't really give a fuck about him, his opinion, or his perceived slights against him.

I care if reddit is dishonestly enforcing rules to force people to buy ads. That's good for us actually. If only we had more enlightened instances with more functionality.

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#64 · Quote Reply

What's a Reddit?

I think it's the name for one of those weird sex moves.

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#65 · Quote Reply

Oh, no, I didn't give a shit, I burned through Reddit accounts like nobody's business. The fact that the admin was so triggered as to sit there, banning and unbanning me, just to spam me with notifications, was the greatest possible reward I could have ever asked for. First thing I did on the new account was report the exact same post. Didn't get banned.

Quite odd behavior, this is not a moderator but an administrator on the site wide?

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#66 · Quote Reply

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It's a variation on a reddit as I understand it, an unusual sex move. Organic posting is where, well, you don't want to know.

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#67 · Quote Reply

That's nothing. I was permabanned for inciting violence or whatever they claimed, which broke rule #1. My "violence" was calling AI stupid (more or less) wishing it'd go away. Ironically, the mod bot banned me.

I keep hearing stuff like this, makes me wonder if they are even honestly getting those moderations wrong, or if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons. My violations were often in bad faith for other reasons that I got violated for I believe. Did you get into any arguments with like Influence agents for a powerful group? Ie Israel but not limited to.

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dandylion lemmy.zip dandylion@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-01-27
#68 · Quote Reply

there are still people on reddit? thats a bot hell

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redjard reddthat.com Redjard@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-06
#69 · (edited) Quote Reply

Listen, kid, I've been on reddit since 2009. I hung out with the admins in IRC back in the day. I was a default mod for a while, and I'm the "father" of /r/nottheonion. There's plenty I don't know about reddit and life in general, but on this topic, clearly I know a fuck ton more than you. There was a time on reddit when self-promotion was against the rules. That rule was dropped something like...

I was already in the middle of posting this to !dontyouknowwhoiam@lemmy.world before seeing the remainder of your post :)

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#70 · Quote Reply

I am on a 7 day ban for the same sort of thing, pointing out how ICE targets brown people. "Inciting hate", how is pointing out hate crimes the same as inciting hate? Fight the power.

Why go back?

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#71 · Quote Reply

I’m new to this, is substack not the place to be for writers?

Oh boy...

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#72 · Quote Reply

My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up. Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact. Three of those were flagged by AI, the...

You got violated for upvoting luigi? I said all sorts of shit with no action on that, although I did get a 2nd violation and abandoned that account and when I came back with a new account all luigi content was gone except for pics which my posts don't seem to go through on somehow.

I got one for saying musk should be riding in his own spaceshit, for advocating violence, apparently it's just presumed it will blow up. What else, for accurately stating a cultural difference with another country that lacks sewage and running water for half the population and has a problem with feces polluting the ground and water, India.

We can't even talk about cultural differences, and problems in society, without getting violated for disparaging others apparently. God forbid we accurately recount a historical situation where some nationalist is embarrassed for the outcome.

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#73 · (edited) Quote Reply

I'm jealous of all y'all who know why you got bans. I've gotten warning and temp bans, but they never specify why. They never include the content. Just saying promoting this or that is very unclear, like how, when, where? Did I actually? I always just ignore them and carry on on alts for a while. Their shit is so stupid. But there's a lot of useful content on Reddit. I still hit up old house an...

I need to get back on for help on some stuff. Was just trying to find a plant or drug free to order to take the place of adhd medication that would enrich my life but I am unable to get because puritanical lawmakers have made it near impossible for people without quality insurance to get it. I need help with other work stuff, etc. And there aren't enough people on here for a lot of it, especially niche subjects. This time I want to just use reddit for that, and keep time wasting on lemmy here, although to waste less time, winter I've more time to waste.

But my recent violations they link to the comment but it doesn't show anything just a page that had a removed comment, so you only have the title of the post that it got removed from. It used to show it. I contested one, and pointed that out, and they just ignored it and upheld the violation. I never got permabanned though I've cycled through idk, 6 or more accounts in a few years, but increasingly often, 4 just last year I think so more than 6 total, my first for a year and a few months then quit for over a year and a few months after a second violation for racism for something that wasn't against the rules, or even related to race in any way whatsoever, completely unrelated, was going to quit forever.

But I abandon them after a second violation with a 3 day ban, after the 1st violation I get a second pretty soon, but with a new account the heat seems to be off. Don't want the permaban as I want it for help with stuff.

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mrnobody reddthat.com mrnobody@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-01-08
#74 · (edited) Quote Reply

I keep hearing stuff like this, makes me wonder if they are even honestly getting those moderations wrong, or if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons. My violations were often in bad faith for other reasons that I got violated for I believe. Did you get into any arguments with like Influence agents for a powerful group? Ie Israel but not limited to.

Probably me shitting on AI was frowned upon. It was a news article or something something to the tune of 'data centers for AI are stealing jobs faster than know' and I said once they're built, its low maintenance bc all the automation. So AI data centers replace people with AI agents and then automate BACnet to maintain the building. Would be a shame if it caught fire and the building AI was compromised and let burn the regular AI...

I'm spitballing my answer, but apparently that was a call for someone to somehow set fire to a datacenter or something even though I never said those words. It was poking fun at the Anikin Skywalker meme "you destroyed the very thing you were meant to protect" kind of shit. Or better yet, when Task Manager freezes.

I'm sure it didn't help I was the creator and mod of several 2A subs with a good size following. But never any violence, it was hobbyist stuff. Everyone was civil.

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adam_y lemmy.world adam_y@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#75 · Quote Reply

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hector lemmy.today hector@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-09-03
#76 · Quote Reply

Probably me shitting on AI was frowned upon. It was a news article or something something to the tune of 'data centers for AI are stealing jobs faster than know' and I said once they're built, its low maintenance bc all the automation. So AI data centers replace people with AI agents and then automate BACnet to maintain the building. Would be a shame if it caught fire and the building AI was co...

Oh yeah that makes sense. I've backed off several comments about how the data centers are vulnerable because I just know the technofascists are going to be super aggressive going after anyone suggesting anything about data centers blowing up or whatever.

The farthest I've gone is bringing up that in the french revolution the first thing the peasants did when they heard the news was mob their local clerk and burn their records building.

I am curious if there are any vulnerabilities to them losing data. Figured I'd get violated for asking on reddit.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#77 · Quote Reply

I'm jealous of all y'all who know why you got bans. I've gotten warning and temp bans, but they never specify why. They never include the content. Just saying promoting this or that is very unclear, like how, when, where? Did I actually? I always just ignore them and carry on on alts for a while. Their shit is so stupid. But there's a lot of useful content on Reddit. I still hit up old house an...

I left before they could ban me. I'd most certainly be gone by now.

Getting rid of that algorithm was probably the second most positive change I made in my life in the past 5 years.

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lastlybutfirstly lemmy.world lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-15
#78 · Quote Reply

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I think most people unsubscribe from r/all anyway and subscribe to subs related to their favorite hobbies and games and work related info. Most of my frontpage is for video games I'm currently playing, programs I'm currently using and odd fun subs like moviemistakes or maybemaybemaybe. I wish I could do that here.

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bearboiblake [he/him] pawb.social bearboiblake@pawb.social
Joined: 2025-02-25
#79 · Quote Reply

Quite odd behavior, this is not a moderator but an administrator on the site wide?

Yeah, moderators can't do sitewide bans, only Reddit administrators (employees) can do it.

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adam_y lemmy.world adam_y@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#80 · Quote Reply

I think most people unsubscribe from r/all anyway and subscribe to subs related to their favorite hobbies and games and work related info. Most of my frontpage is for video games I'm currently playing, programs I'm currently using and odd fun subs like moviemistakes or maybemaybemaybe. I wish I could do that here.
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so_pitted_wabam lemmy.zip so_pitted_wabam@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-02-24
#81 · Quote Reply

Reddit bad

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#82 · Quote Reply

I was already in the middle of posting this to !dontyouknowwhoiam@lemmy.world before seeing the remainder of your post :)

hahaha. Thanks for the cool sunglasses, too. :)

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#83 · Quote Reply

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Yeah, but why the fish and the banana? You have to explain that in more detail, my man.

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Horsey lemmy.world Horsey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#84 · Quote Reply

I don't know who this guy is, but the fact that he is crying on twitter about being shadow-banned on reddit tells me I don't really give a fuck about him, his opinion, or his perceived slights against him.

Niche communities don’t turn on a dime to a new platform. He’s on Twitter because his audience is on Twitter.

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lastlybutfirstly lemmy.world lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-15
#85 · Quote Reply

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I can't figure out how to unsub from the Lemmy version of r/all. So I'm getting latestagecapitalism, politics, politicalmemes, various communist instances. 80% of what's on my page is politics. I'm not interested in that.

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atomicorange lemmy.world atomicorange@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-28
#86 · Quote Reply

Yeah, but why the fish and the banana? You have to explain that in more detail, my man.

One doesn’t explain copypasta, one is merely a vessel through which the copypasta flows

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NoWay lemmy.world aviationeast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
#87 · Quote Reply

He posted this on xitter. It goes in the trash along with reddit.

Its 2026, there are only three types of people left on xitter. Pedophiles, white supremists and people from the isle of moro.

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willington lemmy.dbzer0.com willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-16
#88 · (edited) Quote Reply

an ad spend When you're off the used car lot, 'spend' is still only a verb, and the word you wanted here is maybe 'purchase' or 'deal'. 'The spend', 'the ask', and other cheese should stay back with the pre-owned Pontiacs.

It's corporate speak, imo.

I hate it too.

They also like to call everything "assets." Not a "picture" or an "image" or a "decoration" or a million other descriptive words. It's all "assets." When the corporates talk like that they are emphasizing ownership and profitabiliy. "Put that money-making thing we own there." "Lisa, which folder did you put that money-making thing we own in?"

🤢

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willington lemmy.dbzer0.com willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-16
#89 · Quote Reply

Writing spam posts like "I'm really satisfied using this website, totallynotanad.com" or "try using Company XYZ, their service is really good"

/s

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willington lemmy.dbzer0.com willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-16
#90 · (edited) Quote Reply

I keep hearing stuff like this, makes me wonder if they are even honestly getting those moderations wrong, or if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons. My violations were often in bad faith for other reasons that I got violated for I believe. Did you get into any arguments with like Influence agents for a powerful group? Ie Israel but not limited to.

if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons

Oh, this has to be a very common behavior.

Or making overly strict rules because you plan on selective enforcement from the get go.

People will weaponize anything when they are fighting for an advantage.

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adam_y lemmy.world adam_y@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#91 · Quote Reply

I can't figure out how to unsub from the Lemmy version of r/all. So I'm getting latestagecapitalism, politics, politicalmemes, various communist instances. 80% of what's on my page is politics. I'm not interested in that.
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Rooster326 programming.dev Rooster326@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-09-25
#92 · Quote Reply

I can't figure out how to unsub from the Lemmy version of r/all. So I'm getting latestagecapitalism, politics, politicalmemes, various communist instances. 80% of what's on my page is politics. I'm not interested in that.

Forgot fuckcars. Not a day goes by that I don't see it.

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lastlybutfirstly lemmy.world lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-15
#93 · (edited) Quote Reply

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I'm using the website. After what you said, I checked and it has Subscribed/Local/All at the top of the page. That's really nice. I just started using Lemmy so I haven't completely figured it out yet. I use old reddit, so it might be set up the same way as new reddit but I wouldn't have known.

Edit:

What are hidden posts?

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Jumbie lemmy.zip Jumbie@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-08
#94 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

Ok but that’s fucking hilarious. Wish I’d thought of it first.

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Jumbie lemmy.zip Jumbie@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-08
#95 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

You can surf Reddit without an account and without their app.

Google searches lead you to relevant info. Then you leave. Voila!

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Jumbie lemmy.zip Jumbie@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-08
#96 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

Hey Unc. You coming to the barbecue Sunday?

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one_old_coder piefed.social one_old_coder@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-02-08
#97 · Quote Reply

What's a Reddit?

It's a clone of Digg which was a clone of forums, and it's full of ads and bots. It's the trashcan of the internet. I don't know why people still lurk there.

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one_old_coder piefed.social one_old_coder@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-02-08
#98 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

Or one organic dildo trying to fight a mega-dragon-dildo 10 times its size.

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0_o7 lemmy.dbzer0.com 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-02
#99 · Quote Reply

there are still people on reddit? thats a bot hell

Remember when users used to flood reddit subs to find support, real opinions, express dissatisfaction, criticize bad feature/products, and warn others?

Now, the people who complain get flooded by astroturfing bots run by marketing agencies to say they're holding it wrong, not important enough, doing something wrong while praising corporation overtaking governments.

Now that Google has partnered with reddit, they get to have many searches sending troves of people there expecting solutions or like minded people or community support.

So, yea there are still people.

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87Six lemmy.zip 87Six@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-09-19
#100 · (edited) Quote Reply

Can anyone tell me what the fuck an organic account and organic posting is? Is this the def?

Organic social media refers to unpaid content that individuals and brands share on social media to engage audiences without paid ads or direct selling.

And if so, wtf. I mean, I expected nothing less from the Reddit zionist cesspool, but still...

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socsa piefed.social socsa@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-08-20
#101 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

Posting which doesn't use petroleum based fertilizer

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