Yeah like everyone else here… Venting about how shitty Reddit is. In the last 2 years I’ve been getting 7-day bans every few months for the dumbest things. Seriously ridiculous how relatively unoffensive my comments are. Half of which were bot bans. This last time I decided to use my alt account during a ban and got my main account permanently banned. Submitted an appeal but I don’t have high hopes and even if they lift it, fuck them. Not to mention individual sub bans for simply joining other subs or having a link to my OnlyFans on my profile. I’ve had enough.

I got a 3 day ban for a really innocuous comment. Done by "AI", of course... I was so annoyed that I didn't even appeal it and just deleted my account. Should have done it way before, of course. Haven't been back in 3 weeks. All I said was that Elron Musk hates poor people, and their shit AI said that was threatening harm to someone. Okay.

Got my 7yo account banned for not verifying my mail.

Created a few more accounts with temporary mails, got banned by 'unauthentic activity'. Then I gave up all and begun to use lemmy. I try to interact on everything to create engagement

I got a site wide permaban for saying Putin should be executed for war crimes.

On r/ukraine

AI mods, and increasingly AI content, they're making it a training ground for what they can get away.

It will become more like Facebook.

I got a 2 month ban on worldnews in a thread about Tesla stocks going to shit and Elon Musk crying about it. My comment was "Hahaha, may he suffer" and apparently that is harassment and inciting violence.

Two weeks shy of 15 years and got permabaned last October.. Sniped by a bot. Oh well. Found old.lemmy.zip a few days later, signed up and learned how to sub to the communities on other instances and have never looked back.

Am not even angry about it anymore, since it's waaay more laid back and chill here. Like Reddit was before 2012 or so.. Do a lot more reading, which has brought my game up and also, no rage-bots.. so that alone is pure delight.

Welcome to the party, it's low-key but once you find your groove, and learn to sub across the various instances.. it's a blast!

I had to go shortly after the "He gets us" Jesus ads made their appearance.

NSFW sub bans are the worst. Last I heard most reddit content moderators/admins that were taking care of NSFW subs went overseas or quit due to crushing work hours and having to constantly see shit that makes people's stomachs turn, even in the softcore subs some of the nastiest shit gets posted and removed.

We need to make a “He gets us (pregnant)” parody.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy Lemmy :)

Yeah I’m hoping I don’t get the urge to go back there. Just gotta fill the void with lemmy and/or touch more grass

I got banned - after 13 years - for reporting hate speech.

Turns out that is “report abuse”.

lol u probably reported a mod or something smh

This the same world news that is purportedly modded by Ghislaine Maxwell?

Can't wait for the day Reddit advertisers finally realize they're advertising mostly to bots. I'm building up my stockpile of popcorn to watch the shitshow.

Maybe. Or just fuckwits weaponising a badly designed system to control the narrative.

Find the right handful of commuities and you will not even think of going back.

Honestly.

I’m already having trouble posting nudes on here lol. I can’t join the nsfw instance and my post won’t submit I think cuz I originally joined a sfw instance. It’s ok. I’ll figure it out

Shame you didn't get banned for exposing a pedo ring. Yes they call that one harassment

I am not YET permanently banned on Reddit, even though I have been temporarily banned a few times. I am moving away to PieFed though... but I find it difficult to get engagement without the ability to have crossposts link back to the main post. I am just sick of Reddit and their behaviour. They arbitrarily ban people and then refuse to ban literal terrorists and people who keeps going on mass-shootings were radicalised on Reddit, which got them investigated by the Department of Justice BOTH back during the Biden-era and the current Trump-era. I may often not agree with the Threadiverse politically and get into my fair share of debates (I have an older account that I cannot find on Lemmy that I made in 2023- but whatever since I like PieFed more), but Reddit is just THAT BAD where they somehow make both the left and right investigate them. Bruh. They are just dogwater, which is an insult to dogwater. 😭

I used to moderate REGULAR SFW spaces on both Reddit and Discord and let me tell you, the stuff people post is insane. They post straight out terrorist and cartel executions like it is nothing... and that is ignoring the ones who post rapes, tortures, murders, etc. I can only imagine how bad NSFW spaces are. If you do not have an iron-stomach, I would never recommend moderating spaces with millions of people on it.

Welcome to the party pal! Honestly, it feels like old reddit here and I love it!

At least I feel I'm not engaging with endless bots here

Welcome

I also had a 12 year account that got banned. I do miss some of the more specialized subs, but I enjoy the casual scrolling here.

individual sub bans for simply joining other subs

This is nucking futs.

Haha thanks me too

Funny I had a 15 year account and was never once banned from anything, ever.

I swear the threadiverse is a remote island made up of 50% idealists and 50% convicts.

The API price increase and Apollo shutting down was my breaking point with Reddit.

It’s already Facebook. Just look at it for a few seconds without signing in or adblockers. Short form video and picture posts with stupid engagement by bots ad nauseum.

Almost every political post is the daily beast, which is basically a tabloid.

The amount of bullshit that gets upvoted even though it’s categorically wrong because the bubble says “nuh uh I heard something else and I believe it!” is crazy.

Plus all the “user review” ad spam everywhere. I don’t trust anything on there from the past few years because of it. Sucks.

Spoiler alert: it’s not much better here.

Okay, it’s not as bad, but you’ll find plenty of over-strict civility rules and political bias in moderators. Reddit is just further down the development chain and perhaps nudged to be a bit more PC due to advertisers. You’ll find the same basic problems here though.

Greetings! Hope you like your stay!

If you'd like to also explore options, there's Mastodon for followinf Twitter-like posts (and also PixelFed, NeoDB, WordPress, etc.), Friendica and Mbin for following both Twitter and Reddit-like posts, and PieFed as a direct alternative to Lemmy specifically.

And tip, Lemmy has a native per-post, post-hiding feature, at the 3 dots of a given post. Mastodon has too, and most softwares I've tested work well with Ublock Origin filters and/or scripts for hiding posts (e.g. if liked/disliked).

I'm not banned but I haven't participated much there for a couple of years.

I've heard that Fediverse wasn't much better, but the fact that Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon and pretty much any other Fediverse platform are open source, and completely ridden of ads, and data collection from giant corporations is already a HUGE difference.

Sure people are just people and you're gonna find toxic communities everywhere, but at least here you don't need to "fear" getting banned because you can choose an instance that has core principles you share, and through them you can access pretty much any community you want, and keep active.

On Reddit, you have no other place to go. You either shut the fuck up and accept their terms, or you, if you get banned, there's nothing you can do about it.

Also, a lot of communities here in Lemmy/Piefed are very active. I don't need to be drowned on an infinity number of posts when most of them are just silly repetitive memes or karma whoring, with zero meaningful discussion.

Welcome!

It makes you think... Is there a part of the population that never says "fuck" and somehow they make enough money to whatever reddit does to get that money? Oris anyone so well behaved that they will never be banned? Like if they start talking like resists then these people too will talk like racists?

Nah nah. I accept that a great part of the population is stupid dumb as fuck. But nah nah man... Reddit has bots. That's what makes more sense.

Welcome aboard! About a year ago my 11 year old Reddit account was banned. I don't even know why I was banned since I'd lost access to the email account I used to create the account long ago. For a day or two I was just really confused why I couldn't log in anymore.

Oh well, Reddit had been on a down hill trajectory for a while, but I do miss some of the smaller niche subreddits I used to frequent. We'll eventually have communities like that as Lemmy, PieFed, etc continues to grow.

Welcome. I also was banned for pointing out some dumb shit on a conservative subreddit. They really have such thin skin.

Hi, welcome! Sooooo, maybe this is new info. Maybe this you already know. Either way, as a Lemmy newbie, allow me to fill you in on some lingo and details around here.

So, subreddits are called communities, but it's the same thing.

What's not the same is the core functionality. Lemmy has potentially an infinate amount of servers. I say potentially because you can start your own Lemmy server right now.

These servers are called "instances". It's just a server where you can host your own lemmy account, or your own communities.

So, you can do whatever you want on your instance. You can tell all your friends to join your instance. I could sign up for an account and be hosted by your instance.

Now I'm not saying you need to do that, or even that you should do that. I'm just saying you can. It's possible.

Now, let's talk federation.

Think of each instance as a circle. Now imagine a line connecting two circles. That connection between the two circles means they are "federated", or connected. You as a user on an instance can interact with all other federated instances. This is why you'll see topics on lemmy.world and users hosted lemmy.ml.

Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml are two different instances, but they are federated. So Lemmy.ml users can interact with Lemmy.world communities/topics/users.

Your instance is ani.social. I'm not firmiliar with which instances you're federated with. Clearly federated with Lemmy.World.

But imagine you found a problematic instance. Like what if you found somethink like nazis.online for an instance. You might want to cut ties with them.

So now imagine that line between ani.social and nazis.online is cut. You don't want to talk to nazis, and neither does anyone on your instance. So ani.social defederates from nazis.online, and now the nazis can't see, nor interact with you, or any communities on your instance.

However, user@nazis.online can still ineract with Lemmy.ml, and ani.social can still interact with lemmy.ml. So you still may see users on other instances that you're both federated with. In that case, you can block user@nazis.online.

And Lemmy.World, and Lemmy.ml are both Lemmy. But you may see users from an instance called piefed. What is piefed? Well it's a totally different service, with its own instances, with its own communities, run by different people that can still federate with Lemmy and other instances within the fediverse. But how is this possible?

Well, the fediverse is all services that use something called activitypub. Now, I'm a bit out my own element in knowing the finer details, but the over simplified version is that if a service uses activitypub, it CAN be part of the fediverse. I say "can" because I've been told that bluesky does run activitypub, but they choose to limit their own federation to just bsky.app. Meaning there are no other bluesky instances, and no other service is federated with bluesky, even though they totally could federate with mastodon.

Bluesky is almost a 1:1 carbon copy of pre-musk twitter. Mastodon is more pre-musk twitter inspired, but also fully part of the fediverse.

Bluesky has limited interaction with mastodon. I've never tried it, despite having both a bluesky and mastodon account. I've heard you need to bridge the accounts, and it's a whole thing. So I never bothered. I hear it's clumsy, and not worth it.

And there's a whole bunch of fediverse services.

Lemmy/piefed are like reddit.

Peertube is like youtube.

Loops is like tiktok.

Pixelfed is like instagram.

Friendica is like facebook.

And when I say all this, there's one giant elephant in the room we haven't addressed yet. Corporate interests.

Lets say you're still on X for some god awful reason. Well, you probably notice that they push their own agenda on you. They make money by getting you to follow the agenda. On the fediverse, there are no owners.

Like I said earlier, you can run your own instance. If Sony wanted to advertise on Lemmy, it would be damn near impossible. Because they could advertise on Lemmy.World, but only Lemmy.World users would see the ad. Because when you interact with Lemmy.World, you personally are not on Lemmy.World. You're on Lemmy.World via Ani.social. So you're actually browsing all this from Ani.Social. You never actually leave there. And if you try to go directly to Lemmy.World, you'll find you're not logged in. Because they have no login credentials for you. But if you go back to Ani.Social, you'll find things just as you left them. Still able to interact with Lemmy.World but still technically browsing Lemmy.World via Ani.Social.

I know thats a lot to throw at a newbie, but I promise it's only complicated in the begining. Once you get it, it's like second nature.

One last thing, despite being called the "fediverse", there's no need to worry. It has nothing to do with Kevin Federline.

My perma ban was liking a comment. Turns out that goes against rule 1.

It was a comment making fun if R1 under a security video of a therapist abusing an autistic child.

Right after Melon Husk bought Twitter, I posted something about Howard Schultz (CEO of Starbucks) while he was questioned about his anti-union activities in front of Congress. I wanted to slap the smile off his face into next Tuesday. That got me a 7 day ban. I didn't log in for a month. When I came back, my feed was just as nasty. I moved everyone I followed to Mastodon if they had an account. Same with Facebook. That was over 2 years ago. When BlueSky started using their posts for LLMs, I deleted my account.

Mom told me this story about a little old man that a reporter saw praying against the Western Wall (of the original Temple) in Jerusalem. The man was there for over a week during the morning and afternoons. The reporter wanted some insight into this man's devotion, so he asked him about it.

The old man pondered the question then said "In the mornings, I come and pray for peace. Then I have a bit of a nosh and come back in the afternoon I pray again for peace."

"Well, given what's happening right now, what's that like?" asked the reporter.

"It's like talking to a wall." said the old man sadly.

Thanks so much for this!! It’s a lot but It all makes a lot of sense. So to see stuff ani.social is not federated with, I’d need to make another account on a different instance?

That probably explains why I couldn’t post nsfw content. I think ani.social is not federated with the nsfw instances.

You can swear on reddit

You should generally avoid showing support towards Europe under TrumpZ administration. Weak Europe will not be able to help US in the future and they all know this. Focus on strengthening China and Russia instead so that they can take on US once Trump has finished robbing and destroying it

EDIT: I did not this was needed, but /s obviously. Trump is a traitor.

We shall see. My problem is that I never said anything bad. I feel like anywhere else, the things I was banned for would be a non-issue. So far though, I like Lemmy. Seems active and fresh… for now

I think when ur banned once, ur flagged and it’s easy to get banned again.
The very first time I was banned it was because of an argument I had with another user. We ended up calling each other names and were both banned. Ok fair. But from then on, I got banned for inciting violence and for hate speech for such minute comments. Like i would’ve been surprised if they simply deleted my comment, let alone ban me for 7 days. Meanwhile half the other comments are much worse than whatever I said.
I dealt with the 7 day reprieves fine until today when I practiced “ban-evasion” which was enough to ban me forever. It’s my fault. Bottom line is I shouldn’t have said Asian male prostitutes were cheap. Smh

ani.social might use an allow list instead of a deny list?

https://ani.social/instances

BLOP DE DOP

/s?

For something run by a greedy little pigboy, that checks out. Can't have the poors criticizing those defenceless billionaires and harming their reputation, now can we?

This... is a lot. How necessarily is it to know all this? Could probably pare it down quite a bit.