You do realize how easy it is to get banned from reddit, since the IPO dropped, yes?
I was there for 14 years and 50 weeks and got sniped within 30 seconds of dropping a post that was critical of Stephen Miller.
I got banned from Twitter after a decade and a dozen posts for calling out an insurrectionist three weeks before January 6th, using his own couched language of violence and corruption. (I grew up in the 1970’s and knew damn well what he was saying)
Going back even further, I got banned from the old ABC news forums in 2004 for pointing out that it was in fact, the unfair economic policies of the rich, that was the main reason that many women were starting to opt out of motherhood.
Some of us just got bumped for speaking uncomfortable truths about the consequences of unchecked power.
I consider it proof positive that I’ve been seeing things clearly for the last… oh… 45 years.
Smart. On many occasions I had gotten auto-banned from subs I never had even heard of because I’d randomly poasted on a sub that hit r/all and I’d thrown in my 2 cents on a comment. At that point, I should have seen the 'bot-storm heading in, but just stuck it out because of inertia on the site - mine - and the IPO sort of codified the weening “squeeky clean, sanitized for our ad revenue” behavior. Should have left then, but again… inertia and stuck around until the robo-ban waves started rolling in and I got caught in one.
LOL! I honestly don’t miss it. Am on old.lemmy.zip and have the same kind of comms I’m subbed to here and there and it’s fine. It’s actually kinda nice here - like reddit was at the start.
You do realize how easy it is to get banned from reddit, since the IPO dropped, yes?
I was there for 14 years and 50 weeks and got sniped within 30 seconds of dropping a post that was critical of Stephen Miller.
I got banned from Twitter after a decade and a dozen posts for calling out an insurrectionist three weeks before January 6th, using his own couched language of violence and corruption. (I grew up in the 1970’s and knew damn well what he was saying)
Going back even further, I got banned from the old ABC news forums in 2004 for pointing out that it was in fact, the unfair economic policies of the rich, that was the main reason that many women were starting to opt out of motherhood.
Some of us just got bumped for speaking uncomfortable truths about the consequences of unchecked power.
I consider it proof positive that I’ve been seeing things clearly for the last… oh… 45 years.
a lot of people have been falsely banned, but a lot of other people, from what ive seen, have been banned for legitimate reasons
Lemmy users feel way more aggressive than reddit users (at least from my experience) even though most of them used to be reddit users
Being banned from Reddit is honestly a badge of honor for the most part lol
I will not disagree with that one iota.
No clue - I had the good sense to leave well before the IPO.
Smart. On many occasions I had gotten auto-banned from subs I never had even heard of because I’d randomly poasted on a sub that hit r/all and I’d thrown in my 2 cents on a comment. At that point, I should have seen the 'bot-storm heading in, but just stuck it out because of inertia on the site - mine - and the IPO sort of codified the weening “squeeky clean, sanitized for our ad revenue” behavior. Should have left then, but again… inertia and stuck around until the robo-ban waves started rolling in and I got caught in one.
LOL! I honestly don’t miss it. Am on old.lemmy.zip and have the same kind of comms I’m subbed to here and there and it’s fine. It’s actually kinda nice here - like reddit was at the start.