along with the strong censoring that has occurred on reddit throughout the years, they have now removed r/all from the app and while using a desktop/laptop browser. instead of being able to stumble upon new subreddits you never knew existed, it wants to curate what you’re allowed to see
It’s easy to get banned from subs, but it’s very hard to get banned from Reddit as a site. You have to go out of your way to either be extremely bigoted, obnoxious, or do something illegal for that to happen.
Actually you can get banned for being too good at accumulating karma
I got a sitewide ban for bot like behavior
I got my account and all my alts permabanned site-wide for calling someone “A fucking piece of human garbage” because they advocated for not only that Trans people don’t deserve rights but doesn’t care if they kill themselves, calling it “a good thing”.
So my account got banned. My porn alt which never got even a warning since I made it years ago? Banned. I make a new account now and so much as upvote a post on a subreddit I’ve never seen in my life? Instantly and automatically permabanned.
So if calling someone a piece of garbage for advocating for the violence and death of trans people, according to you, is “extremely bigoted, obnoxious, or something illegal”, maybe you might need a little introspective thought about your own reality.
Or you’re the bigoted and obnoxious person that doesn’t get banned from reddit for spouting hate. Because I went back and checked a week after I was permabanned before deleting the account? The user who advocated for Trans people to die was still commenting days later. Didn’t receive a single day.
But keep defending Reddit.
Mine was for wishing nightmares of children dying on someone justifying Israel targeting hospitals and schools.
Reddit shouldn’t be defended on this topic.
I called Tim Walz a “spineless fuck” for saying that he would never seek elected office again. Banned from a sub I was active in daily. Apparently you can’t have opinions on public figures if there are bad words involved.
That’s a sub. Not all of reddit.
I get it, but it was still annoying. Straight to perma ban. I tried to appeal it, pointing out that I had broken no rules and they just muted me. I legitimately don’t think anyone reported my comment, just some mod who likes the guy decided to ban me. It was horseshit.
Naw the auto bans are site wide. If you have a few of the auto bans it permas you. As he mentioned the auto bans trigger on non rule breaking comments mostly in relation to the idea of violence. And the appeals process is absolute shit. I said something like “you can’t just punch a person in the face if you don’t like what they say” and got the auto ban (and perma because I had been banned before for similar). I appealed and got a response saying it had been reviewed and my comment was not rule breaking. My perma ban didn’t go away and so I appealed again and my ban request got denied even though the reason for my ban was overturned. Reddit just wants happy positive and capitalism promoting content tbh.
I made a joke about how if everyone says that cats are invasive species and should never be let outside, we should do the same with white people.
Banned in seconds. Is my joke terribly funny? Eh, marginal at best. Is it that offensive? Maybe only if you’re extraordinarily thin skinned.
Poe’s Law. There are always too many people who will take it seriously and act in “retaliation”. If they think someone is at all likely to use what you said as a justification for stochastic violence, they will bend over backwards to interpret it as uncharitably as possible.
Because they’re stupid and they suck.
FWIW I like the joke. White people are indeed an invasive species, and my ethnicity is one of the ones labeled “white” so I would be detained too. By all means, send me to Poland. Force Europe to accept me as a citizen on the basis of my ancestry.
The funny part is that I’ve said something of a similar nature in the past. Nobody cared about the white people part, but OMG did they get up in arms that I let my cat outside. You want to rustle some jimmies, tell someone that your cat ate a bird. The pitchforks and torches are coming…
It’s not hard to get a permaban from Reddit, especially if you’re pro-Palestine.
I got banned for posting combat footage of Hamas attacking IDF soldiers in Gaza to r/combatfootage The reason cited was spread to terrorist propaganda video. Reddit wide ban with no recourse followed.
There were times, when you could still post primary sources on Reddit. It’s no longer possible.
Like 90% of the site is pro Palestine, what are you talking about?
Dude, you’re on Lemmy, not Reddit.
Take your ass back to the sinking ship.
On Reddit?
Hahahahahahahahahaha
You have to go out of your way to find subs that are pro Israel. The only major ones that I can think of are mapporn and worldnews.
Reddit’s AI moderation has been ruthless as of late. Comments that are anti-Israel are heavily moderated and yes, there have been a lot of users permabanned because of their political takes on this subject.
I got perma banned for saying I hope the US and China burn each other down in their economic war.
I got a 3 day ban for saying Iran’s elementary schools were being bombed in response to someone claiming that only the IRGC were targeted. Not exactly extreme.
Like replying to a Muslim woman that I thought her rationale that the bloke who disarmed one of those Bondi shooters and didn’t use it on him was because of his interpretation that his religion is one of peace?
That’s what I got permabanned for. Which one is that, extremely bigoted, obnoxious or illegal?
I mean it’s not, but I was just making the point that often times the people who complain about getting banned are usually justifiably banned for doing things like calling for violence or being racist or trying to do something malicious. That doesn’t there aren’t exceptions.
There’s a lot of exceptions.
Way too many. I’d be reluctant to claim the numbers are in favour of genuine cases unless I knew better.
I got 2 sub bans for participating in subs the mods didn’t like.
Then a week ago I got banned for promoting self harm. I did not, ai had a false positive, but they still haven’t responded to my appeal. I guess I’m kicked out for good.
Didn’t seem that hard to me. 16 year old account. Poof. I was pretty careful and certainly didn’t advocate for violence although I did point out that violence was likely.
Reddit is censored and bottled so as to be a propaganda machine. It got too popular. As the go to it was inevitable that the powers that be would co-opt the platform into an American propaganda tool. It’s blatantly obvious too.
Not really. I didn’t tone down what I said in my previous comment. The two things I got banned for this week are exactly what I said in my comment above. Very short comments not violating any rules. Banned.
I also determined they’re handing out auto-bans for certain word combinations. I had a few accounts banned for mentioning the “2nd amendment” coupled with a few other terms in the same comment. Was very careful not to violate any actual site rules, especially after the first ban involving those words. I was pretty sure about this after a few bans, then I saw a whole comment chain of people talking about it as well and that confirmed my theory.
My last shadowban was a comment that literally just said “Mussolini and Gaddafi”. That’s it. Shadowbanned. You can always tell you’ve been shadowbanned cuz it’ll start telling you that you have to wait between posting comments. Then you can go to Reddit’s appeal page and if you can appeal, it means you’ve been shadowbanned. Or you can use the 3rd party shadowban checker website. And obviously your comments will stop being upvoted/downvoted or commented on because no one can see them.
And it’s not like they’re catching up to me a day or two later and determining I circumvented their bans. Some of my accounts last months and months. They always all get banned based on a single comment.
Nah. Reddit is going full shitshow and supporting the rise of fascism in America by censoring users who aren’t even breaking rules. If you’ve been on Reddit long enough, you know the leadership is awful and they’ve been consistently making bad decisions for the platform for years now.
I’ve always said it and I’ll keep saying it. It’s their platform and they can run it like they want. But I believe the “Front Page Of The Internet” has a responsibility that extends beyond themselves. And, of course, if they choose to keep making shitty decisions, they’re going to keep losing users and we’ll keep seeing an increase in Lemmy activity.
looks at all the alt-right subs and the fascist users
Uhhhh…