• @DrFistington
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    Let them come, and also fuck reddit. You’re banned for a comment that was deleted, you can’t see what you said to determine how it violated the rules. You get one message for an appeal. Do you feel lucky? Well do you…punk!

    • @Mickey7
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      You get one message for an appeal.

      They don’t even read the appeals

      • Cruxifux
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        They must not, I got banned for quoting eat the rich by Aerosmith and nothing with the appeal. Like that cannot be a bannable offence

        • @Pacattack57
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          I got banned because I made a joke about a dead pornstar in r/entertainment

        • @BetaBlake
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          They definitely don’t read them, because I got banned for making a very obvious (ridiculous) joke and I explained that in my one measly appeal message that for sure went ignored.

          • Cruxifux
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            There’s also the possibility that they do read them, they’re just humourless morons that don’t understand the difference between a joke and a threat on someone’s life.

    • @shalafi
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      And around here you can see any mod removals by clicking “source”. It’s like a big red flag saying, “Read this because the mod doesn’t want you to!”

        • @TrickDacy
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          61 month ago

          Sort through a bunch of code? They’re referring to a button in the UI.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      91 month ago

      I got banned for telling someone to crawl back in their hole because they said female genital mutilation was horrible but that circumcision was fine because it looks better.

    • @[email protected]
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      Getting permabanned from reddit is the best thing that happened to me in 2024. I don’t even know what for and I don’t care.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      “I believe Brian Thompson was actually a pretty cool guy”

      DISCLAIMER: I in no way actually think this. This is just an example of one of those banned subjects being used correctly in that sub.

  • @Nuke_the_whales
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    Censorship disguised as moderation. This is exactly what killed reddit. You can’t have a discussion over there without getting banned, it’s just individual echo chambers who all censor and ban each other

      • @IndustryStandard
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        121 month ago

        People think they have an unpopular opinion because they do not realize everyone with the same opinion was censored.

        • @[email protected]
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          I don’t know about that. People post obviously popular opinions repeatedly if they aren’t banned.

          Unpopular opinion, but I dislike the top ten Christmas songs

          Yeah, no shit. Even though they are the “top ten”.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s just a list of nouns and proper nouns. Depending on what your post is, it could be a very unpopular opinion! Censoring words is why I won’t ever go back to Reddit…

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          Don’t get me wrong, banning words is stupid and gives us the Scunthorpe problem and I am very glad that we have an alternative to Reddit because its just a cesspit.

          The subreddit “r/unpopularOpinions” was not full of unpopular opinions, and the words banned were obviously popular opinions because everyone talked about them until the API change and the regime cracked down.

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      Or, hear me out, maybe people were tied of way too many posts in the community being about recent politics, so moderators took action on that?

      It’s not a good look to be broadly banning those words, but it seems to me like there’s a reasonable and obvious expansion.

      • @[email protected]
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        that’s easily dissuaded by no re-posts or reddits algorithm burying those. The problem was more likely because they were popular and highly engaged so they had to step in. Fucking “spez” is in there and you still feel the need to play devil’s advocate?

      • @Nuke_the_whales
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        51 month ago

        Usually when I’m tired of reading about a subject I just don’t click on those threads, I don’t censor people

    • @hesusingthespiritbomb
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      61 month ago

      Hate to break it to you but reddit isn’t dead.

      I still go on reddit. In a lot of ways it’s a lot worse than it used to be. It’s way more corporate. Huge portions of the site seem sanitized, often in obvious and eyeroll inducing ways. There’s also a lot less content in general. The content that does exist is lower effort, and way more repetitive.

      However in some ways it’s genuinely better. The discourse is a lot less toxic than it used to be. A lot of genuine cruelty wrapped in virtue signaling that defined the site from 2018 to 2022 is either gone or greatly diminished. It’s also slightly less of an echo chamber.

      I think what happened is that after the mobile apocalypse, a lot of the power users left the platform. While these people contributed a lot to the site, they were also extremely toxic people with an even more warped worldview.

      The mods are a reflection of this. They are more corporate, which leads to a lot of censorship like this. However it also means that scrolling is quite a bit more pleasant.

      Overall I spend more time on Reddit than Lemmy. There’s very little content here once you filter out all the outrage bait.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        You may be on the wrong communities, i could waste a day here. I actually use reddit for ragebait (i just can’t quit aitah)

      • @Duamerthrax
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        11 month ago

        Digg died. Reddit will also die eventually.

        • Flying SquidM
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          I misread and deleted the comment almost as soon as I wrote it because I thought you were talking about Lemmy.

  • kn0wmad1c
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    Can’t talk about trump, but go ahead and talk about Biden as much as you want

    • @niktemadur
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      21 month ago

      Then they don’t vote and NEVER figure out that they were manipulated into inaction, they were given that extra nudge to sit and stay home on Election Day.

  • @mrfriki
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    681 month ago

    Maybe because he is a popular opinion /s

  • @Snapz
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    651 month ago

    “Mario’s brother”

    “The Mansion Owner”

    “Splattered Brain Thompson”

    “CE Oh shit the consequences of my actions!”

  • @cm0002
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    371 month ago

    Oh boy, time to breakout the non-ASCII look-a-like characters! Lol

  • @Clbull
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    311 month ago

    Reddit mods being power tripping cucks as usual.

    • @[email protected]
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      That part is the exact same and worse here. Lemmy is not really decrentralized, it’s just fractured. Each community still have just one “big one” by design.

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        Difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that you can legit say “I’ll start my own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers” and expect it to make an impact.

        Whereas with Reddit, whatever Spez says is law, even if it’s as consistent as bird shit on a car windscreen.

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          “I’ll start my own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers” and it will have the same systemic structure that perpetuates underhanded unaccountable shadow moderation and the concentration of power into the hand of a few individuals who just happened to be at the right place at the right time and cannot realistically be avoided or dislodged until an absolutely monumental fuckup on their part that it can’t be ignored.

          It’s becoming clear that Lemmy is not in any way the safe haven it has been marketed as. And this NFT rigamarole certainly isn’t going to be that either.

          Anything that doesn’t put the ENTIRE content discovery engine fully in the hands of the users and that doesn’t make content moderation a crowdsourced-only transparent, auditable endeavor is going to reproduce l’ancien régime.

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            Anything that doesn’t put the ENTIRE content discovery engine fully in the hands of the users and that doesn’t make content moderation a crowdsourced-only transparent, auditable endeavor is going to reproduce l’ancien régime.

            Aren’t you just describing Lemmy?

            Content discovery is fully in the hands of the users, and content moderation is both crowd-sourced and transparent.

            Upvotes, downvotes, and reports are all forms of crowd sourced moderation. The modlog is transparent and auditable. What are you on about?

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            Do you know how shit Lemmy could be if some hexbear tankies could come into your community and brigade it until they’ve banned half the users?

            Or the flipside, it’s a process that involves weeks of voting and you’ve got CP plastered all over the front page while you wait to reach enough votes to trigger its removal.

            Moderators exist to fill a role, that is the need for immediate action. Communities should be involved in decision making around rules, but you need people on hand to take responsibility and keep shit running. The benefit of Lemmy is that if you don’t like it, you can go create your own instance or community, without being subjected to a singular owner; that’s the issue it was solving, not your terrible one.

          • @Clbull
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            Instances are moderated by their moderators. Other instances that would rather not associate with a different instance can withdraw federation. I think the system works fine.

          • @mastazi
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            Lemmy is not in any way the safe haven it has been marketed as.

            Marketed? Lemmy is not a company and there is no marketing department. Generally, what you know about Lemmy is word of mouth from people who used it before you. No one controls the narrative in the end.

  • @FelixCress
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    Reddit unpopular opinion mods are bunch of cretins. They banned me for posting unpopular opinion 😂

    • LostXOR
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      r/unpopularopinion is for posting mostly popular opinions that some people nonetheless disagree with. Truly unpopular opinions, even well thought out ones, almost always get downvoted.

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        Because people are trained to downvote things that suck everywhere else on the Internet