Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.
After 12 years and over 900K Karma, I got permanently banned for repeating an opinion that I’ve posted many times over the past decade. Then Trump gets elected, and the exact same opinion gets me a permaban.
Now I’m hearing that they are banning people for UPVOTES! I wondered why Reddit had decided to throw in with the Nazis, and I this week I see in the news that Ohanion wants to buy TikTok. The new owner of TikTok will be personally chosen by HitlerPig, so Zuckerfuck has been kissing up, and now Ohanion wants in on it. HitlerPig will award it to whomever kisses his ass and pays him the most.
Reddit doesn’t want users participating in the site. They want eyes looking at ads and that’s it. Look, don’t touch. We’ve got bots for touching.
Lurkers are more lucrative than posters.
Other than the sweet sweet LLM training comment money….
BUT NO ACTUAL POSTS! LEAVE THOSE FOR ADVERTISERS!
i have adblockers on, so they never get ad revenue anyways.
THIS
14 year old account for me. Mod of a million plus sub. 700k karma. Built fucking subreddits into real communities. Banned over a joke I made for a decade. Reddit is dying and we now have a new federated home.
Which community? I’ll spend my unbanned account posting that you’re over here on Lemmy.
Welcome aboard, the place is comfy and only really needs user numbers at this point.
That’s the problem with these corporations — the foundation is rotten, and they have no principles beyond more money. It has been this way for some time.
Now, we have an economy where the arbitrary whims of billionaires and our king is the main determinant of their share price. This is how Reddit kisses the boot.
They would exhume my grandmother if it increased share price by one tenth of one percent.
Capitalist cunts.
I’m here because I replied to “let’s not give them an inch” with “let’s give them 9mm” and was permanently banned from politics, no recourse. That’s the most left leaning sub on the website.
When they took API access away I was pissed but I stayed. But taking away my free speech, seriously? They can go fuck themselves.
that sub was, but it was taken over by a right winger that allowed astroturfing against the “left”
I remember years ago there was an article about a cop who said he wanted to shoot AOC for being a dumbdumb meanie head or something. Top comment said the cop should be fired. I added “out of a cannon” and got permabanned for “inciting violence” like bruh
But do you think ‘nine millimeters’ would have passed?
I could have said “let’s give them 0.354 inches” but why bother. I did that for a few days but going on Reddit is the same as supporting them.
I created my first Reddit account in over a decade and was shadowbanned almost immediately. I didn’t even get a chance to post a semi-“controversial” opinion! The site is total garbage these days.
you made acct at a bad time, they went hard on banning people last month, and ive been hearing on other sites that they were banned almost immediately after commenting once on reddit as a new user, thier bot sensitivity filter is so high, that any comment that was removed was considered a “spam activity”.
Gotta love the appeals process of submitting a form and getting absolutely zero response or indication of status. Appeals going straight into a garbage can with no one reading them lmao
I’m pretty sure that appealing a temp ban (my 3rd, all in a short time) led to them permabanning my account. None of the posts violated the rules they claimed.
Most of the main subs auto shadowban anyone that hasn’t provided a verified email. So it’s possible you’re not banned site wide yet.
ever since trumps first term, thier ban have been come very heavy handed against left leaning comments more so than right wingers, i pointed it out so many times over the years that this was happening. there was suspicion that r/politics was taken over by a right winger, that wanted to seem like both sides, its pretty obviously who was getting banned and what was getting posted.
Remember when CTH got banned when users spoke up in support of slaves who rose up and killed their masters? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Don’t leave us in suspense - what was the opinion?
I said that the traitors in the White House are lucky that we are such a tolerant country. In many other countries in the world, and even more in the past, on the evening of January 6, 2021, after their Insurrection failed, HitlerPig and all his henchmen would have been dragged out onto the White House lawn, and publicly executed.
I’ve written that many times, but after the Inauguration, it got me banned.
They like pineapple on pizza.
Shit, that might get you banned here as well… /s
Aww, I like pineapple on pizza :0(
I upvoted you on Lemmy for being on topic, but I downvoted you in my heart.
Well, that is an actual war crime.
Now I’m hearing that they are banning people for UPVOTES!
Only upvotes involving Mario’s brother, so far. Presumably the “issue” being that he has too much support and the time between posting and it being moderated away it’s getting enough votes to still have significant visibility which is what they’re trying to avoid.
Mario’s brother
His name is
Robert PaulsonLuigi!!
Shit, they perma’d me for constantly agitating in non leftist subs… I can’t help it.
China’s not going to let tiktok fall out of their control. If it gets sold it will be to someone beholden to them.
Same here. Got Banned from r/WorldNews for talking about Luigi when that CEO incident happened. Perma-banned a day later.
What was the opinion that got you banned?
After Jan 6, I said that those traitors were lucky America is such a tolerant nation. In many other nations (most of them, in the past), that evening, after the Insurrection had failed, HitlerPig and the rest of his henchmen and family, would have been dragged out onto the White House lawn and publicly executed.
I wasn’t condoning violence, just pointing out that he couldnt have gotten away with it almost anywhere else on the planet. I had written that comment, or similar, many times, but once HitlerPig was in office, and Reddit decided to kiss his feet, it became a permanent ban.
I was seeing posts talking about this happening widely on Reddit, but now that I’m on Lemmy, it seems to be much worse than I suspected.
Reddit is compromised.
I’m done as well. Fuck them.
Man the censorship is just vile too. It’s not like “Oh this incites violence” it’s “anything and everything that we and our shareholders don’t agree on is gone”.
Worst part is if any other countries went after them then they would just restrict it to US news.
Classic capitalist gotcha. Turns out that prioritizing shareholders (a 3rd party leech entity unrelated to the operations or customers) is always going to lead to censorship. Like the generic “shareholder” needs stable status quo to figure out how to exploit the poors in most efficient way and violent revolt doesn’t guarantee a higher than inflation result. Modern capitalism in America is straight up a mental disorder similar to hoarding. You don’t need the money nor the stock but you’re willing to fuck over literally thousands of people for a minor gain. It should be studied … but studying this doesn’t help the bottom line so fuck any progress it’s death and destruction for %% daily return. Fuck all this
They are Streisand effecting the information though because the more they censor, the more people will talk about it. There’s already been a news article published by The Verge. It’s going to backfire so badly lmao.
Seeing that non-right sided medias are picking this up is good. Hopefully it builds more traction and if they can even say something as simple as “Lemmy is an alternative” we can see healthy growth. I know r/conservative is probably loving it but in the last month I’ve seen them advocate for more violence than any other subreddits. Yet they remain free and open. Gotta love how contradicting reddit has become since the blackout.
not contradicting at all if you consider them as part of the putin/musk propaganda apparatus
putins trolls control the sub, and the mods. not an accident why they are constantly on the front page all the time. and then theres the subs that “pretend to be both sides”
Hey they got me long ago but permanently banned IP address maybe? Tried new numbers, new emails, and glad after the last few days
Lol same. I’m finally starting to realize it wasn’t a me thing. I’ve really disliked the general flow of reddit for a while but it’s just such an easy thing to open up and scroll through. Didn’t know alternatives like this existed
they also looked for same device, browser fingerprinting, behaviour pattern, reddits banning filters is the most aggressive of any social media, and site.
Reddit has been compromised for a while now. 2016 opened them up. The API fiasco blew the door down. r/place exposed it and exploited Reddit for what it is. And we’re now seeing the new course of direction continue.
How did r/place expose anything?
Doesnt that kinda go against the whole point of r/place? Kinda fuckin stupid
Ok. Thanks.
Make advertisers into bad words “hellofresh the rich” " squarespace the ceos"
I fucking love this and I’m stealing it
This is, excuse me, fucking brilliant
Reminds me of how RTGame censors the word ‘fuck’ with the word ‘Youtube’ on videos posted to Youtube
You’re youtubing kidding me.
I think you mean “Nintendo the CEOs”
Mark Zuckerberg needs to be facebooked
I just tried this out after wiping all my comments, let’s see if I get a ban
they already banned “Luigi” so good luck discussing Nintendo games.
Take my “emerald mine gold”
Dont mind me just slowly transitioning over to Lemmy
I regressed back to Reddit for a bit. I’m back for good after I found out they’re also suppressing anti consumption movements.
Reddit can keep all the NPCs.
I hope lemmy becomes large enough to support niche communities, but never coddles nazis like reddit does.
I fear that the Nazis will come first, but am hopeful they keep to their corner.
Yiggity yikes.
they’re also suppressing anti consumption movements.
…wow. Fuck that place.
I came back just a few days before this rush began and boy does it feel prescient
What are they doing exactly?
Someone will post about victories in anti consumption and mods will remove it minutes or hours later. r/news is especially guilty of this.
Im here bc the app I used finally broke after the api changes years ago.
I like it but I do not understand the whole instance thing
Me too. Was a huge reddit user but they banned me. Reddit has been going down hill for awhile. Banning to many subs that didn’t do much wrong.
I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that the RDDT stock price has dropped 40% in the last month, and it’s not surprising. That site is a sinking ship.
And insiders dumped $59m shares in late January. Shocked, I tell you!
It’s the way of business these days. They got their money. The ship can sink now. The users suffer.
Let us hope so.
Good. The dildo of consequence is rarely lubed
The stock is so comically overpriced. Over 100 p/e. Nobody at Reddit is crying because it can’t stay inflated forever. They’re likely already all out.
So, Suppressed News has in fact, been suppressed…
Welcome to all lemmigrants !
Good. Welcome to the new home. It feels like Reddit 2009.
Lemmy has been my #1 discovery of 2025
Same. And I have reddit and their nonsense ban hammer to thank for it.
Me too.
Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.
I saw someone in a reddit thread about Lemmy earlier complaining that it wasn’t “user friendly” enough because someone posted an infograph on how the Fediverse works. Even though all the infograph was explaining was that you log into one instance and can freely interact with the rest from there…
I’ve always thought the internet should be more decentralized and being able to log in without seeing tons of bots, reposts and propaganda is literally the best aspect of Lemmy for me. This feels like what social media was meant to be. I wish there was an easier way to get people to understand that.
We definitely have our own bots and spam problems. Instance admins work diligently to keep the situation under control, and so far, they’ve been pretty successful. I’ve seen a few waves of it in my almost 2 years here.
I don’t think there’s a way to make the problem go away completely, but I think this model has proven more resilient so far. I believe in it.
I came here with the API changes, but I knew there would be future waves. It’s so nice. I believe in Lemmy and the promise of federated media to help technology work for humans.
I first joined reddit in 2011 and Lemmy definitely reminds me of early reddit. Except back then I probably lurked for about a year before I even made my first comment or post. I joined Lemmy about a month ago and I’m slowly starting to participate already.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels like this, like things here actually make sense. Sometimes I browse Reddit and I’m just like “when did you people start thinking like this?”. So bootlicky lol
To be fair, there’s about a fifty-fifty chance that a subreddit, or lemmy community for that matter, called “supressed news” is going to be filled loonies, and those guys could spend all day masturbating to the though of violently dismantling the power of the World Economic Forum.
/r/conservative and /r/conspiracy are still open… What a fucking shit-ass website. I don’t get why they don’t just
rm -rfthe whole fucking thing already.Clearly they’re pissed that people are still using the site. They’ve made efforts to stop it by making shit redesigns, releasing a shitty app, user profiles, shutting off the API and trying to force people to use their shit app.
They must be seething that people are still using it and they’ve found a new way to try to get people to stop. Of course, they could shut the site down, but these are execs we’re talking about - their forté is ignoring every elephant in the room and then creating “solutions” that completely miss the problem.
They’re in the business of selling “organic” content to AI companies, but those AI companies don’t want advertiser-unfriendly language in their datasets.
Advertisors are dumb as fuck. Like, clearly if their datasets contain language that is not “advertisor friendly” then who the fuck are they trying to advertise to?
“Wow, all of society is doing this stuff. But this isn’t very friendly. The people doing that stuff certainly wouldn’t like if we advertised the stuff they’re doing!”
I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.
Think about it.
All major websites are censoring language and content that could even remotely be construed as adult-friendly or “harmful”; the fact so many US states are outright banning porn sites (I know it’s like a hydra, but the point still stands); the entire world is sliding right back into fascism; I even feel like Hollywood is stepping away from things like violence and vulgarity.
It’s all a fucking sham and I fucking hate it. Let us swear; let us jack off to the weird shit we want to jack off too; just let people be people.
Why does there have to be a small but extremely powerful subset of people who can run the entire world and dictate what the rest of us can and can’t do?
I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.
When would that have been? Humanity never was puritan and it never will be. The UK were and some hicks in their former colonies think they still are but humanity or civilisation are not limited to the area between Texas and Alaska. Actually It has barely arrived there.
They have some warped idea of what the past was like and want to drag us back to a time that never was. A time when you couldn’t even show married couples in the same bed on TV.
We have to be the counterculture to overtake and replace the rotten mainstream. No compromise
I honestly think it’s some weird plot to take humanity back to a puritanical society.
And it’s not just the conservatives. The self-identified progressive places do it too.
let us jack off to the weird shit we want to jack off too
That’s been grounds for defederating some Lemmy instances in the past.
“And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Wayne Gretzky.
The thing about the puritans were that they had harsh rules that existed to try to keep their flock from sinning. They failed as such things always fail.
A good example of a common practice from the time was that part of the pay of a young man working on another mans farm was the bed of their eldest daughter at night. It made identifying the father of the child easier.This one practice alone made the puritans a lot more rational than this current cancer on society.
sad how conspiracy sub got co-opted by russian trolls and right wingers, i was there before trump took office the 1st time, and it was a completely different sub.
Same man, I miss the old “sane” conspiracy sub. Seriously, the shit on there now makes the old sub look sane.
I mean none of those other policies affected me. When APIs were removed there was much more bot spam but I muted thousands of subreddits and it was acceptable.
Now they’re banning me for criticizing the moderation policy? Do they think they’re the Thai king? I’m just using alternatives now.
Well… that’s just going to be most American sites going forward. That’s why ultimately platforms like Lemmy are so important. What a lot of people here in the States don’t realize is that this is a war on information.
I’ve gotten permabans on multiple subs and also overall bans from reddit admin itself. Various reasons like pro-luigi comments, anti-trump comments, anti-israeli comments, pro-ukraine comments. Reddit is a propaganda platform now.
A thousand Luigi’s upon Huffman and Musk!
Lemmy is what reddit used to be.
Reddit currently has a beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images obviously but people post hentai and fish for more. In the comments, they give each other advice/describe their activities.
Reddit doesn’t care.
I’m afraid to say that’s not even the worst thing I’ve seen on Reddit and know continues to exist there. This is about bending over and showing their fealty to billionaires.
I mean the founder was the mod of /r/jailbait for years, if that’s what they had out in the open I don’t want to know what they have semi hidden
There is a disgusting underside that I don’t want to get into. Let’s just say that Reddit clearly doesn’t care that much about policing content. It’s only this topic in particular that they cannot condone. Criticizing billionaires is where they draw the line.
It disgusts me.
It’s what got me banned from both Reddit and twitter.
Xitter, people shouldve left X since 2022.
It was pre-musk and nothing I’ve seen him do made me wanna go back. It was crap then but now it’s shit
criticizing musk and trump specifically, Musk apparently got whitepeopletwitter banned for a while. and trump just gets you astroturfed.
Reddit only cares to bring the banhammer down if a subreddit negatively makes headlines.
something tells me he’s not the type to keep a semi hidden.
the admins ar eprobably in control of some of the subs, 92mods control over 500 subs.
They don’t allow real images obviously but people post hentai and fish for more.
I read this wrong and was confused as to why they allow pictures of people abusing fish.
Because it’s a bestiality sub!
theres also pedophelia adjacent going in some of the medical subs, minors who were positng about possible skin issues was than DM for more pics, i think they shut that avenue down really quick.
I mean… Lenny has rape.pet also
Shit, they have an incest sub where people (I really hope) make up stories about wanting to fuck their family members and stuff.
