Thank you Spez for banning my account of nine years for voicing my political opinion! I made many contributions to communities over the years and now you’ve lost that so good fucking bye.

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
      54·
      10 days ago

      It’s always been like that. They’re parasite - they ruin the thing they latch on to, then they jump ship with fat stacks of cash and move on to the next product to kill.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        8 days ago

        except that not all parasites harm their host. in nature, “parasites” range from a mutually beneficial relationship to the destruction of their host.

        these are the bad type of parasites, also called diseases

    • bugg@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      9 days ago

      It’s truly astounding, isn’t it? Like, is there any investment that hasn’t totally killed the product? You can feel when a company switches over too to the investors. It doesn’t matter what the product is.

      Like, take the website ModCloth. Started as a vintage fashion reseller. It was like a little community that was attached to a e-commerce store.

      Walmart subsidiary bought them out. Changed over the website. Deleted everyone’s usernames, information, and profiles. And with it over a decade of user posts and photos. Website stopped selling any good quality vintage style clothes. The entire reason anyone shipped there. It’s just like drop shopped tshirts with stolen art now. What the fuck.

      I can think of a hundred more examples. Investors buying any company should sound like a banshee scream.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      ever since huffman publicly endorsed elon/trump, it was only a matter of time.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 days ago

      Because they don’t care about the long term health of the company. They just need the next quarter to be profitable, and then they can move on.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      1113·
      10 days ago

      OP conveniently omitting that detail suggests that popcorn may be in order.

          • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
            13·
            10 days ago

            I got a warning for upvoting a Luigi post (or a post that reddit deemed as “wrongthink”), the bot didn’t say which sub or post that triggered it so it’s kind of impossible to say for sure or even avoid getting banned from upvoting something they don’t like.

        • peachmtn@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          10 days ago

          Or a racist and violent tirade.

          They’re all just baseless theories until they reveal what they actually said.

      • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
        41·
        9 days ago

        I don’t want to doubt OP too hard, but yea, at least tell us what you said so we are not blindly siding with you

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 days ago

          I agree with applying healthy skepticism to any and all stories. At the same time, I can’t blame a recent Reddit refugee for not fully trusting Lemmy yet. They don’t know the environment here. It makes sense for someone to be apprehensive about repeating a thing that just got them banned somewhere else.

          But I hope OP feels comfortable enough here to share their story some day.

    • SmokeytheBeard1@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      I got banned for saying if nazis came for me, I’d go down without a fight and take a few with me 🤷🏻‍♂️ doesn’t take much

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
    40·
    10 days ago

    Honestly, I shouldn’t still be pissed about my ban but I can’t help it.

    I was on reddit for over 10 years with millions of fake internet points

    Sitewide banned me for no discernable reason

    It’s been a couple of months and they still haven’t even bothered to respond to my appeal

    Now that I see how reddit’s going down the tube, I don’t even care if they respond at this point

    I’m done with it

    • bamboo@lemm.ee
      26·
      10 days ago

      We’ve been here for a few years, but we’re grateful to have new people!

      • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        It was either you or Tildes.

        I went with Tildes originally, but their admirable effort to only encourage long-form discussion works against growing a user base to be anything more than a Petri dish; people need those fast dopamine hits!

        …that and they’re invite only.

        • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 days ago

          They also appear to be developing a bit of a cult around the owner of Tildes which can feel a but offputting.

          When I was there they were actually telling each other to govern their speech based on what they thought the creator (of Tildes) intended by various rules. He arbitrarily removes entire threads he doesn’t like so they are incentivised to care a lot about that.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      as did i, first it was politics, then news and aww, and my later accts caught those and more. simply for misconstured statements. and then reddit look back at your “deleted accts which had sub bans” and retroactively banned all your active accounts.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    404·
    9 days ago

    Nice permanent ban!

    I left for much less; A 24-hour suspension. Though to be honest, that was literally just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

    I got suspended for using the word “retard” in a scientifically and non-offensive context (ex: put bread in the fridge to retard the growth of mold). No way to appeal that obviously retar-- ridiculous decision.

      • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        14·
        9 days ago

        Possibly, but this happened long ago enough that AI probably wasn’t a factor. Just good ole fashioned human stupidity and/or ignorance.

    • 74 183.84@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      I just stick with rarted instead. It sounds funnier (at least to me) and you can literally say it whenever

  • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    9 days ago

    I got banned from half the subs on reddit for trying to explain the scunthorpe problem on programming related sub, because all that is what happens when everyone uses the same automod that has the exact problem I was trying to explain and they also ban you from subs you’ve never even been to because they share a naughtylist of ppl who use the c word.

    for anyone that’s never heard of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

    reddit admins and mods are just using idiotic automation to shoot first and ask questions never

    and also to help the billionaires not have to look at things they don’t like so elongated muskrats don’t get thier feewings hurt

  • daannii@lemmy.world
    34·
    9 days ago

    I recently lost my 13 year old account for telling a Nazi troll that their actions have consequences.

    Still trying appeals but not optimistic.

    Literally thousands of unpaid work done as a moderator of 4 subs during that time.

    … Im so bitter.

    Now I’m bitter for you too.

    Who is going to create content or mod subs if they kick out all of us veterans?

    • freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      9 days ago

      I’ve been reporting people that hint at violence after I got banned for something that was 1000% not even close to a hint at political violence… like not even being sarcastic. Anyway, the more banned the more people leave. Silver linings. Reddit era deserves to be over.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        i got banned for reporting people for the same thing+ obvious misinformation that was slipping through the cracks. the Mods are part of the problem, because many of them are ok if the filters gets a random person wether the filter flags the acct as possible (ban evaders or not). Reddit additionally doesnt even give the mods why a user is getting flagged or banned, its completely arbitrary.

        • freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
          3·
          9 days ago

          Yeah I mean I got permad back in the day for saying that omicron was transmitting even among vaccinated people (like 2 weeks before that was general knowledge on the news and stuff and “accepted” information) so I get that they just censor along with whatever the current government wants but damn. I’ll take political shitpost cesspit all day over everyone banned for everything censored platform

      • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Like how twitter and YouTube comments are just bots talking to bots?

        Yeah. …I could see it going that way.

  • TheLiveFive@lemm.eeEnglish
    201·
    10 days ago

    Kinda nice to get banned though. I was banned from xitter for liking a comment critical of the muskman, it really helped reinforce that I needed to be done with that place though. Maybe I’ll move on from Reddit before that happens…

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    19·
    8 days ago

    Reddit has turned into a complete shithole the past two years. The sooner it gets taken out back and bludgeoned to death, the better.

    Personally, I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been banned at least once from that place.

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      I went 13 years without being banned, even though I spent most of my time on there debating politics and religion which frequently got heated and had never even been temp-banned from a subreddit. Now I’ve been banned 4 times in the last year for total bullshit, 2 of which happened yesterday, so things have definitely gone downhill.

  • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    16·
    8 days ago

    this is so reminiscent if the digg Exodus around the aacs key. bans pushed us to reddit, and at a higher rate than those being banned. Lemmy mau is up over 10%. idk if the bleeding can be stopped.

    uninvolved users will stay with it. digg had 2 or 3 major redesigns before I stopped hearing about it completely. it became little more than yahoo! news.

    I’m sure that is the fate of reddit now.

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      I left Digg during that exodus and went to Reddit, and now here I am. Enshittification happens everywhere that capitalism finds an opportunity to put its dick in someone’s ass, it’ll probably happen here too if it gets popular.

  • elatedCatfish@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    All these Reddit bans I’m seeing are insane. At this rate, soon most of that site is actually going to be bots lol

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      and they keep it vague so you never know the actual reason why its ban, they are definitely cleaning house to make it look facebook2.0, facebook now uses AI to control dead accts to engage in activities. reddit is heading this way, of course with right wing content too. its also becoming increasingl hard to make your own subreddit, or take it over. they want a small managable group where they can distribute propaganda.

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    8 days ago

    Yup, they banned me for 7 days because saying Luigi didn’t deserve to go to jail for what he did is apparently ‘encouraging violence’. I appealed and it was lifted, but not before I got another message identical to yours. In my 14 years of reddit I have never had more than a single account, so I appealed that too. I’m not banned anymore but I got a message saying the second appeal was denied and the ban would stay in place. I think reddit is just falling over itself in its eagerness to frog-march to Der Fuhrer spez’s new fashy bullshit.