Well if .ml refers to Marxist-Leninists then I wouldn’t be too surprised if there are tankies present. It continues to puzzle me how soi-distant commies can be rooting for oligarchy as implemented by Putin, but “there’s nowt so queer as folk…”

I do not use VPN. I am a subscriber to CityWest fibre optic net in BC, and I don’t know for sure if my contract includes a distinct IP address. Your theory about randomly getting an IP address that has been used previously for naughty stuff on Reddit seems plausible. I have no idea how I would verify it.

It seems odd that any top-level, site-wide mod would take personal offence at one particular post from one particular user out of however many million on Reddit. You would think they would have bigger fish to fry and fires to put out, if you’ll forgive an unfortunately mixed metaphor.

The interesting thing of course is that if this thing is systematic — if Reddit is doing sitewide permabans on users who talk sh*t about the present US regime, because Spez is running scared like the other techbros — it’s unlikely to become a news story because none of those people will be able to come back to a Reddit group to discuss what happened to them. I do seem to detect a bit of a pattern in the responses thus far to my maiden post (and subsequent comments on other ban stories), a pattern that would be newsworthy if it is real :-). but since Reddit is one of the prime aggregators of internet news and trends, it’s unlikely to get any attention since we are all banned from Reddit. Bluesky is not topic oriented, afaik — it’s person-oriented. I have not yet checked out piefed.

Yeah, Reddit was getting pretty bad for attempted gamification — “congratulations, you’re on a 13 day posting streak! Keep it up!” And so on. Very insulting to the intelligence.

I did rather like awards until they were taken away. It was nice to be able to give something (even of only virtual value) to someone whose post or comment I really appreciated. And it was nice to get that kind of appreciation in return if I wrote something that was helpful or enlightening to someone else.

But the whole karma score thing… very leaderboardish.

I think the problem with Reddit is that its essential governance model is authoritarian not democratic.

Mods have absolute power and there is no due process, evidentiary standards, jury of peers, outside review, ombudsman office, etc.

Basically, suppose some users conspire to dogpile on you and file N complaints against you w/in a certain window… you get auto banned. If a tetchy mod doesn’t like something you commented, they can ban you from their sub on a whim. There’s not much in the way of an appeal process.

So it’s a bit like an authoritarian state where you can be arrested due to anonymous denunciation, or because the local chief of police doesn’t like you, and you’ve got no Miranda rights, there’s no habeas corpus etc. There’s no investigation or disclosure or trial process. If the mods of a sub are reasonable and ethical human beings, and you were unfairly banned, you can talk to them and get reinstated. But if the mods are arbitrary and capricious in their power, you’re without recourse. There’s no mechanism by which other members of the sub can vote on whether the mods were right or wrong to kick you out, for example.

I continue to think moderation is important and can’t be dispensed with altogether. No normal person really wants to spend their time in a hellhole of screamed insults, obscene threats, hate speech, legions of stupid bots etc (like the cesspit that Xitter has become, yikes). But I think it should be modelled a lot more on law enforcement IRL, with similar rules and guidelines for protecting civil rights and ensuring transparency and some limits on the power of individuals in authority.

I actually don’t mind fairly strict moderation, as I’m not a big fan of insults, rudeness, racial/sexual slurs, etc and am quite happy to live without them. But I don’t like mysterious bans with nonsensical “explanations” such as I just experienced. If I’m gonna get a ban I want to see my own words quoted back at me, with an explanation of how they violated policy. It’s a fair cop if I did in fact break the rules for the sub or the site. But telling me my “other account(s)” are breaking rules, when I have no fkn other accounts, is just infuriating.

I am new here (just got the dreaded permaban after 8 years on Reddit and 660K karma). Do I have to create separate Lemmy identities on the different servers or can I use my original Lemmy.world identity to participate in all groups everywhere? I love the fediverse model, conceptually, and it seems like the logical next step (I abandoned google in favour of proton about a year ago, now it looks like Reddit has pushed me out the door so I’m joining the Lemmyngs :-))

I had 660K karma when I was excommunicated (apparently by robots) from Reddit last week. It happened shortly after I said something (I can’t even remember what) critical and angry about the US bombing Iran. I don’t think it was anything particularly fiery or profane, even. I had no sense of “this is risky to post” when I wrote the comment.

The ban explanation made no sense, it claimed that it was because of “repeated rule violations by your other account(s)” — I have no other accounts, I’ve had only the one Reddit account for 8 years. So the ban justification was bogus.

I’m beginning to wonder if Spez has got a directive to deplatform all the anti-war, anti-Bibi, anti-Trump voices from Reddit. That’s seems paranoid, but it would make sense to kick out the higher-karma accounts with followers first. It’s hard for me to come up with any other explanation… I’m seriously puzzled and of course, I can’t go back to Reddit to discuss it!

When did this happen?

I’ve participated loudly in Reddit subs focused on antifascism, anti-ICE, left activism, and recently anti-Iran-bombing discussion. I just got permabanned about a week ago with a very weird nonsensical justification, “rule violations by your other account(s)”. I have no other accounts, I’ve only ever had one Reddit account for the last 8 years. I had 660K karma at the time of the ban and about 70 followers. I earned the karma the hard way, it was comment karma over many thousands of comments. Not a karma farmer.

Is there something going on? Is Spez under orders to get rid of antifascist voices? Or am I reading too much paranoia into what might just be really sloppy automod software with no human oversight to rectify errors?

Have you any idea why you were “awarded” a permaban?

This just happened to me and I’m clueless. The ban message (which came almost 2 days later) said that it was because of “repeated rule violations by your other account(s)” but since I have no other accounts this was incredibly confusing.

8 year Reddit veteran with 660K karma, so I’m really baffled.