Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I've heard this a few times, and then I've seen the people that got banned...

.ml seems to be a magnet for people who want to scream explicatives at leftists and throw in some transphobia to boot.

my permanent ban on reddit came when i described how i hoped krasnov would shit himself to death on live television. like, total blowout and then heart attack while eating a nasty sandwich. the full elvis. apparently that's inciting violence.

I just got permabanned. I have not had anything so much as a complaint about me in the 12 years I used the site, but in the last 6 months I have received 2 temp and now a perma ban for speaking out against various conservative figure heads.

I got a 24 hour ban for saying a conservative figure should stand on her head and let the blood rush to her brain and maybe she'll have a coherent thought. I was accused of inciting violence.

Edit: Here are the 3 things I got whacked with "inciting violence"

1. Danielle Smith should stand on her head to let the blood rush to her brain to have a coherent thought - 24 hours
2. Someone said JD Vance will never be president, and I responded with, "He will when DT has his heart explode from all the cheeseburgers he eats" - 3 days
3. Kristi Noem needs to shut her fucking mouth and keep her cunt ass out of my countries business - Perma ban

halloween?

You gave up on Reddit because mods can ban you for random reasons unrelated to your behavior? That's one of a small set of problems that's literally much worse and more prevalent on Lemmy.

I just wish Lemmy had the same subreddit communities on it, the real benefit of Reddit was that you can add it to your search in Google for niche things and it would find threads about that thing, Lemmy on the other hand has either not been indexed as much or just doesn't have those communities and the organic discussion among them. I think one of the issues with Lemmy is there is some friction to joining it, you need to figure out what an instance is and which one you wanna join and then figure out an app to access Lemmy and then find the communities that interest you etc. Compare that with something like BlueSky for Twitter replacement, it's easy to sign up and follow peoplw and they gave a official app

Yeah what happened to that Lemmy search thing someone was working on

Happy to help!

How is that ironic?

I thought they started shadow banning anyone talking about Lemmy at one point?

Some people likely deserve getting banned but they have a very fragile echo chamber if they need to ban anyone not toeing the party line.

I was in an argument with someone on .ml unironically calling north Korea democratic and then they banned me because apparently I'm a "chauvinistic westerner" when I disagreed. I found that pretty hilarious.

People claim Lemmy is supposed to be "better" than Reddit but so far I've encountered more petty barons here than Reddit

It's the same problem Linux suffers from. Too many flavors, not one that almost everyone considers the best.

they have a very fragile echo chamber

They have an active moderator base.

I've been banned from plenty of communities already - particularly meme communities - in the wider Fediverse for rubbing a mod the wrong way. It isn't particular to .ml and it's silly to see Lemmyites panic every time they see an .ml instance user or post.

unironically calling north Korea democratic

So what? Plenty of people in America call Florida democratic. You'll be screamed at for suggesting otherwise (Florida voters are just too stupid to vote correctly, you see).

If you get in a pissing contest with a mod or power user, there are plenty of communities that will ban you for being toxic. Either learn to exit the conversation gracefully or stop sticking your dick in the social media blender to begin with. You're probably better off getting banned than running back in for another screaming match.

How it feels to browse any reddit community bigger than 10k members:

Ah OK. To be fair, we can say Luigi Mangione and Free Palestine here.

Im pretty sure I am on a Canadian based instance... which is fine by me. But I tried a couple that where branded as general, good for new users, and just never got a confirmation for my account, could never log in. I tried this one, cause the name implied it would work. And it did!

But yea I miss the large communities for a specific video game, and the various large mtg communities. And yea, for tech support I do still add reddit to my search queries.

So you gave up on it like a decade ago?

Outside of the conservative American subreddits that's standard too though. I rarely see anyone (not downvoted to hell) claim Israel should continue