I'm pretty sure they stepped up the anti Trump stuff since January. I never had any problems till he was in office. Then i got a 3 day ban, then 7 day ban, then perma ban. Then they banned all my other accounts immediately. They hate people talking poorly about the dictator, but i've seen posts that said biden should burn and they stay up...

Yes, but add entire threads that are nothing but [removed]

I meant to add more but was pushed for time. MAGA has not legislated its authoritarianism - not yet. So far it has been done by executive order and by judicial capture. This makes it hard to judge how resilient the USA will be to it.

I was banned for saying something to the effect of "Fuck all the Republicans" in response to someone hating on a specific one.

My theory is they are removing all the anti-maga and replacing us with neutral/pro maga bots so it appears that there aren't so many people against them.

hello (third world shithole, failed cs student reporting here)

I got banned when I connected to a VPN endpoint (ProtonVPN). Instant, permanent, unappealable ban. 13-year-old account. Sole moderator of a couple subs

Probably for the best though. Screw Reddit

A week or so ago, I got permanently suspended by an auto mod. I posted some link it didn't like, I think it was this one: https://welcometothemachine.co/ which is about how all the filthy rich CEOs sit on each other's boards of directors, which is a bit ironic because this site is just a compilation of posts from one user that appeared on Reddit five years ago. I still read Reddit, but I don't care about participating.

I check back here often but I still much prefer Reddit over Lemmy. I’m still using a modded Apollo though.

I'm just curious where all the users went if places like Lemmy arent growing. Piefed I heard was growing, but I kind of assumed they are getting users who are switching from Lemmy and still perusing the same content, just preferred their client options

slip in their own mods and rebrand the whole community

This is what really shocked me about reddit, was how it's this really huge entity whose owners just somehow didn't notice that the front page being shown to everyone by default contained stuff from subs that were really very blatantly and obviously manipulated by mods not being on the level. I realize you can't police every one of the thousands of active subs on there, but what gets to go to the front page shouldn't need much curation.

Answers no questions, half-quotes a statement to make a point, completely ignores getting caught using AI to write your comment then edits out the giveaway. Alright mate go ahead you're doing a great job out here.

Can anyone tell me what the story is with the "u/..... hasn't posted yet? Are post histories hidden by default or something?

Reddit was nice when it was a niche...

I did too, but /u/me got banned also so I'm here a lot more. And bsky.

Can I just say, without invalidating your underlying concerns, that this place truly gets better when you start blocking communities and individuals, and doing so knee-jerk if necessary with no thought or remorse.

The tip of the identity iceberg doesn't need to come into play, really. I've learned that in this world there are contributors and detractors. There are those who add, and those who take. There are good faith contributors, and there are misanthropes who aren't happy until everybody else isn't happy.

I don't care what race or age a person is, if there's an MS article and the only thing they do is show up to vandalize the comments section with the single word Linux... I'm blocking the fuck out of 'em immediately. I block people confidently braying opinions where you need but scratch the surface to see how ill-considered they are. I feel no duty to correct these people or listen to another word, its not my job to fix them. Blocked. Show up in a legitimate policy discussion just to bash out fuck [politician]"? Blocked - dialogue at the level of a surly grade 8 student isn't my jam.

Would I want a friend IRL that just says whatever's convenient at any time, regardless of how germane, factual, useful, or genuine? Or would I avoid them IRL because they're a nightmare? That internal reflection guides a lot of my block decisions. Also why I find it so easy.

To summarize my novella, I think this is how I made my Lemmy experience more sane, because it was borderline intolerable at first. To the plus, it only took about 20 or 30 blocks to realize that almost all of the toxicity arose from a small batch of select kooks.

All your questions sounded rhetorical to me. I responded to what I had something to respond with.

caught

hahahahahahaha

edits

Are you OK? I haven't edited any of my comments on here. Is the AI in the room with you now?

I fully appreciate the advice, and I have been hammering the block button, but every time I do a small part of my faith in humanity chips away like a crumbling old statue the represented a forgotten empire.

I am sad that so many people are unthinking, unfeeling, or deeply unserious where it matters. But here we are, forced to prune and further the atomization of our failed world because there is no alternative. There's no arguing nor reasoning with people who interact with others only to address their inner feelings and not with care or consideration that we share an objective reality we have to agree on.

With AI and immersive experiences, this is all going to get even worse.

It absolutely was and is like that.

The thing is, when those horrible posts got boosted to the front, it just made for more drama, more "engagement" and more links being shared across other social media sites.

Reddit ignoring their responsibility to administrate wasn't a bug, it was a feature.

It's the same as what Jubilee is doing now, boosting the worst voices on both sides, making people hate each other more and giving people a distorted view of demographics in our country. It's line going up at the expense of everything we've worked the last several thousand years to build. I'm happy I was banned and will never return, I just wish more people would realize what these places are doing to us all.

No, you're absolutely right. Discord is incredibly impermanent. Besides the lack of being able to search for things or split conversations into separate threads for every topic because it's a chat tool, not a forum, as soon as a server disappears, everything hosted on that server goes as well (as far as end users are concerned. I'm sure Discord can pull stuff from their backend).

We need a return of niche forum communities and the like for the sake of the preservation of information.

Not true. They followed me through an extra Gmail I made but made a temporary email and have been fine for close to two months.