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[–] Cinder_bloc@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

I’m about at my wits end with Reddit as a regular user. I have 2 accounts that I’ve used there for a while. One of them is my main user account, the other I use mostly to mod some subs.

My main account recently caught a 7 day ban because of their stupid new “Violence” bullshit. It’s so targeted, and blatantly obvious that it really only applies to comments about certain things. They removed the comment that supposedly triggered it, but all I was was

Hey Leon, you remember when you hit the cybertruck with a baseball bat? Why don’t you go fuck yourself with it.

That’s it, that’s all I said. You could post that same comment directed at an actual Reddit user, and not catch a ban.

Don’t misunderstand me here. I am not now, nor have a I ever been under the delusion that Reddit was the bastion of free speech they tried to claim for years. But seriously, they need to get their fucking heads out of their fucking asses.

[–] Yuckers1967@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Started to notice the censorship...tried to warn others...got banned...came here

[–] Jucha@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Removing stuff from reddit will make people look for alternatives, good for lemmy.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 16 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Ironically, I swing by old.shittyplace.com to check out /r/conservative and/or /r/askaconservative every so often to see if any of them are starting to figure it out yet (spoiler alert: they aren't, or they are celebrating it), and they always have a first page thread about how Reddit is just a liberal recruiting mouthpiece these days etc etc.

Today is no exception.

And for a bonus they have a thread about how Ask Reddit is just out of control with bait for conservatives - I took a peek and there are two current threads that have anything at all to do with conservatives.

The conservative persecution complex is strong, never fear.

Remember, conservative voices must be getting silenced because they never shut the fuck up telling us so.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Demonizing outside influences is common to all cults. It innoculates the cult members to those outside influences, leading them to immediately disregard information that contradicts their cultist beliefs, keeping them trapped within the cult's echo chamber more effectively. To keep the cultists innoculated, they have to constantly remind them that they and their beliefs are being persecuted and that the only source of truth, is the cult leaders.

That said, how "real" is r/conservative? I just checked it and every single thread is flaired users only. It's a far more controlled echo chamber than the Donald was in it's heyday, and when the Sint-Petersburg troll farm was brought offline during the usa elections of 2018, the Donald was gone from reddit's front page for the duration.

To me it seems like r/conservative is a method of distributing the current narrative to cultists, but it doesn't require actual input or discussion from those cultists. It seems to actually discourage posting by normal conservative users, since any kind of wrongthink will lead to a ban, and it's hard to keep up with the changing narratives for normal users, so catching a ban is easy.

[–] Houseman@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I just got a violent content warning for upvoting someone calling musk a "stupid person's version of a smart man" on a post about his trucks being vandalized.

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Jfc people should be allowed to call dumb people dumb.

[–] Houseman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I know. I just like pretending to have a miniscule amount of hope.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is openly preparing to invade both Canada and Mexico and these motherfuckers are bitching about Musk being called what he is!

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

The party of "fuck your feelings" everyone!

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

So desperate to even be Zuckerberg relevant pathetic

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[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago (12 children)

I got perma banned from my OG account for engaging with ruzzian trolls. Apparently telling them they'd look good fertilizing sunflowers, and digging babushka a fresh latrine pit is "promoting violence". No warnings, just straight to ban. Reddit allows obvious ruzzian gas lighters, but bans those who call them out. That is Reddit today, a hotbed of ruzzian and nazi propaganda.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

There has been a recent flood of pro-russia pro-trump moderators in almost all the reddit subs i frequent. I also just got a permanant ban for evasion to post this. "It wasn't enought to just amplify the idiots voices, they have to smother the voices of reason and doubt" Apparently that was uncivil way to speak about the mods.

[–] PeteZa@lemm.ee 15 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

I got perma banned for being too mean to MAGAs

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

you probably offended u/Spez on his alt account .

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Me as well and then I got banned later for evading the band

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

So when does Reddit run out of users?

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 9 hours ago

Better question. When does reddit run out of real users.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Everyone of us that gets banned gets replaced by 3 ruzzian bots. So never. But when does the public realize that reddit is an echo chamber of polarizing bots? dunno.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 20 hours ago

alot of politics and news subs have been co-opted by right leaning people.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Same here, I simply made a comment about "the Muscovites receiving a dose of their own medicine" and fucking Russian shill, Putin Bot and/or MAGAt reported me. To top it off, I did not use a single swear word in the comment. Fuck Russia and Reddit.

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