Here it's Russia-China-loving Marxist Leninists you gotta watch out for ;-;
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Yep, my first account was made on the wrong instance and I was like “wtf is wrong with everyone here? Like I get corporations fuckin’ suck, but communism???”
They’re also HUGE babies and will claim -ism, -phobia, etc. by stretching the littlest thing.
I get corporations fuckin’ suck, but communism???
It's not even actual communism either, but more like tankie-ism. Stalin's USSR and Mao's China weren't communist either, but more like dictatorships / autocracies dressed up with 'communist principles.' But I digress, maybe.
No you’re right, I oversimplified and falsely associated the dictatorships that ruled under the guise of “Nah this is communism guys ITS FOR YOU”
Actually the "communist" places often called themselves democratic too. They weren't that either.
I almost made my first account on Lemmygrad because I love puns and didn't know that they were ACTUAL tankies.
Thankfully, I found out in time and made my first one on the also politically sus but in a different way .world 😄
I made mine on lemmy.ml because my app instructed me to “choose an instance,” so I did. I didn’t know all these instances had cultures or whatever.
Could have been worse, such as explodingheads, or its less funny named successor.
Worshipping russia isnt communism btw. You are mistaken, use the words wisely
I dont blame you for this position, no wonder america/europe has history of red scare propaganda.
Fuuuuuuck Russia and all its sympathizers. I’m not educated enough to speak with authority on communism vs. capitalism, so I digress there.
Based
Those came from /r/genzedong and similar tankie boards, so they came from there.
I tried making another account and was instantly banned.
Reddit does not like ban evasion, and they have the means to check.
The accounts of other people in my household have also been permanently banned, which is the most confusing part of all of it.
So an IP ban more or less, and that is more draconian than I remember.
Glad you saw the darkness and turn toward the light though!
Must have been an admin that got reported
I don’t see any other way. If OP is telling the truth, reddit nuking their whole household after 1 report sounds like and admin/supermod who got their fee-fees hurt.
Maybe it's automated and not permanent. I've had trouble just trying to log into two accounts (not evading anyhting), and it went away after some time.
Point stands though, reddit are doing their damnedest to turn into the opposite of what they were for over a decade.
It's better here. About a third of the accounts are LGBTQties. Check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ for all your trans related needs. Welcome to the nicer part of the internet.
A valuable person has joined the fediverse yay 🥳
No good deed goes unpunished on Reddit.
I caught a temp ban for something similar, and decided to never return.
They accused me of "abusing the report button" for reporting a post that was advocating violence to advance the political agenda of a far right, ethno-nationalist, religious fundamentalist ideology.
Reddit admins are terrorist sympathizers when it advances the class interests of the site's owners.
I got banned for some of the most benign shit on reddit. I also saw them do nothing about right wing hate. But to hear the story from right wingers, reddit is an echo chamber for the left and they are persecuted unfairly there
Reddit isn't close to free speech in any way. Far-right admins and owners disrupt anything but the most bland discourse, and ban people for stupid, and silly reasons.
Social media comes and goes, and reddit is fucking GONE. It became a stock traded corporation, and instantly lost all credibility. It's just another billionaire owned media at this point.
You might as well post on full nazi x.com, then wonder why you get banned when you speak out for LGBTQ rights.
Yeah, this is better. Not perfect, but better than bluesky for the same reasons.
I don't want you to commit suicide. I want you to be happy, educated, and productive without nazis or religious jerks bothering you for any reason.
You got ip banned. Consider that Reddit is owned by Corpo Nazi simps and main admins are Evan Nazis themselves, that should clear up the confusion
At this point, they're doing everyone a favor by perma-banning in bulk.
The site is foul and we're all better off moving on
I got banned a couple years ago for the same thing.
Moderators can report reports as ‘abusive’, and Reddit basically accepts their word without bothering to actually check anything.
Naturally, certain groups have been exploiting the fuck out of this situation to silence opposing viewpoints.
You could appeal the ban, but most likely Reddit won’t read it and you’ll get an automated response.
As for the repeat ban, you’re running into Reddit’s ban evasion features. They use IP address and browser fingerprinting to track you, even when logged out. Easily defeated, with a little effort - assuming you want to.
Moderators can report reports as ‘abusive’, and Reddit basically accepts their word without bothering to actually check anything.
This. They want to keep the useful idiots that are doing their bidding for free on board. Thus encouraging megalomania and overzealousness btw.
The few mods who were better than that have left long ago.
Would you mind linking your old account or some old comments? I'd love to have something substantive to show off to people who don't believe how fascist Reddit is these days
Can someone (privately if need be) tell me what the slur is? I'm losing my mind coming up with rhyming words for that that have historical offense and I'm coming up short (and I'm american, so the word may not even culturally exist here)
Yeah it’s a slur from 4chan that combines transvestite and goon into troon.
I am ignorant of how strict the language filters are so I’ll let the gods decide my fate.
Thank you so much. The first part, yikes. But goon? These dudes aren't even trying to be funny. I must be well and away from 4-chan entirely for me to have not seen that yet
Thanks, hadn't heard that one before. Good to know, (without context at least) I'd definitely wouldn't have recognised it as a slur. Doesn't help that 'troon' happens to be the Dutch word for 'throne'. 😋
Also confused / ignorant here. The only one I can think of is a slur usually aimed at black people, not trans people. (Starts with C.)
With apologies to anyone who could have done without a reminder of that word, especially if it's not the one OP's talking about.
Congrats on the IP ban, those are usually reserved for serious offenders. Take it as a badge of honor, honestly.
Both of my accounts got smacked with the permbanhammer unreasonably harshly especially considering the "offense" being that I said Neo-Nazis should be named and shamed.
Reddit admins are Nazi sympathizers and the entire platform is rotten.
I was banned for calling out antisemitism a half year ago. They've been on this bs for a while now. And you were told right. It is considerably better here imo. Still many of the same issues, but moderation is definitely less gross and frustrating, and the people are generally more interesting and interested. Much smaller crowd, though, obviously. Welcome!
Don't be shy with the details. Which subs were involved, and which user.
Reddit is a tool of fascist states now, when they went public the pivoted from a user based buisness model to a government surveillance and propaganda based buisness model.
Unfortunately transphobia and homophobia persist here too. Maybe less visibly than reddit at least.
The differense in the Fediverse is that absolutely no instance admin here needs to show "user number up" to some owner. On the contrary, it costs actual money to run the instances so there's an actual incentive to just throw out bad actors as soon as they're identified.
And even when it's otherwise, people can defederate those instances. Yes, the internet became a worse place every time antisocial people got a less restricted outlet (starting with Something Awful and 4chan, now they have basically all of mainstream social media + private Discords/Matrices/Telegrams for those who want to organize in secret), yes networked harrasment organized on those made the "don't feed the trolls" an irrelevant advice if not used by said trolls themselves (seen gamergate people using the term to mean "do as we want you to"), but the old internet was a better part.
as well as other bigotries, jesus the misogyny i see in conversations here
tho, usually the moderators and admins (at least here on LBZ) are good and take action on reports
Yeah, it's generally better in here in that respect. Transphobia is massively downvoted and commonly banned as well.
There are quite a few trans communities here, too, if you belong to the group and seek a friendly environment.
while that's maybe the worst example I've seen, that checks out for reddit. thanks for reaffirming my decision to not try to go back
I mean, that's reddit we're talking about
OP just figured the arbitrary and capricious limits of the matrix.
Welcome to the fedi where mods are limited to their fiefdom!
Centralized power is cancer