• RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 day ago

    Copped a permaban on reddit when I started taking about the Luigivolution, lamenting the current nightmare because some numpty couldn’t properly set his windage, insisting that Nazi lives don’t matter, and finally changing my nym to DutifullyPunchingNazis. I guess somewhere in there was the final straw.

  • DooshDoosh408@lemmy.world
    60·
    2 days ago

    I knew Reddit was dying after they went public and immediately purged all the mods who didn’t fall in line. It was disheartening to see so many users continue to shill for such decisions. Maybe it was a lot of bots, who knows. But watching this site explode in popularity after these new changes is encouraging. Everyone here should do their part to inform people of this place and continue to stay connected. Good luck everyone!

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum. Apparently I was the “landed gentry”. Haven’t been back in almost 2 years now. Fuck spez.

      • btaf45@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I modded about 30 sub’s, mostly niche subs just to keep the spam and hate speech at a minimum.

        Then you were doing it right. Thank you for your service. But there were lots of bad mods passing out rando-bans left and right.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          I usually broke the other way on modding and let people get away with shit for far too long. In fact, if they were arguing with me directly, I let them get away with behaviour that I’d immediately ban them for if they were pulling it on other users. I didn’t want to be accused of using my banhammer just to win arguments.

          I find Lemmy’s modding to be way more aggressive and arbitrary than most of what I ever saw on Reddit, unfortunately. Certainly more agressive than I would do myself.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      The worst thing about the API changes wasn’t even that most people didn’t care or weren’t on board. It was that they were actively against the people protesting. In real life when this happens I always give some leeway because everyone has their own problems and they might be a bit annoyed by the protest action (which is part of the protest). But on Reddit?? People lost their fucking minds because they couldn’t have access to some subreddits for like 24h.

      Sooooo many people failed to realize that even if you didn’t use third party apps that it would still affect you even if indirectly. They didn’t even have to do anything other than literally do nothing/something other that browsing reddit for a day. And they couldn’t. They vilified and downvoted the protesters and took the side of the billionaire trying to take advantage of everyone ruining Reddit in the process

      That fiasco in pretty meaningless in todays world events, but fuck, I still find it a great insight into how much we can suck as a species

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      so many users continue to shill for such decisions

      I think that something that a lot of people need to be reminded of here, especially ex Reddit moderators, is that the users have NEVER particularly been fans of the moderators. In fact the moderators on Reddit helped the admins bring Reddit to the point where it is now in the first place. Setting up automoderator to catch buzzwords out of context and make people’s comments disappear without notice or a trace is just as fucking dodgy as the admins flagging the word “Luigi”.

      So no, it’s not a surprise that moderators getting into trouble for not falling in line with the admins doesn’t cause a mass exodus. Because most people don’t give a fuck about the moderators and would be glad to see them gone. With the way they have been abusing automoderator over the years, it wouldn’t make much of a difference if they were replaced by an automated system anyway.

      So if you want people to come to Lemmy, stop acting like they give a shit about the moderator that treats them like dirt. Because that’ll probably have the opposite effect. I know that it did on me when all the mods were crying about the API and their modding tools. Start offering more reasons for why USERS should come here.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        The mods here can also be equally ridiculous. That’s just a problem with internet mods in general. It’s a role that attracts petty tyrants.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      AFTER censoring luigi related news, and promoting trump, is a death knell, and reddit thought it was clever to “ban” a bunch of subs after musk complained about whitepeople twitter, they only backed off when the mods said they wernt inactive.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      this massive purge last month, is definitely revealing how dead reddit is without people using multiple accounts to comment in, wether to evade or to troll or to even use the site normally. for example after they had a big purge in december, we noticed how little activity there was in political subs , like there was very little engagement. after it the trolls came back everything went back to being “trump did this or that”. making more than 1 accounts just risks you can ban, because thier filters are too stupid to discern if yuor ban evading or not.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 day ago

    I really can’t wait to see their next earnings call. They were anticipating users would be returning and their numbers would be up by the next one.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    That site is unusable now, I got banned for saying the word guillotine, didn’t even use it in any context. I’ve tried going back and always get banned for ban evasion. It’s a garbage community now, the worst of the worst stayed there

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      from what ive heard commenting as a new USER is very hard to do now, it only takes your comments to be removed(depending on the way you are commenting), or getting reported by an oversensitive user or a filter to get you banned. i had to literally self-censor some words so i wouldnt get reported.