I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.

I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.

Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.

I didn’t want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn’t comment or post for the first month.

Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn’t take long before it inevitably became political.

I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.

But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.

I’m not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.

I appealed, I do not expect a reply.

Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.

This time I lasted only 2 months

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    But with Lemmy’s decentralized nature, you can always join a different server with less shit admins and still interact with the same people (more or less). The worst the other instance admins can do is ban you from their own servers or defederate.

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      It’s the same shit with a different name. Reddit is a bunch of smart people that act stupid, and lemmy is a bunch of stupid people that act smart.

      Decentralization doesn’t mean shit if you have to keep jumping ship the moment someone does something you disagree with.

      Give lemmy another decade and I guarantee you It’ll be a decentralized shitshow. I hope I’m wrong, but look around. It’s already happening.