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Except the obvious fuck spez / steve huffman stuff, what are the things that get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances Lemmy?

Specifically, I want to know where is the line drawn, regarding the recent NYC Shooting incident involving the corporate shithead.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago

Posting tons of links to Lemmy posts, for one.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • Links to archive.org
  • Talking about downloads, how to circumvent DRM, software to do the above.
  • Links to anything but youtube on /c/videos . (r/videos respectively).
  • Talking about lemmy (in some communities)
  • Alternative links to youtube videos that got banned for some reason or another.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I haven't visited reddit aside from the stray search result or very niche question every few months (no general browsing or any contributing since I made this account), you really can't post archive links? Why? DMCA BS?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I once got banned from a community for sharing a zelda decompilation project on archive.org. Others have reported issues with reddit and banning people for sharing nintendo power magazines. Fun times.

Modern day internet, you can talk about things, but you have to talk around certain companies, like nintendo or else risk getting banned/taken down. But with the fediverse, i can own more of the system. If world ever goes down, I can still use my personal instance to communicate for instance.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It's almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh yea reddit gets so strict sometimes. Like I get mods not wanting to get people to start spamming community names, but sometimes a relavent conversation comes up and it's really too strict to not even allow a mention in a relevent conversation.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know what subreddits you were on, but on the ones I'm a member of, it doesn't looks like r/ is seen as a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It was whitepeopletwitter, 1.5 years ago. My comment was removed for something not in the sidebar rules, then or now.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Saying that literal Nazis deserve to be killed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Or even just punched in the face. Or making fun of self identifying Nazis has been enough to get me temporarily banned.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

sympathizing with Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Getting banned from Lemmy is orders of magnitude easier. During my 10+ years on reddit I can only remember one occasion when I got banned from a sub but it has happened on Lemmy multiple times over the 1.5 years I've been here and comments being removed is a regular thing.

On reddit you need to actually break the rules. On Lemmy it's enough that a mod doesn't like what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

On Reddit I got banned from subs I'd never posted in for participating in other subs. The content of my posts didn't even matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And the sub doesn’t even have to be related. I got banned from commenting in r/thatsinsane for a comment in r/karma4u, can’t even remember commenting there.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At least here there is a public modlog.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I got banned twice on reddit just because my account was new. So I figured "f reddit" if that's how they treat new people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What Reddit were you on? Many subs especially leftist learning ones would ban you even if you just subbed to a sub they didn’t like

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

leftist learning ones

I think those "leftist" subs are more like tankie subs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Feel free to report power tripping on [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've never been banned from Reddit but I was threatened with a ban by a Reddit admin when I reported a right wing troll group who was obviously using sockpuppets to harass people and spread racist bullshit in some local sub. The admin message said I was abusing the moderation system by reporting them and if I didn't stop I would be banned from Reddit. I was never banned but a few weeks later all of the sockpuppet accounts I reported were banned by the antievil operations team along with one of the mods in that sub.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’d argue there’s a lot of similarities, since most people left due to Spez and the IPO. I left when Spez and co fucked over the Apollo app dev.

This excludes the tankie instances. I saw a lot of “death to Israel” and other shit before I filtered those instance that would probably have gotten them nuked on reddit. Stuff like that will be the main differences. Here there isn’t any worry about how marketable the platform is to advertisers. Which is mostly a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Using a VPN can get you banned in reddit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

.......well now my ban makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not in my experience. I've been browsing Reddit exclusively via VPN for 10+ years.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think the CEO got what he deserved.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I got a three day suspension on reddit for telling automoderator to eat my ass. I don't think that would happen on lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Probably a lot of the guillotine talk you see around here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Apparently not advocating for spreading knowledge of jury nullification. Lemmy.World is (mostly) banning it and now I need to find a new instance because I consider that to be the endorsement of our (American) government's system of "bend over and take it."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They kinda sorta reversed course on that.

Following a discussion in our team we want to clarify that we are no longer requesting moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification in the context of violent crimes when the crime in question already happened. We will still consider suggestions of jury nullification for crimes that have not (yet) happened as advocation for violence, which is violating our terms of service.

https://lemmy.world/post/22920690

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I can't recommend SJW highly enough. Big enough to be stable but small enough to only have a handful of admins who are all very reasonable and very easy to reach and discuss things with

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've never heard of it, and checking it out it makes zero sense to ban for linking to what is clearly a decent website by decent people.

I believe it, just expressing my confusion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I've been away from Reddit so long I forgot when it was hard to find WSOP 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For a second, I was wondering why they'd ban links to the World Series Of Poker.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Saying Nazis should get punched'll get you banned on reddit in my experience

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Got a recent one for you. I was permabanned from reddit a month ago for saying I didn’t care that Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot, because Liz Cheney is a warhawk who has called for bombing millions of people.

Banned for “glorifying violence,” not because I agreed with it or endorsed it. Just for saying I didn’t care.

They even banned an alt I used for work stuff, just for being associated with the main account. Ban upheld on appeal.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I've had multiple comments deleted on Lemmy about the UHC shooting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Openly writing that bad people finally should realize their actions have direct deadly consequences, not only for them... or expect what comes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Having an opinion

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I got perma-banned for condemning Israel's genocide in Gaza. Several mods accused me of being an alt-right neo Nazi MAGA cultist. 🙄

Bro, genocide is bad no matter who is doing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can comment on something conservative, calling the people morons for being duped, and not get banned from every single left wing area by some power tripping shithead mod that thinks those comments are going to drive positive traction to those conservative spaces.

Some reddit mods are utterly fucking useless, and definitely need to go touch some fucking grass.

Edit adding a screenshot since someone's butthurt enough to downvote: context was calling Jordan Peterson problematic

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