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That's kinda the issue for a platform like that, at least in the early stages. You'll get all the people who've been kicked off YouTube, and not the mainstream content.
Very true! Lemmy wasn't super like that, but then again, reddit allowed nearly anything (apparently including csam to a certain degree). Then the API debacle, and that crap came here. Yt is more strict on certain things, which pushes those scourges of society to these platforms that are in their early stages, giving them an abysmal reputation.
I mean Lemmy was like that though. After the exodus from Reddit most major instances defederated from hexbear which is like the OG Lemmy instance
This is ahistorical. The original Lemmy instance is lemmy.ml, and it was hugely tankie literally from the beginning - the .ml referring to marxist-leninism, years before Reddit’s API changes. It’s nothing to do with people being banned from Reddit, it’s just that the concept of a federated message board platform was appealing to communist software developers, who created and guided the project. If anything, the anti-tankie sentiment which is popular on instances like lemmy.world is what came to lemmy after the Reddit exodus.
Tankies have never really been regularly banned on Reddit in any real extent.
Lemmy got like that after the exodus. No? I mean, I saw some BS here and there, but not nearly as much as right before the hexbear nonsense. Granted, I wasn't on here much, and using a now defunct username, but I still didn't see nearly as much.
Lemmy sort of started with people that got banned from Reddit
You can get banned from reddit?? That doesn't bode well haha
I got perma-banned from a (mainstream, ordinary) sub for — and I'm really not joking here — criticising the "Caravan of Death", which was a fascist death squad used by Chilean dictator Pinochet to assassinate political opponents in 1973.
I asked the mod team if they could specify the rule I broke, and then clearly they asked a Reddit admin to block my entire account, because that's what happened.
Maybe I could appeal and get the account back, but I don't really care that much.
Let's see...I've been banned from subs I've never viewed so much as a single post from for having commented on other, entirely unrelated subs.
I've been banned from r/atheism for "egregious immorality" which ironically sounds like the sort of thing you'd be banned from a religious sub for.
How long ago was this? This sounds like actions that the past couple years worth of mods would take, but maybe I'm wrong.
Last week
Makes sense. Sorry that happened to you. Hopefully Lemmy won't becomes like that (I mean as a whole, individual instance still can and have become like that).
Yeah, just endorse punching Nazis, a friend of mine got banned from Reddit for that.
I mean, that is technically promoting violence against an identifiable minority political group.
Recently? Because that would make sense. That's basically who's left on the platform.
Like a month before the API changes, actually.
I left a couple months before the change (after the announcement). I was lurking here again, since I lost my password to my previous Lemmy account. Maybe others were doing similar things, and reddit was already emptying of its more friendly community.
E: autocorrect
You can get randomly banned on reddit.
Yeah, there wasn't much that didn't fly on Reddit, and banning a subreddit usually meant those users spread their bile elsewhere on the platform. The platform was self policing to an extent, in the fact that anyone too extreme became a topic of mockery elsewhere and weren't really taken seriously.