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I lurked Reddit for a long time before creating an account which is now over 6 years old. I was a ‘Top Contributor’ and in the rewards program. 89k karma, never promoted violence or targeted any group, but I got a 7-day ban which was followed up hours later with a permanent ban. This is because of a comment criticizing Senator Radcliffe, trump, and Musk. The comment included profanity, (I called them hypocrites and cunts), but it wasn’t directed at any user or marginalized group. Just harsh political commentary.

Reddit initially issued a 7-day ban, which I appealed. That appeal was approved, the comment was restored, and they admitted it didn’t violate the rules. But the permanent ban still stands, and my follow-up appeals on that have been ignored. No explanation. No transparency. Just gone.

It’s made me realize how fragile “free speech” is on platforms like Reddit. You can insult regular users and get away with it, say horrendously racist, misogynistic, and homophobic things, but speak too plainly about powerful people and suddenly you’re promoting “hate.”

I combed through the Reddit rules, and nothing I have ever commented or posted violates them.

That’s the reason I’m here on Lemmy now. I’m trying to read more, scroll less, and engage with platforms that aren’t actively censoring political dissent. Who else is in the same boat? Is there anything that can be done to hold Reddit accountable or make people aware of they way they are censoring speech? This is my first Lemmy post. I marked it NSFW because of the profanity.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I get banned from reddit all the time for saying things against Israel.

Just clear browser cache and poweroff your cable modem for 15 min, should get ya new IP.
Don't use reddit mobile app, app will track unique device identifier and new account will still be banned.

Firefox+ ublock on desktop and mobile is your friend.

source: reddit permabanned many times

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I got banned for 7 days then used my alt account and got hit with a perma ban. I got banned last summer and have not really regretted it. I was part of the Digg migration so I had been there a long time. I was pissed at first then I realized it really means nothing in the end.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I got banned for saying Andrew Tate fans are fucking retarded.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Genuinely an insult to actual mentally disabled people comparing them to tate groupies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

They hated him because he spoke the truth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Spez is a spineless cuck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's funny how we used to have this trope of the mighty censorship bureau that has to rubberstamp everything (like they do for movies) but the reality is that the sycophants will trip over themselves to censor their neighbors in order to please those above. In Reddits case you have subreddit mods banning and censoring to please the reddit mods, who are trying to please reddit management, who are trying to please people like Musk, who are trying to please Trump. Trump doesn't have to say anything, those low level Mods are doing all the censoring for him pro bono.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

First permaban was for asking: "Any updates on Mitch McConnell? I could use some good news." Mod appeal denied

Then on another account a year later (bc I got so many death threats from Nazis on Reddit), I forgot I had a ban on that sub and said, "We should spend money feeding our kids instead of spending it to blow up someone else's kids." And that was an IP ban.

Crazy, I've seen literal Nazis on there not even get comments removed. We live in dark times.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

the first reason was ridiculous, jyust for asking that question? you know it turning right wing, when you cant even IMPLY things. i used accounts like you did, dint get ban that aggressively, maybe because i was also using multiple locations, confused reddit for a while.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

I upvoted a comment that was just a gif of Luigi Luigi (from Nintendo) smoking a cigarette.

"Promoting/glorifying violence"

Fuck Reddit. Fuck Spez. Fuck Elon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Holy crap that is EXACTLY what happened to me this week. I wasn’t top contributor or anything so grand but I got a 7 ban after criticizing imperialism which after making an appeal that was rejected. I literally did nothing afterwards but woke up to a perma ban that was issued several hours after with no indication of why.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also here after a reddit ban. Mine was also politically motivated.

I watched admins remove a comment that was not violent, no profanity, nothing like that. The offense: the commenter described what "black-bagging" was, in reference to the immigrants being abducted around the country. Someone asked what "black-bagging" meant, he replied with one sentence just explaining the meaning of the term, comment nuked within five minutes.

I then told this story in another comment in another thread. Didn't say shit about Musk or Trump. Just told the story of how reddit admins wouldn't let this guy explain what black-bagging meant.

Permanent ban within one hour for "ban evasion." Never been banned prior. It was my first and last reddit ban.

Fuck spez, fuck reddit, fuck the rest of em all.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

looks like a they are quashing any anti-musk and trump sentiment on reddit, any attempts to report them can also result in a ban too. they definitely dont want what musk and trump are doing being discussed in reddit in serious manny, we can see a proportional response from reddit when trump and musk did something, and Musk also recently complained to reddit they need to censor people more.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Welcome, c'mon in outta the cold. There's a warm spot of ere

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Same, happened to me hours ago, with no message stating why, or no recourse.

Elon whined to Spez to do something about Redditors being mean to him.

I guess it worked. Fuck both of them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I got banned about a year ago for... checks notes repeatedly calling a genocidal army "bastards" =,D

Edit... ok maybe I called them sons of bitches and nazis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They especially hate it when you're correct.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Congrats. Now you can go to lemmy.ml and get banned for the exact same thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I got my 10+ year old account permabanned for saying “trans women are women”, which somehow went against their rules about promoting violence. No warning given or anything. Appeal went ignored.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I was on reddit since around 2010. Had probably 500k karma in total? I was around before the apps. Still in the air of early internet vibes. It was a great place to find your community and chat.

I got my first ever temp ban a month ago for saying Luigi started a movement that our world needs. For billionaires need to be afraid of every day people.

Got a ban on r/news. Then shortly after a full ban.

I’ve been banned from plenty of right wing subs and it’s never been an issue. But one comment into their top corporate subreddit did it. So I left. Fuck em. There is no free speech there and to be honest. The quality of comments and community has dropped so heavily since 2016 that it doesn’t feel like a loss to me. Reddit community used to have standards and free speech for anyone. Now it’s no different from Facebook. Shitty joke comments on serious topics. Bots everywhere. It’s just a black hole now.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Consider yourself lucky to be off that fascist bootlicking platform

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I really liked Reddit, getting a lot of value out of the content posted there by people. And I met some cool people through it.

I never got banned from it myself, but as time went on it was very clear that the company in charge of the platform was not steering things in a good direction, and was not responsible for the value I liked. They just captured the value by being the place where people posted. They really drove that point home when they locked off the API, and I completely quit Reddit at that point, migrating to Lemmy instead.

I definitely feel that Lemmy doesn't have as much value collected on it yet compared to Reddit. There's just not as many people posting and generating that value. But, it is free of that sort of draconian control that Reddit has. Not just temporarily free, as a favor from venture capital to draw people in. Permanently free. So, if we build up the value of Lemmy by having more people post here, we will be able to enjoy that value free from the corpo BS.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. :P

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I was already iffy about Reddit since the r/place #fuckspez whitewashing. I was never suspended - but when I learned Luigi was suddenly an "unperson" topic there, I realized that commercialized social media is inherently compromised.

I'm not swearing off FB/Insta entirely just yet, but every time I visit them I'm more and more vividly aware how tedious Meta channels are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

This Luigi?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Likewise.

My first offense was recommending that we bring back the guillotine.

My second offense was saying that MTG and fElon needed to get punched in the face after they said that Sesame Street was woke trash that needed to be canceled.

Fuck those vile pieces of shit!

Over 13 years and a quarter million karma later, it has come down to this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Same loool Let’s make Lemmy grow and leave any centralised social network.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Sounds good to me!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I suggested that the most appropriate way to deal with Nazis moving into your neighborhood was the traditional Scandinavian practice of hús-brenna. Apparently the admins dislike effective solutions.

It took me a few days to overwrite all of my comments from the prior 15 years or so, but I did it. Because fuck 'em, they don't get to train their AI on my data.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My leaving was originally from the api cost changes, I had payed for a 3rd party reader years ago and all of a sudden my lifetime of no ads was gone and I had to pay. This change was admittedly after reddit decided to follow twitters api cost changes. I am supprised at how close Elon and spez seem to be, given that I don't know of any photos of the two of them, they they probably only know each other as CEO's.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I wish more people would travel here. We need people to build up the communities and interact with content. It’s refreshing to see comments under limited moderation, or moderation that actually targets the right kind of hate speech: the powerful punching down.

I only visit Reddit when someone here links to it, since I’m assuming the comments are relevant, or if I’m doing a Google search and the answer is in a Reddit comment.

Reddit is dying from the top down. People migrating away would show billionaires that they don’t control us.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is my first comment to say I am also a reddit refugee!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Wiped out my 13 years of posts and comments and deleted my account when they started this crap. I thought the day they killed old reddit would be when I left but I can't stand by while they censor free speech. The site has been a shit pile for some time though and not even a ghost of what it was in the good old days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I cant even tell you what I got banned for because they banned me without saying why. I dont even know the last thing I was talking about was finding anime in the style of berserk.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Welp, said Elon needs to be assassinated for involving himself in European politics as a non European plutocrat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

There is these blanket responses that goes like this: "Free speech is only that the government can't punish you" and "It's a private company it can moderate how it wants". I take a lot of issue issue with it. In our times the wast majority of speech takes place on online on privately owned plattforms. I don't se what the point is in freely submitting to a world where only corporate approved speech is allowed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Edolf 🤣 using this from now on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My 11 year old account got banned and I'm not even sure why. I posed a lot over the years. They said I was banned, pointed to a deleted comment. When I asked what the comment said they replied the reviewed the ban and now I'm banned.

I believe it was for a comment about how America would be in trouble if they invaded Canada (I'm Canadian). I stated some basic facts that Canadians look like Americans and they will attack America on American soil. It was matter of fact, not promoting any sort of violence.

Whatever. America is dying. I suppose services hosted on American soil die right along with it. We're actively avoiding as many US products and services as possible, so Reddit can kick rocks.

I discovered Lemmy, it suits my needs and I like it better.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Perma-banned for fighting back against the fascist take over of Reddit

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I had a 12 year account, with over 900K karma. I was permabanned in Fenruary for repeating a comment I'd made nunerous times before the Inauguration without a word.

I came to Lemmy, and found lots of other 10+ year accounts that were banned as well. It seems February was a bloodbath, as they ejected lots of veteran accounts. We'll probably never know how many, but probably in the thousands. We were the people that built Reddit over the last decade, with high volumes of posts, and they never had reasons to ban us. Then suddenly, in February, ALL of us became such egregious violators that we all had to be permabanned?

Whatever, Reddit was becoming increasingly frustrating. Every post was filled with puns, bots, Russian Propaganda Farmers, conservative trolls, and other such nonsense. Without all the active veteran posters, it's only gotten far worse.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I said McConnell looks like he should be dead. They banned a million sub moderator and 14 year old acct. they can suck a massive dick.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I was banned for saying I should have a legal right to punch Nazis, which I don't think was "permanent ban" territory.

This to me says that Reddit is Pro Nazi

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Got banned for antisemitism around the time the genocide ramped up in Gaza.

And I was just criticising Israel. Things got a bit heated for the other guy apparently, and then I got brigaded and reported. I didn't defend Hamas or advocate violence, just criticised Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Welcome weary traveler!

As lemmy's self-designated High Corvid of Progressivity, I extend to you the traditional Fediversal blessing of:

remember kids:

A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Closed account myself because got tired asking to remove shadow ban for two months. I have no clue why I got shadow banned, only realized when I stopped getting replies that something is not right. Oh well, I guess it's more useful to bookmark useful reddit links in any browser instead of being able to post and comment on a platform where nobody can even see your efforts because of shitty AI and incompetent admins. I was with them for over six years.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I had my main and a business account permabanned during the election, after Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot. I said I didn’t really care or have any empathy, because Liz is a warmonger who’s called for violence against millions of people.

I didn’t say I agreed, and I didn’t say someone should do it. I simply said I didn’t care that she felt threatened by him. Permabanned.

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