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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Both. I was banned for using a slur. I was quoting a movie in a post about that movie (Glengarry Glenross). It was in quotation marks and everything.

I made a new account and was banned a month later for being racist. It was on a video of a train and I said something like 'why did I feel when that started like some Indian guy was going to die foolishly?'

Racist, apparently.

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[–] Leorhall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I’m not banned, but prefer Lemmy more, or at least the idea of it. I come here first, browse around the communities I’m subscribed to, and then shift over to Reddit to browse again. Unfortunately, I’m still seeing more interesting things to me over there, people gushing over Alan Wake, talking up the war in Helldivers, chatting about ways to buy things locally instead of American, etc, the topics I’m interested in.

I do find that things keep getting more interesting here, more discussions I’m keen on seem to be surfacing, and I take that as a good sign.

[–] technocat@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

I use both while Lemmy's community is smaller. I yearn for a world with more small owners of the internet.

[–] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nah. Reddit just sucks and Lemmy is awesome

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

I just like lemmy more, I deleted my 13 year old reddit account

[–] trilobyte81@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

They gave me a tempory ban for bull crap so i deleted my 10+ year old account and moved here

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No and not really. Reddit is just past its expiration date. I believe Lemmy suffers from a lot of the same systemic issues and that will prevent it from becoming an actual long term solution. It's just the alpha version. It's better than the prototype, but it's still built on the same fundamentals and will likely suffer a similar type of failure.

[–] Snowstorm@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Can you develop that idea?

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[–] cyphear@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

After spending some time on Lemmy, I have a feeling that if I were to say anything is get banned. I made a meme of that screaming seagull saying, "Luigi!!!" That I want to post from my main. I just can't bring myself to go back. It seems pointless.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I got banned because one of the mods of r/entertainment didn’t like a joke I made. After I appealed it it was denied by admins because β€œthe moderators need to be able to protect their communities”.

My joke: β€œ1 like=1 wank 🫑 ”

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Just like what lemmy stands for. I still visit reddit from time to time, mostly to use it to search for real product feedback (the window for which it will be useful is limited) and for a few niche communities that lemmy just isn't big enough to get any traction with. I post very occasionally in said communities.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

I never really used Reddit, but I read an article during the API debacle in 2023 that mentioned Lemmy so I gave it a shot.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

I like lemmy more.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

Left during the APIcalypse, largely only go back to help guide people to the fire exits.

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

No but Reddit sucks.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I want lemmy to succeed. Sadly reddit has better shitposts

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When Reddit changed the layout (new/old) some ten years ago, I started using a 3rd party app, because "new reddit" was everything that I hated about other sites. I stopped using it when they killed 3rd party apps, but that was really just the final nail in the coffin anyway. It was rotten to the core long before that.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I still use Old Reddit when I go there.

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[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

I came here when they made the API changes. I made the right choice. Rn Lemmy doesn't offer the variety and volume of content that Reddit did, but fuck those guys.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm still using both, but I'm sure with the changes in administration I'll be getting banned soon. I already got a warning for saying that self-declared kings are liable to self-declared regicide

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Banning people from the internet isn't a thing, despite the drama around it.

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

I was banned off reddit doing to standing up to the r/seculartalk mod Liam and him throwing a little bitchy fit when I used my alts to warn users he was banning them for disagreeing with them. The site then banned me for circumventing his sub ban.

[–] ptc075@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Perma-banned, and the worst part is I'm not even sure why. I logged in while away on vacation, got hit with the 'you're logging in from an usual location, please confirm with an e-mail code', and when I did that, boom, locked with no option to appeal.

I find some humor in that a robot decided I was a robot. Perhaps that will save me when the great robot uprising occurs?

[–] swampwitch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I just switched when the API nonsense shat all over the actually good reddit apps, since I primarily used reddit on my phone.

I saw lemmy touted as an alternative and figured why not?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Got permabanned. I was one of the last protestors from the API stuff standing.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I banned myself off Reddit. Deleted my 10 year old account because fuck em.

I didn't, unfortunately, obfuscate my comments before deleting them. However, I find solace in thinking that there is a small win in leaving all of that socialist propaganda in their training data

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[–] parmesan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Both, I'm sure I could make a new account if I wanted but I don't want to contribute to their dumpster fire of a website anymore anyway

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck Reddit. Does that answer help?

[–] RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The 3rd party app change didn't sit well with me. Ended up stop using reddit on my phone entirely since native was horrible. Ended up coming here when the crackdown on "Luigi" was happening and other censorship that was questionable AF. The amount of content here obviously isn't comparable to reddit, yet, but it's enough to digest throughout the day on work poop breaks and whatnot. :)

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Banned outta nowhere. I submitted an appeal asking what rule I broke and it was denied with no explanation. 2 accounts. Several 100 thousand post and comment karma on one of them. I had been banned from individual communities for pissing off random mods but never a site admin.

Fuck em. I hope it crashes and burns.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have no idea how many times I was permabanned. But what turned me to Lemmy was that cuntrag Spez taking away my Apollo.

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Perma banned. Definitely Perma banned.

Funny how I went what thirteen years or something, being the same cranky old progressive I've always been yet the MOMENT the orange cancer takes office again and reddit kowtows to muskrat, I get permanently banned.

Karma like no tomorrow so apparently a lot of people agreed with me.

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