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This is why I'm wary of the lemmy user base, a combination of individuals who have been banned from reddit and/or think they're too good for reddit.
You do realize how easy it is to get banned from reddit, since the IPO dropped, yes?
I was there for 14 years and 50 weeks and got sniped within 30 seconds of dropping a post that was critical of Stephen Miller.
I got banned from Twitter after a decade and a dozen posts for calling out an insurrectionist three weeks before January 6th, using his own couched language of violence and corruption. (I grew up in the 1970's and knew damn well what he was saying)
Going back even further, I got banned from the old ABC news forums in 2004 for pointing out that it was in fact, the unfair economic policies of the rich, that was the main reason that many women were starting to opt out of motherhood.
Some of us just got bumped for speaking uncomfortable truths about the consequences of unchecked power.
I consider it proof positive that I've been seeing things clearly for the last.. oh.. 45 years.
Being banned from Reddit is honestly a badge of honor for the most part lol
I will not disagree with that one iota.
No clue - I had the good sense to leave well before the IPO.
Smart. On many occasions I had gotten auto-banned from subs I never had even heard of because I'd randomly poasted on a sub that hit r/all and I'd thrown in my 2 cents on a comment. At that point, I should have seen the 'bot-storm heading in, but just stuck it out because of inertia on the site - mine - and the IPO sort of codified the weening "squeeky clean, sanitized for our ad revenue" behavior. Should have left then, but again.. inertia and stuck around until the robo-ban waves started rolling in and I got caught in one.
LOL! I honestly don't miss it. Am on old.lemmy.zip and have the same kind of comms I'm subbed to here and there and it's fine. It's actually kinda nice here - like reddit was at the start.
a lot of people have been falsely banned, but a lot of other people, from what ive seen, have been banned for legitimate reasons
Lemmy users feel way more aggressive than reddit users (at least from my experience) even though most of them used to be reddit users
I feel the aggressiveness here often tempers in time. God knows the rage-bots on Reddit seemed to keep it all spun up on certain subs, esp. the political ones.
It's nice not to have that constant "poking the bear" shit happening here..
on reddit, i generally avoided political subs(other than a general community for my country) so i have not seen any rage bots
"You don't go to the Nazi bar? What, you think you're better than them?"
I think I'm too good for reddit, why don't you?
There's certainly much, much more volatility here. Some people genuinely wrongfully banned; some... Less stable folks I think, "yeah you know what, you probably deserved the ban."
its probably the ones that fall in with the tankies/conservatives, they kinda deserved it. things like reporting people, if the mod doesnt like it you "are overreoporting" ban. i also visit some of mod help sub, and they are glad these filters in place so they dont have to work to verify a justified ban.
I got banned in 2022 when I called out Russian fake news. Apparently to an admin and they took that personally. 12 year old account with no prior bans at all. Poof, just like that.
Yeah I feel better than that shit hole and so should you. Reddit isn't for the people that made the site big anymore.
Lemmy is very reminiscent of early Reddit and 4chan in certain ways.
I decided to be the change I wanted to see here instead.
Banned from Reddit, must be a terrorist /S
I assume everyone is too good for reddit, until they prove otherwise.
So clearly the next topic in this community should be, “How many of you have never been on reddit?”
We are too good for reddit. At least the way reddit is now.
Interesting, why do you worry about that combo?