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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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[–] Val@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Permabanned for reporting posts on r/truerateme

[–] LemmiChanga@programming.dev 0 points 34 minutes ago

No way. I do that all the time, so does most people on Reddit. What is up with peeps on Lemmy always trying to say Reddit is banning shit. I will mention Luigi all the time on Reddit and have never been warned.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 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.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

They probably banned you for something that happened at least 24 hours before the ban hit because they're just slow. My account was banned a week after I had replied to a racist troll trying to figure out if they were being racist so that I could ban them on my subreddit, and my comment was flagged as racist. I had already banned the user and hidden the thread, but that wasn't good enough for Reddit and I needed to go.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

They hated him because he spoke the truth.

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

[–] Glaedr304@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago

I got permabanned for criticizing Israel. The final comment that got me permabanned was literally 'No, just the problems they deserve blame for' to a zionist who accused all Lebanese of blaming all their problems on Israel.

[–] BluewaterRed@lemm.ee 7 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm not banned, I deleted everything on there like 3 years ago.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] InversionOfControl@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Edolf 🤣 using this from now on

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours 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.

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I got banned for repeatly saying ashli babbit deserved a bullet. Got classified as promoting violence

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Well, that is pretty direct.

[–] InversionOfControl@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

FWIW, you’re right, she did.

Her estate should have been sued to recoup costs for the bullet and the officer’s medical expenses.

[–] Frjttr@lemm.ee 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Sounds good to me!

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 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.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Who knows, maybe some of their mothers were fine women and you got banned for misinformation


Edit: Somehow I added an apostrophe. Looks like the virus is spreading to me

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I know from reliable sources that the mothers of said genocidal defense forces indeed goose step and bark at the same time

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They especially hate it when you're correct.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Or constantly criticize Capitalism.

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours 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.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Consider yourself lucky to be off that fascist bootlicking platform

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours 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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[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

I got banned for saying a woman was a monster. Yes free speech really must be protected by all sides, we can too easily lose it.

[–] Zaraki42@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours 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.

[–] Spazz@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 7 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] shaquilleoatmeal@lemm.ee 8 points 16 hours 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.

[–] Zaraki42@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I got shadowbannned after posting about politics.

I never called for or celebrated violence, didn't upvote pictures of Luigi (which they have a STRANGE hard-on for) or any of that. I just posted neutrally-worded opinions.

Shadowbanning is an abusive behavior and Reddit has been about that for well over a decade. On Twitter, you do something they don't like, they just tell you, "you have to delete this tweet and wait 12 hours" or whatever. On Reddit, your account just gets "weird" with strange error messages. You have to go digging for information on the phenomenon because they don't display a message or send an email about it.

The cute little aliens are there to paper over the fact that Reddit's leadership has no concept of user advocacy. You're just rows in a few tables to them. You're the product that's being sold, and as far as they're concerned that gives you the same rights as any other product on a shelf.

They are still sending me emails with cute little aliens in them, even though my account is hosed. This is how disjointed they are.

Someone else wrote that on Reddit, the users and admins hate each other. I think that's true.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 18 hours ago

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

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