I was shadowbanned only once, and in an alt account I was using under the Tor network. A wave of bot banning got me too, but I was able to appeal it just fine.
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Zero times, never been banned off reddit. I think this is a bit of a self report on you though.
Sure, get banned a handful of times it might be over zealous mods but 30 times over ten years? Buddy you might be the problem. You even say in your post here that you became the troll, you gaslit people, you were the problem.
Maybe you should consider not engaging in the communities you get frequently banned from. Take it as a sign to reconfigure your online presence or something.
I wasn't the troll. Maybe don't twist contexts around?
And they were proficient in gaslighting people, so I became one of them, said a few things, mods got pissy and banned me yet not the person who did the gaslighting.
Where I would try to stop engaging trolls, shit would hit the fan, some oversensitive user got uppity on me, trolls came around again and so on.
Idk pal, you said so yourself you "became one of them", the gaslighting people.
Never knowingly shadow banned but never bothered to find out either. It wouldn't be a total surprise in some subreddits. The whole concept of secretly muting people is sinister and feels like it was a later development, as the rot set in. Pretty much any commentary platform that grows large enough turns to absolute garbage. The reason I left YouTube was the same reason I left Reddit and it will be why I leave Lemmy if it grows large enough. It was kind of interesting to witness the evolution of Reddit over the thirteen years I was posting, like a car crash in slow motion. Civilisations follow a similar arc. There's something messed up about people in large numbers, they get toxic.
Wait a few months: their cache or something is expiring and you can make a new account without any problems.
I would but I don't see the value of interacting there at any capacity anymore. Spez has gotten out of control with censorship and overreaching moderation, the moderators themselves have seemingly gotten twice as ban happy than ever before, the content on reddit is regurgitated repetitiveness amplified by bots on a level never seen before.
There's almost just no point and I've been off the track from partaking in anything there to where interest has dwindled.
Yes, moderation is a complete disaster on Reddit, but there is no alternative to it. Look at Lemmy: crowded like a forgotten cemetery on winter night.
I was hooked on Reddit, opening the app 100+ times a day.
I don’t miss it one bit. Lemmy is just fine.
Yeah the comics/blender community is super active on blender, dead here
People mistake numbers with being heard. Yes, Reddit has many more users - but that doesn't mean if you interact there, you'll be more likely to get engagement. You're just one voice out of thousands lost in /new/ in many cases. Moreover, it has a huge impulsive/bot downvoting problem due to private votes - meaning most new posts simply get buried.
And here on Lemmy, there isn't just anyone to interact with. What's better, to shout in the busy square where nobody cares or to whisper under the blanket in the empty room?
There are though. We're interacting now. Obviously this depends on the topic (some things are non-existent on Lemmy) but for what is represented, there is engagement. People make the mistake of trying to build smaller, niche communities before the general community has been set up.
We’re interacting now.
If that is enough for you, why bother with Lemmy? The Bible would be enough: open it on a random page and read the random shit from there. InTeRAcTiOn!
some things are non-existent on Lemmy
Yes, we have news and memes here. Not much, but enough. All other themes are dead.
If that is enough for you, why bother with Lemmy? The Bible would be enough: open it on a random page and read the random shit from there. InTeRAcTiOn!
What? What do /you/ want then from these types of sites?
Yes, we have news and memes here. Not much, but enough. All other themes are dead.
I kick started the TV community. Movies is going. There's video games and tech communities.
This is Fediverse's problem though, is that there's not enough variety to warrant interaction. Reddit has a subreddit for every state in the country, it has a subreddit for countries individually, it has a subreddit for one niche community after another.
The Fediverse only seems to care about having News, Tech, Games and Memes. Probably a couple of tech-related instances. To an outsider, they write it all off as a just a nerd's paradise and not even bother with the entire community before wounding back to Reddit.
It just doesn't have that reach.
The Fediverse only seems to care about having News, Tech, Games and Memes. Probably a couple of tech-related instances. To an outsider, they write it all off as a just a nerd’s paradise and not even bother with the entire community before wounding back to Reddit.
News (Politics) is a massive part of Reddit too. But sure, it has the niche communities that can't be supported by the current userbase. Let me look at the top 100 communities by activity currently for other topics outside of those things.
The only way this will change is if people come here and start building communtiies.
What do /you/ want them from these types of sites?
Who "them"? Are you asking what I am doing here if everything is so bad? I have my reasons. Actually, quite rational reasons. Surely not trying to express my precious and super-important thoughts or gather others' crazy "wisdom". It's just Reddit's abundance of rules and moderators makes it almost impossible to write anything there(according to my reasons).
Sorry. Then. Typo.
I was just wondering why you seem to bother if the Fediverse is going nowhere according to you.
It still suits my goals well enough. It isn't good and I don't see any perspective here, but it's good enough. At least moderators bother me less here.
I'm here for the long haul.