I'm loathe to defend Reddit's moderation decision but my experience you can never trust the person being banned to explain why they were banned.
Kirk
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Because it is a post to an entirely different social media site.
Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:
That means this short reel has been viewed more times than every single article 404 Media has ever published, combined and multiplied tens of times.
It doesn't shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but "multiplied tens of times"? A recent comment me chuckle:
"Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore."
(implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).
I think it's interesting how "maximizing for engagement" inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?
Fedora is a solid choice. I recommend Kinoite because it's familiar to Windows users and impossible to break.
Good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?
S-tier effort meme. 
LOL as I was typing it I thought to myself "Ten years ago nobody alive would have any clue WTF this could possibly mean."
I have a LOT of notes on this that will eventually be turned into multiple c/DaystromInstitute submissions.
I haven't seen anyone mention lemmy-explorer yet, it's a good way to find communities too:
Exactly, not being beholden to one set of rule-deciders is not so much an "issue" as a distinct feature of the Fediverse.
LOL and we are better for it