I have been using Reddit for the last couple of years. It feels like it got worse ever since u/spez banned 3rd party clients which requires me to use revanced reddit now. Now the latest saga involves subreddits now banning you for participating in other subreddit they think are bad. This is just pure censorship at this point. And you want to know the best part Reddit has done NOTHING to stop this issue.

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    i’m surprised I quit reddit cold turkey and never looked back, i was fairly addicted to that place. reddit was getting bad before 2023, when i left, but at that point was getting clear that wasn’t getting any better

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      Sure, but the community would immediately make a new NintendoHelp community on another instance. We have a low tolerance for that kind of BS.

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      On the other hand, it is impossible to be banned from all of Lemmy. Power tripping admins do not exist here.

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        I wouldn’t be so sure. I could point to .ml and BlahajZone. Both have some questionable admins.

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          .ml is alot worst, because you only need to interact with someone from that instance you get a typical response. i never had a negative interaction on the trans instance.

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            My issue with the trans instance is that they expect you to behave a certain way in a control freak sort of way, which left a bad aftertaste. They wanted me to sincerely apologize for a fucking light-hearted comment. And I say that as a gay man who knows damn well where the boundaries are.

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              i try to avoid instances like that eventhough i support lgbtq+ i just had a bad experience on reddit where they mistakingly banned me for saying something they MISCONSTRUED, BUT THEY QUICKLY unbanned because they recognized it wasnt a violaiton lol.

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    which requires me to use revanced reddit now

    Actually it doesn’t require you to do shit. You can just not use Reddit.

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      True, but at least on Lemmy you can switch instances. Or switch to PieFed, or use any other media that supports activitypub.

      Reddit is reddit. You can’t just go on another platform and “connect” to a subreddit.

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      I am outright abrasive and hostile to .ml mods for their tankie lies and .world mods for their Nazi bootlicking, and despite having many posts and comments removed I have not been banned from a single community as far as I can tell.

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        I’ve been banned from communities on completely different instances for things I’ve said that clearly personally offended some powermod or another.

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      At least on Lemmy it’s mostly one part of it, and honestly being banned from that part is probably a good thing

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      but the amount of moderations and filters is much more oppressive on reddit. politics is usually the ones that get people banned on both platforms

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    The Nintendo community here is no better. I got banned for the same reason here on Lemmy.

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      not surprised. when lemmy got popular all the mods from Reddit created their little communities because power feels good.

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        in my case it was public freakouts, I was just commenting on the front page to get karma up on an alt and that one was there so I commented (was old but I never posted/commented just kept using my main account with my full unqiue firstandlastname as my username lol) Eventually realized I should maybe not do m that because multiple irl had come up to me saying theyd seen a post or comment.

        Whats odd Is I dont rememebr being banned, like I remember seeing that sub on my main account still on the front page.

        I did look through my history and found out I had been banned from that sub 3 months before, odd af that they instaban and don’t just stop you from seeing or commenting there instead since they clearly monitor and see all.

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        IDK I have ADHD and don’t feel like digging through my history to find it, but it was the main one with the most subscribers.

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    […] please delete all of your participation in the subreddit in question (regardless of if it is positive or negative) […]

    So it’s guilt by association.

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    So they have a bot check to see if you’ve posted in a sub they don’t like, which then auto-bans you if it finds you there.

    The thought police are unpaid volunteers using bots now, I guess.

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    This particular example isn’t specifically a reddit problem; it’s a power tripping moderator problem. A problem that has existed long before Reddit, and will likely always exist on all forms of social media. Even Lemmy. Hell, we have a couple communities specifically to point out instances of admin/mod power tripping.

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      that is true, before that i was Y’a answers and a few accounts in particurlarly was lukring in most of the categories, mostly the political ones. i was in a health forum long time ago and a mod had out for me, and kept targeting my post as you can "say black because the mod thinks offensive for black people, and we finding other excuses on other posts to be condescending. the worst one was the forums with the services(long story) they acted like all knowing gods because they been in the services, and started spamming because i was advising another user that the mods were being very rude to her.

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    Ive been on it for over 15 years now and in most ways its gotten worse. For one thing there are FAR more bots that are posting and commenting. Quite a few times Im sure replies have been from bots looking for more “engagement” as thats reddits bread and butter. The ads are getting more prolific, with some “hey what do you guys think about x product” becoming more common. The moderation in some areas has gone a bit bananas. I used Redact to erase my comments in all forums and got permabanned in one for doing so because Redact posts a self link. No warning, just a ban. The only thing thats improved is that a lot of trolling a-holes have also been banned so there are less outright vitriol than there used to be. And some of the worst subs are gone. But its not going in a good direction overall.

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      The bots in the comments of reddit are insane. I swear I’ve noticed you can’t change the vote on them either. If you downvote and scroll away and come back it’s back at where it was and your vote is gone.

      I wonder how much spez gets paid for that garbage that removes it as a functional social site and puts it squarely in ad media.

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    its called crossbanning, if the mods of a sub feels like another sub is too controversial they will premetively ban you, now with the new reddit filters, your at risk of getting sitewide banned.

    famous one is participating j roegan sub, and you get banned from multiple subs, but j rogegan sub is only criticizing him, not fetishsizing his gop support.