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[–] songwriterallnighter@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Reddit banned me for responding to the bullies and refusing to delete those comments, didn’t know Reddit was so censorial.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ghislaine Maxwell was a powermod on reddit for ~~years~~ decades.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/

She had the 8th most link related karma of any account as of 6 years ago, and was the first reddit account to hit a million karma, she'd been there since basically the beginning in 06.

We've known this since before even this most recent drop of Epstein files.

Yeah, yeah, reddit has been completely fucked for a long time.

Go look into how Aaron Schwartz, one of reddit's founders, suicided over doing what major tech firms are arguing they have every right to do to train their LLMs.

reddit has always been a heavily manipulated tool for elites to gaslight people with, and we are just recently realizing how much that is and has been the case.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

There was a massive pro Zionist campaign in the year after the start of the Palestinian genocide. Tons of Zionist funded accounts meant to bait and report anyone that spoke out against the genocide. A lot of pro Palestine people ended up on Lemmy for this very reason though. Which is a nice plus.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got a ban for 'inciting hatred or violence' calling someone a "Human piece of garbage" for thinking only vulnerable or old people died of Covid. I knew a number of people in their 20s and 30s personally who died who were otherwise healthy. They doubled down after I challenged his statement by saying "They must have had some underlying condition. Healthy people didn't die to Covid". I called him what I called him and got banned. I checked a day later and he was still posting in other subs.

Ended up just deleting all my accounts and came here.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

the super mods of reddit are super antivaxx, they did banned plenty of people who tells off the antivaxxers

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I got banned for threatening violence for saying like... constant escalating tensions will eventually lead to someone getting shot.

I appealed and it was reversed then I was banned for ban evasion because my other account was logged in while the ban was being reviewed.

That appeal was denied.... That pissed me off more than it should have.

I just don't like reddit that is all. Come to think if I never truly used it until recently, why would i even want to keep using it?

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

May I ask, how many violations was it on that particular account? Because I always dropped them after a 3-day ban, which is the second offense, and out of spite I wait to start a new account, which is what I'm doing right now, the first time I waited a year and a half, I think I might mostly quit now, but they don't seem to care until your account gets hot. Like if you make a new account which you can do with it temporary email like guerilla mail, they are like wink wink, for now.

[–] songwriterallnighter@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

Honestly I don’t even remember, I just can’t stand bullies, so a few times I said something in the chat when they blocked me from replying in the comments and got reported for letting them know they are shitty people and another time some mod asked me to delete my comments because the bully had deleted theirs, I said no and after a month or so got banned. My life is objectively better. Only thing I miss is sharing my music on there, oh well I’ll find another place to share.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Dont bother with a new account. You'll just get banned randomly for having a different opinion than a mod on some shitty hobby sub.

Reddit is useful for getting information for troubleshooting and stuff when your search engine directs you there, but its not somewhere you want to actually be.