I finally made the leap to Lemmy. It's a little confusing, but it's doing a pretty good job of scratching that reddit itch. Some random thoughts:
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I just need a place to spit out my random thoughts and have random conversations and make random jokes; it's really not that demmanding. Do I miss having 400 upvotes instead of 11? Sure, but the main thing is that I'm communicating with people.
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Definitely get an app. I'm using Voyager on my phone with a KBM--how I mostly get around.
Big difference from Reddit:
- Those 400 upvotes come at a cost--posts are dead within a few hours. There's almost no point to leave a new comment in an active thread--nobody is going to see it. And there's also no point in leaving a detailed explanation of anything on reddit for the same reason.
On Lemmy, I'll get replies to posts and comments DAYS later, and people seem more willing to be helpful; maybe because things are less contentious, and maybe it's just people are naturally more helpful to strangers in smaller communities (see cities vs small towns)...
So really, the only downside to lemmy--the small size of the population--ends up being one the best things about it.
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It's definitely nice not having to compulsively check to see if my comments have been shadowbanned--which happened quite frequently and seemingly without reason on reddit.
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It's nice to be in a space where I can be more frank about political remedies.
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It's nice that I can view the comment histories of people I'm talking with to determine if they're an inveterate asshole or just having a bad day (only found one asshole so far).
That's it! 10/10. I'll try not to burn my reddit account in case I have a tough question, but I honestly think a technical question is more likely to be answered on Lemmy with it's small platoon of nerds with little to chew on than the hordes of ignorami on reddit rapidly trying to solve everyone's problem by free associating the title of the post.
What are "shadowbans"? I've seen this term used multiple times by reddit people and have no idea what to imagine.
You ban a shadow? But what's a shadow?
You're banned from a community and then shadowed / followed by the moderator?
You're banned and everybody who responded to you too? (Everybody in your shadow).
So lost.
A shadowbaned comment is a comment you wrote that only you can see. You are not notified that it has been removed. You are not notified that nobody can see it. The only way you know it's shadowbanned is if the viewcount is suspiciously low, and the only way to be certain is to log out to see if you can view the comment outside your account.
There's an extension (reveddit?) available which will notify you when a comment has been shadowbanned.
A user can be shadowbanned from a subreddit by the subreddit mods, or from the entirety of reddit by the admins. Most of my experience was with shadowbanned comments.
I've been permanently banned from plenty of subreddits, but only shadowbanned by one sub. I called them cowards in a mod mail and requested a full ban instead. In return, they reported me for bullying. I received a seven-day ban and came to lemmy. I remain shadowbanned in that community.
Also: fuck Israel.
#FuckIsrael 100%
P.S thanks for the explanation. I doubt I'll be able to remember it as the name doesn't really allude to the action or result and I can't make up an etymology to help me remember. Thanks nonetheless!
You rarely notice your own shadow... and you would rarely notice a shadowban.
This functionality I believe has been incorporated for Piefed, but not (yet) for Lemmy or Mbin. Moderators of piefed communities can mute comments (if not individual users) so they don't federate. Only the instance the 'shadowbanned' user posted from, and the instance of the user they replied to, will be able to see the comment.
The ability to silence someone invisibly is too tempting to abuse. I hope it never arrives. As an anti-bot measure, it serves no purpose since anyone running a bot will also be checking for shadowbans. As such, it has no legitimate purpose other than modding w/o accountability.
Hell yeah. Fuck Israel.
Reddit fucking sucks. I got a permanent ban myself.
Yeah, I do wonder if my bans were the result of being put on a list where all my comments were reviewed by an IOF soldier to see if they'd be good candidates for reporting...
Still haven't managed to get permabanned, but my score is now too low for some subs, even though my karma is really high.
Reddit is doing a great job of keeping out regular users with all their anti-bot measures.
It's simply a ban you're not notified/aware of. You can still log in and post, but no one can see your activity
nobody can see your posts or account at all. it was originally reserved for serial spammers, botters. but now it includes almost anyone they think its a bot, because thier AI cant really tell anyone. secondly a shadowban also wont inform you that you were banned, and what you were banned for. it was originally an excuse to combat botters, spammers. it now it obfuscates thier AI as the sole cause of your ban.
with sitewide bans, people can just wait until sometime has passed and us another account(before the purges last year). apparently with shadowbans they lockdown your IP, DEVICE, fingerprinting much more aggressively than a sitewide ban. because as soon as you try to make a new account an comment they almost know immediately.