Censorship
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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Banning you from communities x and y as soon as you post in community z. Such petty BS
Fascism
Have you been to feddit lately?
The Reddit culture of just hating on random people's objectively harmless hobbies/interests/preferences. Think "snark" subreddits and similar. And if you call them out on it suddenly you're the problem.
Channel that hate toward things that actually do harm if anything.
Karma farming accounts. Bot commenters.
Bans and heavy moderation of content.
I'm glad some of the reddit copy communities here like DankMemes died quickly because it was being run by the same loser mods from reddit.
So far I've only been banned from I think maybe 2 communities ever. The only one I remember is one of the NCD communities because the lead mod was a dumb dumb.
I don't really care about complaints of specific instance users because unpopular opinions and comments deserve to be seen, otherwise you create an echo chamber.
So long as there is no brigading, it is much healthier to see everyone's input.
Also I hope the r/Chodi crowd never finds lemmy lol.
Whats r/chodi?
'''r/Chodi''' was an ultranationalist Hindu subreddit banned in the year 2022, after the ban, several users migrated to Telegram, r/IndiaSpeaks, r/Indiadiscussion, and r/bakchodi.
r/Chodi promoted Islamophobic and Christophobic speech, in addition to hateful messages against LGBTs (transgenders included), sexist and misogynistic messages and other types of attacks on ethnic and religious minorities, use of misspelled sexual terms to circumvent the Reddit software.
Their religious extremism and reactionaryism made the urban dictionary classify them as close to Islamic extremist groups such as ISIS.
https://partners.time.com/6160519/reddit-international-hate-speech-ban/
Oh I see. We definitely don't want anything like that on Lemmy
r/chuddy really existed omg
Overly restricting and subjective deletions and bans for low quality. (Eg: /r/casualuk)
Hear me out - restricting based on low quality sounds great, right? Until it's your post that's blocked. And you know it isn't low quality, is unique and offers a new perspective. Some mods have genuinely forgotten that it's (mostly) humans at the other end of their actions, or haven't forgotten and enjoy being dicks.
Shadow bans.
My wife tried to post a bunch on art related communities only to have her account banned without us knowing. She does oil paintings and other such art pieces. You had to have a history before you could post...which no one was willing to tell her. So her account got shadow banned. She gave up after a while on reddit. I dont blame her.
I hope we never get so petty.
You mean like how you will never see this comment because I made fun of Rimu and Piefed on memes only posted to lemmy.ml so my account was deleted from piefed.socialcredit instance with the reason "Nasty" having never posted there?
On top of that, bullshit "reputation" rules should never exist here.
When I first made my reddit account years ago, I remember being so confused when I couldn't post more than one comment every 10 minutes (absolute bullshit arbitrary restriction), and when I tried to join a community with "too low karma." "Oops, you can't do that cause you're an unpopular nobody and we don't want you here... Yet."
What's the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don't have enough "points" on their comments or posts? It's just such bullshit imo, and restricts everything an online forum should be.
Well itβs obviously to deter bots
It deters humans far more than bots.
Humans feel unwelcome and are much less likely to stick around.
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Subreddits that do not represent the title and instead hate it.
I'm looking at you /r/china.
ID verification
Ultra toxic anti communist far right.
Corporate control
A hivemind that likes propaganda
This.
Underrated comment.
(Under the very top comment or something incredibly basic and lame.)
I also choose this guys wife.
It was i also choose this guy's dead wife iirc
In fairness, that one does get a giggle from me. Every time. Even this one. Especially this one.
Giggity. (Please forgive me.)
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This π
Thanks for 1000 updoots!
I do this a lot, but I atleast follow or with a paragraph of context.
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Certainly karma.
The proudly and openly racist comments - particularly towards Arabic people.
Repost bots and hidden post histories
"why dont you just google it smh"
Censorship and manipulation
Reddit is basically an American psyop machine. The censorship is alarmingly heavy. It bizarre and I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it because it's seems so extreme. It's like a government tool now.
Piefed is working hard to bring reddit style censorship and manipulation to the fediverse
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Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating communities. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply voting and commenting, or having a website premade for them.
Redditors- I mean AI, Ads, gold, archived posts, and probably more I don't want to remember
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Abuse of power by moderators (which is already sadly happening here)
It's a flaw built into the system. Don't give randos dictatorial power. Simple
Astroturfing
Fucking Spezes
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