cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1193177/reddit-moderators-be-like
whoah buddy leave some women for the rest of us
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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I've seen this happen on lemmy
How is ot different than lemmy?
(Vastly different) in scale, but not category.
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The fediverse simply doesn't have the infrastructure (centralization) to support a person or group of people from despotically lording over the only community for a topic. On Reddit, there's only one /r/cars. You can't start a other-reddit.com/r/cars.
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Fediverse admins (allegedly) can and do oust moderators that went sour and replace them. Reddit only does that when advertiser dollars are directly in jeopardy (crime, bigotry subreddits, protests of Reddit changes, etc.)
So while tyrants can and do pop up on Lemmy, people can and do simply stop visiting their communities. You can't really do that on Reddit other than making an /r/cars2 and get a trickle of traffic compared to /r/cars no matter how well you run /r/cars2 compared to /r/cars.
We don't talk about that place here. We're better than that.
"Sorry, but your comment saying that punching nazis is justifiable self-defense breaks our community guidelines on inciting violence so we're going to ban you. Please ignore the openly racist comment you are replying to." --Reddit admins
Literally every time I open a dozen tabs of Lemmy posts and come back to it 10 hours later, invariably 2 of those posts have disappeared and cant be brought up. Its here too.
"Can you kindly consider not murdering children?" Clearly an antisemitic statement, ban!
As a counterpoint: moderation that just takes interaction into account leads to dumpster fires like /r/pics or communities entirely overrun by American politics. I love /c/lemmyshitposts but it's grating how much US-centric political posting goes on in there. Like, a tweet from Bernie isn't a shitpost ffs. I'd love at least one space not being ruined by American defaultism
Murican here. I think a lot of those are bot farms or nation-state actors atp. We need breaks from our own politics too.
Ok but are you suggesting America-posting isn't shit or that we need something like a /c/lemmyshittierposts to put it in?
While I generally agree with you, the shitposting community is just a catch-all community at this point.
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It's the same thing on Lemmy. Being a mod involves dealing with a bunch of bullshit that pretty much no sane person wants to do. So that role usually defaults to being done by petty weirdos that like having power over other people.
Such is the way of the world. Cops, crossing guards, "security" guards and loss prevention. Even positions not typically associated with power like grocery store clerks, teachers sometimes, etc. - the wrong person for the job will often assert a hierarchy where none existed before, nor is it needed, and in the process they'll come up with some really bizarre hills to die on. Give the wrong person just a tiny bit of power over something small and they become like a troll defending their assigned bridge. It would be comical if it weren't so pathetic.
You guys are aware that this type of moderator can also exist on the Fediverse, right?
Can and does exist.
No, but OP made the Reddit moderator ugly, therefore they win
Never got banned from a subreddit for simply downvoting - can’t say the same about communities…
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reddit is still relevant?
People still use it. Podcasters still talk about their subreddits. I haven't seen the reddit front page in like 3 years tho. So I think reddit subs are still used.
Yeah, by bots
I once got banned for inciting violence by saying "I hope no one gets hurt over this." I disputed the temporary ban, and they upgraded me to permanent. Reddit is a joke.
I lost a 13 year old account for reporting hate speech. Turns out if just 2 moderators disagree with you, ever, that’s grounds for an unappealable permaban.
Did you ever happen to check your overall Reddit reputation using 3rd party sites?
I strongly suspect that Reddit runs such an internal service, which brings up some implications. One idea being that borderline users are probably seen as 'no big loss,' while valued contributors have more rope to play with. That's all just speculation of course, but there are plenty of people who've commented along the lines of 'I barely said anything objectionable and yet they permabanned me just like that!'
Not trying to imply that was your deal, but it does make me wonder. Sort of like the old trope of "everyone in prison being innocent." I've never seen someone in these communities actually say 'yeah, they banned me, and I probably deserved it.'
I doubt I was seen as “high value”, or much of anything really, as I mostly lurked.
No, my crime was simple: I pissed off some power mods by reporting posts that broke the stated rules, but not the implicit ones.
It’s well known that various groups are abusing Reddit’s reporting systems in order to control opinion and get rid of people who might disagree with them.
Right, and that ties in to what I was speculating about above.
One idea being that if you're going to 'throw your weight around,' it might be risky to do so as just a lurking-type user. Whereas if you're someone with a high internal score, it would likely be harder to get permabanned, which of course is something that traditionally needs some level of admin intervention to make happen. Mods can at best only ban from communities they're a part of.
I deserved my ban tbh. Just not all the other bans.
I had my account under this same name permabanned because of saying something along the lines of 'when people are attacked they have the right to defend themselves.' The MAGA crowd didn't like that.
I got “inciting violence” for Shermanposting. I disputed that I wasn’t inciting violence, more like praising the quality and effectiveness of historical work.
Does this dude have a bloody armpit? Ketchup?
I’ve recently found of that many large women’s subs are run entirely by men with very questionable views, ex. twox.
Reddit mods are just the worst of the worst.
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