Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Reddit says the “vast majority” of users won’t be affected.
It's horrifying especially to think how Reddit never did anything about the fucked up things incels would say they wanted to do to underage girls and women, or the literally jailbait, racist, insanity they'd share. Basically that stuff was always okay, but if you want to defend yourself against your oppressor? Banned for upvoting despite you didn't even think the comment was "bannable".
Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you'll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.
This is the 2025 version of "The revolution won't be televised".
And that is why I'm here now. Hello fellow travellers!
10 years on reddit, surprised about my comments never getting the same traction as identical comments. 3 days ban for insinuating a billionaire performing a Nazi salute may indeed be a Nazi, second ban for insinuating violent action sometimes needs to be taken in defense of democracy. Permaban for (politely and positively) judging the looks of someone that asked to be judged through a photography, and clearly needed lo lift up their self-esteem.
I rage quit reddit and delete my account that I opened long ago with the Google account I have recently cancelled.
I decide that maybe it deserves a second chance, so I create a new account with the email I account I host myself in my own server with my own domain.
The exact same comments I posted, with the exact same content and intention now get thousands of upvotes (so clearly, I had been shadowbanned for years)
Fuck them. Hello community, looking forward to have constructive interactions here.
15 years on reddit. Multiple accounts banned for slamming Nazis. So I'm here slamming Nazis. Long live Lemmy.
So the user who posts it can be banned and then the entire comment tree and upvoters. Selectively removing people/entire groups they don't want being visible and keep/promote the ones they do. AI trained on all of this to monitor the speech in real time. So basically no dissent ever being visible because it's removed before anyone can see and the user banned before they can let anyone know, a mass silent cyber gag.
At least that's how I see it being used. Here's a picture of my dog though.
Which is why I'm here!
reddit died when it became a publicly traded company. now it is just another propaganda tool
And now here I am.
Yeah that was my last straw with reddit
Thats some goddamn thought police shit.
Also tells you how goddamn awful the powers that be are, that the only way they can stop criticism of their badness is to ban anyone that even gives the lowest effort agreement with the criticism.
And now I'm here!
Grateful to be here and help this place grow. I’m so over Reddit.
Why I'm here on Lemmy now lol.
Yeah, that's why I'm here now. That site has just been getting shittier and shittier.
Reddit says the vast majority of users will not be affected Is that because the vast majority of users are bots? 🤔
Reddit going full mask-off 1984 huh? Next thing it’ll be illegal to downvote things Reddit likes to push… Or why even bother with the votes anyway, Reddit will just show you only the things that it deems good for you, like the benevolent Big Brother.
Fuck that place.
Also: welcome to all our new members! “We’re Not Perfect, But At Least We’re Not Reddit!” (TM)
I got banned from my city’s subreddit for calling out racism and within minutes was then banned 3 other Canadian subreddits.
The Russkies seem to have a stranglehold on our social media platforms
The people running Reddit are so useless that they can't ban things they don't like fast enough, so they have to punish their userbase for their ineptitude.
I accidentally upvote, so even if I undo it, I think it’s only a matter of time. Plus they didn’t even think about edited posts. It may not start off with affecting a lot of people but may grow that way. It is what is pushing me to lemmy and I hope to join you guys for good convo!
So how do I go about finding some of these soon-to-be-banned posts? I want my old Reddit account to be part of the statistics 😁
wow so many newcomers in this thread. Welcome guys!
God damn reddit dropped the ball so hard over the years
Nah not for that. That's how I get banned from Lemmy instances. As cool as federation is without terms of service you can see it's more fragmented as people block instances and people. I doubt Lemmy NSFW would let me make my communites and really, I don't want to deal with it.
I don't want to deal with people being shitty about my tastes in fiction.
Reddit sets the threshold for violent content really low. At one point someone asked if a prisoner who is medically revived from the dead has served their life sentence, I answered that you have to be irrevocably dead, and admins said that promoted or glorified violence. I made no mention of violence whatsoever, nothing I said encouraged violence in any way, and somehow even on appeal they didn’t realize how ridiculous that was.
Reddit; hear no evil, see no evil, upvote no evil
