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vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
If you got banned a lot of Reddit, the problem might be you.
There were some dubious moderators, but I tended to stick to subs where i share values with the sub and the mods and things were pretty decent. If they hadn’t torpedoed mobile apps I probably would have stuck around.
In contrast, Lemmy seems to be very lightly moderated across the board, probably because moderating is a crap load of work.
Agreed on all points. I loved Reddit and had a long lived account with a decent amount of comment karma. I dropped it cold turkey when the API change happened.
Never had any real run ins with mods even though I had arguments with other users pretty regularly. I acted in good faith and tried to be helpful as much as possible.
Most subreddits were fine. If you got banned all over the place, it says more about you than it does Reddit.
BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or the problem might be reddit i.e. a problem reddit has with free speech:
Social effects like mob mentality take place, so if you are an individualist and say it how it is you are going to be surpressed just for voicing a legitimate opinion.
You clearly cannot question the prevalence of bots and large scale manipulation by bad faith actors (say for example a company that systematically downvotes or through their mods bans all unfavorable comments about flaws in their new product).
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
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ZahzenEclipse@kbin.social 11 months ago
I think its mistake to simply play these folks off as people who want to say racial slurs or something.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’m not.
But I am starting to get the feeling that they, let’s put this gently, do not play well with others. And that subsequently they externalize that experience.
Since this is a recipe for recidivism (you don’t learn anything if you always think the others are at fault) eventually you get banned and it ends up being a self fulfilling prophecy.
I refuse to let Lemmy become the place where people banned from other services go stink up the place.