So I stopped generally using Reddit after the whole API thing but my husband still does and we talk about stuff since Lemmy gets the job done.
One thing he likes is to hop on r/freecompliments and participate there.
Well, today he got permanently banned. Why? Because a bot dredged his profile and found that he sometimes participates in porn subreddits. Usually to complement people there, never posting himself. He’s pretty ace, so it’s rarely, if ever, sexual. But that was enough for the bot to ban him.
They sent a message about how they are sfw subreddit and don’t allow users to participate in NSFW subreddits.
He’s heartbroken about it. He really likes to be nice to people and it makes his day when they respond to him. Now he can’t do that in a sub that’s meant for it.
I feel like the site rules have opinions about banning like this, but it’s not like the admins give a fuck. So fuck those mods and their puritanical bullshit making at least once persons day worse, for the low cost of a user that was participating in good faith.
And since I’m on a roll, fuck spez
I tried posting this to trueoffmychest to dredge some sympathy for him, since that seemed appropriate and he was good with it, but they don’t allow ‘anger’ or ‘impersonal’ posts and that got quietly removed immediately. So fuck them too. I didn’t realize how far down the shitter reddit has gone.
reddit is just way too censored and algorithmic these days. 95% of mod abilities shouldn’t exist
Lemmy’s mod power really are not much different, but what makes mods act much more carefully here is the open mod log.
Yeah, it’s great and can be used to find shitty mods as well as shitty users who lie about their comment that was deleted.
You say that but I’ve already been banned from a few communities for absolutely literally no reason and there’s zero responses from mods and there’s no way to hold them accountable because it’s their communities and they can do what they want still. It’s literally no different than Reddit in my opinion.
The actual significant difference is that lemmy isn’t a corporation.
I haven’t been banned yet for saying child molesters should be executed. So it’s at least marginally better than reddit.
I feel ya. I once said “a rapist getting raped is cosmically funny”, then was suspended for “inciting violence” The article being commented on was about a rapist getting raped.
There’s certainly that