Arguably there is now more censorship on Reddit than on twitter.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Well, a few hours ago, I got permanently banned from Reddit, again, but this time with no explanation messages, or any recourse.
I suspect it was from my contant mocking of Musk and Trump, and the GOP in general.
Fuck them.
What would be funny if this meme came from twitter. Which was posted on Reddit.
Things i have stopped using- X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Lays, McDonalds, Burger King, Netflix, Walmart. Things where i have minimized consumption - Amazon, Best Buy, Steam, YouTube. Things where I am tied in and can't make a difference- Android, Windows, AWS, Gmail, Intel/AMD, MS Office (official productivity tools). Actually i don't mind going minimalistic to F over US companies.
I haven't gone that far, but I refuse to use Facebook, or Amazon.
Facebook, because it's a shithole of ignorance, stupidity, and cruelty, and it brainwashes older people.
Amazon, because they hurt local Mom and Pop businesses, and I don't like the way they treat the warehouse workers.
switch to linux
i use gmail but i use thunderbird to check it . working on a new address. if your using Windows consider running something like OOshutup10+ to stop M$ spying. we use LibreOffice at work except the one office lady can't use anything but excel . Linux on my home pc's , wish we could at work.. Good job on the stopping , i'm currently doing the same. F the US.
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Or use Amazon (I'm guilty), or shop at Walmart (sometimes guilty, but not often), or shop at Target, use Tiktok, use Facebook (reunion coordination only - but still guilty, I guess), use PayPal (very guilty), use LinkdIn, use Google (guilty).
It's really difficult to live a modern life, without being guilty of using anything exploitative of something. Of course, all the things (and many more) mentioned above are made to make people reliant on them by design.
Amazon operated in the red for over 7 years, before turning any profit, often selling and shipping items for a lower cost than they purchased the items for. But after that 7 years, they'd driven much of their competition out of business. Now there are fewer choices with regard to finding some items, because Amazon drove everyone out of business. The cheaper prices on Amazon? Nothing like what they used to be - they don't have to compete.
How many small towns have Walmart as virtually the only place to shop and/or the only employer?
It's very important in our modern, separated society, for people to return to basics....get to know your neighbors, stick together, become friends, and help one another out. Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, "Your co-workers are not your friends." I wondered if many people ever looked past that, to ask if that's how HR wants things. How do you ever achieve solidarity in the workplace, when you walk in with that attitude? I've certainly had my share of hated co-workers, but much more often, I have been friends with many of them. Co-workers are a great resource to vent, problem solve, find out what's going on behind the scenes, and if there are problems - a great co-worker can be honest and let me know if I might be the problem, or not.
But, separated and isolated within our own little tribes/families, too busy working too many hours, for too little money, trying to keep up with too many financial obligations, is exactly how they get us exactly where they want us.
Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, "Your co-workers are not your friends."
Reddit is full of the asocial "leave me alone" types (or at least used to be) that make every excuse to not to socialize with others. Taking their advice to heart is an easy way to become a miserable person. There's lots of nuance between "set up barriers in front of everyone" and "share every detail" and they seem to lack that.
Well stated- to your first point, I'd urge folks to take small steps to start replacing those services at least partially with alternatives when they're available. For example, you may not be able to switch grocery stores entirely but many places have farmer's markets or services where you can buy from farms wholesale. No matter your food situation, most people can manage to switch operating systems or search engines. Most of us can stand to reduce social media time. Like in your Amazon example, there's value in aiming to change habits slowly over time instead of all at once.
X, Facebook, threads, Instagram, Whatsapp, Amazon Prime, Reddit
How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I've showed lemmy to is terrified it's a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.
What you’re describing is intentional. Keeping people dumb about the tech they’re using while maintaining messaging like “Facebook works day and night to keep you safe” was the point all along so that people don’t understand what they’re doing. Granted that extends far beyond social media, but still
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It is a very big ask... For chat i moved to Signal and convinced my closest relatives and friends to humor me and get the app, but they didn't let go of Whatsapp. It's lonely but i enjoy the quietness, and do not miss the endless groups!
Maybe some government officials will keep you company by inviting you into their war-plan discussions.
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What's Twitter?
A rich kid's personal Attention Gathering App.
If you're still on Lemmy... Welcome! The more the merrier!
yup I got shadow banned from that hell hole after saying something mean about the orange in chief it's so pathetic, it wasn't even super bad I commented 'welcome to Trump's america' under a post about inflation skyrocketing I was on the site for 12 years no problem
it's crazy to me I didn't know they were so beholden to the right. it used to be the fascists got mad reddit was banning them. to.be banned over simply light jokes is so dystopian
not to mention.. their ban detection system is fucking 1984 shit
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A lot of the niche content I like is still on reddit, however I like the people and experience over here on Lemmy more.
I just logged in to check /r/audiobooks.
The sponsored thingies are intolerable. Fuck that.
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Reddit isn’t as bad as Twitter. Though it’s heading that way. But there is an alternative that is 90% as good.
What’s annoying is how stubborn they are about moving over to Lemmy. I know it’s not super straightforward, but it’s also not nearly as complicated as they make it sound.
I actually enjoy the smaller community here, it feels like old reddit. Like the good ole days.
Most people use reddit on mobile. All you gotta do is tell them to use on of the many apps and sign up that way. It's stupid easy to do.
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The lemmy community is a very specific subset of reddit’s. Reddit has a somewhat more diverse set of opinions and interests. Despite lemmy not having a specific algorithm, it ends up being an echo chamber nonetheless, a bit more than reddit imo.
That and of course the fact that if you remove political content and tech/linux, there is hardly anything left.
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When Twitter-man did the salute, I deleted my old account (hadn't used it in years anyway) When Facebook-man said "no more fact checking," I deleted my old facebook (only kept it to keep in contact with, like, 2 people) When Tumblr-man banned the porn, I deleted my tumblr (you can guess why I had it) When Reddit-man said he wants to paywall the biggest subs, I deleted my reddit (also got banned but I prefer to say I did it for a better reason)
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I actually said “bye Fash-licia” to Reddit last week. I thought about trying to get banned for something stupid, just for the story. But instead I just quietly deleted the account.
I had five accounts between 15-18 years old and ranging from 10k - 3M karma (I shit posted a lot).
One of my main accounts was banned from r/politics for adding "are tarred together" as a reply to "birds of a feather" during the J6 inserrection attempt. Then r/news banned it for some odd reason I don't recall.
Then I started getting random "Just to let you know your comment may violate the rules/TOS but we're gonna give you a chance to change it" messages for comments that quoted GOP members.
Then one of my last one was banned with zero warning when I said "not like he needs it" after a thread talked about how shitty Greg Abbot was being and how he'd pulled the ladder up on other people.
And then out of the blue they site banned me for 7 days due to evading a mod ban (I hadn't but I just fired up an account I hadn't used in a while but stayed away from that sub).
So I decided to delete all my accounts with the same message of "Fuck Spez. Reddit is the new Digg and Spez is the new Kevin Rose just somehow dumber".
Fuck reddit. When you have to walk on eggshells to vote or comment then you've lost the plot.
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I bow down to your intelligence.
I literally just got permabanned from Reddit after over 13 years and 200k karma! Lol
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I use Twitter and reddit for porn, nothing else anymore. People/communities I follow are ghost towns elsewhere. Everytime I point this out, people get butthurt, yet none of them link to their porn profile.
Post the (adorable, lanky, femboy, who has glasses and a thick uncut cock) porn, and as the saying goes, 'they will cum'.
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xitter is like 100 times worse than reddit.
reddit has issues with administration and moderation (especially the aspect of censorship), but xitter also has the overwhelmingly bigoted users on top of the censorship
I'm trying OK! 😭
yeah....have you tried growing a community here? its fucking hard....
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