The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.::Reddit corporate claims victory over its disgruntled mods as r/aww, r/pics, and r/videos abandon the “John Oliver rule.”

  • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I never cared about the Reddit API war. For me, leaving Reddit was about how moderators have absolute yet arbitrary power to permanently ban users who do not agree with them. And I’m not talking about breaking their rules (racism, misogyny, transphobia) but simply having a disagreement of opinion that provides the mods an opportunity to ban you for life.

    For the Reddit API thing, the funny thing was finding out I could have been using a better app the past seven years but didn’t know.

      • Buttermilk@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        They do, but the difference is I can’t go to another reddit instance when they pull shit. It’s not flawless, but it certainly changes the power dynamics.

        • wesley@yall.theatl.social
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          1 year ago

          And they don’t have ownership over a single community name as well. You can start a community with the same name on a different server

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          1 year ago

          I’m not 100% sure on this, but unless there’s an actual system for it, IP bans are also infeasible on Lemmy, right? Since only your home instance has your IP, you can just switch to a different instance, even if the admins try to ban your IP.

      • OpenSourceDeezNuts@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I think the idea here is that if mods are bad on, say, memes@lemmy.ml, everyone can just leave and make memes@sh.itjust.works or wherever. There should be more competition here, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it actually works.

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      1 year ago

      You sub to a subreddit and gen banned on others that had nothing to do with it. Try talking anou how bad the vaccines are… Get banned. It does not matter if you are right or not, cant even have the conversation

      • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If you’re banned for an opinion, that’s not right. If you’re banned because you’re spreading easily disprovable vaccine misinformation, that’s on you.

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          1 year ago

          “Missinformation” lol everything on the vaccine has been missinformation until is not… “Virus came from a lab in china” “once you are vaccinated you wont get covid (depends on when you say it if its " missinformation” or not)" etc…

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            1 year ago

            Not to mention the extreme attacks on those who refused to get the shot, when they knew all along it did nothing to prevent the spread

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        1 year ago

        Oh, please don’t worry about that, Lemmy’s API will make it easier than Reddit’s to automatically ban plague rats