The mods at r/popculture pointed it out. And then the screenshot above.
The subreddit drama
Just nuked my entire reddit account due to this blatant censorship. Hello Lemmy and lemm.ee it’s nice to be here
Me too.
Welcome you two! We’ve got Star Trek, Linux and beans!
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Hopefully some other topics will become viable later.
Don’t forget communism!
Welcome I have been a reddit refugee for some time. And have been having a great time.
Hey everyone, there’s a lot of you. You ever think maybe you can just troll them by none stop posting to all their subreddits. Hell the mods are like the same 20 people in over 5000 sub reddits. That’s a weak point.
For a brief few years we had communication platforms that could topple dictatorships but now here we are.
Yeah, now we have platforms that can topple democracies
Everybody log into your reddit accounts and post “Luigi” everywhere you can.
Just switched to Lemmy for this exact reason! Got banned for god knows why and immediately deleted Reddit.
censoring Luigi
lemmy.world mods be like: 👀
We’re on a lemmy.world community right now and people seem to be talking about it just fine…?
To be fair, lemmy.world response was more like “can you folks please not get us nuked IRL, we have to remove the most colourful posts, sorry” and not this Reddit response, which is more like “has anyone seen Spez? He locked himself in the closet with a shotgun aimed at the door, and we hear some agitated breathing from that direction every time someone nearby plays a Mario game”
I just made the switch to lemm.ee so I think I might just “incite violence” and nuke my account. Good riddance.
Deserved for the name alone, not the mention the fact of being a Redditor
Many of us were Redditors once.
Me not, I never really belonged on that site. I may have browsed it, maybe made some posts but I never truly was a Redditor, never graduated from a lurker. I never had the right mindset for that, nor enjoyed the lame jokes, not to mention I am holding many wrong opinions and karma means nothing to me.
This on the other hand, is the right place where I can truly, honestly articulate myself without getting banned.
There is even more obnoxious minority within the reddit that is my country subreddit. They are some weird amalgamation of incels and worst aspects of internet leftism sprinkled with solid amount of moderator authoritarianism and atmosphere of eternal suffering and wallowing. It is r/Polska btw
The only annoyance with lemmy I have is again the well known brand of internet leftism and glorification of communism. I try to filter this crap out mentally but it is hard to treat some group as a whole seriously, when they unironically cite Marx in 2025.
I might have to actually seek shelter in some thematic Internet forum and let all these groups destroy each other. 20 years should be enough for all of them to die out considering how unhappy they all seem
I don’t like constant ccp propaganda efforts on Reddit either
The oligarchs are getting nervous. Good. I hope they are a scared. Fuck their platforms and their false backing of “free speech.”
Yeah, the easiest way to control people is when you know what they fear. And, now we know what they fear. They (media/social media/politicians) have been using our fears against us all along, time to see what it is like.
YAS KING!!
MAKE THE PARASITE UNCOMFORTABLE TO EXIST AMONG US
I’m just going to latch onto the top comment…
An actual reddit admin posted this 2 days ago:
Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed. On the other hand, upvoting bad or violating content interferes with this system.
So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning. We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide. This will begin with users who are upvoting violent content, but we may consider expanding this in the future. In addition, while this is currently “warn only,” we will consider adding additional actions down the road.
We know that the culture of a community is not just what gets posted, but what is engaged with. Voting comes with responsibility. This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content. It is everyone’s collective responsibility to ensure that our ecosystem is healthy and that there is no tolerance for abuse on the site.
This was the only thing left reddit had going for itself: that users can influence the algorithm with their votes.
The subredditDrama posts are here:
reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1j5cqq1/multiple_subreddits_express_concern_after_reddit/ reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1j5tcgj/after_an_rpopculture_moderator_is_suspended/As someone who switched to feddit just a few days ago I can say this has been building up. Small things like deciding which comments get visibility, phasing out old.reddit, doing nothing about bots, introducing bot/karmafarma-friendly mechanisms, an uptick in pro-MAGA posts/comments as well as disinfo bots … but still, this feels like an uncharacteristically large step.
So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.
I saw users warning other users to be careful (how they upvote) or they might get banned. I don’t know what else screams “censorship” and “hostile environment” quite like encouraging your own users to caution those around them to shut up.
It is everyone’s collective responsibility to ensure that our ecosystem
It’s whose responsibility?? HAHAHAH
They won’t be scared until there’s another Luigi.
“check for violence” for any comments that contain the word “Luigi”.
This is gonna make Nintendo retro-garming discussions really awkward.
Normies will have to face the censorship they prefer to ignore
IRL Luigi’s Mansion
as if Mods will spend time to check every single “luigi” comment, they arnt going to be bothered by, they will just auto-ban or use a bot to give a “Reason” to ban.
We all know what’s gonna happen next. The Admins will lock out the remaining mod and take it over for being “unmoderated” and install their own puppets like nothing ever happened.
It’s that whole “slash funding, complain it isn’t working, privatize” approach on a smaller scale.
they ban for upvoting “eat the rich” too.
yet reddit admins never had a problem with thedonalds posters litteraly saying people should be shot and other violent rhetoric for years. the key difference is this time the billionaire class got upset.
Welcome to Fascist America.
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Yea, my blessed Fediverse brethren, hear ye!
Mark thy holy lemmings, gird thy loins with smelling salts and prepare for the unwashed tides. The memes will be terrible and swift, and no one will be safe from the waves of idiocy.
Tremble, for the 2nd Dawn of the Age of Incelius has arrived, and the Reddexodus Reddux is upon us!
gird thy loins with smelling salts
I’m going to wrap so much ammonium carbonite around my junk
Instructions unclear, incoherent screaming
I lost my 14 year old Reddit mod account. That modded a million plus subreddit. Because I made a joke that McConnell was close to death. Which he is. But they banned me before having to offer me stock options. Cunts.
I just woke up to my 15 year old account with a warning and “suspended for suspicious activity” 🤣
Fuckkkkkkk Reddit. It’s killing itself off.
reddit is making way for right wing-only content, they allow “other side content” to drive up engagement.
Remember what killed Digg? Sarah Palin super users getting Republican content to the top of Digg. That will just kill Reddit off sooner.
People often think it was the encryption key controversy that broke Digg. Nah, the massive vote brigades and cliques operating blatantly on the open were the first nail. The second nail was Digg redesign with the stated goal of “power users are good ackshually and no way this will go wrong”
If random ordinary users don’t have any power on the site anymore - won’t be heard and will just be punished for ordinary actions - what has Reddit really become?
Why was your 14 year old a reddit mod?
Because if he was 15 he would be too mature to be a mod!
Ba-dum-tissssss
This feels like the internet version of Statler and Waldorf bit
They offer mods stock options?
Long term and popular accounts were offered stock options. I missed it because I was banned. I had millions of upvotes on that account. Very popular.
Was the option to purchase the stock at a reduced rate, or just to purchase it before the IPO? When that happened, it just seemed like a way to inflate their opening stock price by getting the most hard core users to literally buy in.
If you sold today. Still a 30,000$ investment would be worth nearly a million.
They made the offer to specific long term accounts pre-ipo. No different than with Robinhood pre ipo access.
Ok, thanks, I’m unfamiliar with pre IPO access, so that’s helpful. Just to make sure I understand, from Reddit’s perspective, they weren’t setting the option price lower than the market price when the option offered? There was just a pre ipo market which you got the ability to trade on, no income earned when executing the option?
Correct. You were offered 1000-5000 shares depending on your accounts celebrity status at the strike price of $34. This was the same buy in price on Robinhood. As someone who was at Reddit from 2009 on. I could t believe I was banned for a joke I made hundreds of times in the past. Bros old. When’s he going to broke?
