I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I’ve been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.
But now it’s not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that’s just another step for something that’s already so not worthwhile.
Welp…
I got permabanned this morning. Made a joke that automod thought was inciting violence (said people who don’t punch their ponies in their face make me sick - not even my joke or a joke but a reference to someone else’s joke - in response to someone calling horses disgusting) and all my alts were banned too. Which is fine but I miss my TV show communities a bunch. I like to discuss my stories!
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that is what happened to the purges last year, only need 1 ban/shadowban if any of your other accts even participated in the one you banned it(even if your dormant accounts dint get banned), even temporarily it just shadowbanned it. this was a new tactic reddit used. originally they dint care as long as you wait a long time with a new account before using it.
Start a community here. Be the change you want to see.
I lack diplomacy when I get annoyed.
Then you have all the qualifications to be a mod!
I assure you, that has stopped nobody here – especially not the tankies – do not let it stop you.
What is a tankie?
tankie on lemmy, is people who support authotarian “leftists” basically current russia, NK, CCP, but not the actual communism itself. tankie on reddit is somewhat similar, but its usually refers to the sub, or location that people are defending as a holier than thou subject.
users from lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad who generally believe that Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong, among other things. They (usually) correctly criticize the US or its allies for their imperialist actions or atrocities or human rights abuses while simultaneously handwaving away any imperialist actions, atrocities or human rights abuses in those countries as “Western propaganda”. It is generally pointless to argue with them, and fortunately as of late the latter two have mostly stayed contained to their respective cesspits – .ml users, on the other hand, tend to wander about and regularly start whiteknighting for China on other instances.
Generally, you should block those instances and you’ll stop seeing posts from their communities, but unfortunately you’ll still see their comments. Only solution for that is manually blocking individual users, which is especially true for .ml as the developers of lemmy (who are tankies themselves) have previously tried to position it as a “default” instance, leading to a lot of non-tankies registering there and finding themselves promptly banned for anti-China talk (and there are still lots of non-tankies there so you can’t just block them all indiscriminately)
Honestly, based on early interactions I’ll probably have to avoid political conversations if I can help it since even people I agree with ideologically seem to irritate the shit out of me. Not all of them, obviously. But enough to have clocked avoiding engaging with certain groups already. I’ll just have to know it when I see it.
Awwww shit, here we go again
Perfect! Nothing brings more attention than drama. 🤣