Looking forward to the comments saying this true but good, actually.

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      I kept using infinity until about a year ago when I got banned. 3rd party apps continued to work, just had to fiddle a bit with your own API.

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    5 months ago

    The initial wave of users onto reddit clones often include a disproportionate amount of malcontents. A lot of people who don’t play well with others, who are banned from reddit (or at least banned from lots of subreddits) usually turn up first on these reddit alternatives and disrupt the community by repeatedly showing anti-social or disruptive, attention seeking behaviour. It’s not even necessarily related to any political persuasion. This stuff can collapse budding alternatives.

    The first wave of new users on reddit alternatives are, in my experience, more likely to have a lot of problem users and since the sites are so small, and usually sparsely moderated, they are much more disruptive than they would be on reddit.

    From what I can tell, the Fediverse has got past that.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      5 months ago

      It’s a matter of numbers and community.

      If you want to be a jerk, people will ignore you. If there are ten other people in the room, you can only be a jerk ten times before everyone in the room starts to ignore you.

      That’s the Fediverse, it’s a small community and word gets around fast with people who see and notice a bad character and start blocking them, their posts, their comments and their activity.

      That’s the thing about numbers … if you are a small group, word gets around quickly who the jerk is … if you are a big community, there are more systems in place to deal with jerks

      So the only way for jerks to survive … is to build a community of jerks for themselves … and surprisingly enough, those communities don’t last very long.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        12·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, indeed but some people are frustrating and objectionable in behaviour that doesn’t immediately lead to bans. Sort of malicious compliance, knowing where the line is. “I’m not touching you” behaviour. They do slowly get banned, but they can run rampant on communities for a time until they do.

        • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
          8·
          5 months ago

          That’s what blocklists are for. If you encounter a jackass account just block them. That way it doesn’t matter if they get banned or not.

  • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    Kind of funny coming from the admin of an instance that goes around and bans people for no reason. Even funnier when yoy and VS tried to contact the admins of different websites to get me banned over there because you did not like me suggesting that the moderators and admins of your instance were abusive. Hell even other Lemmy admins can back that up.

    Corgana is SysAdmin on ST.W and, from what I recall, the owner of the domain. Keep that in mind when you see Corgi patting himself on the back.

    You’re the reason people leave your instance dude. This meme is hilariously tone deaf.

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    I did get banned, for using ChatGPT to fix my spelling and then using an old account to go back, which was ban evasion. I’d been on it for 12 years. I guess the point is that the banned people on here these days are not necessarily batshit trolls, many of us are semi-normal :-)

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Can confirm, was banned from reddit. But it was for advocating violence against child molesters so fuck em.

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Lemmy is just software that anyone can use. Each Lemmy instance with open sign ups has their own rules. But even so- there would be no way of knowing which Lemmy users are equivalent to any reddit user without the user itself making it known.