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Lots of people have been banned, across all their accounts, with no recourse, and new accounts suffer the same fate

My fiancée lost over a third of her followers overnight, and asked a mod she knows what was happening.

She was told that anyone who had been banned, for any reason whatsoever was being indiscriminately purged, with device fingerprinting and other mechanisms used to keep them from finding a way back in

Apparently it has been happening in stages, so that's why there are waves of mass-bans

Reddit seems determined to cut themselves off at the knees, so here's hoping that Digg and Lemmy can shine and learn from the mistakes of Reddit

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[–] tartaruga@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It started when Elon Musk intimidated Reddit into banning a subreddit. The sub "r/whitepeopletwitter" was deleted by a frightened Reddit CEO Steve Huffman because people there were posting the names and information of the young hackers Elon deployed in the Treasury Department. Those hackers stole Americans' personal, private data. they are traitors. The people in this subreddit were punished, because Musky had a big temper tantrum. Even though this sub was allowed to return to Reddit, activist content still gets banned under the guise of deterring violent threats. People have been banned for even merely upvoting pro-Luigi Mangione content on Reddit. It's censorship. I put up with it and I regret it now. Having to write without even remotely suggesting violence was hard. I'd slip up and get a temp ban. I was finally permabanned for using an old saying, "stomp Nazis," on a thread about people evicting a NeoNazi from a punk concert. I didn't really think about it, and it's what people used to say, it was not a legit threat of harm. Meanwhile, I had trolls chronically threatening to make liberals like me cry all the time. Sorry, but that IS a violent threat. I know these trolls are surely ugly enough to bring tears to my eyes, but normally tears fall because of physical pain. So I deleted my account and destroyed the Reddit app. That's one less fool to look at all the ads there, which keep getting more flashy and prevalent. It didn't feel good to be censored this way. Im glad for Lemmy. Reddit censorship sucks, I'm now in the habit of being hypervigilant for anything that could be construed as violent content, even when writing here. Article about Elon bullying Reddit

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Punks not dead! 👏

[–] Elevum15@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

For someone who claims to love jokes and free speech, Musty is extraordinarily thin skinned. Guess I wasn't supposed to notice his black eye lol

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yep

As we say in my country:

Shit's fucked