This you?

Indeed.

I get called a lot of things on Reddit, but never bigot or fascist.

Try having openly right-wing leanings, and maybe you’ll understand it. I don’t go around making presumptions about people. But when the person I’m replying to chooses to lead with condescension and sanctimony, then fine. I’ll oblige him and reply in kind. Incidentally, ‘it gets the point across’.

I’d rather the growth here be much more organic and discovery driven, than by a mass exodus of users from another platform all rushing in. Mobile app’s were ‘far’ from being the only reason to leave Reddit.

Befitting first comment. <3.

Got to admit, I’m still curious to see what Rossmann has to say on the matter. Man sometimes has interesting opinions in this sphere.

Anyone commenting on this site now is in a very specific tech bubble.

And it may be better that it ends up this way. Tech people at least in my experience, tend to be more balanced and level headed discussing topics outside of tech, than people who are single-issue, obsessed with other topics.

If we’re partitioning user engagement from the growth in echo chambers, Reddit’s seen continued drop off in community engagement for nearly a decade now. This only marks the bigger nail in the coffin.

Most of the changes will happen behind the scenes as they usually do. Reddit rarely conducts it’s extremely underhanded shit out in the open, unless the publicity is going to be unavoidable.

Indeed it is. All I really want is a place where I can intellectually engage with people in good faith, even when people disagree with me; finding it productive, fun and maybe learning a thing or two. Constantly being called a “bigot,” “fascist,” “asshole,” “idiot,” “moron,” really leaves it wanting.

So it’s actually happening…

Excellent then! Please expose to us your opinion about the tiananmen events. We are listening. Don’t be shy.

You stupid? My comment history is right there.

Edit: Aw. Don’t get butthurt, homie. Lol. Tool.

Oh, look, you have an opinion about tiananmen, what a surprise!

Lol, imagine being criticized for ‘having an opinion’. If that doesn’t tell me all I need to know about you.

So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.

Ah, the good ole everybody challenging the western propaganda narrative against Russia is a secret Putin shill. I can see Reddit is leaking, already.

I agree.

I’m sure pedophiles would love that defense.

Social media overall has been a net negative for humanity, IMO.

I remember a while ago, I caught a video on YouTube of Joe Rogan and someone else discussing all the ‘great’ and ‘wonderful’ opportunities of social media and the Internet that ‘haven’t even begun’ to be explored yet. It was all the usual highfalutin bullshit about modern technology. None of these technologies when they’re first pitched, are ever sold as something that’s going to negatively impact anyone. But in practice after they’ve been rolled out, all the high minded uses of these things, only ever end up being an afterthought and a footnote to their real uses. Mindless consumerism. Social isolation. Destruction of privacy. Degrading communities. That’s the ‘real’ end product of this stuff.

When Reddit doesn’t want you to do something, you don’t stop doing it; you do it in a smarter way.

Lol, r/PoliticalCompassMemes was Exhibit A when it came to innovating ways to get around this.

That’s why it’s all the more worthwhile to just cut the cord already and jump ship. If you aren’t allowed to state your personal endorsement of something or offer up alternative platforms for discussion, that’s something ‘else’, masquerading as the removal of a spammer. Spamming is in the delivery of the content. Not in proposing something for other people to investigate. I don’t have a problem leaning on the side of censorship on this. Especially if your style of post is similar to what you’ve displayed here on this thread. If not though, then your bad was probably justified.

If you really believe that you were banned for promoting Lemmy then you should mention this in your appeal but as others have mentioned it seems like the issue was spam.

And that’s precisely why the issue is going to be ‘spam’, even when it isn’t. Because if you can’t get away with stating the real reason the ban went into effect, you’re going to do it under the auspice of something that has a degree of plausible deniability. I’m far less willing to give Reddit the charitable benefit of the doubt on this, seeing the shear amount of ridiculous bans that have been given out to people. But who knows, it’s entirely possible it could’ve been spam.

Cats are the mascot of the Internet. I love dogs too, but they require a lot of maintenance and attention compared to cats. Cats are the most arrogant creatures on Earth, and maybe the only ones that ‘truly’ live out their philosophy of life; of, “I’m better than you, and I know it.”

Trust me, there will come a day when commercialism finds itself upon Lemmy and makes a tempting pitch to the website administrators, the same as has happened to Reddit. I’m very conservative with the causes I donate to and I understand that people want the freedom, and breath of fresh air that that nostalgia provides. But too many users aren’t willing to pay for it, or expect some other user will front the money. I have no problem regularly donating to fund the upkeep of the site to keep things within the median of expectations, but I hope others would be willing to as well.