I left Reddit because I got perma sub banned for being part of another sub. Which had no correlation to the other one. After this happening twice I said screw it. Fediverse it is for me

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 months ago

    Posted on r/KotakuInAction by any chance? I usually run into this kind of complaints because of that sub.

    My personal take is that subs that ban people just for posting on other subs are actively perpetuating their little opinion bubbles. They are essentially creating little virtual prisons for their members, and most of them are actually happy about that, which in turn tells all I need to know about those members’ intellectual laziness. To twist around Groucho Marx’ quote, I would refuse to join a sub that rejected me for posting elsewhere.

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Attempting to police whom people are allowed to communicate with is a standard tactic cults use to manipulate and exert control over their victims. it’s part of the BITE model of authoritarian control.

      Although I for one generally don’t care to meet or talk to transphobes, racists, fascists, or traditionalist conservative types who simp to the peer pressure of dead people, I will not stand for some third party trying to make the judgement call FOR me. I don’t need some meddlesome middle-man gatekeeper superimposing their expectations upon me. Gatekeepers (who try to control OTHER people’s gates) go on the same list as the tradcon bigot scum. It’s MY business who I choose to talk to and why. And I also make it a point not to police who OTHERS get to talk to.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    5·
    2 months ago

    That’s against the mod guidelines, as you can’t ban people based on what they do/don’t in other subreddits, even when it would be sensible to do so. Sadly, the mod guidelines are toilet paper.

    Something similar could theoretically happen in the Fediverse, but usually this is handled through defederation instead.

    • Solwolf@discuss.onlineOP
      0·
      2 months ago

      Hence why I’m here now instead. Use Reddit on my laptop every once in a while as a search engine. I figured it might be against some rules. Totally ridiculous. Screw Reddit.

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        2 months ago

        Welcome here. If there is one thing that Lemmy differently than Reddit, it’s power tripping mods. If someone bans you from their instance, you can still go to another one. Hopefully you will find one that fits with your expectations in terms of moderation.

        Same goes for communities, some are quite heavily moderated, some are less. It’s up to you to find the ones that fit with you.

        Also, as a new joiner, you should probably have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I find the mods are much the same. There are examples in this thread of mods doing the described behavior

          • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            2 months ago

            As I said, the difference here is that mods and admins have limited power.

            There is some power tripping, but thanks to the public modlog, they get called out, and users move to other communities. Takes a while, but better than Reddit

  • sunzu@kbin.run
    51·
    2 months ago

    Large Reddit subs are not for discussion, mods enforce the right think and wrong think will be banned.

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    yeah here in fedi we cut out the middleman and prevent you from discovering a community at all if your account is on certain instances

  • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    I got perma banned from reddit because I was a smartass to another smartass on reddit. Guess what? They’re from Colorado. A garbage state with garbage people