A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.
Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.
Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.
This shouldn’t be a surprise… It was only a matter of time after Reddit got taken over by the CCP…
it’s almost like actions have consequences. having a fucking tantrum over app got you spanked. what did we learn? play nice with the man that can do that to your accounts. if you care that is.
Actions do have consequences. Reddit decided to make certain changes to the way API calls get made, and consequently users protested. Theyre well within their rights to make any changes to their site they want. Were well withing our rights to delete our content and leave. And if they restore that content after we the users have deleted it, thats illegal (in Europe).
Them initially pretending like everything was fine but now asking people to come back, then when they get no response within the hour having a fucking tantrum and demoding this person sounds very mature, hmmmyes.
This bullshit made me nuke my 30k karma account. I hope lemmy won’t die month later.
That’s literally impossible! An instance may go down, but it will stay cached.
This is not a simple problem to solve and it exists nowhere online. The fediverse however affords at least way more control than reddit or any forum where they can do the same and you have no options whatsoever
Okie, I’m absolute noob here. Right now I struggle to find night mode. :D
They went easy on you. Some overzealous mod permabanned my entire account for talking about Lemmy. Allegedly against their ‘content guidelines’
Not sure mate. I’ve had a target on my back for the last couple of years I believe. I had a bunch of accounts at one stage for different purposes. I used to post a lot of long-form content: reviews, how-to tech guides etc etc and as a self preservation technique I kept each niche to a seperate account.
Over the last 2 years I had one 11 year old account, one 8 year old account and another few fresher ones perma-banned with no reason given, or just the flimsiest excuse under the sun. I must have really pissed off one of the mods/ admins - they can track you by IP and browser info etc.
Given the size of Reddit, admins don’t check when mods abuse users, I had my 10 yr account with 150K nearly permabanned because of a mod banning me from my own countries sub for posting a non offensive meme on the wrong day.
I wasn’t logged in on a computer, was using Reddit which showed me my local subs by default and the saved login credentials was a different alt.
I was typing a comment reply, realised I wasn’t logged and signed in with the other alt, didn’t realise it wasn’t another local sub and I got suspended Reddit wide for “ban evasion” and nearly lost a decade old major account because a mod in my countries sub abused their position.
I never retaliated, wasn’t rude, didn’t genuinely try to evade the ban and nearly lost a decade of activity.
There are a lot of benefits to the fediverse and I plan on hosting my own personal instance soon.
