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My first subreddit ban (ironically for complaining about Lemmy)

7 days ago by early_riser to c/reddit

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I wanted to get an outside perspective on my Lemmy experience, so I go on /r/redditalternatives and bring up my experiences that I've described elsewhere here (tl;dr Lemmy communities are either filled with non sequitur ragebait or completely empty).

I get plenty of responses echoing my sentiment and offering suggestions like blocking and filtering. Plenty of others pointing out how Reddit sucks in its own way and how Lemmy addresses those issues (no creepy AI bots pretending to be real people). I feel my OP and the ongoing discussion is constructive and in good faith, and most people myself included express a desire to see Lemmy and the fediverse succeed despite our frustrations. But oops out of nowhere I get muted and banned with no explanation.

Fun times.

favoredponcho 22 points 7 days ago

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ademir 1 point 6 days ago

People cant complain anymore!

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Auster 9 points 7 days ago

Reddit's community, as in the whole, feels like it plays by some unwritten rules where straying just a bit from those causes maximum persecution. And though I understand each platform has a culture, including here on the fediverse, Reddit's I don't feel like culture either.

About adressing your fediverse concerns, I second the idea of curating your experience by blocking, subscribing, and manually looking the community list as needed. Furthermore, I'd also suggest keeping an eye on where the posts that cause you to be annoyed come from, since those not uncommonly come from the same places.

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early_riser 1 point 7 days ago

I just noticed that Lemmy defaults to showing you a feed of all local communities when you open the homepage instead of subscriptions. There doesn't seem to be a way to change that. I'm bombarded with the ragebait and doomerism that suffuses typical Lemmy discourse as soon as I open the homepage, and I have to click a button to tell the server "now show me what I actually want to see".

Yes I know you can block communities, but maintaining a list of blocked instances, comms, and users feels like playing a game of whack-a-mole. If people here were more chill I might feel differently, but the rage shows up in the weirdest places you'd never expect, and not even in an organic way.

It's such a tiny change, but I think defaulting to showing a user's subscriptions rather than the local feed, only falling back to local if the user isn't signed in or if the user has no subscriptions, would make a huge difference.

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PragmaticOne 2 points 6 days ago

Your Lemmy is not like mine. You needed to go into your preferences/settings and sort (no pun intended) it out.

You also need to block users and instances. For example I have no want to see ‘anime’ bullshit so I block all the instances that seem to dominate that and occasionally you get a user that posts some but might be on an instance that you don’t want to block so I just block the user.

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Auster 1 point 6 days ago

About defaulting to subscriptions, there actually is a way through the settings:

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Auster 2 points 6 days ago

Ani.Social being a Lemmy instance.

Also sadly that requires having an account. Also, PieFed iirc has curated feeds, something Lemmy copying wouldn't be half bad, I think.

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early_riser 1 point 6 days ago

ah I see, thanks.

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early_riser 5 points 7 days ago

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discoplasm 5 points 7 days ago

fwiw pretty sure your post was duplicated over on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com earlier today and there's a little bit of discussion over there too including comments in support of points you made. idk why that person jumps to calling troll given you even mentioned a specific community you were posting in, even without initially knowing your username it was very easy for me to see that you have been regularly active in there for a year at least.

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velma 3 points 7 days ago

Thanks for linking that community!

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Malyca 3 points 6 days ago

I highly suspect Reddit is using ai to ban and that's going as well as ai is going in other sectors.

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early_riser 3 points 6 days ago

Yes. Exhibit A (Not a ban but along the same lines):

Not enough effort apparently

I get the impression that Reddit is a sinking ship, but it's a sinking cruise ship compared to the small fishing boat that is the threadiverse, so I've resigned myself to occupying both spaces for now. Re: banning. I'm pretty sure I was banned manually. Though see the cross post of my OP in Fedibridge. I was auto-filtered before I tweaked the post to pass.

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StarryPhoenix97 1 point 3 days ago

Nah, reddit will survive. Its just shit now. It will survive like Facebook survives. Now that its public it will find a way to make money.

Its less like a ship and more like that old plot of land we all used to play in for one reason or another.

Then, some asshole showed up and built a park and now its all cultivated and policed. It rents its space for concerts and craft shows.

It will survive, but for the people that used it before to shoot fireworks or ride bikes, or even just get high talking about life, its over.

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early_riser 1 point 3 days ago

I get what you're saying but I think your analogy kinda backfired, at least on me specifically. For a good 20 years there was this unused plot of land near me that we played around in as kids, but it eventually got turned into a municipal pocket park, and now instead of just teens smoking there are kids playing on the playground, people playing various sports, jogging and cycling on the track, grilling at the pavilions. I still use it, too, just in a different way from when I was a kid.

But in the above case the community gained tremendously from the change. Reddit going public, especially all the stuff it did to get there like the APIcolypse, is only making the experience worse. That's enshittification. The users give stuff up without getting anything in return. All the extra ads aren't paying for new features, in fact they're taking them away. I would have gone crazy for the JSON (interface? API? IDK the correct term) but didn't know it existed until the announcement that they killed it a few days ago. They also got rid of private messages and (really petty IMO) subscriber counts on the old site.

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