Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

Left because any form of critique gets you a ban. People rather look away from problems so they can say they don’t see any.

Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you'll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.
This is the 2025 version of "The revolution won't be televised".

Finally made the jump. Reddit is a right-wing cesspool of censorship.

Exactly the same. I got critical of the right and all of a sudden banned for violence ? After 12 years ? And me NEVER calling for harm to anything.
But I got hyper critical of the right and that's what did it.
Reddit is and has failed.

It's horrifying especially to think how Reddit never did anything about the fucked up things incels would say they wanted to do to underage girls and women, or the literally jailbait, racist, insanity they'd share. Basically that stuff was always okay, but if you want to defend yourself against your oppressor? Banned for upvoting despite you didn't even think the comment was "bannable".

Someone posted this and that’s honestly scary. I hope more people abandon this sinking ship of Reddit.

I actually came here today because of this! So far so happy with Lemmy

It's so awesome seeing all these new people here bailing from reddit. Welcome!

15 years on reddit. Multiple accounts banned for slamming Nazis. So I'm here slamming Nazis. Long live Lemmy.

10 years on reddit, surprised about my comments never getting the same traction as identical comments. 3 days ban for insinuating a billionaire performing a Nazi salute may indeed be a Nazi, second ban for insinuating violent action sometimes needs to be taken in defense of democracy. Permaban for (politely and positively) judging the looks of someone that asked to be judged through a photography, and clearly needed lo lift up their self-esteem.
I rage quit reddit and delete my account that I opened long ago with the Google account I have recently cancelled.
I decide that maybe it deserves a second chance, so I create a new account with the email I account I host myself in my own server with my own domain.
The exact same comments I posted, with the exact same content and intention now get thousands of upvotes (so clearly, I had been shadowbanned for years)
Fuck them. Hello community, looking forward to have constructive interactions here.

And that is why I'm here now. Hello fellow travellers!

I just created a Lemmy account because of this stupid policy. Republicans/Conservatives can spew all manner of hate without consequence and we upvote "Elbows Up" (a hockey term BTW) and we get banned? Screw that.

And that was the final push to get me to make an account over here. Fucking hell

reddit died when it became a publicly traded company. now it is just another propaganda tool

So the user who posts it can be banned and then the entire comment tree and upvoters. Selectively removing people/entire groups they don't want being visible and keep/promote the ones they do. AI trained on all of this to monitor the speech in real time. So basically no dissent ever being visible because it's removed before anyone can see and the user banned before they can let anyone know, a mass silent cyber gag.
At least that's how I see it being used. Here's a picture of my dog though.

Reddit is turning into an American-dominated oligarchy. That's why I moved to Lemmy. Hi everyone!

It warms my heart seeimg all these 👶 emojis! Welcome all new lemmyheads!

Hey to everyone moving in from reddit. Don't forget that lemmy can't fill the void you're trying to fill without content.
Thanks to the federated nature of lemmy, we have infrastructure, we just need more creators on it.

I barely used Reddit - good riddance, this is what spurred me to sign up here. The right wing infestation of social media is nasty.

Yeah that was my last straw with reddit

I got that warning yesterday and it finally pushed me to make a Lemmy account.

Thats some goddamn thought police shit.
Also tells you how goddamn awful the powers that be are, that the only way they can stop criticism of their badness is to ban anyone that even gives the lowest effort agreement with the criticism.

Anddddd this is how and why I found lemmy.

Grateful to be here and help this place grow. I’m so over Reddit.

This is my first comment from Lemmy. Thanks again to whomever suggested it.

And now I'm here!

Which is why I'm here!

It's amazing how they tolerated people preaching for violence against women and immigrants for over a decade, but all of sudden their passion for non-violence is so extreme after a rich white guy gets killed.

Reddit going full mask-off 1984 huh? Next thing it’ll be illegal to downvote things Reddit likes to push… Or why even bother with the votes anyway, Reddit will just show you only the things that it deems good for you, like the benevolent Big Brother.
Fuck that place.
Also: welcome to all our new members! “We’re Not Perfect, But At Least We’re Not Reddit!” (TM)

I've been a Redditor for 13 years. I read the Admin explanation and the Mods reactions and immediately downloaded Lemmy. I'm still gonna lurk just to watch the chaos but fuck that noise with someone else's dick thank you very much.

That's why I'm here.

Reddit says the vast majority of users will not be affected Is that because the vast majority of users are bots? 🤔

Just a stupid question, if it's "banned content", why is it on Reddit?

Welp, just moved into Lenny, hello yall

And now here I am.

I'm loving this. I had almost 15 years without so much as a warning and then suddenly several 3 day bans, a 7 day ban and a perma ban. They don't want people commenting negatively towards fascism.

🙋🏻‍♂️ +1 on having received a warning. I’m a simple man. I see Luigi, I upvote.
Day 1 on lemmy so am finding my way around still :)

Fuck Reddit

Warms my heart to see all the ‘new account’ badges in this thread.

Reddit got digged.

- Fuuuuuuuuuck spez
  
  The police should check his hard drive
- That's the pedophile piss baby aka u/spez aka Steve Huffman, right? As in the guy that moderated a pedo sub?
  What a greedy little pis baby pig boy.
- Ew
  
  he just got hatched from a oligarchy alien nursery and dint come out fully formed.

So if the content is banned how are people up voting it?

Reddit sets the threshold for violent content really low. At one point someone asked if a prisoner who is medically revived from the dead has served their life sentence, I answered that you have to be irrevocably dead, and admins said that promoted or glorified violence. I made no mention of violence whatsoever, nothing I said encouraged violence in any way, and somehow even on appeal they didn’t realize how ridiculous that was.

One would think that banned content couldn't be voted upon. Sounds like reddit is using any excuse to censor any use other than "sponsored".

Yeah, that's why I'm here now. That site has just been getting shittier and shittier.

I first saw this news over on Reddit, immediately searched for an alternative. Got home from work and now here I am

How about make a flag with 'is banned' that indicates it is banned, and then checking whether 'is banned' exists before allowing a post to be upvoted. You can use this for free Reddit, its a gift.

Everybody upvote Luigi content! Get banned! Leave reddit! Reddit crumbles! Fuck reddit! Go Luigi! Lemmy grows! Centralized social media dies! I eat a burrito. That last one wasn't really on topic, but it's happening anyways! I'm hungry.
- Burrito pilled Lemmy maxing
  
  Try explaining that term to someone in 1925. I'm proud of how far we've come.
- I've been banned twice in the past 30 days.
  
  I got permabanned a couple weeks ago for saying "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi"
  Like, why are you defending Nazis, spez? Huh?
  It solidified Lemmy as my permanent reddit replacement. No ragrets.
  
  Same. I used Reddit for 12 years. Got perma-banned last year for saying things about Israel that people didn't like, I guess.
  Moved to lemmy.
  
  5 of my accts were banned last month, all at once. one got temp suspended, and a triggered a sitewide ban for the others for some "reason. theres no reason to ban all others when it was just temp suspended. but they went extra out of thier way(any old and new accts that have years of seperation between a subreddit ban(if they dint get banned immediately after getting sub banned) they banned accounts.
  ex, i had 2 unused accts 5+years, and 1 recent temp suspension(then they look at other accts you were per banned from a subreddit in, and banned all of them). i had also a couple of unused throwaways that i started using from years ago(last month), and a semi-new acct that i use just in case of a ban that i dint use for 90days. and then 1 acct strictly used for 1 subreddit.
  only 1 survived but its still flagged by reddit, but have no ban on it right now. creating mroe than 1 acct just puts people at risk of getting banned.
- Already got permabanned for saying he was justified, I like it better here anyway
  
  Same here.
  
  I got banned but their site is so shit the links to the message you got banned for never work. Been banned/warned enough times it's not a one off either.
- What's in your burrito? My favorite is adobada.
  
  I like beans in mine.
  
  Lengua
- i pointed out the censoring of luigi news in dec, and people actually believed that wasnt happening, and having all that trump rage post slop thats been posting in order to astroturf luigi news.
- I agree. And now want to be your friend.

Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?

Citizen, you have been found guilty of wrong think!
- Thought police will be dispatched.
  
  Karma police will soon follow
- Please report for reeducation

At this point being banned might be a good thing to drive home the point that also my favorite of the old corporate internet platforms should be avoided. I'm doing quite okay on staying away from Meta and have long deleted my Twitter account. I can't get myself do drop Reddit somehow. Seems like they're only helping me get off my addiction

The people running Reddit are so useless that they can't ban things they don't like fast enough, so they have to punish their userbase for their ineptitude.

Reminds me of back in 2013 when Reddit admins accidentally revealed that Eglin Air Force Base, a location often cited as the source of government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs, was the most Reddit addicted city in the world.
- To be fair, every Air Force base had higher than average Reddit usage back in the day. It was one of the few websites not blocked by default. I don't know when that changed, Because I was out before then.
  But yes, there are also the propaganda teams.
- I would expect Moscow or St Petersburg.
  
  Because you’ve been propagandized to hell. A lot of people have. Which is why everyone lost their shit about “Russian interference” over a couple of shitty memes from Russian sources during an election, but didn’t seem to give a shit about electioneering from domestic propaganda sources.
  You’re getting far more propaganda from your own country than any other foreign entity, I promise you.

I register on reddit 17 years ago. Before the great migration from digg. I remember /r/programming being the first sub to reach 100k subscribers.
I got banned for saying in the /r/europe sub that russia banning youtube in russia was a good thing because then we in the west would get less russian propaganda. Got banned for a couple days. Left and never looked back.
/r/programming is dead already since around a decade. All the good discussions moved to hackernews and lobsters.
EDIT: never forget that spez admitted to silently edit user comments that criticized him