New here. Migrated from Reddit. Still trying to figure out Lemmy - what’s everyone’s experiences like coming from Reddit and does Lemmy serve as a good alternative? Pros and cons/differences?

I was a fairly active member at Reddit with a good social standing, I made 1 “controversial” comment and I got perma-banned… this sucks. I mostly followed music pages like r/TheBeatles and loved to just rant about Beatles albums, Paul McCartney’s latest tour, discuss new releases from other artists and also movies/TV shows. I can’t think of any other website that offers that kind of forum-like discussion other than Lemmy?

I really did always hate that Reddit felt like a massive echo chamber. The way the system works with upvotes and downvotes, if I said anything people don’t agree with, I’d get massively downvoted. I once got temporary ban for saying I preferred Zelda Breath of the Wild over Tears of the Kingdom… it really felt like I was treading on egg shells. My perma-ban happened in a discussion within the r/EveryoneKnowsThat search for a lost wave song. Really petty.

I’ve always hoped somebody would create basically a clone of Reddit, but without the politics and without being overly-policed. Where people aren’t pushed away for respectfully voicing their opinion. Is Lemmy the answer?

  • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I made 1 “controversial” comment and I got perma-banned

    From a subreddit or from reddit as a whole?

    My perma-ban happened in a discussion within the r/EveryoneKnowsThat search for a lost wave song

    If from Reddit as a whole, unless the admins have changed a LOT in the last year, that sounds weird. They usually only banned accounts over calls to violence and promoting piracy blatantly.

    I once got temporary ban for saying I preferred Zelda Breath of the Wild over Tears of the Kingdom

    wat. was a small personal sub? That’s just a random suspension.

    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Got banned site wide for using the R word. Got banned in different subreddits for one reason or another, some were deserved, others not at all. My friend got banned sitewide for calling her mail carrier a moron in the mailcarrier subreddit. In my last few months on reddit I saw a bunch of accounts I was interacting with get banned mid conversation.

      • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Same shit happens here if you defend yourself from false accusations from the socialists. You’ll get called every name in the book and accused of shit that’s blatantly untrue- but if you so much as call someone a liar, some communities will ban you.

          • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
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            2 months ago

            I have. Many times. Look through the mod logs and you can see the leftist mods removing comment after comment. Some communities are worse than others.

            • btaf45@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              Unless it is outright hate speech comments should never be banned. Call out mods when they do this. Maybe we need a group specifically about this.

              • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
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                1 month ago

                I’m very surprised there isn’t a community specifically to call out abusive mods. But then again, as I said- the mod logs speak for themselves. Look at all the “Rule 1” violations on .ml. It essentially means they can ban you for whatever vague reason they can think of.