I posted this yesterday:
And apparently this warrants a instant permaban.
They don’t even tell you what rule it breaks. Which one do you think it might break?
In any case, every time I visit Reddit and look at my local subs (Montréal, Québec or Canada) I look at the comments and they’re absolutely vile. The community has become so fucking toxic it’s unbearable. And I also realized how my mental health actually improved since I left that community.
They can keep the permaban. I don’t give a shit anymore. I’m so over that god forsaken place.
Peace out.
Isn’t r/canada a conservative shithole?
For at least 5 years now, yes.
Pretty much.
No shit. You were supposed to write it in French. /S
Canadian bacon scene
Imagine looking at this as someone who has never heard of lemmy. You are pulling people off the forum to a place that seems to have a poorly obfuscated “fedish” in the title in order to “talk”. IDK I can see how people might assume you are a spam bot.
I got permabanned from /r/canada on Reddit for promiting Lemmy and the fediverse.
/r/canada hates mites. I thought everyone knew.
The mods there are super sketchy. I wouldn’t be surprised if any of them are on someone’s payroll.
I’ve seen a few posts today from people complaining about being banned for promoting Lemmy.
Imo, the way to promote Lemmy isn’t by spamming “JOIN LEMMY”, but rather by meaningfully engaging in the community, and looking for ways to naturally bring up the positive points of this platform.
Like, if I saw a bunch of straight up ads for Lemmy (like this), I wouldn’t be here now. I joined because people were having actual, real conversations and recommending Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. That’s what we need to “advertise”: Good, engaging conversations.
Yeah, I am over Reddit’s shit as much as anyone but it’s pretty obvious to me why people are getting banned for spamming fediverse stuff on random communities.
It’s also not doing us any favors to look like assholes that won’t stop yelling about it like we’re shilling our favorite crypto. None of the posts I’ve seen of people talking about getting banned looks like a post that would’ve convinced me to check this place out. They’re just irrelevant and self indulgent. They’re basically begging to be banned.
That’s a good point. Maybe I could’ve simply stated a discussion about my experience in the fediverse instead.
r/Canada is literally run with conservative propaganda efforts in mind. It’s not surprised that any attempt to pull people out of the echo chamber is met with an instant ban.
Disappointing. I checked out the subreddit for crocs once and same thing. Weird how that turns out
It was like a mini The_Donald for awhile. Mods there want to keep control of a potential propaganda channel.
They’re really clinging to P.P. and good promises to help with the housing market. But we all know that won’t happen.
There’s a narrative going around that the subreddit is under attack by white supremacists, but honestly that’s just what Canada is like. If you know how to see their style of polite racism you’d know that they’re 300x more vile than your average American, they just hide it a lot better.
… I mean, they do have nazi moderators, but that’s like 99% of reddit.
Under attack? More like invited and encouraged. That was the problem.
You broke the site wide rules by advertising a competing service, not the subreddit’s rules. It’s surprising the ban didn’t extend site wide.
Seriously? So if you talk about joining Facebook or Twitter or any other social network you get permabanned site wide?
You could be. I’m not saying it’s justified, but it is a rule on the site as a whole that users are not permitted to advertise other platforms. It’s their way of fucking their users just a little more, because they can try and justify anything they want because it’s in the TOS you agree to when signing up.
that shows the people at the top of reddit are genuinely worried
I don’t think they’re worried. Actually the fact that they permabanned me shows that they have plenty of users to a point they can sacrifice whoever they want.
Nah, the mods of /r/canada have made that subreddit into a cesspit on their own.
Find a news article from a Canadian news source about Lemmy, register a new account, post it in r/Canada without any editorializing. 🥹
Good idea!
Oh and link it here so we can come to astroturf.
Openly talking about doing platform manipulation. That won’t backfire at all, nope.
Damn straight.
Join the club. I’ve been banned from so many subs for bullshit reasons in the last 3 years I can’t even keep track of them all.
The cancer has taken over Reddit.
Because you’re literally self-advertising. Why are you being so obtuse about this? If i go to the sub and post about my business or a canada discord server or some forum I made id get banned too.
And youve even complained about the reddit communities being toxic so why are you trying to be bring them here??
Ok dude, chill. I get it
You could have explained this without being so rude.
If your feelings are easily hurt you’re going to hate it here as well.
You guyz are pretty chill, let’s keep it that way 😘✌️
