You get one message for an appeal.

They don't even read the appeals

And around here you can see any mod removals by clicking "source". It's like a big red flag saying, "Read this because the mod doesn't want you to!"

I got banned for telling someone to crawl back in their hole because they said female genital mutilation was horrible but that circumcision was fine because it looks better.

Or, hear me out, maybe people were tied of way too many posts in the community being about recent politics, so moderators took action on that?

It's not a good look to be broadly banning those words, but it seems to me like there's a reasonable and obvious expansion.

Hate to break it to you but reddit isn't dead.

I still go on reddit. In a lot of ways it's a lot worse than it used to be. It's way more corporate. Huge portions of the site seem sanitized, often in obvious and eyeroll inducing ways. There's also a lot less content in general. The content that does exist is lower effort, and way more repetitive.

However in some ways it's genuinely better. The discourse is a lot less toxic than it used to be. A lot of genuine cruelty wrapped in virtue signaling that defined the site from 2018 to 2022 is either gone or greatly diminished. It's also slightly less of an echo chamber.

I think what happened is that after the mobile apocalypse, a lot of the power users left the platform. While these people contributed a lot to the site, they were also extremely toxic people with an even more warped worldview.

The mods are a reflection of this. They are more corporate, which leads to a lot of censorship like this. However it also means that scrolling is quite a bit more pleasant.

Overall I spend more time on Reddit than Lemmy. There's very little content here once you filter out all the outrage bait.

Unpopular Opinion: Reddit admins are doing a great job and I'm ever so sad I don't visit anymore.

“Wa-Waluigi”

Green Mario

He's the guy who killed Brain Tomphson.

r/unpopularopinion is for posting mostly popular opinions that some people nonetheless disagree with. Truly unpopular opinions, even well thought out ones, almost always get downvoted.

Knowing the average redditor, they probably had like 6900 posts about Luigi (or every of those banned words) every hour for weeks.

I don't blame the mods for dealing that way with karma-addicted redditards.

It's part of a larger trend of social media blackouts, this is bad because it lets the wealthy control our discource in the furtherance of their oligarchic aims.

lemmy wasnt always like this. we got the worst of reddit coming in like they invented the federal universe.