I got permabanned from /r/canada on Reddit for promiting Lemmy and the fediverse.
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.
Quick update:
I contancted the mods and apparently I was permabanned for spamming and they immediately muted me so I wouldn't be able to message the mods any further. I can understand that it can be considered spamming, but I feel they're being extremely harsh over this. They really have no chill.
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.
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.
I used to dread seeing that I had messages on Reddit. My first thought would be "Oh, what did I do now?". On Lemmy, I'm much more interested in seeing any responses to my comments.
Replace Lemmy in your text with Facebook, Discord, Telegram or any other forum like group or simply imagine someone posting here to go to Reddit instead, seems a bit spammy doesn't it?
My guess would be that it really had nothing to do with Canada. It had to do with you complaining about their subreddit and you telling people to leave it. I would have removed it as well. Dunno if I would have banned you. I would have had to seen it a number of times before I banned you I think.
I wouldn't be surprised that they removed it based on not being a link to certain news sources that they seem to require. Permaban, though? That's not rules related.
...on a thread. When I went to appeal, the admin couldn't explain how anyone arrived at the decision, or even show the context around the comment, but upheld the decision nonetheless.
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.
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.
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??
Anything canada related has been hijacked by "activists" and they arbitrarily ban anything their delicate sensibilities can't handle, which is basically anything. I got banned for referencing historical data in relation to the current direction of geopolitics and the likelihood of another world war soon and our (canada's) heavy involvement in the arms industry to tyrants around the world.
Specifically I was referencing the "War is a Racket" book by Major General Smedley Butler and apparently the facts that the military industrial complex runs the show got them severely butt hurt. Especially since Canada isn't a country as much as a puppet for corporate interests these days.
I am not from Canada, but have noticed many subreddits are becoming more more toxic. Even subs that used to be somewhat reasonably moderated are nearly intolerable from the amount of trolls.
Same, I'm from Montréal and the Reddit community for Montreal/Quebec is horrible. Sorry but they are full of leftist woke students and downvote or ban anyone who dare say that e.g. healthcare system is bad or education is bad or any truth about QC. I've been on Reddit for 13 or 14 years and about never posted or read those subs.