Alright I won’t bullshit you. It’s only the city subreddits I have issues with, and the lemmy versions have line one post per day. It’s dead, and probably will never be alive.

I also belong to some, lets call them “support groups”, and currently such groups don’t exist on lemmy. I could start one, but again, I really don’t expect that anyone would show up. Most people don’t get banned by reddit enough to jump ship.

Your best bet is to create a new account with no connection to the banned accounts. I made a how-to on how to do this https://lemmy.world/post/52856407 The downside is that you might have to do most of your redditing on your phone.

obnoxious people

The mods are obnoxious. And let’s face it, you have to be in order to want to be a mod for free.

I think the most likely causes that spamming is associated with your IP or another IP that is on the same network. The cleanest way to avoid Reddit IP based limits is to use a cell phone data connection

Politically I’m liberal, which is at odds with progressivism, because progressives are socially proactive in ways that liberalism doesn’t favor.

But, from what I can tell both lemmy and reddit user bases are progressive. For example, both user bases seem to have loved the fact of the pharma CEO being murdered, saying something like “what goes around comes around”, but from my perspective, if a health plan sucks, you don’t buy that health plan, you do anything else and that the existence of a company, whether it sucks or not, is allowed to exist in a market with choices for consumers. Saying this can get you banned from reddit “sorry sweetie we dont need no bootlickers here kk”.

Practically speaking, it makes sense to use lemmy if you’re banned from reddit, but if you’re progressive, you probably would not get banned too often, I would think. So why else be here? Probably because of feelings more than reasons, like, “I just don’t like reddit”, “I don’t like spez”.

Sadly the real reason I want to use reddit is because reddit is indexed by Google, and a lot of my posts are like this one above, it’s stuff I’ve found out that I want to share with other people. I want it to be picked up by search engines. When I search Google, nothing from X or lemmy turns up in results. Sometimes facebook is indexed, but facebook is full of grandmas.

Try this https://lemmy.world/post/52856407

More like 100 karma ime

Is your account new or low karma?

They think this encourages people to go back to Reddit. I’m sorry to say but network effect means reddit is permanent like Google or Amazon. Some people will like Lemmy but most will not find niche communities of reddit, it will never accumulate critical mass in those smaller interest communities. Reddit would have to make a serious mistake, and they might, but I’m not going to wait for that winning lottery ticket to come around.

Fair enough, the Lemmy community it’s exactly 0.3% the size of the reddit version, but I’ll check in on it and participate.

Unfortunately there are a lot of niche subreddits which aren’t duplicated on lemmy. it’s the difference between connecting with certain people, and not connecting at all. But if we share information on how to undermine reddit’s efforts, maybe it will cause them lose grip on their monopoly over online forums and google search results.

From a time / money standpoint, it’s costly to create an account on reddit. You have to have a certain account age and karma to even post in a lot of subreddits, which is an investment of time. Spammers replace time with money buy purchasing access to clean IPs, paying people to set up accounts and spam for karma. The only people who are going to create new reddit accounts, at this rate, are those expecting some kind of return on this time investment.

Why a ban and not a warning or content removal? Are we just getting used to the idea that we execute people as a first line of corrective action?