Did you actually get a message that said “because you upvoted”? I still don’t think they track and suspend based on upvotes to something

There seems to be no consistency with perm bans. Burner email and VPN banned - maybe the browser you used had a reddit kill cookie in it.

the Blocker kept unblocking me to leave me more messages only to immediately Reblock me.

Wow. How empty some people’s lives are. How mentally deranged do you have to be to do this

Reddit is becoming typically right wing where they allow people to discuss various topics as long as their answers don’t disagree with their political leanings

Is this another “Luigi” thing?

What tools. So the posts or comments are against their rules but they don’t take them down and then scream at people that upvote them.

I always found the low karma threshold that stops you from posting or commenting in some groups absurd.

I am so used to typing in the traditional way and never could get the hang of the 2 finger thing on a phone or Ipad.

thanks for the update. You’ll probably stay under the radar unless there are multiple “reports” on you. Then Admins might get involved and banish you.

I seem to be in the same category as you regarding a few groups that get no traction on Lemmy. Do you have any idea how they handled mentioning Lemmy in a comment? I would think it would be worse if you mentioned it in a post

Read the article and it seems very complicated to use reddit. Also I was recently told that 80% of their users are via cell phone vs. PC. I wonder if Lemmy’s numbers are similar regarding users and cell phone

I don’t know the actual numbers but that would only apply if their base of active users has significantly declined

I don’t understand what that would have to do with a social media site

thanks for refreshing my memory of how it worked

You have to at least give them credit for leaving this up in the post - “Due to reddit admins being complete fucking morons”

I vaguely remember the secret santa thing. Could you remind us what that was all about.

This is new. I have never seen this before. Reminds me of mods of groups banning people just because they are subscribed to other groups that those mods don’t like. So much for free speech

I have never seen a reddit group that allowed non mods to see the modlog for a group. This ability is a great feature of Lemmy. I’ve never even read talk of reddit doing it

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I still don’t understand if you are allowed to have multiple accounts. I mean being totally upfront using the same email account for verification.