I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It's just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there's no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don't even know where to ask anyone either
I installed Lemmy, hoping it'll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there's a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I'll find them here or more people will join and it'll be better.
So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
I got banned for inciting violence for saying Monty Williams should invest all the money he stole from Detroit back into the city and then promptly be killed with hammers as a sort of ritual sacrifice to cleanse Little Caesars Arena of his bad juju. It was just a joke and had lots of upvotes but guess it hurt a mods feelings.
My first admin finger-wag in fifteen years on reddit was after a long conversation with some antivax loon. I understand how "Okay, enjoy your dead kids, I guess" could sound like I'm the bad guy, in a vacuum. But we don't live in a vacuum. Any site unwilling to acknowledge that 'hey uh your mistakes might end a human life' can be expressed glibly is not being moderated sensibly.