I got shadow banned weeks ago mistakenly, it happened after I made 4 posts about a humidity issues on 4 different subs. I think that triggered an algorithm to think I am a bot or something.

So the only sub I could use is r/Shadowban so I thought let me help others and let them know about their account situation.

My last comment was suggesting summit/lemmy while waiting and then I got message from r/shadowban that I am permanently banned. F… not sure if I can curse.

Anyway, I think Summit is amazing after some settings it looks like reddit and even better

  • Pfeffy@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Wahhhhh? Who cares? Congrats on getting banned for the lamest reason ever. What a hero!

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    You can fucking curse, people on TikTok and Facebook, Xitter, Reddit can curse… The idea that profanity (etym. Latin, “Outside the Temple”) is unsociable or wrong is inherently, in the Western hemisphere, a Victorian English invention from the middle-class, as an attempt to distance themselves from the working class. History lesson aside, the only reason cursing aka emotionally descriptive terminology is avoided, as with critical terms such as “sexual assault”, “rape”, “paedophile”, “Covid” apparently, is because many media platforms have automated algorithmic shadowbanning scanning systems to suppress the free speech of content creators. What we do here, and on all the networking sites - discuss things - is not content. We Are Free Here. The only time these penalties come into play is when someone gets paid by a corporate-owned platform to create, and doesn’t want to jeopardise the money they receive in return in order to live a bit more comfortably. Put simply:

    • Do you get paid a sizeable, but not comfortable, amount of money by any social platform to create media content, and in turn, traffic for them?
    • Does your life or lifestyle depend on the amount of views you get on a centralised, corporate, regularly audited social media platform for a reason other than financial?

    If the answer to either of these questions is “No” then you can cunting swear, on any platform, not just the libre (etym. Latin, “free” and “freedom” and “unrestricted”, see also ‘liberal’ and ‘liberation’) ones. Because Lemmy is open-source, non-profit, and ad-free, there are no corporate sponsors to appease.

    Fuck censors. And like I mentioned above, victims of rape or other forms of traumatic abuse are being taught that they can’t openly talk about it, despite zero laws against it, and this severely damages the already dire issue that is victims that do talk get blamed, harassed and demonized, while convictions are very, very low. Talk about that with the fucking states that impose speech monitoring for child safety. If they wanted that they’d enact some actual fucking consequences for child rapists and sex traffickers.

    I’m emotionally charged by this topic and vehemently defend a person’s right to be free of oppression. You can tell because I’m allowed to express it.

    If you’re not sure, see the individual instance or community guidelines. For reference, neither mastodon.world, lemmy.world (both owned by the same foundation) nor c/reddit@lemmy.world have rules against certain forms of speech.

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      23 hours ago

      I used to get great answers there, now I ask a question about a problem with Windows, for example, and I get bombarded with comments telling me Windows is da best, and I am doing it wrong.

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    20 hours ago

    it happened after I made 4 posts about a humidity issues on 4 different subs. I think that triggered an algorithm to think I am a bot or something.

    Reddit when a user has an interest or area of expertise🤭

    How do they expect people to be using their site?? Is it just run by people who don’t understand what a forum is, anymore? That means that they don’t even believe in the vision of what reddit is; they must look at the code at work and go “man… it’s going to take a long time 'till we make an Instagram out of this ugly duckling!”

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    23 hours ago

    Probs for the better lolz. I am checking out piefed at the moment but lemmy is really cool. idk what the difference is but still.

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      I am on summit which can access Lemmy, and Piefed… per what Google Ai told me.

      How do you access piefed?

      Edit: I am slow… literally.

      Edit2: I am saying that I am slow because people always get angry when J don’t comprehend stuff.

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      21 hours ago

      The difference is the platform, they both connect to the fediverse. Right now piefed has a fair amount of features that Lemmy doesn’t but the Lemmy Devs are hard at work so we’ll see what the updates bring.

      You can think of each instance kind of like an email. Gmail, Yahoo whatever, they can all connect to each other but they’re all their own thing.