Honestly most of the people who are banned are for silly reasons. At best, they can extend it to a few months but a site wide ip ban forever? Isn’t that a stretch?
I’ll tell you why I got banned - I have two accounts and I got banned from one subreddit for making a meta comment. I switched to my other account and commented unknowingly that it’s not allowed. My comment didn’t include any abuse, being mean, bullying or harassment. Next, a satire post was made on a sub and I gave a satirical reply (again no abuse etc) and it even receive 800+ up votes but guess what? I’m banned for identity related hate? It was a temp ban and I waited for it to get over. What I didn’t realize was that sub 1 banned me permanently in this duration and I happened to comment there - again a harmless comment like “xyz walked out” and lo and behold i have a permanent ban now.
I feel the mods on reddit are on a power trip and are really going to be the reason for its doom.
as lemmy grows the hostility here is growing.
I’ve been using this site for almost two years now. In the past two months I’ve gotten more insults, threats, and bans than I have ever had in the past two years. Mostly because reddit exteremists who are getting banned are bringing their ban-happy harassment agendas to lemmy. Also a big influx of trolls and bot accounts recently.
But hey, at least it’s not AI doing the banning here yet.
Yeah, this unfortunately. But at least lemmy and the fediverse has features that can mitigate extremism. Also lemmy and the fediverse has instances and features that can help regular users and chill people hold power trippers and extremists accountable