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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit
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this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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reddit is ruled by bots now, makes little sense to stay there.
only reason I still go there is my mental support subreddits. r/stopdrinking, r/CPTSD, r/RaisedByNarcissists...
If those communites were thriving here, I'd never go back to reddit again 🫤
This is basically the case with any community that isn't one of the broad topic/mass appeal subreddits. If you're looking for discussion on anything even slightly specific Lemmy and other alternatives just completely fall on their face. Whether that's support for a specific addiction or even just conversation about one particular video game series, your options are Reddit, discord, Twitter, or nothing.
That used to be a problem on Reddit, too. Maybe the current drama will drive more traffic to the Fediverse.
everywhere is ruled by bots now
Right? From the posts on PTB the Fediverse has the exact same issues as Reddit except it's multiplied by all the different instances and the powermods hoarding as many communities as they can grasp in its early creation.
They are quicker to just instance ban and ban across all communities than Reddit ever was.
I’ve never been banned from any instance or even community here on Lemmy. Every time I see people complain about it, I can’t help but wonder what they got banned for.
I got banned from one community ages ago for "being a terrible person". But that was only once, and I post a lot everywhere, so it might just be an outlier mod. IMHO the important difference is that I can't get banned from Lemmy entirely for saying "Luigi Mangione".