To be fair, there's been brutality and retaliation in the region since the Paleolithic, at this point everyone can claim to be "just pushing back" against some era of oppression.
they're leaking sensitive chats from back when I was a mod and using them to attack me on other platforms. I asked them to stop. I'm a victim of harassment, but they probably reported me and the Reddit employees don't care
A surefire way to make a company care, is to sue them. Just saying.
Not really. Reddit is a single platform, you get the same overbearing comment-editing admins, with the same tunnel-vision automod tools and black-hole recurse process no matter what new sub you make.
Moving people off a platform is the hardest part, they need to learn new tools an ways of doing things... and TL;DR you lost them.
On lemmy and the fediverse, leaving unwelcoming mods/admins behind is as easy as going to another instance, no need to change the ways of using it. Still need to attract that community, but it's orders of magnitude easier on a federated platform.
Why would you go back to a community you don't agree with? There is a reason there are like 20+ "cats" communities on so many different instances; you can pick a different one, or start one yourself (and be the mod you want), or even a whole instance (and be the admin you want).
First, there is email, discord, element, etc. Check your instance for contact options, they usually have some. Second, you can use an alt account from anywhere in the fediverse to PM people. If you're honest about it, you can find a way.
Or... if you know you broke the rules and plan on doing it again, just move onto some other instance more accepting of your profile, there are 1000+ ones to choose from.
Lemmy is possibly over 300K now, with the whole fediverse over 12 million, but maybe only 4 million active. Reddit claims 1.7 billion active users, while some sources claim they only have 300M.
It's really BS counts anyways, they don't count interactions, or quality of interactions. From my time on Reddit, the quality had been going steadily down, then took a nosedive around 2021.
And even on TV they call it "X, formerly Twitter", so that's going to be it. They should register the x-formerly-twitter.com domain 😈
If you use it from the same IP, browser, device, or App, that you have previously used with any banned account, then you'll likely get it banned for ban evasion.
harassment is just "political speech I don't like"
Some communities on Lemmy have switched to calling it "misinformation". As in: you provide links to reputable sources to support your point, and it's "misinformation".
Harassment seems to be more of a label for "too many people downvoted you, and you still dared to answer".
Most instances have some way of contacting the admins and talking things out. Unlike Reddit's "did anyone even read this?" process, they tend to be actual people who actually answer.
Reddit crypto is great! I was foolish enough to purchase Reddit Gold like 10 years ago, now I sold the crypto Reddit Moons for almost the same! (not adjusted for inflation, and it only turned the crypto subreddit into a cesspool, but whatever)
It takes decades for the soil to get invaded by bacteria, grasses, shrubs, trees... but eventually they will get there. With a little human help, it can get done even faster.
The warming process is blazing fast on geological scales, but for example sea levels are not expected to reach the top of the Statue of Liberty for at least another 500 years, so on a human scale it's more than enough time to build whole cities, generate fertile top soil, or to organize scuba trips to the 9/11 memorial and put warning signs at sub tunnel entrances.
To be fair, there's been brutality and retaliation in the region since the Paleolithic, at this point everyone can claim to be "just pushing back" against some era of oppression.
Kind of a fertile ground for proxy wars.