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How many people think any such "election" Reddit holds will be a sham?

Everybody says that. Google said, "We won't be evil."

When Twitter started to go downhill, I left for Mastodon. I went into one of the larger communities that was focused on artists and engineers and creatives and had all these glorious rules about "respect." I suddenly found my account crippled. With no notice. I had not violated any rules. What happened was the admin of the server was into cryptocurrency, saw that I was skeptical of crypto, and disabled my account and refused to do anything about it. This is a problem I've run into with Federated systems.

They've been for awhile. They have their own NFTs too.

Apparently if you call attention to someone else's post and comment in any way that the original user feels is unflattering, that could be considered "harassment" by Reddit admins.

Basically if someone promotes a crypto scheme, and we say it's a ponzi (and are prepared to back it up with evidence), that's "harassment" and we get sanctioned.

They imposed a restriction that now disallows anybody in the sub to reference ANY content on any other subreddit. This has made it difficult for us to use citations as evidence when discussing things - we've amassed a nice library of articles and references we use that now we're prohibited from referencing. It's a rather draconian restriction that was done with no notice. Probably a sign of things to come.

Greetings... I'm just hearing about Lemmy and find it cool. I have a question regarding harassment - and ironically, it's one reason why I've come here from Reddit. Let me explain...

I'm the mod of the most popular subreddit critical of cryptocurrency. Obviously crypto is a popular and controversial subject. Our community is focused on exposing the fraud and the scams in the technology. But those who are running such operations really don't want our community to exist, so they've been repeatedly reporting us to Reddit for "harassment" - basically if they make absurd claims about returns or get hacked and we find it amusing - they consider that "harassment" and now they've sanctioned our community. But we've actually not been told we violated any specific harassment policy -- just that some people complained.

So we're wondering where we can go where speaking truth to power isn't so dangerous? Anybody can file a complaint, but when the complaint is hollow, still being punished is bad. How would Behaw handle something of this nature?

EDIT: btw, my apologies if this thread may pertain to a specific incident of harassment.. I thought maybe it was a general thing - if bringing up something related but different is inappropriate, let me know and I'll delete my comments. But I am hoping to talk about both sides of the "harassment" issue. There's legit harassment and then there's also fabricated harassment.