Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[+] 210 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 125 points 7 months ago (18 children)

    Reddit will ban you for even the mildest of takes. Their AI admin is draconian in metering out bans. The platform seems to really want to get rid of all of the pesky humans still there and just be a safe space for bots.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    I honestly don't know how anyone stays on Reddit very long. They permaban people for ANYTHING these days. They abdicated their site to psychopathic, power-tripping mods.

    Just for context, Ghislane Maxwell was a Reddit mod.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It's not even worth lurking there. Every post is just five "original" comments, and then everything below those are people repeating the same five comments a hundred times.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That was a thing WAY before AI and bots tho...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely.
    The new bots just add to the cacaphony of mindless comments.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Weaponized reposting. Posts and connents. That was a thing before AI too. Remember, who was it, maybe POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS, who looked up super old reposts and cut n pasted the top scoring comment from them..

    Oy vey...

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    And their bans really stick. If you piss them off enough, they connect every account you've ever had, somehow, and the ones they miss, if you log in it's a matter of days before they catch on.

    It's kind of impressive, actually.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I know. When I got permabanned after 12 years and a million Karma, I started using a new account, and lasted about 3 months. After that, they tracked me down faster and faster. The last one permabanned me in minutes before I could post my first message. They got my number now, and it's probably gotten even tighter with AI.

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  • [+] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I miss asking super niche questions on certain subs, because there's usually enough users to have a prompt reply.

    But fediverse is growing, slowly. Sadly best way to keep growing it is to stay and promote it on Reddit, everyone who's fed up for the same reasons we are are ripe for the plucking.

    Comes with a bunch of idiots, of course, myself included so YMMV.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I got a site wide ban and all my alts were banned at the same time because I called someone who was shitting on Trans people "a disgusting piece of human garbage". Apparently that was inciting hatred or violence and I can no longer make an account without it being banned within an hour or two.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair if you mention trans at all you're probably getting banned and get your name on a list.

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  • [–] 217 points 7 months ago (26 children)

    I got banned from a bunch of Reddit subs for once telling someone they were wrong about the Yorkshire accent in the UK. They called me a liar about being British and then I got banned from like 30 places at once.

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  • [–] 70 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I got a "permanent suspension" from all of Reddit. Isn't a suspension temporary, wouldn't a permanent suspension just be a ban?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Maybe it’s the difference between undoable or not undoable.

    If you think about it, when a judge gives you a “suspended sentence” for a crime, it is permanently suspended meaning there is no set expiry. But it can be made to expire if needed.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    That tracks. You pissed off someone who had a connection with a mod and/or admin. Been there!

    I got banned once for dunking on IG travel trends and the mod involved was dumb enough to PM me threatening me.

    It's just pathetic how emotional and over reactive people saying crap on the internet they don't like. I don't agree with a lot of stuff but I see no reason to censor people for enjoying musicals or whatever else I hate.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Considering all mods are probably mirrors of antiwork mod the entire world got to see - zero surprises there.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You see, I never had a single comment moderated by the anti-work people, and I made a lot, a lot of them very extreme comments. Like illegally so. But many other subs I have had that same problem. I used to use revveddit to see which Subs were secretly silencing me, which included pics, and so many others. Mostly Auto mod bullshit I presume. Auto mod which I trust is corrupted by the government for Israel and a number of other issues.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I got a sitewide warning a couple of months ago for suggesting that Trump's inaugural "board of peace" meeting was the apotheosis of the "you have one bullet..." thought experiment. "After reviewing, we found that you broke Rule 1 because you threatened violence or physical harm." I'll wager Trump's secret service guys were absolutely shitting themselves when they read it, so it's probably for the best they took it down tbf.

    On the bright side, it was the kick up the backside that was needed to get me to try Lemmy, and I hardly use Reddit at all now.

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  • [+] 25 points 7 months ago (15 children)
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  • [–] 43 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    I have no idea what you're talking about.

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  • [+] -52 points 7 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    why are you even going on about it a month later to shit talk the user?

    Why did I mention something relevant to the conversation? That's your question?

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  • [+] -36 points 7 months ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I don't have a vendetta. I'm entirely ignorant of the context you're describing. I got blanket banned from a series of communities by aforementioned user for (presumably) downvoting. I'm not really very interested in continuing this.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Listen bro, you could have avoided this. You should have known that anytime you comment or vote on lemmy you could trigger a sensitive mod's paranoia and be banned for that.

    If you want to participate in Lemmy, you're going to need to learn to read the room, figure out the single opinion that is being allowed, and stick to it.

    It's better than Reddit here bro, just make sure that you don't stick out and you won't be hammered down.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Looks like we're going to need a new decentralized platform.

    Or just a platform without people, because people suck.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I got banned from one of the UK subreddits when someone posted a lengthy comment about why Brexit was amazing, and I responded that Brexit was idiotic. I got banned for "being political" and the person I was responding to didn't lol.

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    [–] 56 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Looks like the account is reinstated. Good to know that's how to reach human support there: be Literally Paul McCartney.

    The posts are gone, though. I hope this was the decision of McCartney or his team. Reddit doesn't deserve him.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    My first post, after getting reinstated, would be to tell reddit to go fuck themselves

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Macca should buy Reddit, fire spez, and along with him, every single power-mad agenda-driven mod. Then sell it and make a profit.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    celebrity accounts have special priveleges from getting banned arbitrarily. Sinese is another celeb that has been posting his usual propaganda, how convenient for the guy to suddenly show up just before the election and posting military ganda. and shortly after that how he "left hollywood for his son" and not because he came out a REPUBLICAN shill(subtley) that would derailed his career in hollywood anyways.

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  • [+] 56 points 7 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Mastodon would be a reasonable goal.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    Why limit to one aspect? Mastodon (announcements) + Pixelfed (photos of the concerts) + Lemmy/PieFed (fan discussion) + PeerTube (videos of the concerts) + Loops (shorts about the concerts and announcements) + ...

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Imagine the hundreds of fans that could be reached!

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    You kid but it literally starts this way. Imagine if someone like Paul McCartney says, "I'm moving over to mastodon and you should too."

    He starts to share exclusive content there, sharing videos on loops...

    People will stop going to other places.

    But the content has to come first.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Why depend on someone else's mood when it's your business? Videos on Youtube, fanpage on Reddit or Facebook, short videos on TikTok, news on X, ... : they can pull the plug whenever they like.

    With the Fediverse you can create a personal instance only for your business.

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  • [–] 53 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    I just want to say that I know people who have known Paul for many years, and every single one of them have nothing but good things to say about him. He knows people want to catch him doing jerk behavior, so he bends over backwards to be polite and respectful to EVERYBODY. He's a Righteous Dude.

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  • [+] -14 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Unfortunately my first association is the "Glass Walls" ad that was hammered into my brain hundreds of times before I learned to block them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTifP6idBPs

    No, Paul, do you think slaughterhouse employees are even more likely to be vegetarian? Good intentions, but so infuriating.

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I'm a carnivore, but I respect reasonable vegetarian/vegans. I'll take a rock star taking a stand like that over Lars attacking music fans because they love music too much.

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  • [+] 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Thats exactly what happened back in the "Home taping is killing music" era of the 80s. The record companies were insisting on high taxes on blank tapes, which they wanted to collect to compensate for lost revenue on mix tapes and such.

    So they funded a study to prove their case, and the study found that those who did the most taping were also the ones who bought the most music. These people loved music so much that after they spent most of their disposable money on albums, they spent the remainder on blank tapes to get even more music.

    Home tapers turned out to be the strongest music fans, and biggest customers, and unsurprisingly, they discovered the same thing decades later with downloaders.

    That kind of kills their rationalizations for the draconian punishments they were demanding.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Lars? Lars Ulrich of Metallica fame? Why would he get mad over fans liking music? When did this happen? The Napster case, while bullshit, at least had something of a leg to stand on but this is just absurd.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, it was tough to watch that whole video. I hope things have improved since then, although I'm sure in a lot of places they haven't.

    Eat less meat and if you do eat meat, pay extra for pasture raised animal products.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Some things get better, others get worse. It's never a bad day to give up animal products.

    If you'd like to donate to a group that's fighting for these animals check out thehumaneleague.org.

    💚💚💚

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  • [–] 52 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Got banned from some subs once because the editing software I was using to sanitize and delete my account hadn't yet removed an edited comment.

    Mod quoted it. Sent it to me and said this makes no sense. Banned.

    The comment being edited was 4 years old.

    Lmfao

    Idiot mods gonna idiot.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago

    Your pictures are welcome here, Paul!

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    Paul's account is dead. Miss him. Miss him.

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