I've been a member of the /r/Bitcoin subreddit for probably close to 15 years. They banned me last night. Why? Because I said the mods were fascists for taking down posts. They said they'd unban me if I edited my comment and removed the part where I called them fascists. Ironic.
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Just tell them that being triggered is a *decision* they made
Lmao please share screenshots. That's amazing 😂
I'm not editing my comment. 
Derek, perhaps change from fascist to retarded and see if that works :D
Even though keeping the note as it is is the right move … it would be interesting to see how they react to different words. Writing „anti-“ in front of „fascist“ would be my favorite
Maybe you could ask them if you changed your post to say that you had no idea whether they are fascists or not, having no knowledge of their political ideology, and views on nationalism and totalitarian control.
You are only saying they are "fascist like" in their suppression of dissenting opinion and that tolearance of dissenting views is a feature of democracy.
See how that runs?
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Whoa, thats insane to admit to so much power tripping and fragility all at once.
lol you should edit it and edit it back w/ the word fascist when they unban you 😂
can I see the original comment the mod is referring to?
it's linked in this thread elsewhere
is it? If it is, I didn’t find it. ☹️ Maybe you could post it to your profile if the r/Bitcoin mod said it was so good, but … still censored it.
Nooooo…
Fascists acting like fascists!
Ironic indeed.
Wow. Good case for nostr eh?
Yes. Our communities need work though. The feature is about half baked.
They literally proved your point, lmao.
& honestly, this kind of behavior goes completely against what Bitcoin is about. That mod should be removed.
Fuck censorship.
What kind of posts were they taking down?
So gay
Anything Reddit is a lost cause. I wised up and stopped posting there.
(Narrator: He actually stopped posting because his accounts got banned)
So not cool to use “gay” as a diss. It’s so freakin easy to just say “that’s hella weird” or “that’s dumb”. Instead, you’re just gonna use homophobic language to express when you don’t like or don’t understand something.
Reddit is the epitome of clown world.
I finally deleted Reddit off my phone recently. I love the community boards style approach to content, but Reddit itself is such a toxic hellhole it’s impossible to enjoy anymore.
I was banned on all of Reddit. I was interacting in that sub.
I always think of the flanking Fascii of the congressional chamber of the United States when I hear the word fascist. It's all over the United States symbols which means we are either incorrectly using the term or we are fascist not liking other fascist.
To me a bundle of sticks around an axe is about as useless a thing you can find. Maybe it means that the weapon of justice ( two sided axe or gavel ) is only to be handled by the many. Abraham Lincoln memorial had this embedded into his chair or throne.
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Substantiate it! Explain, why "fascist" is technically the right term and ask them to approve ;)
Nostr is the fuck you against fascistic mainstream centralized platforms.
Meanwhile, I can't use my original Bitcointalk login because the mods disabled it after their user database was compromised and me owning the email domain since before Bitcoin even existed is apparently not good enough.
Reddit is the worst!
Reddit=cesspool
The big question I have for you now.
Will you cave to their demands, or stick to your guns?
Reddit is gross.
Sure some niche stuff on there but it's mostly just perverts
That's kinda funny. Does anyone here still find r/bitcoin useful?
A very common sight. Their loss is Nostrs gain
That sub is beyond saving. Almost all of the posts are price related, screenshots of headlines, or Saylor groupies posting his memes.
It’s rare to see anything about using bitcoin. It feels like a smoke screen to prevent the normies from actually learning.
I’m banned too
That sub is a dumpster fire, but thats most of reddit honestly.
It was time
Just edit it and only add Yee-Haw to the end of it 😂
That sub turned to garbage a long time ago. I glance once in a while and it’s the same dumpster fire.
Everyone eventually becomes a bitcoin maximalist since every shitcoin tends to 0 against bitcoin.
Everyone eventually becomes Nostr only since every other socials will bans you.
I got banned for saying I was going to put some Bitcoin stickers up around town lol. They said it was vandalism. What a fucking clown show.
Actually they removed my post, then I politely questioned their reasoning, then I got banned.
WTF? That place is so bad.
This feels like a great near zero cost advertising moment.
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 nostr marketing proposal to get more people here:
1) register website - e.g. bannedonreddit.com
2) list the fake and gay reasons people like Derek were banned
3) link to nostr
Hahahahah good one 😂😅
And make it link to bannedonnostr.com, similar to nostrisdead.com
let's do it.
I'm all for it, although instead of "bannedonreddit" it could be a more general "bannedon", "bannedfrom", I don't know.
Bannedfrom.tld
And on the homepage it just cycles from all of the popular centralized platform names.
Banned From: $platforms
Make it so, boss.
We would need to start actively collecting stories to showcase here too. Not just my unexciting reddit sub ban.
Make it crowdsourcable, so that people can add banned stories AND contact info (outside banned platform), so that this tool serves as an inbound lead generator for nostr ambassadors nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 nostr:npub1njst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9s6k7fqx et al
Add your banned story:
And each story is a Nostr note.
Nostr comment section on the website would be a good nostr intro tool
each note is posted by the same npub so we can follow them and read all of the stories of censorship.
Someone just has to make an npub and an https://oracolo.me/ website then.
I went to oracolo website, and I am not seeing anything. Is this expected behavior?
Incredible 🤦♂️
I was only on Reddit talking about Russia/Ukraine war, it was intense. No big deal. But as soon as I went after the mods (from India) asking if India was parasitical in everything they did, did I get my lifetime ban. Three years and counting.
Good Riddance Reddit. Not missed.
India knows this:
sounds like they did you a favour
They did... I enjoy some aspects of Reddit, such as communities for TV shows that I watch. I just like to read the theories and discussions. But most of Reddit is just horrible.
They took down my bitcoin JPEGs that where viewed by millions on Twitter (saylor was sharing them) and told me it was low value content. I tried 3 times. Haven’t been part of the group for 2 years now. Feel for the poor souls still stuck there.
i had this happen to me. i made a bitcoin meme, i don't make them often, and it did well here on nostr, so i posted it on reddit. and just as you, i tried 3 times and each time it was removed for low value. meanwhile, a dozen AI generated slop were up there without issue. this was a while back, when we found out that Peter Todd was Satoshi :P
Commie shithole. Reddit will starve to death eventually.
reddit is lost, give up hope all ye who load the site
Something tells me you won't loose any sleep over it, another funny story for the grandkids bank 🤙
definitely. ill be alright.
Kinda gay to call people fascists or commies, that said, the response was even gayer
it is infinitely gayer to wield the "fascist" accusation, than it is to wield the "commie" designation...
particulary for the mentally ill and utterly historically retarded descendents of western Christians.
And they proved you correct.
Conform or confess! 
I haven't used reddit regular since they stopped allowing 3rd party apps. Reddit is Fun was a better app than theirs so they had a hissy fit and blocked other apps. It's a cesspool of trash, filth, and perversion.
You are unburdened
interesting. but good for you
Hanging out with midwits that long is either bad for your health or your reputation.
Most of the things on that subreddit are bs anyway, I find better content here on X, or get my news from No BS Bitcoin
nostr:nprofile1qqsfy7f8d0lms08wxw2xu4jvxcq2x2zqy6dgypksrh05p3jr9w4qhjcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09u937hxz is way better than Reddit on quality and freedom!
interesting discussion … well, for all of reddit’s flaws, at least I’ve never encountered people on there using “gay” as a diss, when saying “weird/dumb” would work just as well. Boo to homophobic language.
When I first worked in schools 24 years ago, ALL the UK kids used it as a diss. They were too young to really understand what they were saying. Maybe Reddit has banned using 'gay' as a diss?
I remember in middle school, it was a small group of the “cool” “bad” boys who’d look for any small opportunity to use it to insult other boys … like “that’s gay” or “you’re gay”. They were also the group that really strictly imitated Kid Rock and Eminem.
I think Reddit has basically the same rule for each sub to keep things inclusive and respectful … so people are quick to downvote any comment that has an abusive language tone, or to report it to the moderators.
It was girls and boys at the school I worked at.
yeah there *was* also a small group of cool but ‘mean’ girls at my middle school… I think they used disses a lot less though. For them it was more like ignoring people and treating them like they’re invisible (social ostracism) vs. being really friendly and approving with others. And it would be coordinated with the previously mentioned cool boy group.
I dislike Reddit, they have censored me badly many times over the years.
#nostr freedom
There should be a Reddit-like service in Nostr, and maybe if there is a /r/Bitcoin type deal on there, they should make you its owner or something to that nature.
we have NIP-72 communities, but only a couple apps support these communities and the communities themselves are not fully implemented or half baked. it's not a true good attempt to replace Reddit.
I'll have to take a look, then.
I forgot NIP-72 existed.
most people do 😟
Well, at least I use nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy8hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddaksqgrafcz9qw4jvc2a6hefasyt222re0jlz7avcvqjkf3zpj4zx243fs4hhwmw, which might support 72.
Then again, Highlighter doesn't work for me for some reason, so I went with the former in order to write reads for Nostr (and Primal in particular).
Lemmy is small, but more or less a clone of the old Reddit (as far as I understand it). As an old school Reddit user I am pretty disgusted by what it’s become. I remember moving away from Digg to Reddit after Digg was ruined by commercialism, now I feel the same way about Reddit - but it’s much harder to find alternatives these days because of the sheer scale/user base of these platforms.
Lemmy is essentially the Mastadon of Reddit, and it's CENTRALIZED faking being decentralized.
I don’t know too much about it to be honest… but isn’t Reddit also super centralized, but also monetized/corporatized? I guess I’m just interested in supporting any sort of non-monetized version. I would love something decentralized, but that doesn’t seem to exist (in any way that is accessible to the amount of people that would also make it useful).
Who are mods?
r/bitcoin got weird. It was my go-to back in the 20-teens when there wasn't much bitcoin news around. I don't think I'm banned as in kicked out, but that last handful of things I've tried to post (been years literally) has gotten auto-moderated and never posted. Got to the point where I didn't understand half of the nonsense that rose to the top anyway.
They should have the freedom to manage their platform any way they want. Why should they run their product according to your rules?
LMAO
Also got shadow-banned on r/bitcoin, didn't allow to post AI-generated Bitcoin art without properly stating it as a rule. Think in general subreddit mods and reddit admins have too much power over users' content, plus shadow-banning, posts don't appear under New, meaning nobody sees them. Algo what is displayed under New and Hot.
Lefties gonna left.
You should use the term NAZIST instead.
Fascist are too much italian style!
#Lol
Laugh about who they are is the way !
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Roger mentioned something similar. I hope the rest of the BTC space isn‘t gonna treat you now like they‘ve treated Roger.
im on my way to getting banned from /r/Bitcoin for posting this as a screen shot
BRB
Already banned now:
Hello, You have been banned from participating in r/Bitcoin for 28 days because your post violates this community's rules. You won't be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it.
Note from the moderators:
"Stop trying to stir up drama."
Did you comply?
I did that one trick where you just skip the entire platform.
I never used reddit