/wallstreetbets is a rabbit hole. Apparently some "high-profile" reddit subreddits are trademarked. The list includes: ELI5, TIL, ShowerThoughts, IAMA, AmITheAsshole and others | digg
digg.com
That rabbit hole will lead you to intersting post by original wsb reddit founder on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11ha0ii/im_jaime_rogozinski_founder_of_wallstreetbets_and/ In short, founder tried to trademark the wallstreetbets name, but court gave th

On Digg there’s some drama because someone registered the community “/wallstreetbets,” and the admins took it from him and gave it to one mod of the subreddit “r/wallstreetbets.”

One day later I see this discussion about how Reddit registered trademarks for some high-profile subreddits.

This could be relevant for the Threadiverse.

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    294·
    13 hours ago

    Someone will register a subreddit, and then a bunch of related ones, so anybody who tries to use any of them has to follow the same set of rules — and if you piss off the wrong person in one, they can ban you from all of them.

    This definitely happens here on Lemme, too. There are asshole mods, here who register a ton of communities, and getting banned from one of them instantly means you’re banned from all of them. Possibly even the entire instance. I’ve seen this in the mod logs where someone has a relatively innocuous comment removed just because the mod disagrees with them, then they are suddenly banned from both that community and 10 or 12 other communities. All run by the same moderator.

    If you think you escaped asshole mods just because you’re switched over here to Lemmy, think again.

    From StumbleUpon to fark to digg to Reddit to Lemmy… Asshole, power-tripping mods are everywhere and aren’t going away.

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        66·
        13 hours ago

        well, the .ml mods never seem to be the “power-tripping” type of asshole. they would argue and were combative and were definitely assholes, but they didn’t seem to quick to ban people.

        The major objection (and why most people left) was because of the explicit political views of the Admins (who also are the main devs for the Lemmy software) and the rampant intolerance of other views by not only them, but the other users of that instance. I ran into users on .ml that were soooo far worse than the shittiest assholes I ever encountered of Reddit or Digg. It’s part of why I’ve switched to PieFed.

        Lemmy does help mitigate this by giving the wider community the ability to sort of sequester the trouble-makers and to easily block them.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldEnglish
          171·
          12 hours ago

          .ml mods are exactly the type to ban people from every community because they don’t share the exact same viewpoints as the mod in question.

          dbzer0 is getting almost as bad with certain admin and certain topics now too.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          11 hours ago

          But also when they would ban someone, they would do so from every single community on their instance, including ones that you’ve never even heard of.

          And then never bother to so much as tell you about your being banned.

          And also deny you the ability to appeal or ask questions - e.g. Reddit has both a modmail and the ability to continue discourse directly in a post that has been removed from a community listing. Which as a former mod I would use to communicate rejection reasons and sometimes we’d go back and forth for days talking about the subject further, e.g. ways that the newcommer could modify it as to not piss off the old hands in the community (e.g. NSFW is allowed but must be properly labeled or some such).

          Oh, and soon a change is going to give lemmy.ml veto power on what communities are allowed to be suggested to new instances - and being baked right into the code so there is no way to change that - rather than use a third-party listing.

          I find it highly ironic that in some ways Lemmy, in particular .ml, is more authoritarian than even Reddit.

          • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 hours ago

            But also when they would ban someone, they would do so from every single community on their instance, including ones that you’ve never even heard of.

            this is what I was talking about earlier. I find it to be an absurdly childish overreaction, and the mods & admins on some communities/instances default to this behavior with a ridiculous amount of entitlement. it’s not hard to see just by looking at the modlogs.

            And also deny you the ability to appeal or ask questions - e.g. Reddit has both a modmail and the ability to continue discourse directly in a post that has been removed from a community listing.

            I find this to be a huge shortcoming of the platform, and something that contributes to a lot of “account churn” where users evade bans my instance-hopping and creating new accounts.

            Oh, and soon a change is going to give lemmy.ml veto power on what communities are allowed to be suggested to new instances - and being baked right into the code so there is no way to change that - rather than use a third-party listing.

            well, fuck that

            just another reason to switch to PieFed

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      18·
      13 hours ago

      . I’ve seen this in the mod logs where someone has a relatively innocuous comment removed just because the mod disagrees with them, then they are suddenly banned from both that community and 10 or 12 other communities. All run by the same moderator.

      [email protected]