So, I posted a simple Roku fix on Reddit — just explaining how to get actual antenna channels back instead of their ad-stuffed “Live TV” hub.
The post took off fast-within 90 minutes: • 8,000+ views • 12 upvotes • Dozens of people thanking me for the fix
Then… moderators nuked it as a repost.
Sequence of Events: 1. I politely asked what rule I’d broken. 2. Mod replied: “I don’t know, nor is it relevant to your ban.” 3. I joked: “Ok thank you, Paul Blart. 🙄” 4. Instantly → permanent ban + mute.
Screenshots confirmed: no rule violation, just a mod having a day.
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Follow-up Attempts: • Tried posting the story in r/help and r/ideasfortheadmins. • AutoMod deleted both — apparently the word “ban” is illegal now. • Tried to share it elsewhere, but at this point Reddit moderation feels like TSA confiscating nail clippers while waving through flamethrowers.
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Takeaway: It’s wild when platforms value control over community. I literally helped people watch TV again — and got banned for it.
Give someone a little power, and it goes straight to their head.
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The irony? My Roku fix worked. Thousands saw it before it vanished. So somewhere out there, people are happily watching TV — thanks to a guy Reddit decided to erase.
Stay tuned for Volume 2: “AutoMod vs The Word ‘Ban’.”
Your first mistake was going to reddit.
Your second was abstractly talking about the fix here but not saying what it actually is.
Fair enough lol.
Tbf, this place is still missing a bunch of communities that Reddit has
Gee, what a perfect opportunity we’ve stumbled across
We need more users. For sports for example, I doubt you’d even have even users for individual teams. A general sports community might be feasible though.
Does there really need to be such granular communities on a website though?
I would enjoy it
I think I’m one of like 3 sumo fans on here
Oh fuck is there a sumo community I should be a part of? November basho is so close, how far will Aonishki go? Is Hosh really back? What happened to Takeyasu’s hot streak from a few tournaments back? Is Ura still the love of my life? Will Kotoeiho ever make it back to Makuuchi??
Yep, [email protected]
I think Aonishiki will continue to do well, and hopefully his countryman Shishi finds some more solid footing for himself soon. Also Kusano smashed his way up the ranks so fast they already changed his name to Yoshinofuji. Fujinokawa is looking ok for a newcomer too, just not quite as good.
I hope Hoshoryu can stay healthy for a few basho in a row, as Onosato needs someone to check his power. Having only one ozeki right now doesn’t help either.
Takayasu on the other hand I’d guess is pretty much done. He’ll still put up some wins for awhile, but I think the playoff back in March was his last shot at a yusho. I remember checking into winners older than 35 and there was only the smallest handful of guys who pulled it off.
Dunno about Kotoeiho but I’m hoping Takerufuji can get his shit together. It’ll be disappointing if his historic win last year isn’t followed by an exciting career.
If you’re up for it, try to convert me into a fan. Why should I care about sumo? <Insert joke about fat guys in diapers> (FWIW I’m genuinely asking, I know nothing about it beyond pop culture depictions, and that it has a long history, but I’ll bet there are good reasons why you love it.)
It’s a fun sport to watch for so many reasons, but the first that stuck out to me when I first saw it was how fast it is. Sure, there’s a lot of ceremony and lead up between matches, but the matches themselves are short and intense. If you watch a summary that cuts straight to the matches or just have it on while you do other stuff and look up when the match is about to start, you’re basically getting nothing but highlights. Every single match is worthy of a slow mo action shot.
The more you learn about it, the more interesting it gets.
It’s actually awesome. It’s pretty pure athleticism, so the sport is there. Every wrestler has their own style and personality, and it even comes through when the match lasts 10 seconds. The ring is made from hardened clay and the hay bales that make up the ring are stuffed with gravel - the risk is real and the consequence of losing is pain. These guys are sometimes 400lbs of muscle (and yeah with a ton of body fat on top of it, weight is momentum and momentum is everything) who train constantly and have honed their skills for almost a lifetime to work up the ranks to even be in Grand Sumo in the first place. These dudes go out there to perform for the gods and they go as hard as they can.
It seems silly because people can’t get past “hue hue naked and fat” and they made a trope out of it but it’s just about everything that makes competition “pure” distilled down into a single sport. It’s hard not to pop off after a good top division match, I’m always yelling at the TV.
Yeah. The broncos have a community. It’s pretty much empty despite them having a really good season this year.
Birds won’t visit a feeder you haven’t hung.
Problem is critical mass for communities that simply won’t happen because of the overall demographics of Lemmy’s userbase - it would make little sense to have a community centered around, say, Facebook or Google products because the common Lemmy user is inclined to dislike either of them.
Lemmy is pretty much just /r Linux and related subs.
Also, with the way people are around here, a Facebook or Google centred community would just be smartasses shitting on Facebook and Google and anyone that tries to post about them.
I see this hasn’t changed much since I was last here on Lemmy. Even this comment chain, I’m replying to, instead of suggesting nicely to OP to start a community and get something going here, it’s snark and sarcasm. And I know that would put me off, if I was considering making a community before that.
You know, we say that but Reddit had and has more snark and sarcasm than even this place and they seem to have all the communities.
Just start a community, and if people show up to your little pod of Facebook Marketplace reposting enjoyers and shit on your parade, show them the fucking door.
Yeah I hate Facebook and Google and I wouldn’t willingly participate in those; but there is plenty of AI related shit in my All feed here that I just ignore because, while I fucking hate the religion created around generative AI those people aren’t bothering me.
Now Nazi’s on the other hand I will gladly chase the fuck outta here. But you can, as a moderator, just delete the snark from your new community. The software just lets you do it.
Yeah that’s fair. Although Reddit also has a lot more users, so the snarky people and the ones that can’t just scroll past something they don’t like stick out more.
So I think, in terms of conversations like this where the bottom line is there’s just not enough users to have all the same communities as Reddit, people could maybe be a bit friendlier to noobs or towards communities they don’t like.
Like, I remember when I first got here, I was still interested in discussing Reddit, so I was around the Reddit community for a bit. And I remember so many people around there just interacting in bad faith. Yes we know Reddit is shit, thanks, your take is isn’t hot, it’s years old.
It wasn’t completely off putting but pretty fucking annoying. In general it’s pretty fucking annoying.
But as you say, Reddit was the same, so it’s not like it’s a Lemmy specific issue. And probably can’t be helped without iron fisted levels of moderation that no one wants.
Turns out, people actually like snark and most attempts to quell it have been vastly more about appearing “advertisers friendly” than actually appeasing any user bases.
I preferred when reddit was this size, and I prefer Lemmy to be this size (or marginally larger)
I wouldn’t mind it if it didn’t lack sports so much. That is half the reason I would be on Reddit.
Yeah, post the fix here!
(Think you could get away with linking the fix post here from Reddit?)
Just stop using reddit. Quit it.
Too easy to say, too many communities that are simply not here.
start them then.
Sometimes people just wanna make a post and help people with a niche problem, not sign up to run a whole ass sub tho.
So easy to say lol.
Ah yes, like food, water, and air—impossible to live without!
Word to the wise: leaving makes space for alternatives that clinging to hinders.
If everyone was idealistic about every aspect of life, we’d all commit suicide very rapidly.
You might think this is super important, but to someone else, the reach of mainstream social media might be worth it for they care about an issue they feel is more important than yours that needs attention, or just straight up focus on other things.
You a vegan? You have solar panels? You buy clothes that you are absolutely 100% sure comes from fairly paid people the whole way down the line? You buy a fairphone? You using a linux pinephone? You… Its never ending.
Purity dramatics like that of your comment arent actually helpful and just demoralize people who are likely there with you 99% of the way generally.
Thanks for your reply. I feel you mischaracterized my response, likely because you didn’t understand it, in which case, likely because I did not express it well.
I don’t care whether op leaves Reddit, it’s not an important issue to me, and it has absolutely nothing to do with purity. I was responding to the idea that it’s hard to leave reddit, which may feel true for op, but, just as you suggested, if everyone took that attitude with everything, positive change would be stymied, and your suggested resort to suicide would make a lot more sense. Making space (e.g., by leaving an abusive relationship of one kind or another) can seem hard or scary, but I stand by it as a means to enable better things to come. What op wants to do with that is up to them.
I hope that’s more clear.
That’s cool sure.
But on the other side: Reddit betrayed the social contract and deserves to rot in consequence.
One droplet of lost engagement becomes an ocean; just stop showing up 🤷♀️
Weird thing to post in a shitpost community, though. I’m pretty sure there are dedicated communities for stuff like this.
A good fit: [email protected]
Nice thanks for the pointer.
I was unsure and checked the rules there.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
You should make a Roku community on Lemmy if there isn’t one already and post the fix there. Yeah, maybe nobody will see it, but maybe they will. Especially if they saw the content on Reddit and can’t find it anymore, they might look here. And that’s the only way we’re gonna get that shit off of Reddit.
How does one make a community here?
Also [email protected]
Just like showerthoughts, lemmings have no respect for community themes.
Such a self-own to post serious stuff in a shitpost community, though …
Yepowertrippingbastards I think
Charges: resisting arrest
Enjoying a succulent.
A Chinese meal.
I used to love Reddit and it was my only social media site for a decade. But it became so Kafka-esque that it was causing me a tremendous amount of stress. Constantly fighting mod bans was akin to tilting at windmills, as it was completely pointless. So I quit cold turkey last year, deleting my account, and found Lemmy a few days later. I still find the content on Reddit incredibly helpful when I’m searching for information and posts come up on Google but I cannot interact with the site/app any longer. The constant deletions and bans are contrary to the original spirit of the site and have reached SNL sketch level.
just being banned from /r/politics (for an innocuous comment) has lowered my blood pressure. I can’t comment so I just let it go.
ah i miss the old days of reddit.
I was perma-banned from r/gaming because of piracy. I posted a link to an unofficial port of a decompiled, abandonware game.
Won’t someone please think of the random ass holding company that owns the rights to that old ass game nobody except for like three people want to play? You’re infringing on their rights by sharing that! 😭
i was perma-banned from reddit for saying israel commited a nakba in the past and every time i try to make a new account it get’s shadowbanned or just banned
I really hope it was Lego Island.
It was indeed Lego Island.
8k views 12 upvotes
Those metrics are definetly not real.
Why? A lot of people are looking for fixes. Not many actually engage by upvoting or commenting. Seen that plenty of times on tech/help related subs
Okay let’s compare this to other platforms like YT for a second, where videos usually have a 10-100 views : 1 upvote ratio.
Reddit should have similar numbers, but this post has a 700 views/upvote ratio. This way too high and smells extremly fishy.
You’re comparing platforms’s average to something pretty specific. What do you think is the ratio for videos like “How to install Windows 10”?
Just looked at the first 3 videos I got and the ratio is pretty much 50-100views/upvote lol
Now, for the next task, tell me the ratio for engageable content creators like Veritasium.
Do tell me when you realize the difference between actual content and help videos when it comes to engagement is up to 10x. Music videos might be even higher, but not entirely sure since one user can generate 10 views.
Let’s also not forget the fact that unlike on YT, reddit likes aren’t a real number, there’s some funky formula and obfuscation.
like Veritasium
50-25:1 lol
reddit likes aren’t a real number
Oh weird, what exactly was my comment about? Oh yeah, that these numbers are not real dingus
Oh weird, what exactly was my comment about? Oh yeah, that these numbers are not real dingus
I honestly thought you meant it in a way that the views themselves are fake, not the upvotes. In any case, the few veritasium videos I checked had a ratio closer to 20 while the tutorial ones hadna ratio closer to 100, marking a pretty significant difference between engagement, so my point wasn’t false
Upvotes higher than views? Considering how many lurkers there are? Considering even people who engage with a post don’t necessarily upvoter? They said 8k views, 12k upvotes. Even if those numbers are reverse, that’s an insane engagement ratio.
Where do you see 12k? The comment above does not say 12k, it says 12
Source: I made it up
It’s well known that reddit obfuscates votes on purpose. Views I have no idea.
I was perma banned by admins for hurting a mods feelings. Reddit is so scared of having to pay mods they let them do whatever they want. There is no point in trying to rationalize it. As long as mods go unpaid, they will be allowed to have absolute power in the communities they control.
I told babylonian weeb, the guy who’s taken over animetitties, that spain nuking israel over the freedom flotilla was not a likely, or good outcome. That got me a ban for "glorifying violence:
Roku shills are probably moderators. Just like with the Xfinity sub
stop using ubercorp social media
So you come to a completely different and unrelated website (and community) to complain about it while using AI to write your post? I don’t mean to be rude, but this is a bit unpleasant.
If you’re leaving Reddit in favour of Lemmy then you’re welcomed. But keep in mind, we are not Reddit and don’t want anything to do with it. Also, keep your instance’s rules and those that may apply to the community to which you are posting. If you don’t like your current instance you can migrate to a new one or make your own.
Welcome to Lemmy
I still fuck with reddit some but I do it read-only. I have a couple accounts because it’s the best place to get information on certain video games and niche hobbies.
But I do refuse to participate, I only lurk. Fuck that corporation, I contribute nothing and take only data center time.
edit: I guess I contribute user count
Do you block their ads? Even if you do, they use your page view numbers to sell slots to ad companies at a higher price.
So they inflate the page view to the ad companies while the ad companies won’t get anything out of your page view. So it’s a win win :)
So then Reddit makes more money because they can charge more for an ad slot due to higher page views. There is no way to use Reddit without them making more money.
Yet the ad Company will see that albeit high page views they don’t get any conversions. So they lose and Reddit loses ad credibility.
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yeah, I don’t see very much advertisement on the entire web but definitely none from reddit, even those inserted “post” ads seem to go away with a combo of Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger.
LLMs are great for rewriting your own words. It makes people more confident and it’s what LLMs excel at anyway. It’s not generating something out of thin air, i.e. taking away creative proces, in this case.
You’re not speaking for all of us. People can talk and complain about anything they want. We don’t need this kind of thought control here.
I find it ironic that I used AI to sound more human — and the mod in this instance used AI to act less like one. Rather than check to see why the bot removed my post, he simply surrendered to it as an authority.
I gave it one more shot after being away for a year. Posting my latest 3D Printer mod (after on Lemmy and the manufacturers forum). Immediately got a snarky garbage commenter. That’s what I get.
8k views means 7k ai scrapers downloading the same resource over and over
Which is even funnier because now the knowledge is disseminated further
Post the exact comment that got you banned. I’m sure many on Lemmy would find it fun to repost it to the Roku forum over and over. We don’t care about Reddit bans.
Here it is:
If you’ve been trying to watch real over-the-air channels and Roku keeps forcing you into their “Live TV” streaming hub (even with Hide Streaming Channels turned on), here’s what finally worked for me:
👉 Step 1: After scanning for channels, go to Manage Channels and add one of your antenna channels to Favorites (for me, it was Channel 5). 👉 Step 2: Back on the Roku home screen, hover over the Live TV tile for 2–3 seconds before pressing OK.
If you wait, Roku automatically loads your first favorite channel — you’ll go straight into antenna TV instead of the streaming hub.
If you click too fast, it jumps right back into the ad-stuffed streaming Live TV interface.
It’s a weird UX quirk, but this workaround actually works every time once you’ve got a favorite set. Hopefully Roku separates those inputs properly someday, but until then… this saved my sanity. 😂
Sounds like you got banned for showing people how to get away from ads. That’s not allowed by our corporate overlords.
Yeah Roku is definitely working on how to fix this. You were never supposed to bypass the ad filled content.
I don’t have a TV with Roku built in, which I’m guessing OP’s is? In any case, it seems like this live TV thing is taking a second to interface with channel tuning hardware and maybe that just takes a moment to load, and the default is set to an ad I guess.
I had setup some Lemmy accounts a while back but was procrastinating on settling into them. Received a 2-week ban for a Rule 1 violation because suggesting that users own their hardware is apparently violent. Took the opportunity to finally finish setting up in the Fediverse and haven’t opened Reddit since.
