Just deleted reddit and working on getting off of facebook. I’m actually glad to be here. It’s a bit of an adjustment but I think it’s for the better. Cheers everyone.

    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      The admins literally administer the instances. Many of them directly running the instances on hardware they pay for. Even if the API didn’t allow it, they could just directly delete your user record from the DB.

        • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          Well getting your account that you groomed up for who knows how long nuked is pretty damn close. Especially if you’re a main contributor to a comm or two and all that work disappears.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            17 hours ago

            You sound like you’ve had personal experience with this…

            Also, that doesn’t change the fact that no instance admins can ban your IP across the whole fediverse, so it’s still not as bad as reddit…

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                1·
                16 hours ago

                Going back to my first comment on this chain:

                And even though mods can ban from communities or instances, no automated admin bots can give you a site-wide ban over petty reasons.

                So… what part of that has changed?