I’ve been banned for being pro-Israel by several such petty tyrants.

Can you give an example?

Unless it is outright hate speech comments should never be banned. Call out mods when they do this. Maybe we need a group specifically about this.

I too have recently been perma-banned from reddit for nonsense.

I call then rando-bans. e.g. You were banned for violating unwritten rules, poorly interpreted rules, rules made up on the spot, or because the mod is having a bad day. Basically stuff where a warning would have easily sufficed.

And Squabbler.co

because dissenting opinions get straight up deleted.

You should call mods out when that happens as a public service. If I learn this happens a lot on certain subs I will stop using them even if it didn’t happen to me.

/r/mildyinteresting has 286k subscribers.

The real number of active users on average reddit subs is probably far less than 50% of reported numbers. I can imagine that every year the percentage of real vs reported subscriptions falls another 10% or so, as accounts are abandoned and rando-banned etc.

What sort of “controversial” comment?

Looks like it was really just another rando-ban. A mod having a bad day.

I got mine today. Email and a reddit message. 9k post 21k comment. I stopped posting anything around 2012 when I found that posting is a great way to get yourself banned. I love that with lemmy/kbin I can finally post things again.

No way would I sink money into a badly mismanaged company that isn’t even profitable, but could have been with better management.

. Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover.

This was one of reddit mod’s famous rando-bans. Something you could have never foreseen and a warning would have solved.

3rd time will be an admin permaban. This is part of the enshitification that mismanagement paid for.

Weird. Loads for me.

This doesn't replace mods. It's just another way for reddit admins to find ways to auto perma-ban users.

Sites that are centralized and therefore have the same potential problems as reddit.

Nope. It only happens when you have negative karma. That means any opinion contrary to the group think will be silenced.

I was only a mod of my sub because I enjoyed the topic,

These were the mods that I generally respected.