I don’t understand the sheer level of pettiness to do that.

Remember Reddit’s business model. On Reddit, users aren’t the customers. Ad buyers are the customers. Users (and mods) are unpaid labor - volunteer employees who create content. Reddit uses that content to sell ads and attract eyeballs to ads.

If Reddit permabans someone, it’s because the content they produce doesn’t meet Reddit’s standards for content. And since they assume that user will keep producing inferior content, they want that user to stay permabanned so he doesn’t produce more bad content and hurt Reddit’s brand. I mean, if you fired an employee for doing poor work, you wouldn’t want to rehire the same employee under another name, right?

It’s not pettiness. It’s quality control.

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And on the punk side of things, anybody familiar with volunteer community action, cooperative events, whatever, knows that sometimes a person doing shit for the community fails to do the shit they were supposed to do because some other shit happened in their life. It happens. We just move on to the backup shit-doer-person or find a workaround for the lack of shit.

And this is the cool thing about a distributed network like Lemmy. If a giant centralized database like FB goes down, its users can’t do anything. If our favorite Lemmy node goes down, we can log into other nodes until our home base is back up.

Shit happens. Thanks for the update 🙂

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