Hey everyone,
Reddit drama has caused the original /r/RealTesla community to become marked private. The /r/RealTesla moderators did NOT cause this. I’ll provide updates here with what I know when I figure it out.
I’m contacting the /r/RealTesla moderators on Reddit and Discord. I’m not sure if there’s other channels they listen to, but if anyone out there knows how to contact them please let me know. I’d like to help out and use Lemmy.world/c/realtesla to help them out in any way possible.
Hopefully this is just a temporary blip. If any Redditors are finding their way over here somehow… Welcome! I’ve created this Lemmy.world community as a “lifeboat” from July 2023 Reddit issues. I hope you find your stay here at lemmy.world/c/RealTesla as productive as it was at Reddit/r/RealTesla. For you former Redditors who are used to “Open Signups”, Lemmy.world has a signup process now. I recommend you sign up at https://sh.itjust.works/signup. Then you can access https://sh.itjust.works/c/realtesla@lemmy.world.
EDIT: Looks like /r/cliffordcat has figured something out behind the scenes. https://old.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1c7h244/were_back_now_we_need_to_talk/
I’ll keep this topic featured a little bit longer. In case anyone wants some help joining Lemmy and participating in this “lifeboat” here.
EDIT2:
These seem to be the best links that describe what’s going on.
As mentioned on Discord, this kind of thing has happened several times in the past. The RT sub was claimed to be brigading multiple times in the past when posts were made about accounts being banned in a tesla fan sub, and people would comment saying they too had been banned.
Ultimately, I don’t use reddit and I couldn’t care less what happens over there. The tesla fan sub mods are delicate people that can’t fathom a world in which anybody sees Elon as a conman or his company products as the low quality gadgets they are. When you turn out to be a dissatisfied owner, it blows their mind and their world crumbles. Thew new mods for RT have their work cut out for them, because the Tesla weirdos will report the sub over and over again and eventually it will just be a source of constant frustration.
Given what the (now reopened) /r/RealTesla says, it might be that the mods really did take the sub private but maybe didn’t realize it’d lock so many people out.
You’re right in that we’ve been banhammered before by the Reddit Admins, which is part of the reason why I’m working here at Lemmy.world to try to have a “lifeboat”, in case any other Reddit problems ever come up again. But maybe I jumped the gun on my assumptions in this case.