Tried joining Reddit again because of lack of activity in very niche communities, got banned again ,_,
Reddit improved their anti-ban evasion system, cuz it's the sixth or more failed attempt at evading a permanent ban. Never more, I am staying here.
FUCK YOU, SPEZ!
Ugh. So much to unpack here.
First off, you have to act like a massive shit-loaf to get perma'ed from Reddit in the first place. Now you're declaring your love for this community because you can't get back into Reddit.
Welcome, I guess.
Right. More often than not when these posts pop up you can check their comment history and see exactly why they keep getting banned.
I'm going through OP's comment history right now and I barely see anything iffy
Just reading some of the post is often enough.
I got permabanned arguing with right wing trolls. I don't think I was too bad, but maybe?
Who can say, right? The gears of Reddit are inscrutable.
That said, when you engage with an extremist, there's always 20 other extremists looking at your replies and just waiting to report you if you say the slightest mean thing. They are mucilaginous troglodytes and one mustn't extend to them the credence that they're dealing in good faith.
you have to act like a massive shit-loaf to get perma’ed from Reddit in the first place
I had an account perma'd there for saying "the only good nazi is a dead nazi" which I accept was against TOS but would argue does not make me a "massive shit-loaf"
It’s actually not too hard to get perma’d due to a handful of bullshit/nonsensical bans that just stack up over time. Also, they were VERY liberal with the permaban hammer around when they announced the API lockdown.
I got permabanned on Reddit (it got turned around because even the mods of the subreddit and of other subreddits said it was bullshit) for making a joke about wishing Indiana's attorney general got punched in the face because he said something about something being a punch in the face. Like they banned me for jokingly wishing what he said happened to him metaphorically would just happen to him. Not saying someone should do it, certainly not saying I would do it, just wishing that it would happen. Permaban from all of Reddit for a joke that didn't actually call for violence and was clearly just referencing the post's headline.
Incorrect
I got banned by a bot because I went into an antivax subreddit to question them. The fact I posted on a “forbidden” subreddit got me auto banned by about a dozen subreddits, instantly. There was NO attempt to check the comment for context. Then I forgot I was banned by one of them and months later posted with another account and got permabanned for ban evasion. A 10 yr account down the drain.
post the usernames?
My partner doesn't use reddit and hasn't used lemmy. She was permabanned despite not commenting or posting for about 6 months. The comments that were there were just asking questions about video games.
No reason or explanation was given. The only recent behaviour was subscribing to a trans-supportive community. We figure that might have pissed off an admin somehow. That's the only activity that she did during those 6 months. If either of us should have been banned, it should have been me, to be honest. We have different IPs, so there shouldn't have been any confusion on who was who. My account stayed active, even though I admittedly wasn't always friendly with people. Every account she made was also banned without reasoning.
I initially stopped using it because I thought that was dumb, then a few months later the whole API thing happened.
Best of luck to you, I hope you continue to have a better experience than we did lol.
I still don't know why Reddit permabanned me. They never gave me a reason, and when I submitted an appeal asking why I got banned I got what looked like an auto-reply saying "upon careful consideration....etc etc" Did I act like a shit-loaf? Idk, maybe? But if so I'd think they'd be able to tell me specifically why I deserved it.
Ugh. So much to unpack here.
I can't imagine a greeting more Lemmy than that
Ugh. So much to unpack here.
Yikes
I wonder why I see it as cunty when people say "so much to unpack"?
You're all here rather than reddit. Nothing new.
Please don't bring that attitude to lemmy. I just want peace. I honestly don't know what you did but chances are its not going to be welcome here
which niche porn communities are you looking for
Many niche subs, have been forcibly removed during the protest era.
LOL I love how oddly specific the porn subreddits are.
BusinessBabes
It was banned for not being moderated. Fucking RIP
I finally overwrote all my comments and deleted my account. 16 years there, but as soon as I checked the front page this week before deleting, every comment and post was the same old "this" and "take my upvote" and vitriolic hate toward different or uncommon opinions, zero dialogue, such a mess
Thanks lemmings
You forgot "and my axe", "to shreds you say" and "I wish they didn't remove awards so I could give you one", or maybe even the 'rare' "take my angry upvote and leave"?
Yeah I like that we can actually hold real conversations here, as far as 'real' goes of course.
I also choose to beat this mans dead horse
Hold my updoot, I'm going in
Plenty of that shit on here mate
And pun chains, and a guy quoting a Simpsons episode followed by 12 more idiots quoting the rest of the episode. Painful. I see that shit in lemmy but not nearly as much.
Just make sure to check again in a day or two. At the height of the purge, reddit was shown to be restoring deleted or over-written comments to what they were before.
I had stopped using Reddit but hadn't deleted my account, your comment reminded me to do that. Just deleted it. :)
Nice. The increase in content is not worth the headache and tedium.
I evaded my lifetime ban for more than 5 years on my new main.
The hell are you posting there?!
What'd you get banned for?
I got banned for telling some right wing troll to go fuck themselves and can’t get around their ban evasion now either. Reddit got really soft and bans for any “personal attack”
reddit if they cared as much about actually toxic comments:
And this place isn't? I was banned for the following comment the other day:
Can't find a single link to methodology or what the population was. Unless my Google is horrific I would take this with a grain of salt. Men are definitely overrepresented. However in my 15 years of experience working in the field I've seen maybe one overt case of sexism. I can count on one hand times where I've heard a "under the radar" type problematic statement that I've needed to address. I do not believe this data is representative of anything in the US or EU from my personal experiences.
And
Good. This is a simple fucking trademark case and the union is going to lose hard. A first year JV could win this.
I even got one calling me genocidal but can't see it. I would love to see what I said that was genocidal lol.
Modlog is a disaster with tons of " I don't agree with you so I'm going to call you a troll and remove your comment". Go look for yourself.
I got banned for telling left wing trolls to go fuck themselves.
I guess we equaled out lol
Reddit got me for harassment, agreed on Reddit got really soft
bans should be for illegal activity, overt harassment, targeting someone or something to that nature, getting a little heated shouldn't resort to a ban
open discussion without the threat of getting banned is the American way
I once posted a theory that Deckard HAD to be a replicant because of the way genetics actually works (him having a child in 2049 proves it, I mean).
A mod called my comment a "Luke warm take for piss brains" and removed it, so I told him to go fuck himself. Banned, not just from the sub, but from all of reddit.
Reddit is a lost cause.
Sadly yeah
I still use it as a read-only debugging tool through search engines. It's great for finding a way to open up your 2009 dell laptop and replacing the WiFi antenna
Got banned for harassing mods because I was asking why I got banned automatically for participating in a different subreddit. As soon as I sent my second request asking why I was banned, I got permabanned.
Me too, they are far too quick to bring out the perma ban. My 10 year old account went from a minor subreddit ban (for asking why a mod banned someone else) to global perma ban within 12 hours. In fairness I reported the mod and said he's a neckbeard but that shit isn't worth of global perma lol.
Overall, I think this is good news for lemmys future tbh
I got banned by a bot because I went into an antivax subreddit to question them. The fact I posted on a "forbidden" subreddit got me auto banned by about a dozen subreddits, instantly. Then I forgot I was banned by one of them and months later posted with another account and got permabanned for ban evasion.
Fuck reddit, petty tyrants.
Absolutely killing me right now to watch what's going on in /r/worldnews re: the Gaza Strip. Absolute echo chamber of reposted IDF propaganda, genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians - all calls for peace, any contextualization or describing the history of the conflict get permabanned and muted, appeals to admins are denied as usual. Meanwhile, international observers describing the situation as an ongoing genocide. What do you call censoring a community to support that, besides "incitement to genocide"?
Site should be forever abandoned, they have lost every last shred of credibility.
OMG me too!!! What the fuck!!!
Start your niche community on lemmy then advertise it in some other groups. You might be surprised how much better it is here.
I'm in the process of deleting my posts in a few accounts in preparation to delete them.
Reddit isn't the same place it was when I first signed up. On so many levels it proceeded to get worse year after year. Shitty mods, paid political bot brigading to drown out discussion, general discourse devolution, innovation decline of generally loved features are some of my biggest complaints of that platform.
Don't get me wrong reddit was always a bit of anarchy, but the best comments somehow managed to rise up. Not so much anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old and some of the comment contents don't interest me in the same way it used to.
I don't mind being part of this community even though some of the sub's have less activity. The activity seems to be of a better quality for the most part imho.
For me I don't miss reddit at all.
I still have a bunch of accounts but it's actually not a friendly site to use. I remember telling friends about it back in the day and they'd try and use the site, then they'd come back and be like "everyone on that site is an asshole." I'd explain it in some dumb way but it's basically true in essence. I even modded some default subs like 10 years ago and it was the first time I started hating the site.
Even hobby subs had these issues. Like the top post in r/synthesizers would be about some youtube personality and people debating about drama. People who post actual music and productive things don't get upvoted. Saying you liked the "wrong" people got you made fun of. Super trend/hype based as well. I posted asking for advice for a product to buy once, and was heavily discouraged from getting what I thought was the right thing, I got it anyway, and now it's basically a meme as the top recommended product for that purpose on that sub.
Basically moved to forums and discord servers for a lot of interests and it's so much better than reddit. Early 2010s was the golden age for the site back when there'd be those reddit meetups and stuff.
The easiest way to lose interest in a new found hobby is look at it's subreddit.
It's also so fake, people performing the idea they're successful at the hobby as a sort of feedback loop of validation. Posts about buying a thing or showing their stuff always gets more interest than someone engaging in the hobby, with the exception of influencer types or the upper echelon of aspiration.
Joining other communities... music and car related to be specific, I post a work in progress and get instant feedback and messages from people in the relevant scene to share their process etc. The influencers are in the mix with everyone else and are contributing things everyone can use.
I get the feels dude
I found it took about 3 months to get bored with a subreddit. That was about how long it took to see the same postings and comments cycling over and over.
They literally banned me for "abusing the report feature" like I'm sorry are you asking me NOT to report heinous bigotry?? Fuck reddit and fuck spez
Really damn
Maybe they wouldn't have problem with ban evasion if they weren't giving out bans the drop of a hat
Everything is being automated. The Admins are automated. The mods are increasingly automated. The subs are filled with botspam. The comments (have always been, but are now overwhelmingly) filled with bot-chatter.
The end goal of Reddit is to automate away anything that might cut into the company's bottom line. I'm convinced they're going to functionally do away with the comments section sooner or later. Just set up a byzantine set of bureaucratic hurdles that no human can actually clear. Then all that's left is the bots, and all you are allowed to do is look through the glass at the simulation.
That's not exclusive to Reddit.
Looks at 196 here on Lemmy and their massive pissy baby ban list.
Edit: If you disagree, go look at the bans and their reasoning in the mod log. It's insane, and I mean that word in the literal sense. Some fun things: they ban people for not agreeing with them vocally enough. They've banned people for arguing that the world isn't beyond saving if we try. They've banned because (and I quote) "Get out of here with that my children matter shit". It's a lunatic brigade run by a clown.
You eventually have to use a VPN to get around their IP bans but reddit isn't worth the trouble
I tried, but not even that seems to be enough
They use browser fingerprinting. Not only do you need a new IP address, but you need to make your browser characteristics look sufficiently different from anything you've used before (including all metadata that your browser sends to Reddit.com like OS, time zone, CPU, GPU, etc). Otherwise they will re-associate you and ban your new account. It's annoying as fuck.
I still have no idea what they banned me for. Spez is on record saying it's fine to create a new account as long as you don't repeat the behavior that got you banned, but their actions say no, you're banned for life and there's nothing you can do.
The effort required to get back on Reddit is just way to high for day to day usage, so I just stay on here mostly. I still read Reddit for niche stuff from time to time, but yeah it does suck to just read and never be allowed to comment.
Download LibreWolf browser on your desktop.
r/fuckyouinparticular did their ban some random person for 3 days to me even though I don't even use my reddit account anymore and just let it sit there taking space on reddots servers
r/oddlyspecific
Just ask Spez's best bud u/drewiepoodle about how to evade bans, they're an expert.
Who is that? 🤔
Can't you simply register an account on old.reddit without using email (they ask but you leave it empty) and after changing your IP with your VPN?
Doubt they've fixed that yet.
Not that there's any point. If you're not interacting with bots or copy-pasted comments, you're interacting with morons and people who think internet points matter.
You described reddit really well, it's a question of niche communities like I said
Look at small FUCK SPEZ on the right quarter. It has some brony art.
We decided that user input needs to be for advertisers, no one else. By promoting toxicity, we could have people buy stuff only from those toxic communities.
user input needs to be for advertisers, no one else
Of course. Companies listen to their customers, not their product.
Sounds like you need to join the LeMLM. Pick your favorite niche community and pledge to post something to it daily (if possible, or at least as often as you can).
Then recruit 2 other people to go adopt their own niche communities. Then each of them recruits 2 more, each of them will recruit, and so on and so on. Pretty soon your downline is pumping out so much OC you'll forget all about Spez and his sad little fiefdom.
Ridiculous, and there’s no appealing it either. Now if I want to check out my niche communities I need to load Reddit in a private tab with a VPN to scroll around my “inactive” account, but I never comment.
Appeals would require a human being get involved and possibly overruling their mod slave labor
I got banned for ban evasion when I logged in at a public library. I have never been banned before. I appealed and got denied.
It was a 10 year old account 50k karma, just like that. A little upset but what can you do?
Quit reddit lol
Reddit sucks
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