I was on Reddit for 10 years, and I have absolutely no clue why I was banned. I just moved, so maybe it was because my new ISP dealt me a bad IP?
Anyway, Reddit:
- Has no email, and doesn’t respond to e-mails.
- Doesn’t respond to mod mail, doesn’t tell you why you were banned.
- Doesn’t respond to appeal.
- Autobans any user I create.
- Seemingly doesn’t give a shit about it’s long-term users.
I guess from here on out I’m a… Lemming? Lemmyzen? Lemmy user?
Anyway thanks for having me! Reddit was shit anyway. I’ve been without it for a week now, and my life has definitely improved lol
Had almost the exact same experience, although I never bothered to create a new account. Tried & tried to find an appeal process, as far as I can tell they don’t have one. Still not sure why I was banned.
On the upside, I was looking for a reason to leave, and they gave it to me on a silver platter.
I’m very familiar with the situation. I was a Reddit user for 3 years. I have a pet project that turned into a small startup for me. I wrote about it in a suitable subreddit where people discussed startups. In the end, I got banned. It’s unclear why. I tried creating new accounts several times, but I was banned almost immediately. I didn’t receive any reasons for the ban via email. I just got fed up. I decided to look for another place to communicate because I was simply tired of it. I have already switched to Pixelfed, Mastodon, and now Lemmy. No more Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, no more algorithms. I’m happy!
If they auto-ban every account you make, you should set up an auto-dialer of account making so they ban every available username eventually. Then nobody can register, and you’ll be a hero lol
You joke but every username is already in use because bot farmers were smart enough to use some cheapo proxies for their traffic lmao
its all censoring for corpos and instagram/tiktok like video posts anyway nowadays. this place here is so much less rage inducing (by design, the userbase and their behaviour is just a result of that in the end)
I gave up on appeals. Website thinks my accounts were created after a site suspensions. I’ve never been suspended so i can only guess being on hotel wifi triggered it.
Reddit is dead.
It’s mostly bots now.
Lemmy will be infested of bots at some point as well. That’s sad but inevitable
its always been bots, but reddit hasnt done this excessive banning ever,.
they probably think they’re purging the underperforming bots.
i noticed reddit recently changed the sub to “besT” it showed only old post, its partially dead at this point. politics/ and news related subs are usually the only super-active subs.
This is a silly/ridiculous narrative that simply isn’t true.
I’m on both places, and have been doing my best to grow things on the Lemmy side for ~2yrs now, but Reddit is still invaluable to me for plenty of fresh and authentic talk across a number of subjects. Yes, botting may be a problem here and there, and power-tripping mods exist (at both places, actually), but overall Reddit is still a robust, useful site.
Now, do I like forward to the Fediverse growing and attracting more users over time to more and more niche communities? ABS-SO-LUTELY.
But I think we have to make that happen by producing quality comments, posts and communities, not by declaring false victories, nor by making completely disingenuous comments.
Ignore the above poster, it is mostly bots now
Bullshit.
I’ve been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there’s at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn’t seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.
But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)
So part of my point is this-- if you’re browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you’re telling me that you haven’t made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.
And if so, what you’re telling me in short here is that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
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Most of the posters are bots recycling content from years ago, same post title, image, and everything.
Most commenters are definitely chatbots these days.
i heard on several subs, many complained about bots. like aww, pics,damthatsinteresting , interestingasfuck.
you know its done by an AI if you dont get the incident of the ban, like they usually tell you what triggered. Like ban evasion, they usually tell you your previous account did it.
in anycase like many of us, early this year a bunch of redditors was hit by a massive ban wave, multiple accounts each 5+years olds were all instantly banned with the “no-message”. then the massive random shadowbans that have occured too.
i heard appeals can take months before an admin even reads it, i think most get ignored though.
Also if your not using an appealing the original account they tend to ignore the shadowbans/permabans of the new accounts. any new account creation after a shadowban, will instantly get shadowbanned, so dont bother.
they also keep a record of any of your old deleted accounts, if they participated any a sub that decides to ban you, so any new accounts even years old will be banned.
I’ve been permabanned on several occasions and just mess with my vpn with a new account and boom everything is fine.
Power tripping mods will just permaban willy nilly so I will reciprocate by fucking with them and teasing them about how I’ve been banned before and how they are absolutely powerless in the grand scale of things.
What do you mean by mess with your VPN?
probably changing the ip locaiton, reddit will shadowban if you use VPN, or if your IP address changes quickly to somewhere far away in a short amount of time.
ive heard in another forum that people using paid proxies, had this problem, thier proxies changed ip address suddenly, or for example from somewhere like the usa, to europe, or across the country will trigger reddit filters.
They Shadow ban people using VPN? I’ve seen vpns advertised on Reddit. How Bizarre.
yea, they made it a big deal early last year. on another forum, most people moved on to mobile proxies, which are harder to detect, but more expensive to use.
Same thing happened to me. Got shadow banned and didn’t even do anything this time
you’re not the only one, if you visited the r/shadowban people have reported the same thing.
The thing that really pisses me off was there was this person who was saying a 13 year old can consent to sex with a grown adult and that there was nothing wrong with it and they aren’t shadow banned. I reported them and nothing happened to their account, but I’m banned probably becwus I called someone stupid or something. I loved reddit but I’m done with it
It’ll only get better, welcome!
Hello: Mod logs
Goodbye: Niche communities…Welcome
The only way to get niche communities is to attract the more people to populate them
Modlog in of itself is a content generation master piece 🤣
I want the ability to vote on modlog entries.
Can be frustrating for us though, especially when you give the wrong rule number lol
Maybe you were upvoting things that Reddit was finding against their ToS?
I saw something about them previously warning users for things that they had been upvoting.
And, a fair warning, your upvotes and downvotes on the fediverse/Lemmy are public even if it’s not shown to you within the Lemmy interface itself.
i think they slightly went back on that, but i noticed. any comment removal either by a sub filter, or by reddit is enough to trigger/flag your account, not even a sub ban. also if your IP suddenly changes to another locaiton, or a different browser they get suspicious. and VPNs are always result in a shadowban eventually.
Maybe you were upvoting things that Reddit was finding against their ToS?
I suppose anything is possible. Or maybe it’s because I like pineapple on pizza, I wrote about that once too
Banned for having good taste. Right on brand for Reddit.
I quoted a sentence from a banned post (I like to hit people) and asked if OOP understands the difference between “hit” and “hit on” since there are many non native speakers online. Next day I was banned. No repeal. That’s it. I am so fed up.
Same thing happened to me. I admit I’ll rage post sometimes and sure I might deserve a subreddit ban here or there. But I’ve never done anything worthy of a site-wide ban. But the reddit admins act like dictators on a power trip. They LOVE to slap people with site-wide bans. For no good reason, and I don’t understand it. The admins have turned the whole site toxic, and places like Lemmy are a direct response to their insane powertripping.
Right now it sucks. Reddit is still the most popular forum on the internet. I pray that someday it won’t be.
reddit upped thier filters recently, so the subreddit mods did the same as well, its pretty hard to justify commenting on it now. ive been on subs like LAMF, FACEPALm for a long time, suddenly some of my accounts can comment because of them claiming an increased in spam.
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