So my username on reddit was u/IAmUser1234567 I had 17k+ Karma, i didn’t do anything they just banned my account. Now i guess they have created a digital fingerprint or marked my ip address, because if i create a new account it gets banned almost instantly.
I am loving lemmy(using Voyager on my android phone) so much. Reddit anyways now just contains shity cringe content, it is becoming like insta, I am happy to join lemmy family :)
I commented on a post about the Trump administration censoring historical information that they considered ‘woke’ on government websites with - “Double Plus Good.” Anyone with a brain in their head knows this is a reference to George Orwell’s seminal anti-totalitarian novel 1984. But I got banned for it. I assumed it was an automatic bot ban just based on a bunch of user downvotes from idiots who thought that I was in support of censorship, so I appealed, which is supposed to be reviewed by a human. But they kept the ban in place.
And the bans make no sense!! I got a site-wide seven day ban for the George Orwell 1984 double-plus-good reference. But before that I posted in some gay men’s subreddit I followed in response to a young guy who was saying he got the icks when an old dude friend of the family was being flirty with him at some family function. I said that if he was upset with the old man flirting with him then I was thinking perhaps I shouldn’t have buttfucked my 13 yr old nephew at his bar mitzvah. For that drunken comment I only got a warning that I could be subject to a three day ban from that particular subreddit.
warning, seems rare, usually commenting on these types of sensitive topic usually results in a ban outright.
You’re right. That was a few years ago. Things got much more strict. And much less fun as time went on.