- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73406944
It all started when my main Reddit account was banned—simply because I posted a comment criticizing the banning of a subreddit—resulting in the immediate loss of an account I’d held for about 4 years, with 102k karma. I appealed, but I received no response—not even a reason for my ban, nor any notification that I had been banned in the first place. I’ve filed appeals repeatedly over the past few months, but today, I’m finally giving up. Fuck Spez and his pathetic, whore of a family. When I submitted my appeals, there wasn’t even any indication that they had gone through; I was just left in total silence, unable to do a thing. I started using an existing alt account for basic tasks, but today, that account was banned too—all because I recommended the non-profit, open-source “VPN Gate” project to someone who was complaining about the mandatory KYC (age verification) requirements being imposed in my country. The only reason I was still using Reddit was out of habit, and I’ve decided it’s time to change some of my habits. Ultimately, this is the inevitable fate of every centralized corporation—without exception. There’s no guarantee that some complete moron won’t end up in charge of any of them. I wish more people realized this. If four years of my effort are being sold off to AI data companies, and everything can be permanently wiped out overnight without a word of warning, then that is, quite simply, data theft. Once again, fuck you, Spez—you absolute piece of shit. If you had even an ounce of courage or integrity, you wouldn’t have imposed those damn API restrictions in 2023 and ruined Reddit. I truly regret the four years I spent here, but it’s better to cut my losses now. Goodbye, you son of a bitch Spez, and your puppet, Reddit…
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Everbody left Reddit in 2023 ,its bots only now
I love that it says “This account is banned” Then immediately “Jump back into explore communities” Lol
“we don’t want you to participate anymore but we still want you to look at ads”
They have ads? Joking but I never saw any with firefox on ublock. So at least I screwed them back a little, but they got all my comments for free, no small thing adding up all of our contributions, worth more than the ad revenue in many ways.
That’s why I deleted my posts and comments regularly. There are even scripts to do this on mass https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
I kind of wanted to leave mine up for posterity though. For the real people that may come across the stuff. But perhaps that was a mistake I’ve been turning that over, wondering if I should’ve just deleted it all.
I get where you’re coming from. It feels wrong to let years of writing just vanish when it might still help someone. But leaving it up keeps concentrating all that value inside a company that only ever wanted it to sell ads and train models with it. It’s already bad enough that a normal search often means appending “reddit” to the query. They gain so much power from that dynamic that I’d rather burn my old writing with me than keep feeding it. And honestly, since they can wipe an account overnight without a word, “posterity” there is rented at best. I’d rather start over and help build the information here, in the fediverse, where it can’t be taken away by anyone person or organization.
You sold me. Unfortunately I don’t know if I can even remember all my handles, but I should try. Although the data scrapers have it all already by now, at least reddit and new crawlers won’t.
I wonder if there is a program to download all of your conversation trees first for yourself, then delete? I should look around for that first.
The power delete suite can do this as well. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite#%3A~%3Atext=You+can+do+an+export+of+all+the+content+you+filter%2C+whether+or+not+you're+deleting+or+editing!
I used that to delete all my posts, and then a month later had a notification for a reply on a post that from my profile page I couldn’t see (as they were all deleted) but on the thread was still visible.
Don’t delete, edit your posts to fill them with nonsense.
Whenever I see people getting banned from Reddit I always revel in the fact that I left on my own terms. I never go back there voluntarily since the API Epoch. Eat my shorts, Reddit.
I left when the great conservatisation started before the API issues. When they basically wanted more conservative moderators in “liberal” places for fair and balanced approach. When people were being banned left and right for speaking out against the regime or telling LGBT people to arm up.
now reddit wants to force people to login, after banning so much. to feed AI slop for google and OPEN AI. OPEN AI started to use reddit less and less, so that caused a huge traffic to fall.
Seriously. At least back then their Android app was basically unusable. I haven’t tried it since, but suspect that because ads I’d probably hate it anyways. It was an unhealthy addiction.
Same here. I just found it appalling, the way users were, and are, being treated. Was getting some strong “livestock” vibes. And all the bots and brigades don’t exactly help Reddit’s cause.
Hear hear
Both for me. I got banned there, evaded the ban for years, then when things got shit I came on lemmy. My new account is still fine, I just prefer staying here.
I didn’t get banned I just quit. It was clear that it was going start rotting and it has.
Same here. Just now, I’ve created this account and Reddit will be erased off my phone.
i only lurk on the phone, and use niche subs on librewolf browser.
Hehe. I’m using Librewolf too!
Dunno how long you have been gone, but it’s been bad for a long time. I deleted my account when the TPA thing was going on, and it was already bad by then. Have not been back and won’t.
Leaving Reddit is like leaving an abusive relationship (kinda: stick with me on this)
- Reddit makes the rules and tells you what you can and can’t say
- Reddit won’t allow you to speak about controversial topics that could be upsetting to it’s advertisers (i.e. Israel)
- Reddit mods can ban you for no reason
- Appealing to “authorities” (Reddit, when mods go crazy) does absolutely nothing
- It hurts and is sad to leave
- It gets better once you leave
- You look back a while later and think, wow it is so much better now you’ve left.
The first four of those also apply to Lemmy too though. Depending on the instance, Lemmy mods are even worse than Reddit mods. And there is no “authority” to appeal to here either. The only difference is that there aren’t advertisers that they’re trying to appease, it’s just whatever neckbeard you pissed off that will have a vendetta against you.
reddits filtering, ai moderation is far worst than LEMMY. on lemmy you can avoid the problmatic instances, or people by blocking them. reddit is very pervasive.
The other thing that makes it feel like an abusive relationship is how huge it feels. How grand it seems, and how you just can’t imagine life without it. I’m still healing from when I recently got sitewide banned for some alleged ban evasion bullshit
And… as someone who’s actually been in abusive relationships, I can attest to your analogy
Only difference is, I still hope to get back in, and am waiting on my second appeal. It’s not a perfect comparison because it still has its occasional good uses, but still I agree
You forget step 0.5, spamming gifs of Luigi twerkin
Oh wow strong move, getting banned and calling it “I stopped using it” haha get real people. Either delete your accounts or maybe brag about something else
Better yet: Delete your posts and keep your account so you can delete your posts again in case reddit restores them, as it is known to do.
Could have intentionally gone away with a bang. Think making a popular post, then changing the image on its hosting server to say “Fuck Spez removing RSS, justice for Aaron Swartz, check out join-lemmy.org”
Well deciding to not negotiate to have your account unbanned or not creating a new account is a decision too.
But fine. Go beat your chest and be a moral warrior. Not like the outcome isn’t the same and we’re not all here supporting the same human-run fediverse and have to work out how to move forward with each other regardless how we got here.
What is it you’re hoping for anyways for all this distinction? A medal? A special icon? How important does this have to be for you? Or you just itching for stupid infights?
Thanks, you can mail me my medal, I will PM you the shipping details.
Didn’t offer. Just asked about where your level of how special you think you are is. I see we’re at the “Wow: The entitlement to plant yourself as the topic.” Main character Level here.
Yes, very special, that’s why I made a post saying I’m off of reddit please give me credit for getting banned.
Some of us left years ago without being banned because it was the right thing to do.
I posted this picture, it got taken down by the mods. I was just pointing out that people are being wow’d by the “flying” car but shouldn’t forget the man behind it.
Nazis like nazi shit, but they don’t like someone reminding them their nazi shit is nazi shit.
Kinda insane if you showed this photo to someone in 2023 one might think it’s photoshopped.
Left reddit after the API fiasco. You will be fine, anyway reddit is in a very rapid decline.
It’s really bad these days. A lot of the smaller subs are riddled with blatant AI slop posts and comments. What’s even the point of being on the site when you’re talking with bots?
What was the likely innocuous comment that caught you a ban? I got IP banned for asking when they’re going to launch Marjorie Taylor Greene into the sun. Apparently that was “promoting violence”.
Someone was complaining that in their country, everything requires identity verification under the guise of “age verification.” I mentioned the existence of “VPN Gate”—a completely open-source, non-profit, educational VPN project that uses residential IPs rather than standard VPN IPs. My account was likely flagged as spam.
That’s ridiculous. Reddit went to shit fast when they stopped letting you use 3rd party apps.
Oh yeah they make a lot of money from sponsored posts, can’t let people mention products and services without paying
I got a violation, (never banned yet but went through maybe 10 accounts in 3 years of use,) one of the later ones was for suggesting Musk should ride his spaceships up into orbit.
Apparently it’s threatening violence. Appeal denied.
So many pearl-clutching bootlickers. You never said you would personally strap him to his own rocket. That’s also not violence either. Not anyone’s fault if he can’t breathe in space.
I banned Reddit a few years ago. They broke my policy so they had to go.
Today I stopped using Bluesky because they suspended my account for suspicious activity. I’m sure it’s because I use a VPN to bypass age verification. Oh well. Mastodon and Lemmy it is.
If it keeps happening, search your ip on the internet blacklits, just search that and click on the site and they will do it for you, there are several dozens.
After multiple emails and other sign ups were immediately frozen, leaving me unable to get an email even, I checked and found I was on one, all I did was read the news and comment on social media, and work stuff. I think Israel is putting people on there that piss them off.
That might be it then. I’m definitely outspoken about Israel. Thanks. I think I’ll just stay off. Been wanting to quit it anyway and just stick with fediverse.
Same here.
Ok. Try to not throw a huge wall of text please. I hate reddit too, but this is super boring.
Did you say something mean about fElon?
Similar thing happened to me. It was a near 20 year old account. Somehow it got hacked and banned. for my history I felt a sense of loss because I realized I wanted to be able to look back and see my old posts and comments. I appealed with no answer, it’s like appealing into the void.
I still had the addiction to seeing content and reading comments, seeing something always new. But I slowly started coming around to fediverse. Not all at once, I created a new reddit account just to see the content. It pissed me off they gated the content to people logged in, pissed me off they keep trying to push you to use the app, but I eventually gave in because of my content addiction to seeing that new dopamine drip feed.
The final straw was when I started noticing a more hostile commenting environment. I would comment something innocuous, but then I would get people arguing with me on fairly un controversial comments. I would notice they would be accounts with private histories less than a year old. Some would have only fans- like ads in their profile.
I also noticed a vast uptick in rightwing trolling and right leaning comments. These accounts all seemed suspect. Reddit had always been a left wing space. I really think a lot of the money being funneled into these midterms is being used for troll farms and bot farms to astroturf narratives on social media platforms. That was the last straw. I was arguing with people who were probably bots on reddit, giving reddit the engagement they want and I had enough.
It really is an addiction, I had to cut it off but I still try to pull up reddit sometimes when i’m bored. But I think fediverse is really going to be the future and we have to keep getting people to gradually come here.
