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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
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 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.
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.
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.
You can still go into your account and nuke all your posts and comments
yup use POWERSUITE delete. very simple, best to do only few subs at a time., as trying to do multiple sub deletes seems to cause it to stall.
I prefer a full archive (EU data checkout is best), then mass overwrite with “Protesting Reddit’s [insert policy list]” and links to Lemmy so people can request the content by messaging me here.
I got permanently suspended for unauthorized activity but I’ve only ever browsed and commented.
And no one stole my 30 random character password with zero cross site duplication, either.
thats reddits AI moderation for you, very arbitrary, unless you are a propaganda bot, which they barely touch or deal with. they do go after the spammers that reddit isnt getting thier slice of the pie in.
Being banned from Reddit is a compliment these days. That was the site that used to host thedonald, fatpeople and even pedo communities (and femaledatingstrstegy).
I deleted my old account (14 years I think it was), created a new one a few months later, got banned within a few weeks for being a bigot or whatever.
Which was weird, because a lot of my posts were literally defending trans people, but, there were quite a few arguing with the gun community (so, I’m guessing someone felt insecure they might lose their guns and reported me for bullshit).
It’s not even a good place to visit anymore. All the local communities have been overrun by Gun, drug and companies and right wing lobbyists it feels like.
It basically became the equivalent of facebook, but they actually ban you if you disagree with their opinion. Lemmy is rapidly getting better
I think the “feminist” one (quotations because that’s not what feminism is about, Charlie Brown) was FemaleDatingStrategy. Basically red pill but for women. Terrifying stuff
That’s the one I was thinking. And yes, you are correct. I knew feminist wasn’t the right word
Which of course, also brings up all the other “red pill” ones too
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
They just got rid of r/all won’t work on mobile. Legit no reason for me to go there now. I would at least get some sort of news there
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.
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.
Hear hear
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?
I’m in for making DIY Luigi prayer Candles and posting the instructions on witches vs patriarchy. Instant shadow ban years old account high karma no further correspondence from Reddit
I’m in for saying riot police should quit their jobs in shame following the Roe v Wade ruling. Nowadays I’m blocked from even accessing reddit.com for some fucking reason, even without a VPN
If you haven’t been banned from reddit yet, you’re probably a bot. They don’t want humans to use their site.
