Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.

Hello everyone. You're not alone. I got banned like for 4-5 times, using local Ukrainian words that may look like slurs, but they aren't.
I got unbanned, but I am still too scared to write anything about politics on Reddit. I want a working account there for IT questions.
- Make another account then. I have a shit posting account for making comments I know will be dicey. Reddit mods are fat slobs don't let them stop you from living your dreams.
  
  they will detect your alternate account through fingerprinting you
  it's where I am currently, unable to use any of my 100% wholesome and positively contributing accounts because I shared the opinion of "Oh no, anyways" on a burning Tesla dealership post, got banned from world news with no explanation, asked for elaboration and did not receive it, and then continued to post in that sub with another account.
  did I ban evade? yes. did I first attempt to find out why I was banned? yes. was I ignored and thus continued to participate with other accounts, being careful to say nothing even close to provocative with those accounts? yes.
  didn't matter. they identified it as the same account, they banned it.
  
  Reddit mods are fat slobs who can be easily duped, but Reddit algorithims will autoban you for making new accounts.
  I'm basically exiled from it until I decide to get a new device and sign in on a new network other than my home or my work.
  
  they keep banning any other accounts I made there over being linked with the first one. I have tried unique email addresses and everything but they still figure it out within 24 hours, even when I 'm not allowed to post anything. So I just dont use reddit at all anymore.
  
  Luckily, I've never had issues with reddit mods, but I received a f*ck ton of global bans on r/reddit_ukr (getting carpet bombed by russian bots and the half of the comments are [deleted])
  It's the time to discover the fediverse ig. Btw any ideas where I can dump a ton of random IT memes?

I've had my reddit account for 17 years and I received my first warning for inciting violence because I commented "this makes me want to make a whip and go to town on these people" (a reference to Jesus running out the money changers in the temple) on a video of a megachurch service showing a woman painting trump bowing to a cross.

Lemmy isn't much better. We still need communities that don't allow mod abuse.
If you get reported enough, the mods will censor or ban you even if you're not breaking any rules.

I got banned for saying people should engage in mass protest against the arrest of judges and prevent anyone from entering and leaving the building in which they are held until they are released.
I'll create a new Reddit account when I can be bothered to create a new email address.
What were you banned for?
- I got banned after 15 years for asking why we can't organize to cyberbully Trump's current head of social media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_%28political_advisor%29?wprov=sfla1
  This was in response to the White House calling Garcia a terrorist on their Twitter account.
  
  I was ahead of the curve, and got banned in October 2024 for Promoting violence when I said "If a president decided to betray America's allies, and start directley helping Russia in its wars of conquest, America would probably end up with a dead president"
  They basically told me to fuck off on my appeal, I had told them A) I wasnt threatening anything, and B) moderation is getting politically triggered and biased. and they permabanned me.
  and I have since been Hardware banned from my main PC and my work PC, I still want to go back for some of the niche communities that havent emigrated over here yet, but I really cant be bothered to go and fire up a 8 year old laptop or something just for fucking reddit. its a cesspit and getting banned is largely a blessing in disguise.
- That wont help, neither will a vpn or using a different device lol, I tried them all, think it has to be a different device youve never logged on before on a different network, i lost interest and just use lemmy now, reddit lowkey made me do stuff less, like id read more about my hobbies rather than doing them, like watching ppl game instead of gaming, but for any hobby
  
  I use iOS and that didnt stop me from making another account after I got banned. I have four burner accounts.

My reddit account got a strike by an admin for describing the risks involved in traveling to the USA currently (abduction, torture for an undetermined amount of time). The appeal I made to that was accepted but it left a sour taste in my mouth.
- Lucky you, you got handled by a moderator who wasn't a raging Trump whore.
  I got permabanned after a week long ban for "threatening violence" when I suggested that if a Trump was elected (it was in Oct24) started directley Aiding Russia in their invasion of Europe, that they'd probably end up with a dead president. I appealed and suggested that I wasn't threatening anyone, and that whoever banned me, was politically biased and triggered. and they flipped out and perma'd me.
- That's pretty lenient, most people get permabans

Lemmy. The support group for burned reddit veterans.
We were there. We put in thousands of hours of work. Years of moderating. Free work. Content creators. People who commented. Voted. All that karma ...
All gone cause you upvoted an anti trump or musk post. Or maybe you upvoted a photo of a tessler burning.
Maybe you didn't think Luigi should get the death penalty.
Don't worry brother. Upvote what you want. Be free with the rest of us.
Check out https://lemmy.world/c/iselonmuskdeadyet
- I wonder if the reason is because 50501 started on Reddit and they are determined to not let it happen again.
  
  They bent the knee. Hard.

Many many years and ass loads of karma....
But apparently LIKING posts can get you banned now. What a shit show.
- It's all a ploy to control what we think.
  Ideas are powerful, that's why they don't want us to have any of our own.
- Clearly they're butthurt that you didn't fellate Trump or Musk or some other such drain clog.
  
  Reddit constantly pushing conservative to the front page was a sign

My Reddit account was permanently banned for saying I hope Nazi scum Elon Musk dies soon. Had previously caught temporary bans for saying things like "We should overthrow Musk into the sea." in response to him having argued King Charles should overthrow the UK government. Reddit admins really don't seem to like it when you're righteously intolerant of evil scumfuck psychopaths who use their unearned power and influence to cause immeasurable harm to society, the world and its inhabitants. Things like that break Rule 1, threatening violence, they claim.
Although the permanent ban was only for a couple of days since I for once was successful in my appeal. I basically said death =/= violence. An obvious truth to anyone, except some Reddit admins apparently.
I've not really used Reddit since. Kind of lost my will to bother with a US based site that's clearly and predictably going in a US direction, i.e. spiraling down the fascist sewage. Instead I've been drifting over to here. Will see what the moderation over here is like.
- My first appeal was not really an appeal and more a question but they ignored every appeal after that, I evaded a subreddit ban (accidentally was scrolling on an alt) for the most lame subreddit and made the most boring pointless comment as I do, it was like 3 words instant ban
  But yeah that shit made me genuinely hate the site, there is no way at all to get in contact with a human, no email, no phone, just that one short limited character appeal you can send once.
  
  Prior to that I had a temp ban for reporting stuff and it was like mod abuse or something, insane, it was against the rules, but if republicans incite violence its okay if they encourage suicides or whatever its fine
- It's tenous at best, probably would've been banned again anyways, since you account doesn't really clear in subreddit filtwrs
  
  I knew a Reddit admin IRL for a year or so back in 2010 or so. I visited him in the hospital when he was diagnosed with leukemia. I got my marrow tested to try and be a donor for him, and that bitch still doesn't remember me.

This is why I tell people to dump pitchers of water on Reddit employees if you meet one at a bar in Frisco. Also rub shit on the HQ front doors handle. Make them extra pissed off.
- I hope all their party favors are laced, sf tech bros prob goin to illenium
  
  I hope all their party favors are laced
  Ehhh... dosing someone unknowingly has to be one of the most fucked up, inhumane things that you can do to a person. Obviously fentanyl is prob the worst, but I'm thinking more about psychedelics.
  Yeah no. That shit isn't funny.

Feel that pain this year would have been my 10th year on Reddit. I was permanently banned last June for saying I hope the libs of TikTok monster would get hit by a bus. It’s still blows I can’t post or comment on anything. I was part of a close nit group on Reddit involving a car subreddit and now it sucks to see people commenting on where I am and what happened.
- Honestly, though? Been nothing but relief since. I really thought I got more out of it than I did. Left in first exo though
- Make a new account and tell them.
  
  They track Machine ID and IP. They just auto ban any new accounts.

I was permabanned without explanation and reinstated two weeks later, again without comment.
I believe this tracks with what to expect should we ever see the tech-bro billionaires divide the world into monarchy fiefdoms ocer which rhey are each the unchallenged lord and master.
- the second you get flagged for ban evasion you are pretty much dead in the water. and you'll have to move on to drastic, expensive measures to get around it. like a new device and probably a new network
  even if your ban reason was false, if you make a new account, as far as they're concerned thats grounds for a non-appeal permanent ban.
- A shadowban was triggered by a simple comment removal and a completely new browsers, reddit wants all your browser info, they dislike if your using a browser fork too, besides only chrome or main ff

Oh, you can get banned here. It's not like this is like a place of free speech. It's just that the internet is kind of created little pockets of echo chambers. It is what it is. And like it was always going to be like that anyways. I just like it that it's not monetized by corporations that are bombing the shit out of children.
- We should have all stayed on Usenet. It's decentralized and uncensored.
- only place I've ever been banned from here was not paying attention to which "channel" I was in since I dont fully understand how Lemmy works, and I ended up posting a comment to a thread I saw come up on the main page of lemmy.world when it was actually a lemmy .ml link, and people over there, most of them dont take too kindly to you insulting their Russian overlords,
  .ml by and large are too ignorant to recognize the Russians aren't their Socialist idols, they're just a Capitalist oligarchic mafia state. So you make one comment that is percieved as being targetting against the Putin regime and you're automatically assigned the label of a Pro Western NATOpill schill
- But if any one instance pulls reddit stuff ppl will notice and can leave without losing the whole site and infrastructure
- The idea behind lemmy (and every other decentralized platform) is not that you can't get banned. The idea is that f the mods of one instance decde to go crazy, are bought by malicious people, or if there is an hostile takover (like what happened to freenode), then the network isn't compromized, and ideally there are plenty of other instances with a moderation policy you agree with and where you can recreate an account
  
  lemmy.world mods have already shown they're not interested in moderating fairly.
  I jumped ship from that awful instance when they decided to block piracy communities.
  Would love to see them fade into obscurity.
- Only by the admin of your home instance, which is unlikely and normally comes after something very extreme (and can be mitigated by running your own instance, where you are in sole power over your account, so it cannot be banned globally)
  But normally, you'll get banned by the community/certain other instance in very gruesome cases, but not your account.
- you can get banned here
  It takes special effort here, though.
  And like it was always going to be like that anyways.
  It's not inevitable: some places are very laissez-faire.
  
  Not that difficult. A year ago I was banned from lemmy.world for refusing to get into an argument with a mod.

I tried to like Reddit but every time I tried posting something I thought was original or thoughtful it would get auto deleted by a bot for not including the right "flair" or some other stupid shit.
- original or thoughtful
  That's the problem, the powers that b have deemed it necessary that we only have 1 of 2 ideas.
  Either you're loyal to conservatives, or loyal to neo-liberals. Anything else is cause for a ban, and there will be no cavalry to defend you since you're not loyal to either side.
- Posting in r/showerthoughts was impossible.
  Questions about dark matter removed from r/space
  Lots more like that.
  
  Showerthoughts was one I tried. I don't remember specifics but I tried a couple times to post actual thoughts I had in the shower and they got insta-banned by a bot so I just gave up.
- I came from TikTok to Reddit about 2 years ago and after some initial adjustments I found the experience quite liberating in comparison. But yeah there are a lot of rules that you only find out about by getting deleted or downvoted. Lemmy is quite literally the essence of what makes Reddit interesting without the weird bs so this is an overdue transition anyway (although I miss optional user flairs ngl).
  
  Lemmy is just small enough at this point where mods don't have to rely on automated tools and things like required flairs to effectively manage their community. As it develops, things like required flairs, verified submissions, etc will become more normal.
  For example, I'm watching Wheel of Time, and /r/WoT requires you to flair every submission with a spoiler level (books only, show and book, show only, etc). Lemmy can't really sustain good discussion on that yet, but when it does mods will need to start aggressively removing submissions if they're not properly categorized.
- Because you didn’t read and respect the rules
  
  Oh I did and even contacted moderators a few times to try to have posts reinstated after they were insta-banned by a bot. I just got tired of fighting with it every time I wanted to participate.

Don't miss Reddit. I got my 10 year account permanently banned for making a complaint about a mod who temp banned me for no perceivable reason.
Eat a sack of damp turds Reddit.

Oh this is me. Got banned from Reddit and am on lemmy fulltime.
- I'm so glad to see lemmy.world so active.
  
  I'd rather see lemmy.world shrink to irrelevance because their mods are just using it as a tool to push their agendas.
  You might not be a pirate, but did you know they're censoring piracy communities from you? Not sure if you want to be a part of an instance whose mod team feels they get to make decisions like that for you.

Similar happened to me. You cannot say there is genocide going in Palestine. If u say that are temp banned for a day, then 3 day then permanently banned.
- Israel has bots in reddit to gatekeep the narrative i believe they have taken over worldnews
- There will still be an amount of censorship on lemmy, it might just be on the opposite opinion of yours, so you won’t notice it. I’m pretty sure we’re slowly turning into an echo chamber as well
  
  Lemmy is definitely turning into an echo-chamber among the bigger instances.
  It's okay, though. Once enough people get censored, it opens up the opportunity for people to start instances that don't abuse their mod power.
  
  Absolutely! Especially communities like lemmy.ml. I just got banned for criticizing certain aspects of Communism. No alternate opinions are allowed apparently...
  
  The extreme political instances year, like hexbear , mil, grad are as bad as conservatives. Makes you wonder that they were justly banned from reddit as surely as they would if they step out of their instances
  
  that's why if you disagree with censorship/moderation policy of an instance, you can move to another one. You can't do that on reddit.
- Just for posterity in case this follows us here, there is a genocide going on in Palestine. Feels like a mantra at this point.

Lately I'm seeing a lot of this on old accounts
I had a few alt accounts from a decade ago that I'd sometimes used to get something from that site but over the past year the all got banned for no reason because I literally didn't even post with them.
Im guessing that Reddit wants to get rid of those older users that still remember how great it was
- They wantll Nu-reddit user, aka the ones that are ignorant of reddits history
  
  Yeah I've been wondering if I actually got banned because I used old.reddit and a hacked Reddit mobile app.

Lmao yeah I guess there’s a lot of us here.
- I doubt that very much.

Welcome, don't step in the Tankies on your way in.
- Actually, please do step on them, they might finally wanna leave
  
  They might like it
- Why do we keep those near the front door, anyway?
  
  They offered to build the front door for free and now that it's done it's difficult to convince people to come in through a different door.
  
  we keep moving them but when their toilets clog and overflow building mgmt moves them back.

I canceled my reddit pro, or reddit+ account, whatever the f*ck it is called, and the ads, the ads.... Ads that look like posts, or comments. It's almost making me 100% Lemmy too.
- I kinda miss the ads with comments enabled but not to the point where I'd consider going back 😅

Reddit has streaks now??
- For a second, I thought OP got banned from Duolingo.
  
  I mean back when duolingo has discussions or what they called it, you might write nasty stuff. But now, imagine being banned for the wrong translation.
  I haven't used duolingo for a few weeks because my hack to have infinite hearts broke again and I'm too lazy to put in the effort even tho it's not that difficult actually
- Yep, they want you to login everyday FOR MULTIPLE YEARS
  
  Well, I did that on my own to be honest. Not anymore, though, lol.
- Gamified social media with streaks and fomo notifications for daily scrolling or posting or whatever is hilariously bad and transparent.
  
  The streak made me want to not log in days in a row because it highlighted how much time I had wasted on the site.
  
  but people fall for it, otherwise every social media wouldnt have it
  
  That’s it, we are taking away the awards system.
  Jk, you can have it back.
- Wha... do you get some kind of reddit currency if you make a post that breaks 1000 upvotes, with a multiplier based on your log in streak length?
  Jesus Christ, these fucking dark pattern, microtransaction shit just needs to be universally banned.
- Even on old reddit they have these annoying and constant "achievement" notifications now.
  
  I’m so glad I left completely (minus the random search result with no other leads, but no browsing) when the API fuckery started, corporate social media sounds like an absolute hellscape now.
- They have a “basement dweller” achievement if you hit two years.
- Yeah honestly a social media streak getting bigger is a sign I should probably take a day off.

Exact reason why I'm here lol.

And nothing of value was lost

Shadowbanning is a tool of the demiurge

They kept sending me emails with cutesie aliens in them after they shadowbanned me. Very weird company

What did you do?
- Not op but I got perma banned for fighting with people who were defending massive pedophile Dr disrespect. They were arguing that "it was legal that means it's okay". I pointed out that the US is fucked and certain states have consent laws at 16. Legally he could fuck a 16 year old. However that doesn't change the fact that he's a pedophile scumbag regardless of legality.
  I was then banned for "child sexual content" :)
  
  I avoid YouTube/twitch drama like the plague, because you can't really tell if they support or criticize the streamers,
  
  I got banned for commenting on a video of something like "guy loses it in van and runs down protestors" my comment was pointing out that they were running into the way of an already (slow) moving van and then leaping dramatically to the ground. It was like a grade school production of a Chinese insurance scam en masse.
  
  I pointed out that the US is fucked and certain states have consent laws at 16
  Yeah, that's actually the average age worldwide
  Not defending Dr Diddles, mind you, but the US is actually better than a lot of places thanks to having parts where it's 17 or 18 (and... Worse, depending on where you look)
  
  Sounds right.
  
  Reddit has gotten so pathetic. Sad to see it fall so hard. If it was like this in 2012 I would have never signed up
  
  I tend to think that 16yo is fine so idc, they do their things
  However I still think Disrespect is a moron (for other reasons)
  Going to get downvoted but I’m making my part by de-echo chamberifying lemmy
- Well the sentence that initially got me a three day ban was "Hitler did nothing wrong" which I'm aware doesn't look good on paper but it was a quote and not my own words. According to Reddit the decision was automated so I appealed what I thought was an honest mistake and that's when they probably saw my recent posts promoting Lemmy and talking about Palestine and decided to ban me permanently. That or they didn't like that I filed an appeal. I haven't used Reddit nearly as much since getting on Lemmy anyway so this is more funny than annoying but still a weird way to go.
  
  Having gone cold turkey and just left, it's weird no matter how you leave. Realizing how addicted I was, was kind of hard for my psyche.
- Not OP but I got banned on reddit atleast 4 times. Zero bans on Lemmy though.
  All for supposed harassment usually after having a disagreement in certain subreddits. Honestly could be anything their report system seems easy to abuse
  Now, I don't tend to have those on Lemmy nearly as much, but when the pedophile I was disagreeing with reported me here the mods were chill to hear my side after issuing me a warning.
  For both the more chill atmosphere and the better mods I like more here.
  
  Same, plus they said I was report abusing.
  
  Zero bans on Lemmy though.
  Check dubvee. You might be surprised.
  
  Very sub and subject dependent honestly.

Reddit used to be good enough to get people to post daily without cajoling
- There it is. Their chatbots need more training data and reinforcement feedback.

I just got banned myself for calling a moderator woke. F reddit
- You sound like a conservative that doesn't know what your talking about, if it's based on sarcasm, but if it's based on bigotry, you had no place in reddit as surely in other forums. Nobody likes a obnoxious loudmouth
  
  Agreed. It was mostly based on frustration on how the littlest comment now on Reddit gets you banned. My mistake for getting hot headed and calling him a name.
- Doesn’t sound great for you…
- Woke is a compliment, though
- Was that ironic usage of the word or did you just out yourself on your first day?
  
  Needs more context. Calling someone woke because you know it will piss them off I think is fair usage.
  Anyone who gets that upset about being called woke probably isn’t that great either.
  
  I may have
- that Reddit mod
- Dang, I called one an autistic dork and only got 3 days. Nothing against autistic people. I'm something of an autistic myself. I just knew it would trigger him. Then I mocked him in the unban request too for being a "thin-skinned bitch."
  I've also said "I fully endorse Luigi and his slaughter of CEOs."
  Why is it so hard for me to get my permaban?
  
  Hahahhahahah

Welcome to the club!!!

Uh oh, did you suggest something that isn't aligned with corporate status quo enforcement?

I still haven't been told I've been officially banned, they just give me server errors all the time (only on my main account, not when going on any other account/incogni)
- Maybe you got shadowbanned?
- You can check if your shadow banned by looking at your profile while not logged in. If it says suspended or can't find your profile, you were banned
- Maybe they managed to corrupt your data.
  
  "Whoops! We accidently corrupted your data and didn't have any alerts setup for when this happens hihi"
  I wouldn't be surprised tbh