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...
You can make a new account though, even with the same email address (or at least that used to be possible).
most people wont risk that, plus reddit will ban people faster if you use the same email. i just used a fork of FF, and old reddit and spin up a new email on a trusted email like hotmail(i dont use that for anything else). gmail used to be super trusted by reddit until Google started to restrict the amount of emails you can have per device. niche subs only, and you are safe, but on any of the large subs on the main page, will likely get you banned, because i think the filters/detection is heavier there.
new device/IP change/browser is enough as well.
Have you tried recently? Because the paradigm of having many reddit throwaways is a thing of the past. These days you can still register as many account as you want but the instant shadowban comes the moment you try to post something.
Emphasis on the shadowban, which is the default behavior. You can still submit posts and comments from as many accounts as you want but nobody else is going to see it.
if you use the same ip/device/browser then ban evasion will happen almost as fast you make an account. most forks have anti-fingerprinting capabilities, the less obscure the forks reddit likely wont ban you immediately. i made an account on librewolf after lurking on reddit from a shadowbans after a year(i think they lift bans on some people after a long time).
an exception is if you had dozens, or even hundreds of accounts spamming, and they banned all of them, its much harder to get around that. these are not your normal users, its the ones that spam thier businesses, or drive traffic to thier own site or its OF account. reddit start looking harder, like what kind of IP your using, IP thats from an abused source(used by spammers and bots).
My alts got popped pretty quickly for ban evasion when my main account got banned. I didn't even have email addresses associated with them.
Yeah, the moment you use a connected mail address, number or IP address, it's banhammer time. I got permabanned for advocating violence... when I discussed suicidal ideation
Mine was for saying child rapists should be executed. If their difference of opinion opinion on that topic is that strong I'm glad to no longer contribute to their platform.
I actually think I got shadowbanned because I was on an IP that was used by someone who was probably banned and my account got associated.