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I was one of the people who they actually unbanned because the bot wrongfully banned it. But because I used a second account during the wrongful ban, again cannot underemphasize so wrong that they admitted it was wrong, it perma banned all of my accounts.

Ive been shadow banned for talking about maker stuff before. Multiple times. It trips their algorithm because it looks like hacks.

I used to use the api to recommend other subreddits based on other subreddits. That lasted for years until that day.

I contributed to better reddit back in the day.

And then the lost me. They dont care I get it. But because of that the fediverse is nipping at their heels. And I'm staying.

I posted to the DnD 5e subreddit about a contradiction in the rules between how elementals and demons are summoned, suggesting that someone can summon a demon who can summon their own demon and so on, forever. Rules as Written allowed it and Rules as Intended also seemed to allow it given summoning elementals explicitly restricted doing summoning lesser elementals all the way down.

Anyway I got about to about 50 downvotes because I said I would allow a player to summon a demon who could summon a demon (who could potentially summon another demon) because, well, DnD. Fuck me I guess.

I moderated a large sub that participated in the blackout. Our mod team was threatened by the admins into reopening, and that's when I knew I was done with the platform.

There's a blocked user cap of 1000.

It's not enough.

This happened years ago before most of the big reddit controversies popped off and before words like incel and red pill were coined. There used to be a medium sized community called /r/foreveralone. It was mostly a community for people who were romantically alone and provided support and semi-edgy memes about it. Mostly though it was a support group by the time I found it. It was a decent community then full of lonely people who mostly encouraged each other and tried to help each other overcome those mental blocks we all set up that keep us from what we want.

Over time though new users started to migrate into the sub offering a different kind of support. They would claim that women were to blame for their lonely state and their rhetoric became increasingly aggrieved and violent. Around this same time /r/redpill was coming into it's prime and sucking many users down a very dark path. The /r/foreveralone community fractured and a schism created two groups within the community, those that wanted it to remain mutual support and chuds that wanted more red pilled content. Unfortunately the chuds won.

Despite many efforts my members of the community and mods to combat the problem nothing worked. I know many users also reached out to the reddit admins for help, but they chose to do nothing. After unmasking who knows how many chuds posting for support only to try to manipulate the community I left and moved on with my life. But it wasn't until months or years later (I can't remember the exact timeline) that the reddit admins squashed /r/redpill and helped the /r/foreveralone community recover their subreddit, but even now it's still fairly poisonous.

Like Facebook and X after them, reddit had a choice to keep the community free of knuckle dragging chuds, but chose not to for some vaguely defined, free speech ideal. That's why reddit sucks.

can we not be like every earlier "reddit alternative" that just talks about reddit? i remember the shitstorm that was voat.

i didn't join because of reddit, i joined because i like the threaded conversation model.

not interesting, but I got permabanned for ban evasion. I got caught up in the mod meltdown in r/conspiracy after the 2020 election because it was fucking hilarious. still the best popcorn episode that I have ever witnessed. got banned for pissing off axolotl. I used to have a separate account on each device I used because I don't know, it was just a thing that I did. I was on another device a day or so later and went back and I must have said something similar enough to get reported for evasion. that was it. over the next few days all of the old accounts I had were instantly banned at login. any new accounts that I tried to make were shadowbanned. a while later I found a couple of very old accounts that I was able to keep going by blocking all the conservative subs that I used to argue with people in, until one day I must have slipped up and said something "wrong" because those accounts were shadowbanned too. this was conveniently a short time before the API lockdown, so I just came over here and haven't gone back except when someone links over there.

I don't really think that Reddit sucks. But it's not the best option out there for me any more, which is why I'm here instead. I'd rather be using an open-source, distributed system with a variety of clients.

Reddit is owned by US American Big Tech; that’s enough reason.

uhg why.

move on. it ded

Made an account here on Lemmy in 2023 after the API stuff.

Then, a year later I got permbanned on reddit for being mean to Nazis, talking shit about Elon Musk, and saying Hans Kristian Graebner (the Neo-Nazi who makes the Stonetoss comics) deserved to have his name leaked on the Internet.

New account was banned a year after that for evasion.

Said fuck it, stopped using reddit and started being active here instead.

Once, it was a shining example to the world of how cool Lisp was, and it had absolutely no inane comments. Then they rewrote it in Python.

I remember the days of it having a plethora of subs with shitty graphics that were decicated to abusing women including 2 literally named 'beatwomen' subs and a sub where they would post pictures of women crying for dudes who got hard for that stuff.

it was all defended as 'free speech' and guys who called this 'blowing off steam'

cp subs were plenty. and defended with the same defenses mentioned above. pedo apologists as far as the eye could see.

I've hated it since it's conception.

reminds me of how bitcoin was invented by pedos to disguise their transactions: the worst inspiration for successful tech.

we as a species really need to be inspired by something better than this violence trope.

I just closed down the communities I moderated and nuked my entire account afterwards when the API ban was announced. I never looked back.

I've been on reddit for 13 or 14 years I think, had my own subreddit dedicated to my cats, then they closed the API and I couldn't use the free and add-free app anymore to manage it.

I was banned in one sub for pointing out how heavy-handed the mods were being about pedantic shit. They are basement-dwelling asshats.

I was on my regional sub Reddit and it turned right-wing real quick. Heard of Lemmy, decide to check it out, after 2-3 months I saw that I was more on Lemmy than Reddit so I deleted it.

In the background the API shit and their opening in the Market was happening so it probably help me to go

It kept throwing subs for Israeli pigs at me, for one.

That and shitty sports that I kept blocking, but it randomly decided the block list didnt exist.

Pointing out that 3/4 of the posts are old junk from karma whores or even suggesting something is AI generated gets you downvoted to oblivion and people calling you anything but nice.

I quit with the API bullshit but I first started realizing Reddit sucked when an admin threatened to ban me after I reported a fascist troll running a bunch of sockpuppets. The troll I guess was friends with a mod who was friends with this admin, I don't really know what the deal was but the result was they got me in trouble for abusing moderation. I kept reporting the troll and their accounts eventually got nuked by Reddit a few weeks later, I was never banned or contacted by an admin again.

I was permabanned for reporting an unironic 'kill all men' post.

Mine's a doozy https://maximiliankohler.blogspot.com/2023/06/reddit-is-dangerous-humanity-needs-an-alternative.html.

I saw one too many questions asking what I thought about Andrew Tate, I said that I'd murder him if I could, a couple hours later I got a notification that said I was permabanned.

I was churning accounts because I'd get preemptively banned by some subs just for posting in other subs, then I'd post in one accidentally not remembering the preemptive ban and all the accounts get permabanned for "ban evasion", it's too much work. What're ya gonna do? Make a separate email AND account for each subbreddit to prevent that?

Then they remove old reddit for everyone without an old account.

Many of the subs are gone anyway. /r/random mostly ends up on dead subs, and all the users of years ago are gone, seemingly also due to account churn.

Logged on to my account while on VPN. They suspended my account and the only way to recover it is through email verification. I didn’t use an email when I created that account a long time ago.

I was drowning in rage bait engagement bait and just generally bait everywhere. Felt like a fish.

Lemmy feels like the open ocean in comparison. I can choose where to go and what to do. It's a lot emptier in comparison, but that's not necessarily worse than hooks everywhere trying to hack your brain.

Initially came over during the API protests. But my Reddit is Shit angry blab right now is that I can't fucking read comments anymore when just randomly searching things on my phone because there's a pop-up that you can't close that makes it impossible to read more.

I've tried clearing my cache and it seems to come back faster and faster every time. I also flip over to the desktop site instead of mobile to keep reading - but that's a pain in the arse.

So yeah. Greedy bastards are just smashing the 'get our app' banner in your face and blocking everything else. Fuck em