I hadn't been. I just wanted an open-source alternative; as with all aspects of my life.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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I was never banned. I left recently because the app got updated to keep sound on ads always on, even if you turned them off, the next time you used the app, the sound was back on.
This happened a few times to me and I deleted the app
Im not currently banned, but they banned me for a bit for using the word revolution when referencing what America needs.
They also gave away user data to DHS cause they asked.
So. Yeah.
Me, and this place is dead man. It's only about news and left vs rightwing politics for some reason. No niche sites active. I followed a lot of linux distros and sports pages on reddit that were really active. In here. Just bot posts..
We do our best in the /c/games community! It isn't niche by any means, but we have regular posters (including myself) and we have fair engagement on new posts and members also.
Unfortunately as is the nature of most social media, it can only be as active as the users. So for very niche subjects I can't see Lemmy ever being super viable (sadly)
I mean the general groups works in here, but since I only care about 1% of those general themed groups, I really miss the niche forums, where I care about 99% of the posts.
Yeah, it's mostly reposts of 2-year-old screenshots of other social media
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My account of like 20 years got banned and I never received any reason why.. still to this day have no idea. no messages or anything. I tried making a few more accounts but was using alias emails and VPNs and such and they all got banned. After that I figured why do I try to hard if they don't want me so I jumped ship...
never looked back
Same
I don't use it as much but most of the engagement posts are run by bots. I stick to discord a little more. Feels more transparent and you need an invite.
You gonna still use it after they require face recognition
You mean discord? Probably move to telegram then.
Yeah, got perma banned and couldn't circumvent the detection algorithms that kept shadowbanning new users or at least the effort required to keep testing wasn't worth it anymore.
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Ii was banned for saying old people call people who go to therapy "f_____", i am not homophobic, matter of fact it wasn't even in english, i used a word with much lighter connotation in my own language.
Some weeks before the fact i said that certain presidents of a certain country would end like Saddam Hussein if UN was serious and wasn't able to use Reddit for 3 or 2 days
Based
I used it before, but got banned by Reddit a couple of months ago for a genuinely ridiculous post. My account was 14byears old. I couldn't care less about being banned. The place has been a burning dumpster fire for the last few years. If they want to implode that's their business.
Me. I didn't even do anything really wrong, accidently posted to a subreddit on one account after getting banned with another account. I didn't even realize I had posted on it 1xs before from another account. Then on the space of about 2 hours ago in accounts were IP banned. Even my business account. I was very pissed because I didn't even post anything that controversial to get banned, but that healthcare industries should not be able to denied coverage. But that was "political" and they banned me from that subreddit. I had like 8 accounts and forgot all about the ban. Made some simple comment accidentally and BAM IP banned.
Not banned yet, but they recently removed my API key I was using to work with sideloaded Apollo. I'm now using an alternative method again, but I wonder when they'll just end up banning all users trying to keep Apollo alive?
I was never banned but a few things led up to it
- I received a warning from their AI moderation because I wrote I wanted to shoot annoying children (who were playing reddead redemption online). I was in the red dead subreddit too when I wrote this. Any level of context literacy would not have let that go through. This also happened after I made a very contentious post about being sexually harassed in a video game which made the nerds very mad and I guess mass reported my history
- the punishment of mods protesting the API shit. I've moderated a community for 12 years, for those years it was implied it's my community and I make the rules so I'm invested in it, but then suddenly you can have it taken from you if you set it to private? I now just sit on my subreddits and ignore them. I will remake them here.
- a beloved subreddit of mine (I didn't own it just visited it daily) was attacked by a spam network for 2 weeks. Mod was inactive. I spent hours mass reporting every account but reddit did absolutely nothing and just shut the subreddit down instead of blocking suspicious accounts trying to post the same keywords there, like 3 seconds in automod would have saved it. I could have taken it over, but I'm done doing free labor for Spez after the API fiasco showed we have no control over our own subreddits
- people getting banned just for upvoting comments reddit doesn't like
- everyone on reddit has become a lot more hostile and toxic, only wanting to shoot 'hot takes' and insults instead of having a discussion. It feels a lot more like Facebook now than Reddit
- final straw was the hiding of post history. There is no point in interacting with anyone on reddit if I don't know they're a real person or not
Pre 2021 I had none if these issues and it was a great place that I learned a lot from, but corporate enshittification is going to enshittify everything it touches so I'm only going to donate my passion to open source things now.
Did you delete your account?
No, I need to get my 1 subreddit I care about sorted out , demod myself, delete all my comments, then I think I'm going to sell my account.
Buddy I'm shadowbanned from LEMMY
Not today, spez
I have been a Reddit user for 15yrs and got banned 48hrs ago for for suggesting that some dog owners should die because of their deliberate inbreeding to create dogs with traits that are ultimately bad for their health.
For context I am in the UK and we have a deeply ingrained love for dogs over here so seeing a picture of some Americans that are gushing over their inbred dogs made me angry and emotional.
I've been to the UK and there's British people that also breed dogs... It's not an American thing. I also don't think the love of dogs is something specific to the UK, people love dogs all over the west ๐ญ
If it is happening over here we don't see it as much. I am not saying that it is not through. It's just when we do see it is is mostly US images or stories.
I actually made my first account here before I was site banned by reddit.
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I came after the API fiasco. At first I was going to delete my account but I only deleted my comments and now I only go there to my country's sub. It was hard to stay away since Lemmy was still barebones. I'd go through all my homepage in a few minutes. Nowadays there's so much content I barely go on reddit.
I've had so many handles banned from reddit that I lost count after 30 or so.
fuck 'em.
I've been through so many reddit handles. Some are banned in /r/politics, some in other subs. There's no reason to it.
I was temp banned from reddit for honestly I forgot why (something to do with me being antizionist), I realized I was gonna get banned anyway so I deleted my account and left on my own terms.