Asklemmy

I got shadow banned (seemingly site-wide) after pointing out that the Biden and the Democrats’ messaging shifted from “Trump is a fascist” to “we have to think about unity!” after Trump got shot in the ear, which proved to me Biden et al. were either allied with fascists by protecting them from harm or never believed Trump was a fascist to begin with, which pointed to Biden (and his team and the whole democratic news media) being more closely aligned with Trump than they wanted people to know.

The tipping point for me was probably the line “if Biden actually thought Trump was a fascist and had an actual problem with that, he would’ve shot him on stage”

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.

I created an account here after the API nonsense. Stayed on reddit for a couple years, but the bot problem there got worse, and worse. I was very vocal about why reddit chose to turn a blind eye to the bot problem. My account of 12 years kept catching bans for the mildest of takes. Feels like they were trying to get rid of me. Finally caught a perm ban for ridiculous reasons in 2024, made an alt account that got caught for ban evasion a year later. Gave up because they're very hawkish about keeping humans off the platform, but they welcome bots and alt right shitheads with open arms.

I've been through so many reddit handles. Some are banned in /r/politics, some in other subs. There's no reason to it.

Never been banned I just find Reddit use users insufferable and while sometimes lemmy isn’t that much better it’s definitely not as bad as Reddit has been. Especially lately.

I deleted my reddit account during the API debacle and didn't participate since, but kept lurking there. Then, a couple days ago they started requiring an account to access the site, and now I'm here, oh well.

A decent sized portion. This has been discussed many times and often mentioned in the political communities in the comments about reddit censorship.

Not today, spez

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

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.

I've had so many handles banned from reddit that I lost count after 30 or so.

fuck 'em.

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.

Reddit gave me a choice to either doxx myself to them over a "suspicious activity" flag or walk away. Since I am in fact a bot and have no proof of humanity, I was forced to return to the mothership.

I deleted my account and left reddit after it turned into nothing but bots and frothing at the mouth fash. Redditurds really love looking for any excuse they can find to use slurs.

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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.

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..

I actually made my first account here before I was site banned by reddit.

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.