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19 yrs on Reddit, permanently banned. (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by ShergalFarkey@lemmy.world to c/redditwasfun@lemmy.world

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No warning, not even a "Don't do it again email" - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That's it, gone, banned.

I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that's banned too. FFS!

No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anyone managed to get around this?

Didn't even try. It was the impetus I needed to finally leave reddit. I'd also been on there for a long time, and i was putting in an hour or so each day. It wasn't really doing me any good, and when I adjusted I felt better to be away from it. Lemmy scratches the itch but is small enough that it doesn't consume much time. I do more reading and gaming now when I'm free. Years spent on reddit and big karma numbers are a sunk cost that makes it hard to leave.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I recently got perma banned from a community I'm very passionate about. No warning, perma ban for something that imo is not that controversial (I called a politician a spineless fuck) when I attempted to contest it, the mods muted me. Fuck reddit.

[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Take my updoot for calling that politician a spinless fuck

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You have to be very bland and innocuous now. Even calling a 3rd person an idiot is enough to get your comment deleted so you have to constantly check yourself "Is this comment boring and milktoast enough to survive?"

[–] maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

I had an account for over 10 years and also left. I left over the recent issues with Discord as well as Reddit, Meta, and Google. I figured it was time to get off of them, honestly they did OP a favor.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I find fewer and fewer reasons to go to it. I mute many of the annoying subs from my feed. I avoid the ones that are just echo chambers. This leaves a pretty small list and they are getting very repetative.