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I’ve actually never been banned on Reddit for anything, anywhere. I’ve always been careful of where I went and what I interacted with there. I only just recently deleted my Reddit account, because I stopped using it long before I got myself setup on Lemmy. I’ve been on a roll of abandoning the “big” platforms (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X) and replacing them with decentralized services. Reddit is just my most recent example.

Linked that Bill Hicks standup routine where he encourages marketers to kill themselves. Must have hit too close to home for some loser admin who nuked my account for inciting violence.

I belive they called it "advocating violence"

Lol I recently had a comment removed from the bogleheads subreddit because some guy was talking about buying a bit more of their usual index fund purchases if the market were to dump 20% in a day. Someone asked how they'd do it and I said "probably just shift a bit from emergency fund and build it back over the next month or two."

Cue the True Bogleheads ripping me for suggesting "timing the market." I said "this is, of course, fine." And they went nuclear. That comment got removed and I replied to the mod with "You got your head pretty far up your bogle there, bud." That got me a 3 day full reddit ban. Worth it.

For the uninitiated, bogleheads are basically just adherents to a popular passive investing philosophy. I agree completely with it, but it was hilarious to me how dogmatic - borderline religious - they were about "timing the market" with zero nuance or recognition that it's just not that serious.

I got banned from a bunch of subreddits by making one comment in Asmingold...and it was a comment against. Then got sent this pm saying if you delete your comment and apologize we will reconsider you. I told em to fuck off I'll speak how I like. Censorship is censorship. Wasn't long before I deleted all my posts and comments on by one manually and killed off my 14 year old account.

I posted a picture of the non existent genitals of a Ken doll with the caption, "Elon's Penis," In political humor.

Multiple reasons really, one of which was telling a guy who wanted to put low IQ people in concentration camps "you first".

I got banned from a subreddit because the mod had this "not with us, you are against us"argument. It was years ago, but IIRC I was posting against a comment calling for assaulting men to balance out the abuse of women.

To be honest, I think I may have seen more banning on Lemmy though. I've noticed a few cases where the admins have banned people with objectionable opinions. In all fairness, these were the type people you would avoid at parties, but it does give me pause. In reddit if you get banned from a particular subreddit you still keep your identity and participate in other subreddits. In Lemmy, you are at the mercy of your server, and if a large server bans you, it would essentially remove you from all of their communities that otherwise might accept you. I worry that this is creating an echo chamber.

I just nuked my account and fecked off to Lemmy after the API kill.

I just... left.

I didn't. I left when they killed RiF

I got banned for "attempting to circumvent a ban" despite not being banned at the time.

I didn't. I left of my own accord.

I said billionaires should be put to the guillotine.

I told homophobes they were pieces of shit and got permabanned for it

I got banned for repeatedly tagging a global warming denier in posts about climate change

I said Italy knows how to deal with fascists in a post about Mussolini.

I made a random comment about a movie’s premiere date on r/FauxMoi without realizing that FauxMoi had blocked my old reddit account years ago. (I have absolutely no clue why FauxMoi blocked my first account.) Reddit viewed me using a new account to comment on FauxMoi as “ban evasion” and now I’m perma-banned from reddit. I received no warning, no notice, I had no idea I was even banned from commenting on FauxMoi.

Every time I make a new account, regardless of the email or where I make the account, the ban follows me. I tried to explain the mistake, that I hadn’t realized my old reddit account was banned from FauxMoi and that I’d take down my (perfectly innocuous, on-topic) comment. Nope. They didn’t care. I’m just fucked. Thanks mods at FauxMoi, hope yalls choke.

Someone asked if a prisoner being resuscitated has finished serving their life sentence, I said you have to be irrevocably dead, admins said that promotes violence.

I got blocked from the subreddit I created because I made it private due to the API debacle and refused to make it public until they undid the decision.

Remember when Elon Musk had that black eye and said his son punched him? I said "can't blame him". Which is, of course, glorifying violence.

Banned for going after Israel and IDF shills promoting hate speech and calling for violence. Clear violations of the TOS, even back in 2023, but reporting it got me perma-banned after 13 years.

Calling for Elon Musk to get burned by the Canadian government for subsidy fraud. They took me literally, instead of recognizing the term for when a government disavows, or cuts all ties with a person or business, is called getting "burned".

I left when they killed Apollo and third party apps altogether. The only way I viewed Reddit was through that app, so Reddit was dead to me at that point. I used a tool that edited all of my old comments, deleted my 10-year-old+ account and left forever.

"Report button abuse" for reporting too many blatant ads as spam.

It happened right around the same time as the API fiasco, so I didn't give two flying fucks. I was leaving anyway.

Told some tankie Russian apologist to 'go suck your brother's dick again'. Boom. All accounts banned. I guess I hit too close to the mark.

I got permabanned for saying billionaires deserve death one too many times.

I got "VPN banned" despite not using a VPN lmao

Granted I haden't used the service since the API changes anyway, so no loss there, but I did get a pretty big chuckle when i finally found that out.

Permanently Banned for inciting violence.

I said the Trump government was going to put LGBT people in camps and this was a bad thing.

I got banned from /r/WorldNews and /r/ukpolitics for saying that "from the river to the sea" isn't antisemitic. It was in the early days post Oct 7th when reddit was virulently pro-Israel; I don't think they'd do the same nowadays.

I didn't leave immediately but thinking about it again really pissed me off as I'd been a regular commenter without much issue for years. It genuinely left me feeling quite depressed thinking about how little I mattered to them. When you get banned there's always some shit about how you should ask if you don't understand the ban, but one sub never replied, the other went further and told me to stop messaging their mods (I did so once a week when I wasn't receiving replies, to not spam them) so that was meaningless.

The irony is that here I'm usually getting downvoted for being insufficiently anti-Israel.

A posted a meme in r/conservative that featured the home addresses of prominent conservative talking heads in a thread about how the left can't meme.

Banned from r/worldnews for "racism" (said that the Russian elites have been committing social and moral degradation for centuries, by killing, imprisoning or exiling anyone with independent thoughts). Banned from numerous subreddits for "participating in a hate subreddit" (correcting someone once in r/KotakuInAction).