Yea, I lost my 15 year old account last year. Started a new one and it just wasn't the same. Left a few months ago for here, still not the same, but better then reddit.

Tenure doesn't matter; just think about how many people removed all their content in response to their API pricing, and they still didn't care. Reddit is gone, so is Twitter.

I met Steve, Alexis, and Aaron when the site was housed in Steve's Somerville apartment. They used to throw meetups in Davis Square. This was in 2007-08, before the Digg migration.

Reddit is nothing like it was then, nor are the founders recognizable compared to what I saw all those years ago. I'm not banned, but then I rarely go there any more. Lemmy isn't very good, but Reddit is a dumpster fire.

Reddit really needs a great alternative. Lets see how Lemmy does in this regard.

Welcome to Lemmy!

So glad I got the fuck out of there. I was almost banned for saying they should take out Desantis like the dirty diaper he is.

This was way back during Trump's first presidency. I appealed explaining that in the same series of comments way worse was said. The mod accused me of harassment for sending a single appeal. It left such a bad taste in my mouth I never really took the site seriously after that and moved on completely several months later.

It was a good thing though. Everything I had liked about Reddit had long been perverted, I just hadn't realized it.

Yup, banned after 17 years here for speaking out against ICE. Guess Reddit is just taking a turn right into the shitter now.

They did you a favor.

12 years for me. Tons of Karma, made it to top page once. I made a stupid joke on Roast me, and someone considered it Hate speech. Tried to create other profiles, all are permanently banned now. Appeals are denied. Glad I found this site. I hope it scratches the itch.

Reddit is also giving data on users who say things the administration doesn't like to the DoJ, so fuck them anyway.

Me too, because I made a joke about "If he just hadn't missed" - a hate post about trump = perma bann for life. Fuck reddit, never been looking bad. Lemmy.world was actually a solid solution.

19 years.Sorry to hear that. Makes my 3 year account loss bearable. I could go back there but I made a Mastadon and a Bluesky and now a Lemmy.I did a reasonable job of protecting my home IP so I can make another account but I don't care to make the effort. The no private message thing was pretty vile and having to keep an ad blocker active made it bearable. Like a bird being cast out of the nest Its best sometimes to move on. 19 years of your data is enough. Sorry for your loss

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

they did you a solid, bud

18 years. Banned a year ago. No recourse, appeal immediately denied. Used the word “tRump”

Yeah happened to me. Got temp banned for trash talking, then went on an alt and then got perma'd. It is what it is but I spend much less time on there as a result. Win win?

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.

It's actually quite a horrible feeling, initially. I was there from near the beginning, through the glory days to the enshitification. Got banned from a sub by an overzealous mod on AskUK. Then perma-banned for 'ban-evasion', simply for using another "throwaway" account, which was common practice for years.

Now I'm on Lemmy I'm never going back, even if I could (which is harder than you might think).

Yes, this place is way smaller, but I've met almost no dickheads or bots in the year or so I've been here. It's nice. I had a gander at Reddit the other day and it reinforced my affection for this platform and utter disdain for Reddit in general. They've absolutely wrecked it.

No, I just stopped using it a couple of years ago when we learned about the AI bullshit. 251k+ Karma account.

Reddit sucks now & it's simply not worth supporting with my time or energy.

The lesson is we need platforms like lemmy. Don't ever support any corporate platforms they may seem nice now but it always ends badly.

I got banned after 12 years for saying "kill" in the context of a cat hunting for food. I appealed it and immediately got a denial. They said the decision wasn't made by a bot which means a human just straight up didn't read the comment that got me banned.

As for getting around it, it takes more effort than it's worth. They use multiple levels to enforce their bans. Beyond just an IP ban, they can see what device you're on, pixel counts of your screen, browser cache, basically your whole digital fingerprint. It's actually pretty terrifying how much information about you a website can get.

Even if you manage to evade all the technical stuff, the site can track which subs you might subscribe to, your interaction patterns, how you "talk" in comments, they got a whole profile on you. Your best bet of getting around the ban is to get a new device and move to another state. Even then if you join  multiple niche subs that your old account was subbed to they'll figure you out.

If you do it right, and clear all your cookies and caches and other identifiers you can use an anti-tracking browser like GoLogin, but most of those are subscription based and you'll have to run through a VPN and make sure you don't log in on a normal browser on accident.

Using the reddit app on your phone is out of the equation entirely.

Lemmy is a much better alternative, but there aren't a lot of people here. Hopefully reddit continues forcing their users off their platform so the population here gets bigger.

Your mistake wasn't making the comment, it was that it caught the eye of an admin's alt. It's why r/worldnews goes to shit anytime anything Israel related is ever mentioned, and it's such a sticking point for the admins that they basically had to throw away everything they had built up with the worldnews Q&A and interviews. They even used to pass off admin actions as that of the mods until eventually after getting enough backlash they just promoted the karmawhore mods willing to be loyal to them and forced the rest to leave.

They don't want users or subscribers anymore, they want a product. They don't give a shit how many years you were a member, and they secretly hope you do end up registering with an alt. It's basically a stick to implicitly train you to avoid those topics if you want to continue participating.

If you want to go back to reddit, your best bet is to run on a VM with a different yet standard resolution and to try to mask all the data your browser leaks about you (why there isn't a browser that already does this is ridiculous). Different timezone, location, etc. Tracking doesn't matter as long as you don't use it with your main account. Cycle your IP, which is usually simply turning off your ISP router for a while then turning it back on again, don't really need a VPN unless they want to start banning whole geographical locations. If everything works out, congratulations, you have become yet another organic user reddit has turned into being indistinguishable from fake bot users.

How to get around this:

Why the fuck are you on an enemy's weapons system? Yes, you will have to make peace with permanently being excluded from what is essentialy 1/3 of the internet, but they are REALLY evil. It's like an abussive partner leaving you.

Good riddance.

i can't remember what i got banned for, but my memory has it as "posted Luigis in defiance of Luigis ban" and that sounds like me.

Join the club, I was banned for making a comment about the fucking Muscovites attacking Ukraine. F-Reddit!

I got banned after 12 years, and a million Karma, in the Post-Inauguration bloodbath. I got around it with alt accounts for a while, but they caught up faster and faster. The first one lasted about 3 months, but by the end, I was getting tracked down and banned before my first comment was even posted.

People like us, who were there near the beginning, when nobody had heard of Reddit, built that site into what it became. Without us, it has become a cesspool of bots, trolls, novelty accounts, Russian Propaganda Farmers, Corporate manipulators, etc., and especially abusive Mods.

Too bad, it was great for a while.

Fascists. You have a home here. Stay beautiful, love.