I’m a lurker. I don’t post on facebook or reddit or anywhere. Today I randomly got a message from reddit that my account was permanently banned for apparent repeated violations of their site wide rules. I have the ReVanced app on my phone that blocks ads on reddit just so those scumbags can’t profit off me lurking, but it’s the only reason I could fathom that is why I’ve been banned. Anyway I just wanted to vent so thanks for reading this if you did. Reddit fucking sucks.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      I didn’t realize how bad Reddit had gotten until I tried Lemmy. It got toxic slowly enough that it snuck up on me. I’ll never go back.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I had to look something up and the answer was in Reddit. After I found what I was looking for I scrolled through my old subscribed communities and saw so much toxicity,. Not just in the people but the things I was subscribed to, r/relationships, AITA, even some of askReddit, it made me feel gross thinking that’s what I scrolled through and interacted with every day.

        • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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          4 months ago

          It’s so much better (and easier, once you get used to it) to just give people the benefit of the doubt.

          I think I read somewhere that Lemmy users are, on average, a bit older than Reddit users. To me, that just means that we’re more likely to have seen the worst that the web has to offer, and don’t want to reproduce it. Of course, we can still be trolls and idiots; it’s just less prevalent.

    • Read bio@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Honestly when I used to used reddit during 2023 it was so toxic holy hell people here are so much nicer

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      In my experience, people here are nicer than the people in, for example, r/politics. However, that’s not saying much. I never commented in r/politics. I only commented in those niche communities that don’t exist here and Lemmy is a big step down compared to them in terms of the quality of the discourse. (It helped that the communities I participated in would ban people for being rude.)

  • HamSwagwich
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    4 months ago

    Happened to me recently as well. i use Sync. Even creating a new account results in it being banned within a couple of days.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I was likewise banned for the crime of using a VPN and Reddit randomly deciding that was a breach of their ToS I guess. I appealed, but nobody answered.

  • wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Do you have an email address associated with your account? I created my reddit account before email addresses were required. A couple weeks ago I received a site wide ban for unspecified reasons. On the main web site it just said that I had a permanent ban. But on old.reddit.com, it says “provide an email address to reactivate your account”. So in my case the purpose of the ban was simply to force me to give them my email address, which I declined to do.