I wasn't banned, but I rolled over after 3rd party apps were taken away on the day they stopped working. I only use the app for it so taking that away made it pretty easy to stop and no i wasnt going to use their own because they forced my hand. Apps were limited on lemmy at that time and had to wait like 4 months before the one i used to use was released, but it was worth it.
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Reddit didn't ban me, I banned them.
After Reddit cut off api access to third-party apps, I left. Well, not right away, I did give RedReader a try for a month or so.
Banned? No. Other way around. I banned reddit from my devices after the API fiasco.
Banned for using a VPN for “ban evasion” but never had been banned before.
Appealed. No response.
I took that as a fuck off message.
I got 'soft banned'.
I had stopped commenting on Reddit back in 2022 after receiving warnings on similar topics. Continued to lurk and scroll. Now reddit has an uncloseable popup on web telling me to use the app. So I don't use reddit.
I came here after the Reddit API mess but still posted on Reddit.
Got a temporary Reddit ban for a short statement saying Biden was caught genociding, then recently a permanent ban for saying the only way Trump is leaving office is if 100,000 people drag him out. "Inciting violence."
303,000 comment karma, 8,388 post karma, 14+ years.
Going corporate is never good.
I didn't get banned. I left after the API change. I was already reducing use naturally, and what time I did still spend there was mostly to mod a very small niche hobby sub.
Without the mod tools I used before the API changes, plus the influx of MAGA-bots on reddit as a whole, I could longer mod the sub in a way the community asked for and that I was comfortable with. So I resigned, wished the remaining mods well, and went about my way.
There were other subs trying to go dark and impact reddit's advertising opportunities, and reddit was banning some of the mods doing that sort of thing. I decided even if reddit changed course, I was past the point I could ever come back to it.
Left reddit in the api blockage
Now I spend my days shit chatting with MLs
No ban, it just reached a threshold of enshittification where I said "enough is enough" and left.
I just stopped using it. No ban necessary.
I did get one or two temporary bans some years ago. First time was for criticizing their censorship. The second time was for sending the middle finger emoji to Spez.
I'm not going to go out of my way to delete my dead user or posts or anything. It's not my problem. Quite frankly, I just don't give a shit about their site.
Not banned but forced to use their shit app. They shut down Reddit is Fun, fuck them
I was sitewide banned for criticizing war thunder owner Gaijin on their own subreddit by saying they are biased to make russian vehicles always perform better than other nations at the same battle rating.
As far as I understood from others it's because subreddit mods have the power to sitewide ban... For some ridiculous reason. And in this case nobody at Reddit gave a damn or dared confront someone as big as Gaijin for someone as little as me.
Edit: at least I think that's why. Reddit bans are ambiguous as fuck. I remember trying to figure out why exactly but the message was similar to "banned because you broke tos" or some bullshit like that, with no link to an actual comment.
Reddit does seem to give subreddit mods a good deal of credit in their flags of users.
But a lot of it is dishonest, if you get traction criticizing a powerful group, they will find an unrelated reason to ban you. Because we have no rights to fair enforcement of the rules, they don't have to bother to make their accusations believable.
Israel is the main one I'm familiar with that they do this for, but all sorts of other stuff too.
Me. I got shadow banned, without ever hearing why
I was "harassing" a climate change denier by @ing them on climate change related news. The dude refused to block me and just kept getting annoyed once or twice a day instead. 10/10 would get banned for antagonizing someone too stupid to use the block button again.
This is why I'm wary of the lemmy user base, a combination of individuals who have been banned from reddit and/or think they're too good for reddit.
You do realize how easy it is to get banned from reddit, since the IPO dropped, yes?
I was there for 14 years and 50 weeks and got sniped within 30 seconds of dropping a post that was critical of Stephen Miller.
I got banned from Twitter after a decade and a dozen posts for calling out an insurrectionist three weeks before January 6th, using his own couched language of violence and corruption. (I grew up in the 1970's and knew damn well what he was saying)
Going back even further, I got banned from the old ABC news forums in 2004 for pointing out that it was in fact, the unfair economic policies of the rich, that was the main reason that many women were starting to opt out of motherhood.
Some of us just got bumped for speaking uncomfortable truths about the consequences of unchecked power.
I consider it proof positive that I've been seeing things clearly for the last.. oh.. 45 years.
Being banned from Reddit is honestly a badge of honor for the most part lol
You do realize how easy it is to get banned from reddit, since the IPO dropped, yes?
No clue - I had the good sense to leave well before the IPO.
"You don't go to the Nazi bar? What, you think you're better than them?"
There's certainly much, much more volatility here. Some people genuinely wrongfully banned; some... Less stable folks I think, "yeah you know what, you probably deserved the ban."
I got banned in 2022 when I called out Russian fake news. Apparently to an admin and they took that personally. 12 year old account with no prior bans at all. Poof, just like that.
Yeah I feel better than that shit hole and so should you. Reddit isn't for the people that made the site big anymore.
Lemmy is very reminiscent of early Reddit and 4chan in certain ways.
I decided to be the change I wanted to see here instead.
I got a 7 day ban for criticizing the current administration. Then I responded with go fucj yourself to the mod team and got my ban.
Not sorry.
Reddit admins, go fuck yourselves
I didn't get banned, I left Reddit voluntarily when they announced that they were going to be increasing censorship on their site a year or so ago.
My reasoning was, 'It's only a matter of time before I *do* get banned for something stupid, so I might as well leave this site on my own while I'm still ahead.'
I got banned for making a comment about some hockey player needed attempted murder charges for using his skate blade to slash a rival players throat during a game. Blood spirting out all over the ice. I was banned for inciting violence. When I asked how what I said was inciting violence they perma banned me. I then came here.
Not banned but they stopped letting me use bacon reader. so that was a deal breaker
Banned just over a year ago due to rump and anti nazi comments with a few fuck Ford’s in there as well.
Not banned, left voluntarily. The experience was so shitty I finally just said fuck it and left
Me in the last few weeks. Its majority bots and fake redditors from India nowadays. Every time theres a discussion that is against the billionaires agenda you can watch them flood in to brigade it. Its just not even worth my time anymore.
I hope Lemmy is taking notes and does something to prevent the same happening here.
I was permabanned in Elon's post-inauguration bloodbath, after 12 years, and a million Karma.
I know it sounds like sour grapes, but Reddit had already fallen far, and it's fallen much farther since. I was checking out a thread that came up in a search, and I had to endlessly scroll through puns, novelty accounts, more puns, trolls, tangents, etc. I gave up before ever getting to anything resembling the subject I had searched. Useless.
Getting banned on reddit was how I first learned about lemmy, but tbh I see the same kind of shit-flinging here, and I go back and forth. There's a kind of smugness here about not being like reddit, but I think it just feels different because people who would be targets on reddit get to be flingers here.
Main user got eventually banned for liking a comment, i was on a last warning and subsequent alts got caught by machine algorithms detecting uncharacteristic behavior for a new user or some links to the original banned user, like device ID or browser ID. All alts got shadowbanned after first few comments.
After few weeks of trying different approaches i gave up and decided it's more effort to try to bypass the detection algorithms than it's worth to browse reddit.
Haven't been banned yet, but I avoid politics on Reddit and I rarely post/comment over there ever since the 3rd party app fiasco.
I ditched it when they said you could be banned for upvoting pictures of Mario's brother. I figured it was only a matter of time before I got banned.
10 years in. Banned for suggesting that Trump’s immigration policy should keep the white trash South Africans out of America and not employed as ICE agents.
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