cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73406944
It all started when my main Reddit account was banned—simply because I posted a comment criticizing the banning of a subreddit—resulting in the immediate loss of an account I’d held for about 4 years, with 102k karma. I appealed, but I received no response—not even a reason for my ban, nor any notification that I had been banned in the first place. I’ve filed appeals repeatedly over the past few months, but today, I’m finally giving up. Fuck Spez and his pathetic, whore of a family. When I submitted my appeals, there wasn’t even any indication that they had gone through; I was just left in total silence, unable to do a thing. I started using an existing alt account for basic tasks, but today, that account was banned too—all because I recommended the non-profit, open-source “VPN Gate” project to someone who was complaining about the mandatory KYC (age verification) requirements being imposed in my country. The only reason I was still using Reddit was out of habit, and I’ve decided it’s time to change some of my habits. Ultimately, this is the inevitable fate of every centralized corporation—without exception. There’s no guarantee that some complete moron won’t end up in charge of any of them. I wish more people realized this. If four years of my effort are being sold off to AI data companies, and everything can be permanently wiped out overnight without a word of warning, then that is, quite simply, data theft. Once again, fuck you, Spez—you absolute piece of shit. If you had even an ounce of courage or integrity, you wouldn’t have imposed those damn API restrictions in 2023 and ruined Reddit. I truly regret the four years I spent here, but it’s better to cut my losses now. Goodbye, you son of a bitch Spez, and your puppet, Reddit…
Good for you I guess? I actually went back to using reddit a few months ago. Lemmy just isn’t big enough for the communities I want to engage with. I have tried to create spaces here, and nobody interacts with them.
As much as reddit sucks, that’s still where a lot of people are. The other issue with lemmy is that it’s a bunch of leftists all fighting and arguing with eachother about who is the most pure leftist. It’s annoying. But, you’ll see that all in due time. Best of luck to you with this place. I guess.
It’s a small space and you’ll see the same people a lot, so be prepared for that.
Ok. Try to not throw a huge wall of text please. I hate reddit too, but this is super boring.
This place is so much worse. The mods are unchecked and twice as power hungry. The users are way more out of touch.
This place took every single corporate control measure that reddit implemented and built lemmy out of it. No lessons were learned.
This place is a snuff box for leftist.
I’ve been getting this for a few weeks now, no way I’m making another account. Obviously loading the home page like 3 times per day is bot behaviour!
Side note - If you save a multi reddit, it skips verification and autoloads old reddit. However if you try to load any comments it will block you.
Did you say something mean about fElon?
Left reddit after the API fiasco. You will be fine, anyway reddit is in a very rapid decline.
Same bruh. Reddit’s decline is real. In Indian feeds, I only see people posting reels from Insta, thirst trap LLM slop in fashion subReddits or sexually deprived men fantasising about content creators and bollywood actresses in celeb subReddits.
Alternatively reddit is done using you lol. Welcome to lemmy!
Leaving Reddit is like leaving an abusive relationship (kinda: stick with me on this)
- Reddit makes the rules and tells you what you can and can’t say
- Reddit won’t allow you to speak about controversial topics that could be upsetting to it’s advertisers (i.e. Israel)
- Reddit mods can ban you for no reason
- Appealing to “authorities” (Reddit, when mods go crazy) does absolutely nothing
- It hurts and is sad to leave
- It gets better once you leave
- You look back a while later and think, wow it is so much better now you’ve left.
You forget step 0.5, spamming gifs of Luigi twerkin
The first four of those also apply to Lemmy too though. Depending on the instance, Lemmy mods are even worse than Reddit mods. And there is no “authority” to appeal to here either. The only difference is that there aren’t advertisers that they’re trying to appease, it’s just whatever neckbeard you pissed off that will have a vendetta against you.
The other thing that makes it feel like an abusive relationship is how huge it feels. How grand it seems, and how you just can’t imagine life without it. I’m still healing from when I recently got sitewide banned for some alleged ban evasion bullshit
And… as someone who’s actually been in abusive relationships, I can attest to your analogy
Only difference is, I still hope to get back in, and am waiting on my second appeal. It’s not a perfect comparison because it still has its occasional good uses, but still I agree
I banned Reddit a few years ago. They broke my policy so they had to go.
it took you this long?
Pretend you’re a Russian bot and you’ll have platinum access
Can I get API access then?
I love that it says “This account is banned” Then immediately “Jump back into explore communities” Lol
“we don’t want you to participate anymore but we still want you to look at ads”
They have ads? Joking but I never saw any with firefox on ublock. So at least I screwed them back a little, but they got all my comments for free, no small thing adding up all of our contributions, worth more than the ad revenue in many ways.
That’s why I deleted my posts and comments regularly. There are even scripts to do this on mass https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
I kind of wanted to leave mine up for posterity though. For the real people that may come across the stuff. But perhaps that was a mistake I’ve been turning that over, wondering if I should’ve just deleted it all.
I get where you’re coming from. It feels wrong to let years of writing just vanish when it might still help someone. But leaving it up keeps concentrating all that value inside a company that only ever wanted it to sell ads and train models with it. It’s already bad enough that a normal search often means appending “reddit” to the query. They gain so much power from that dynamic that I’d rather burn my old writing with me than keep feeding it. And honestly, since they can wipe an account overnight without a word, “posterity” there is rented at best. I’d rather start over and help build the information here, in the fediverse, where it can’t be taken away by anyone person or organization.
You sold me. Unfortunately I don’t know if I can even remember all my handles, but I should try. Although the data scrapers have it all already by now, at least reddit and new crawlers won’t.
I wonder if there is a program to download all of your conversation trees first for yourself, then delete? I should look around for that first.
The power delete suite can do this as well. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite#%3A~%3Atext=You+can+do+an+export+of+all+the+content+you+filter%2C+whether+or+not+you're+deleting+or+editing!
My account was banned but o never saw this and was able to continue browsing but not post.
Whenever I see people getting banned from Reddit I always revel in the fact that I left on my own terms. I never go back there voluntarily since the API Epoch. Eat my shorts, Reddit.
Seriously. At least back then their Android app was basically unusable. I haven’t tried it since, but suspect that because ads I’d probably hate it anyways. It was an unhealthy addiction.
I left when the great conservatisation started before the API issues. When they basically wanted more conservative moderators in “liberal” places for fair and balanced approach. When people were being banned left and right for speaking out against the regime or telling LGBT people to arm up.
Hear hear
