Got Permanently Banned from Reddit for Criticizing trump & edolf. Who Else Here for Similar Reasons?
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I lurked Reddit for a long time before creating an account which is now over 6 years old. I was a ‘Top Contributor’ and in the rewards program. 89k karma, never promoted violence or targeted any group, but I got a 7-day ban which was followed up hours later with a permanent ban. This is because of a comment criticizing Senator Radcliffe, trump, and Musk. The comment included profanity, (I called them hypocrites and cunts), but it wasn’t directed at any user or marginalized group. Just harsh political commentary.
Reddit initially issued a 7-day ban, which I appealed. That appeal was approved, the comment was restored, and they admitted it didn’t violate the rules. But the permanent ban still stands, and my follow-up appeals on that have been ignored. No explanation. No transparency. Just gone.
It’s made me realize how fragile “free speech” is on platforms like Reddit. You can insult regular users and get away with it, say horrendously racist, misogynistic, and homophobic things, but speak too plainly about powerful people and suddenly you’re promoting “hate.”
I combed through the Reddit rules, and nothing I have ever commented or posted violates them.
That’s the reason I’m here on Lemmy now. I’m trying to read more, scroll less, and engage with platforms that aren’t actively censoring political dissent. Who else is in the same boat? Is there anything that can be done to hold Reddit accountable or make people aware of they way they are censoring speech? This is my first Lemmy post. I marked it NSFW because of the profanity.
Also here after a reddit ban. Mine was also politically motivated.
I watched admins remove a comment that was not violent, no profanity, nothing like that. The offense: the commenter described what "black-bagging" was, in reference to the immigrants being abducted around the country. Someone asked what "black-bagging" meant, he replied with one sentence just explaining the meaning of the term, comment nuked within five minutes.
I then told this story in another comment in another thread. Didn't say shit about Musk or Trump. Just told the story of how reddit admins wouldn't let this guy explain what black-bagging meant.
Permanent ban within one hour for "ban evasion." Never been banned prior. It was my first and last reddit ban.
Fuck spez, fuck reddit, fuck the rest of em all.
looks like a they are quashing any anti-musk and trump sentiment on reddit, any attempts to report them can also result in a ban too. they definitely dont want what musk and trump are doing being discussed in reddit in serious manny, we can see a proportional response from reddit when trump and musk did something, and Musk also recently complained to reddit they need to censor people more.
It's filled me with such joy (schadenfreude?) watching their stock drop the past couple months.
I really liked Reddit, getting a lot of value out of the content posted there by people. And I met some cool people through it.
I never got banned from it myself, but as time went on it was very clear that the company in charge of the platform was not steering things in a good direction, and was not responsible for the value I liked. They just captured the value by being the place where people posted. They really drove that point home when they locked off the API, and I completely quit Reddit at that point, migrating to Lemmy instead.
I definitely feel that Lemmy doesn't have as much value collected on it yet compared to Reddit. There's just not as many people posting and generating that value. But, it is free of that sort of draconian control that Reddit has. Not just temporarily free, as a favor from venture capital to draw people in. Permanently free. So, if we build up the value of Lemmy by having more people post here, we will be able to enjoy that value free from the corpo BS.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. :P
I noticed a big difference after they cut off the API. I've only been on Lemmy a few days, but I feel the same way about the amount of content. Hopefully more and more people will migrate here as reddit continues their nonsense. It's a shame to see what it has become.
Been on Lemmy from Reddit for over a year. Really don't miss it, except for a few niche communities.
I've been here since the third party app culling and it's been steadily growing I think from my anecdotal feels when using it. It definitely has a long way to go to replace what reddit was, but hopefully it just keeps growing bit by bit. I see posts like yours frequently these days so you're definitely not the only one leaving.
I'd guess a good bit of us used to almost entirely browse reddit through a third party app (me with Sync) and for various reasons didn't capitulate, been on Lemmy since and have vastly increased my time with Linux as a result xD
I think you'll just want Substack and/or BlueSky then. Most long form content has moved to Substack.
I wish more people would travel here. We need people to build up the communities and interact with content. It’s refreshing to see comments under limited moderation, or moderation that actually targets the right kind of hate speech: the powerful punching down.
I only visit Reddit when someone here links to it, since I’m assuming the comments are relevant, or if I’m doing a Google search and the answer is in a Reddit comment.
Reddit is dying from the top down. People migrating away would show billionaires that they don’t control us.
This is my first comment to say I am also a reddit refugee!
welcome 🫂
Thanks! I've been on reddit for 11 years and I haven't been active on it for a month. Things are changing and I don't feel good about it :/
its clear reddit is allowing right wing/russian trolls to astroturf left leaning comments, any criticism is usually met with an increased sensitivity of thier "comment removal, karma, spam filters" its funny they encourage reporting, but hate responding to these reports if you do it too many times, it was instant temp ban which cascaded in banning in all accounts.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2766
You'll be happy to know that lemmy's monthly active user count has grown ~20% in the last month.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
I think what would help in this would be more options for apps (which there are thankfully) but also an easy to read guide on how this all works and how to sign up and get on board. It’s complexity vague in this effort. Which does weed out the certain kind of people who aren’t tech savvy. But it would help its numbers quite a bit.
top down, and INSIDE out, they were rottening from the core before it became top down.
When you absolutely have to visit Reddit for whatever reason, you should use an alternate frontend. The one I'm familiar with is called libreddit and functions similarly to nitter for twitter. You can do a search to find a large list of instances, but all you do is replace the "http://reddit.com/" part of the URL with the name of the instance. I usually use eddrit.com or safereddit.com
the thing is you only need to adblock them, to deny them ad revenue.
I think Lemmy is not super likable or usable. It tries to be something it can't be imo.
It would be better to just use the old style forums again, one niche topic/website style, and not a conglomerate. Or just use mass social media if that's what you want, on a place like BlueSky or Substack with mostly consistent and understandable content moderation.
I haven’t had that experience. I barely understand how Lemmy works but this app I use makes it function like Reddit. I can’t even tell the difference, day to day, but vaguely understand that if the “country” my account is on starts to get weird, I can emigrate elsewhere.
I upvoted a comment that was just a gif of Luigi Luigi (from Nintendo) smoking a cigarette.
"Promoting/glorifying violence"
Fuck Reddit. Fuck Spez. Fuck Elon.
I was on reddit since around 2010. Had probably 500k karma in total? I was around before the apps. Still in the air of early internet vibes. It was a great place to find your community and chat.
I got my first ever temp ban a month ago for saying Luigi started a movement that our world needs. For billionaires need to be afraid of every day people.
Got a ban on r/news. Then shortly after a full ban.
I’ve been banned from plenty of right wing subs and it’s never been an issue. But one comment into their top corporate subreddit did it. So I left. Fuck em. There is no free speech there and to be honest. The quality of comments and community has dropped so heavily since 2016 that it doesn’t feel like a loss to me. Reddit community used to have standards and free speech for anyone. Now it’s no different from Facebook. Shitty joke comments on serious topics. Bots everywhere. It’s just a black hole now.
Reddit died the day they fired Victoria for... checks notes, doing her job effectively. That's when I knew that reddit was fucking doomed. Everything since then has just been nails in the coffin.
news is one of those subs to avoid, they ban very easily much like r/politics does. they misconstrued my statement on several occasion and banned it outright.
Welcome weary traveler!
As lemmy's self-designated High Corvid of Progressivity, I extend to you the traditional Fediversal blessing of:
remember kids:
A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power
Luigi ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was banned for saying I should have a legal right to punch Nazis, which I don't think was "permanent ban" territory.
This to me says that Reddit is Pro Nazi
I was issued a permanent ban that I successfully appealed when all I said was always punch Nazis
I appealed but it was pretty much instantly declined, and you know, fuck em
sounds like it was an AI/BOT, i bet they randomly dont want to deal with the insane amount appeals, so they let the ai deny a bunch of them, and the reddit admins choose which ones to unban. hence thats why there are tons of bans that cant be appealed.
Yep. That was my first ban. My last pan was saying T n E should face the gallows. I said fuck it and came here.
Funny. I commented on a picture of Indiana jones punching a Nazi which said “there’s never a wrong time to punch a Nazi” and boom! Encouraging violence/ban. 😂
That place is a fucking gong show.
One of my favorite aspects of the new Indiana Jones game is just running around one-punching nazis. It really never gets old.
I had a 12 year account, with over 900K karma. I was permabanned in Fenruary for repeating a comment I'd made nunerous times before the Inauguration without a word.
I came to Lemmy, and found lots of other 10+ year accounts that were banned as well. It seems February was a bloodbath, as they ejected lots of veteran accounts. We'll probably never know how many, but probably in the thousands. We were the people that built Reddit over the last decade, with high volumes of posts, and they never had reasons to ban us. Then suddenly, in February, ALL of us became such egregious violators that we all had to be permabanned?
Whatever, Reddit was becoming increasingly frustrating. Every post was filled with puns, bots, Russian Propaganda Farmers, conservative trolls, and other such nonsense. Without all the active veteran posters, it's only gotten far worse.
i had a 11year account that started on pokemon console, and i dint even know it was banned til i was sent an email, then i recieved 5+emails, turns out that one temp ban in feb12-13 triggered like 5 accounts to be sitewide banned instantly, i then fled to another forum(not lemmy) and they reported the same 5-10+years accts isntantly banned. although the forum is geared towards evading for income. then we also found out they were planning to sell REDDIT which make sense, since you need to sanatize the site and also not get on trumps and musk crosshair, they are definitely preparing for reddit to become X/facebook hybrid.
even new users are getting canned too, shadowban for no reason? also using vpn or a cheap proxy is also enough for a ban.,
feb-march was a big massacre, specifically march started the whole anti-luigi bannings.
Yep, I agree. Total shitshow now. I don't even peek in much.
See I don't understand why reddit allows this, responding to questions about a ban by permanently banning them! The mod (and admin?) abuse seems to be getting worse. I was banned from a sub for saying it to turned to garbage in a different sub.
The cross-sub silencing is crazy too. I got banned from a bunch of tesla subs for participating in r/cyberstuck. On that one, I did message the mods and told them to go fuck themselves for stifling free speech. Someone actually replied back and said, "Freedom of speech, doesn't mean freedom from consequences.", which is an infuriating misuse of that expression in this context. Then I got a 3 day ban.
its crossbanning, its the wierdest policy to pre-emptively ban someone for not even participating in your sub. just because you went to a sub that the mods dont like.
im not surprised, i was temp ban for reporting someone like your commentor, and i was banned for it. basically the guy was making incorrect, misinformed comments, insta ban, because "we saw you reporting too much, so report abuse" temp ban, later i found out people were getting perma ban after a temp ban, so i just deleted my account. now i tried to appeal on 2 different ones banned at the same time, all denied.
The CEO is just as horrible, a friend of Musk and a white suprematist.
i avoid israeli related post for that reason, i was burned by israeli mods/trolls back oct 23. and subsequently i reported pics that were discussing israeli/gaza in a propagandish manner.
I posted the below about Netanyahu and didn't get banned on 2 different Lemmy subs, to my surprise:
https://lemmy.world/post/25278273/14959737
i meant on reddit.
I know, I'm contrasting the experience bc there's no way 99% of Reddit mods would allow the comment I made
First permaban was for asking: "Any updates on Mitch McConnell? I could use some good news." Mod appeal denied
Then on another account a year later (bc I got so many death threats from Nazis on Reddit), I forgot I had a ban on that sub and said, "We should spend money feeding our kids instead of spending it to blow up someone else's kids." And that was an IP ban.
Crazy, I've seen literal Nazis on there not even get comments removed. We live in dark times.
the first reason was ridiculous, jyust for asking that question? you know it turning right wing, when you cant even IMPLY things. i used accounts like you did, dint get ban that aggressively, maybe because i was also using multiple locations, confused reddit for a while.
I suggested that the most appropriate way to deal with Nazis moving into your neighborhood was the traditional Scandinavian practice of hús-brenna. Apparently the admins dislike effective solutions.
It took me a few days to overwrite all of my comments from the prior 15 years or so, but I did it. Because fuck 'em, they don't get to train their AI on my data.
To be fair, what sounded like some northern European idea of just ignoring the person so much they have to leave did, on researching, lead to the Wikipedia article titled “Arson in Medieval Scandinavia” and was about burning people alive in their own homes.
Reddit still sucks and all and I wouldn’t be at all sad if this happened to quite a few of these fuckwads but I mean c’mon they definitely weren’t mad at the effectiveness of the solution.
They seemed to be upset that I was advocating for an effective and permanent solution. :)
I regret nothing.
they will probably ban talks of inglorius bastard, or Xmen first class someday.
they are mad, now that nazis is control of the government, a NAZI complained to reddit and told spez to increase his "moderation".
basically like a niche sub i was visiting where the youtube channel owners were asian and jokes about news, and when they turned magat-ty they couldnt take any criticism at all and even started to systematically attack the sub, trying to get it banned, they fled to FACEBOOK of course to orchestrate thier attack, they were concerned the sub was revealing too much about thier shitty behaviour it was driving down thier viewership, they attacked instead of addressing they were the sole cause of thier decline.
the fact they are ASIAN/POC and literally sucking trump and musk off is some mental gymnastics, also contains hallmarks of conservatives, talks of pedophelia, cyrptoscams,,,etc.
Conservatives that aren’t rich, white, and straight surprise the hell out of me. Like, it was literally founded to push only that group and at the time even Irish people weren’t the right kind of white.
the mental gymnasitics from lgbtq+ is probablly even more shocking. your a gay porn stars and a trumper. im guessing because they believe they are white, they are exception to the rule. besides the one that was reported in media recently(trumps first term) other white ones were criticized, like how come you never slept with POC guys, and only white guys with big PPs in pornos. back when abercombrie stores were around the staff were all white, typical blond males, when any poc entered the store they gave a nasty stare.
they believe if they are warmonger, evangelical enough it counts. i have a feel asians are probably on the lowest totem pole of a token, because they almost never are confrontational in public.
I'm sure they kept copies of the data to train their AI on.
Possibly. They're not supposed to by their own claims, but possibly. I suppose that if I lived in the EU, I could sue them over it.
hús-brenna is the practice of setting someone's house on fire and refusing to let them leave the burning structure.
...Which, you must admit, is a singularly effective way of dealing with Nazis moving into your neighborhood.
Wiped out my 13 years of posts and comments and deleted my account when they started this crap. I thought the day they killed old reddit would be when I left but I can't stand by while they censor free speech. The site has been a shit pile for some time though and not even a ghost of what it was in the good old days.
i always called him a lICH, and undead. they dont like dirty words.
I received a warning and my comment got deleted by Reddit. And after the news about potentially getting banned for upvoting specific content, I decided enough was enough, I deleted my account which I've had for 12 years.
agreed, its a matter of time anyways people are going to get banned fot he most preposterous thing. getting permaban from the site after a temp ban, a shadowban out of nowhere that doesnt make sense. usually shadowbanned were reserved for repeat ban site wide-evaders, but its banning anyone for the slightest incident.
I received a warning 30 days ago that I didn't notice and saw a permanent ban on my account today. Kind of a relief actually to have an excuse to get out of that hellhole.
Yeah, sometimes we just need a gentle push in the right direction, sometimes the push is not so gentle! And welcome to lemmy!
Edit: I see that you've been a lemming (is that what it's called)for much longer than i
I got banned for saying Andrew Tate fans are fucking retarded.
Genuinely an insult to actual mentally disabled people comparing them to tate groupies.
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
I told Nazis to go kill themselves. Then made multiple Krasnov accounts. All banned and now perm banned unless I use VPN. It was time to go, fuck that place. Welcome home.
I got banned about a year ago for... checks notes repeatedly calling a genocidal army "bastards" =,D
Edit... ok maybe I called them sons of bitches and nazis.
They especially hate it when you're correct.
Who knows, maybe some of their mothers were fine women and you got banned for misinformation
Edit: Somehow I added an apostrophe. Looks like the virus is spreading to me
I know from reliable sources that the mothers of said genocidal defense forces indeed goose step and bark at the same time
Maybe Reddit required Trump-approved sources.
I was already iffy about Reddit since the r/place #fuckspez whitewashing. I was never suspended - but when I learned Luigi was suddenly an "unperson" topic there, I realized that commercialized social media is inherently compromised.
I'm not swearing off FB/Insta entirely just yet, but every time I visit them I'm more and more vividly aware how tedious Meta channels are.
This Luigi?
my facebook account went away before my reddit account. After getting mo old account banned and then two new ones right after each other I deleted my accounts and just lurked, seeing a post of one of the ICE victims being disappeared and 5 or 7 comments were supporting the police sanctioned racists made me stop lurking as well.
Spez has possible ties to Epstein and was the mod of r/jailbait
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/
Likewise.
My first offense was recommending that we bring back the guillotine.
My second offense was saying that MTG and fElon needed to get punched in the face after they said that Sesame Street was woke trash that needed to be canceled.
Fuck those vile pieces of shit!
Over 13 years and a quarter million karma later, it has come down to this.
I upvoted every guillotine post I saw. Must by why my account was banned too.
Holy crap that is EXACTLY what happened to me this week. I wasn’t top contributor or anything so grand but I got a 7 ban after criticizing imperialism which after making an appeal that was rejected. I literally did nothing afterwards but woke up to a perma ban that was issued several hours after with no indication of why.
it seems they are site-wide banning people after thier 1-week temp ban? i had one before they immediately banned all my other accounts, eventhough those havnt participated in those subs i got banned recently. they are also looking for any old accounts you may have banned from, so they are retroactively applying to all your accounts.
I was perma-banned because I made a joke about chucking a rock through the windshield of a literal, out-and-proud-capital-N Nazi.
Didn't make any appeals because it was time to leave. I spent waaaay too much time on that stupid site and now I'm starting to finally feel free of the outrage/affirmation addiction.
Things have gotten pretty weird in the last few months. I got a warning and a deleted comment several months ago because there was a debate in some random Colorado sub on what to do about a person living downtown who kept putting a swastika in their apartment window. They lived above a popular local business and it was causing issues. I said something about using a slingshot to solve the problem. I hear you on the time spent on there. After deleting the app from my phone, it really hit home just how much I was compulsively checking it throughout the day.
I got my 10+ year old account permabanned for saying “trans women are women”, which somehow went against their rules about promoting violence. No warning given or anything. Appeal went ignored.
I had my main and a business account permabanned during the election, after Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot. I said I didn’t really care or have any empathy, because Liz is a warmonger who’s called for violence against millions of people.
I didn’t say I agreed, and I didn’t say someone should do it. I simply said I didn’t care that she felt threatened by him. Permabanned.
It's funny how we used to have this trope of the mighty censorship bureau that has to rubberstamp everything (like they do for movies) but the reality is that the sycophants will trip over themselves to censor their neighbors in order to please those above. In Reddits case you have subreddit mods banning and censoring to please the reddit mods, who are trying to please reddit management, who are trying to please people like Musk, who are trying to please Trump. Trump doesn't have to say anything, those low level Mods are doing all the censoring for him pro bono.
mainly musk was complaining, and he was getting people banned. everytime the gop or musk complained the reddit initiate one of thier famous purges. now they are including vague responses in a ban message so it reduces thier liability, and gives them plausable excuses to ban people.
Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.
Welcome to the bright side :)
Reddit bans for all kind of political commentary across the spectrum. Fuck spez. Fuck reddit.
Permabanned for asking what Eisenhower would do if he was present at a Nazi march in Wisconsin and someone handed him a machine gun.
Apparently, impossible hypotheticals (Eisenhower is long dead) intended as a commentary on the fascist shift of the republican party (Eisenhower was a republican) are advocating violence. Eisenhower famously led efforts to kill Nazis.
So here I am.
Part of me wants to engage in ban evasion and just post hate all over reddit to make it worse. What are they going to do? Ban me? Too lazy to bother though.
Ridiculous. Especially when you consider the other content that is perfectly acceptable. Doesn't help that a very small number of mods control the majority of the subs now. I feel you on the hate-posting. I'm inclined to do the same thing because of the one-sided nature of the ban and my need to express my displeasure and sense of injustice.
Congrats. Now you can go to lemmy.ml and get banned for the exact same thing.
Closed account myself because got tired asking to remove shadow ban for two months. I have no clue why I got shadow banned, only realized when I stopped getting replies that something is not right. Oh well, I guess it's more useful to bookmark useful reddit links in any browser instead of being able to post and comment on a platform where nobody can even see your efforts because of shitty AI and incompetent admins. I was with them for over six years.
you can hazard a guess, but its probably indiscriminate banning, linking your account with strangers, if that stranger is banned the filters automatically assume your part of that group too and this seperate from ban evasions. im not surprised other users are not reporting this on reddit, reddit has a rule against discussing bans funny enough. one of my fragile accounts was just shadowbanned, because a mod removed a comment, because the op of that thread was joking, and thought i was trying to make a snarky-smartass comment.(your on ptgcl live, for real a game that is barely functioning.
from what weve noticed: comment removals, low karma , cqs score removal, botting,,,etc is an instant ban now, with no recourse.
I was able to migrate a lot of my favorite subreddits to Lemmy using the Voyager app. Maybe that could help. ☺️
Yeah, I'm using Voyager as well. Too bad i realized I can migrate my subs after closing the account.
Oh, I’m sorry. At least a lot of the most popular subreddits have communities here, so you still may find what you’re looking for. ☺️
i came from Y'A answers and various forums, never knew digg existed. it seems alternate account seems to recieve a heavier ban than the main one, and its risky to have an extra account. when one of my main accts were temp ban in oct '23 for criticizing israel, i switched to a backup older account thinking it would be safer with an old account, i managed the whole year(although i think get many warnings an 1 sub ban) only til feb i recieve the full arsenal of bans
Many people on social media platforms don't realize the spam filters can be abused by attackers to prevent certain topics from being mentioned. And on front-page subreddits they do not publish comments, they look published if you are logged in, but if you check from off-axis they are unpublished. I've been posting some of them here and on Bluesky, but nobody cares (on Bluesky, but people have here) [email protected] maybe some tech press will cover it.
Lifetime (of the person) bans on Reddit for individual subreddits and accounts are dumb. That sites been around for decades. I can only image how many people got banned there at age 16 and are completely different people at age 22. I never see people bring this kind of criticism up.
from what ive heard, subreddit bans are usually 1 year, but it can be lifetime in some circumstances, now it can be anything can be lifetime. its pretty clear they are randomly doing it as well. reddit will look very empty if they get rid of all thier trolls and bots.
All I can do is extend my sympathies, and tell you that you’re better off in the long run. Most people here don’t like corporate social media because of situations like yours.
Don’t worry about profanity. People swear all the time and don’t mark their posts.
I find it kind of psychologically interesting how many reddifugees self censor, either directly or through obscuring names and events. That site's moderation is seriously screwing people up.
It's so relaxing when you know that you don't have the sword of Damocles hanging over you
i had to self-cesor race before and after covid. apparently calling someone black, or Demographic was justification for a ban, they think calling african americans a different name what it suppose to be is racist. its so sensitive now, other sites are doing this(forums)
Permabanned for saying evil shit about Russians, a few times. Funny thing is how fast they would be on negative comments about Russia.
And BTW, Russians can die in a fucking fire. Lived under threat of nuclear annihilation for my entire childhood, and now the filthy gangsters are fucking with, and have ruined, American politics.
Welcome, c'mon in outta the cold. There's a warm spot of ere
My 11 year old account got banned and I'm not even sure why. I posed a lot over the years. They said I was banned, pointed to a deleted comment. When I asked what the comment said they replied the reviewed the ban and now I'm banned.
I believe it was for a comment about how America would be in trouble if they invaded Canada (I'm Canadian). I stated some basic facts that Canadians look like Americans and they will attack America on American soil. It was matter of fact, not promoting any sort of violence.
Whatever. America is dying. I suppose services hosted on American soil die right along with it. We're actively avoiding as many US products and services as possible, so Reddit can kick rocks.
I discovered Lemmy, it suits my needs and I like it better.
right now, right wingers need to take over many western countries, and reddit wants to stop that discussion, at the behest of MUSK.
Welp, said Elon needs to be assassinated for involving himself in European politics as a non European plutocrat
At least they sent you a message instead of just making your account not work.
I got banned in 2019 for hate speech against cops.
They're most vulnerable and marginalized community. How dare you refuse to kiss their boots.
fun fact, former cops and current ones own a handful of subs, most people suspect its:> legadvice, justiceserved, publicfreakout, and many video related subs. right wingers have partially/fully hijacked the main political subs.
Consider yourself lucky to be off that fascist bootlicking platform
Not banned. Just close account!
The best thing you can do to hold reddit to account would be to become an active lemmy user. You could make a reddit sucks sublemmy and moderate that if you are angry enough to take action.
I love this idea. I think I'm going to do that.
Spez is a spineless cuck.
Got banned for antisemitism around the time the genocide ramped up in Gaza.
And I was just criticising Israel. Things got a bit heated for the other guy apparently, and then I got brigaded and reported. I didn't defend Hamas or advocate violence, just criticised Israel.
i was banned from worldnews in '23 for seven days, i partially abandoned that account and went with an OLD one, which usually is more trusted. up until this year, where they decided a temp ban= we will check all the other accounts you made that participated in banned subs, and ban you for that, you this is pretty ridiculous. i think someone also mentioned your account is easily linked with a strangers if any of them get banned you get a indiscriminate ban too.
this time they said i reported too many times tech sub, something about trump so i recieved a 7day ban, then all my accounts were instantly banned, depesite the accts never going into those subs(until like 1-1years later). so they were routing out old accounts you havnt used in years. but thier bannings always increase when a GOP is in power, it was like severe version in 2017-19, now that trump is in power spez is somewhat afraid he will ge the wrath of MUSK.
He probably wasn't being authentic and was a cyber soldier meant to clean up/destroy Reddit for the AI integration
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2766
And Reddit has been implicated in shady stuff for a while: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/
This is the beginning of the downfall of reddit.
Sad to see the decline
Imo that was API-gate. But yeah this one seems to accelerate the death of it. Good thing to be gone now. It's all about stocks now and shareholder concerns and they don't want any critical thinking or free speech.
Same loool Let’s make Lemmy grow and leave any centralised social network.
Sounds good to me!
There is these blanket responses that goes like this: "Free speech is only that the government can't punish you" and "It's a private company it can moderate how it wants". I take a lot of issue issue with it. In our times the wast majority of speech takes place on online on privately owned plattforms. I don't se what the point is in freely submitting to a world where only corporate approved speech is allowed.
One of my accounts banned for “my Lu Ouija board spelled CEO. What’s that mean?”
Or something along those lines.
Haven’t been back since. Timeline is essentially accurate to my baby lemmy face here^
I got shadowbannned after posting about politics.
I never called for or celebrated violence, didn't upvote pictures of Luigi (which they have a STRANGE hard-on for) or any of that. I just posted neutrally-worded opinions.
Shadowbanning is an abusive behavior and Reddit has been about that for well over a decade. On Twitter, you do something they don't like, they just tell you, "you have to delete this tweet and wait 12 hours" or whatever. On Reddit, your account just gets "weird" with strange error messages. You have to go digging for information on the phenomenon because they don't display a message or send an email about it.
The cute little aliens are there to paper over the fact that Reddit's leadership has no concept of user advocacy. You're just rows in a few tables to them. You're the product that's being sold, and as far as they're concerned that gives you the same rights as any other product on a shelf.
They are still sending me emails with cute little aliens in them, even though my account is hosed. This is how disjointed they are.
Someone else wrote that on Reddit, the users and admins hate each other. I think that's true.
uusually they shadowban people for being repeat ban evaders, now they are doing it for any reason. thier filters also caught innocent in the crosshairs too.
I doubt that because I’m shadow banned too with just one account. You can look on the shadow ban page (only page shadow banned people can post on) dozens of people get shadow banned every day. I had never been banned before.
I had never been banned before.
Perma-banned for fighting back against the fascist take over of Reddit
My leaving was originally from the api cost changes, I had payed for a 3rd party reader years ago and all of a sudden my lifetime of no ads was gone and I had to pay. This change was admittedly after reddit decided to follow twitters api cost changes. I am supprised at how close Elon and spez seem to be, given that I don't know of any photos of the two of them, they they probably only know each other as CEO's.
they are in cahoots with each other, since spez have openly love how elon "moderates" twitter, make sense why it resembls it now.
I have said all kinds of nasty things there about GropenFührer...I mean inmate #P01135809 and other than a few downvotes, nothing. Maybe it's a "no warning" kind of thing?
I came here after they banned third party apps. No way I'm browsing with ads on their shitty app. RES still works fortunately but I've grown to really like it here. Haven't touched reddit in a year or so.
i suggest browsing on a browser, like FF or a fork, with adblock on, not giving them any ad money. ironfox and fennex is a good fork.
thats what RES does-reddit enhancement suite on firefox. I combine that with adblock, ublock too. I go out of my way to make sure I mever see any ads anywhere I go, usually reddit/youtube.
Red Reader is adless & open source.
Also no account needed (for read only, obvs).
I got banned for repeatly saying ashli babbit deserved a bullet. Got classified as promoting violence
I'm starting to wonder if the head reddit weirdo is getting paid directly by Musk to enforce shit like this
nope, musk told reddit to "moderate more" and HUFFMAN agrees with him. huffmans loves Musk by the way.
I cant even tell you what I got banned for because they banned me without saying why. I dont even know the last thing I was talking about was finding anime in the style of berserk.
They probably banned you for something that happened at least 24 hours before the ban hit because they're just slow. My account was banned a week after I had replied to a racist troll trying to figure out if they were being racist so that I could ban them on my subreddit, and my comment was flagged as racist. I had already banned the user and hidden the thread, but that wasn't good enough for Reddit and I needed to go.
thats interesting, another method i hear dis they are linking accounts in a sub, strangers together in a group and just wait til oneof them gets banned, then the whole group that got flagged also is banned. i think its thier filters assuming they all are botting, because they are posting similar comments.
I gotta ask, whats the comment exactly my brœther?
Here's the original offending comment that was later restored:
Fuck Radcliffe and all the rest of the un-American fascist bootlickers.
“You can characterize it how you want” Go fuck Musk’s face. Fucking clown.
I got permabanned for criticizing Israel. The final comment that got me permabanned was literally 'No, just the problems they deserve blame for' to a zionist who accused all Lebanese of blaming all their problems on Israel.
I was permanently banned for “inciting violence” by saying how great it would be if a meteor crashed down on Mike Johnson. A meteor….
I was banned for a week for saying I hope Jill stein bangs her shin on every coffee table she walks past for the rest of her life
I got banned for calling a guy a "fascist sanewasher" and refusing to post an apology when a mod messaged me to tell me to apologize.
I just got tired of everything being an OCD argument, including once getting yelled at for saying it was a nice day.
"Edolf" lol. My pet name for Trump is Liddle Shitler.
I get banned from reddit all the time for saying things against Israel.
Just clear browser cache and poweroff your cable modem for 15 min, should get ya new IP.
Don't use reddit mobile app, app will track unique device identifier and new account will still be banned.
Firefox+ ublock on desktop and mobile is your friend.
source: reddit permabanned many times
If you are banned permanently, are you still able to edit or at least delete your existing comments or is it too late for that?
Permabanned for reporting posts on r/truerateme
those ego stroking subs are prone to that. i got temp ban from technology for "reporting posts" too.
Yeah I moved here for a ban too. Mine was political. I was banned for telling a mod that I will spank them and, essentially, that they will like it
I haven't nor plan to... but it's also worst and worst content and behavior so yesterday I request my data take-out.
I'm not sure if I'll just stay logged-out (like right now) or plainly delete my account but either I'm preparing a way out.
I'm not banned, I deleted everything on there like 3 years ago.
i have been hearing people were being banned again, soon after thier bans ar elifted. it must be thier AI re-banning and not resetting thier filters.
Honestly, the only thing Reddit is good for any more is porn. That's mostly what I go there for now. Occasionally something comment worthy will catch my eye and I'll post one but I'd say at this point I use it for porn about 75% of the time. I come here for discourse now. Though there are places here that can be as bad as reddit sometimes. * cough * .ml * cough *
What’s the deal with .ml if I may ask?
Try saying anything negative about China and their government and see what happens.
I got banned for saying a woman was a monster. Yes free speech really must be protected by all sides, we can too easily lose it.
No way. I do that all the time, so does most people on Reddit. What is up with peeps on Lemmy always trying to say Reddit is banning shit. I will mention Luigi all the time on Reddit and have never been warned.
they recently backtacked on that recently, and yes they are banning randomly and in much more frequency than normal.
Welcome to lemmy where you get banned for saying you can't dictate American politics based solely on Palestine.
Edit: not sure all the downvotes. That's what they did.
I call BS. Reddit didn't issue a permanent ban for Trump criticism. This is probably a mod action and you are confused.
Here are the messages I received from u/reddit:
Reddit is a vast network of communities that are created, run, and populated by people like you. In order to keep communities welcoming, safe, and great places to be, everyone who uses the platform operates by a shared set of rules.
First message: Banned 7-days for hate
We flagged the following as a potential policy violation:
Content shared from KarlHungus311 on 03/25/2025 UTC After reviewing, we found that you broke Rule 1 because you promoted identity-based hate or attacks. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. We don’t tolerate promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and any communities or people that encourage or incite violence or hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups will be banned.
As a result, we’re issuing a temporary 7-day ban on your KarlHungus311 account, removing the violating content, and asking you not to break this rule again.
Reddit and its communities are only what we make of them together, and we want you to continue enjoying Reddit while helping your fellow redditors and communities stay safe. We suggest reading and getting acquainted with the Reddit Rules. A better understanding of these rules will help you avoid further actions from our admin team. If you do continue to break Reddit’s rules through this or any other Reddit account, you may face additional actions such as a permanent ban from the platform.
If you feel like you didn’t break the rules, you can file an appeal any time within the next six months and we’ll take a second look.
If you live in the European Union, you can also contact a settlement body to dispute the decision. You may also have the right to have this decision reviewed by a competent court under the applicable laws of your country.
– Reddit Admin Team
Note: This content was flagged by Reddit's automated systems. This decision was made without the assistance of automation.
Second Message (a few hours later): Your account has been permanently banned for breaking the rules.
This account has been permanently banned due to multiple, repeated violations of Reddit's Content Policy on your other account(s). For more information about what rules you broke and how to appeal, check your account inboxes.
None of this shows what you were actually posting to earn this. You didn't get a ban for calling Trump a cunt.
You were either ban evading and got caught after being flagged or you made a threat.
You are wrong. I did none of that. I submitted the appeal, I deleted the app from my phone, and did nothing on reddit. It was followed hours later by the permanent ban.
Nah, something is missing. I shit talk on Reddit all the time about Elon and Trump. It's all over the place, it's plain to see.
What's missing, seems to be your understanding as to how much reddit has changed over the past year or so. Are you not seeing the other comments with similar experiences to mine? I highly encourage you to continue shit talking those two twats, but don't be surprised when this happens to you as well. All it really takes is drawing the attention one pro-trump mod. Among other things, I made this alternate time cover and posted that in various places. Perhaps it was my overall post history that did me in. There was no explanation beyond what I already posted regarding the permanent ban.