I posted on like r/changemyview, and then took more than an hour to respond to the comments (because I actually have work/school) and they permabanned me for breaking the rules. That’s just one instance though

Because Lemmy is just a microcosm of Reddit, and if you dare say anything negative about the platform, you’ll get downvoted into oblivion

I mean I was born in 2006, and have only been on Reddit for a few months. The only reason I came here is because Reddit banned me, which is the same reason I suspect 99% of Lemmy users are here for. At the end of the day, I’ve just found that if I’m posting to vent or to ask a question, I’d rather get 100 responses in an hour than 1 response two days from now

Not like that. I’m talking about breaking some obscure, minor rule that the mods will insta ban you for

I totally get that, honestly it’s humiliating too. Any time I get permabanned from a subreddit for breaking some obscure, minor rule in one of my posts, I basically have to get on me knees and weep and suck the dick of the mods, because if I even lightly insinuate any sort of mistake or anything on their part, I’m told to fuck off and they keep my ban in place.

I exclusively use Lemmy to complain when my new Reddit account gets shadowbanned again. The issue is that the communities here simply are not big enough. I go on the Lemmy alternatives of the subreddits I visit often and there are like 4 posts over the course of multiple years

I mean I’m no VPN expert, I just know that it costs money so I assumed it was better than free ones

Why is this getting downvoted? Literally like half of the posts on here are about dodging permabans

I don’t think Reddit is either super left or right, it’s just radical. Every opinion stated on the platform is always taken to the absolute extreme, but I would say only a select few popular subs like r/unpopularopinion tend to lean left, but then again I would even argue that they are more libertarian or anarchist if anything

comment removal from a sub, can trigger a filter and flag your account to be banned down the line or immediately

I’ve noticed that as well. Sometimes I’ll have a solid 3-day streak of making a new account and using it without any issues, and then the instant I get a post removed from a sub for breaking some obscure rule, the AI will seek me out like sharks in water and suspend me instantly

No suspensions are also permanent as well. They just wipe everything on top of it, unlike a permaban

Why the fuck is this getting downvoted?

They are going back to Reddit. They either A- make a ton of new accounts that all get instabanned (increasing the number of people “signing up” or B- just don’t post anymore and simply consume

It’s perfect, Reddit gets to ban you and doom you to infinitely scrolling the site, while simultaneously milking engagement from your old posts!

They haven’t responded because their support team doesn’t exist. Real humans don’t look at theappeals, bots do, so every single time you send one in, you may as well be sending a letter into the abyss of space

Yes, you summed it up perfectly!

Yeah that’s the issue, Reddit is the only platform to actually have that infrastructure built up. Quora is not nearly as good, and Discord is Discord, so once Reddit purges you off the site there is basically nowhere to go because places like Digg and Lemmy just simply do not have enough people.

Yeah it’s crazy how there is absolutely zero nuance in how they dish out bans. There are no warnings, no second chances, if you break any rule, no matter how big or small, they all carry the same exact punishment and that is an immediate and permanent ban for the rest of your life

So I get what you’re saying, but unfortunately Reddit hasn’t reached Myspace levels of dead yet. It’s still the 9th most visited website in the whole world, and I unfortunately don’t think that’s gonna change anytime soon

Jesus Christ I was not aware of how much data they could gather on me just through internet connection. Even my fucking battery level?

This website is super impressive though, is there a function on here to be able to tell if I’ve been blacklisted or IP banned on websites like Reddit? How can I actually utilize this to dodge a ban effectively?