So yesterday I received a 7-day ban for ‘encouraging violence’, for saying that Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit, somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and the ‘offending’ comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit’s rules with my ‘other account(s)’. Well that’s also bullshit because I’ve had exactly one (1) account in the 14 years I’ve been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think I’m gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
13 year account here, also banned for supporting Luigi. I tried to appeal, but the post had already been removed so I didn’t know what exactly I said that violated the rules, and my appeal was denied. This was a post I made back in December, mind you. They went looking for a reason to ban a Luigi supporter. They did homework.
Somebody over there is really afraid of how popular Luigi’s actions are. I wonder why…
They’re trying to turn it into a right wing echo chamber.
Many subs already are.
deleted by creator
The behavior from the paranoid self-culling of r/Conservative— sorta looks like it spread to the entire site. Kind of insane watching this go down.
I feel like we are in comfortable little life rafts watching big boat set itself on fire and sink.
bring your subs, bring your friends!
Welcome to the Lemmy BDSM convention!
They’re finniky bastards.
Welcome soldier!
o7
Hello
Hi!
Did you also get troll reported to that automated help response for people that may be contemplating self harm?
That was always a good time. Man, I miss Reddit so much…
Oh not in this instance, but I definitely have before.
That was always the surest sign I’d really pissed off a RWNJ. Good times
Should something like this ever happen to me, I’ll be happy to leave Reddit behind. Right now I’m still looking to promote Lemmy.
deleted by creator
Probably, but 14 years is a whole lot of inertia to overcome.
deleted by creator
Yeah, so far I have no complaints. Honestly I’ve been pretty unhappy with reddit’s design since they disabled new.reddit to use the old-new design. I don’t mind how the new-new design looks, but it’s just functionally worse in practically every way. The notification menu is shit now, my comments don’t get posted half the time so I have to write them in notepad first, etc, collapsing threads is fiddly and inconsistent (sometimes there’s a line on the left I can click, sometimes I just have to click in the empty space by the poster’s name and hope for the best), etc, so I’ve no love lost for Reddit’s shit. I spent about an hour fiddling with UIs and settled on Alexandrite and I’m pretty happy with it. I love that we have options, too, and aren’t just crammed into one shit UI and told to cope.
My only real concern so far has been that there aren’t a lot of active subs in some of the areas I’m interested in. I’ve spent a lot of time the last 5 years or so on subs like r/askaliberal, r/politicaldebate, r/debatereligion, r/debatecommunism, r/anarchism, etc, and I’ve looked around a bit and haven’t really seen any good debate subs for either politics or religion. I’ve no interest in creating one myself and dealing with that headache tho, so. shrug
As for instance, I just joined lemmy.world since it seemed large and official, but then, yeah, I’ve been browsing /all and having to block sub after sub that I’m not interested in to clean my feed up. Not sure if there’s a better way to go about that.
deleted by creator
When Reddit bans or even just temporarily suspends me, I just create a new account right away and jump back in.
-
I only use Reddit in a Brave private window. If I want to use Reddit on my phone I just use RedReader and never bother logging in. I don’t really feel the need to post when I’m mobile anyway.
-
Once I’m banned/suspended I open a Firefox window and create a new Outlook account.
-
Open a new Brave private window and create a new Reddit account with the new email. Log in. But hey, all your subreddits aren’t there from your old account and man, it’s going to be annoying to re-add all those subs, right? Nah. There’s a browser script for that.
-
In your old Reddit account go to old.reddit.com/subreddits or whatever button you click on in Reddit that shows a list of all your subreddits. At the top of your list of subs is a link titled “multireddit of your subscriptions”. Right click on that link and copy it.
-
Now go to your new Reddit account and paste that link in the URL field and hit enter and you’ll have a list of all your subs from your old account with the join button next to all of them. You could go down the list clicking join on all of them. I have hundreds, so screw that. I use the script. I won’t paste my script, just go to Google and search for “Reddit sub auto-add script Github”. There’s a few different ones you can try. Essentially, in the window with your new account and all the subs with the join buttons, you are hitting F12 to open the developer console, clicking on the “Console” tab, and then pasting the script and hitting “Enter” to run it. The script is essentially just searching the page for all the “Join” buttons and auto-clicking them.
NOTE: If the script is clicking those join buttons too fast, or if you’ve decided to manually go down the page clicking the join buttons and you’re doing it too fast, Reddit detects that and will block you from Reddit for like 10-15 minutes before you can continue. In any of these scripts you’ll see a number, usually 500. That’s the milliseconds the script waits before clicking on the next join button. 500 used to work. Now you’ll want to change that to like 3000 or 5000 to increase the wait time. 5000 has been working for me.
That’s it though. You can just leave that window with the script open and it’ll go down your list of subs auto-joining them. Before I found that script it was REALLY annoying manually clicking on hundreds of join buttons. Now, steps 1-4 take me less than 5 minutes and then step 5 is automated so I just go do something else. My new accounts aren’t shadowbanned and I’m back on their shitty site nice and quick. Because honestly, I wouldn’t still bother with their site at all if I had to wait for my suspension to end or had to manually rejoin all my subs every time.
Real pro tip, delete that shitty app and use something more feasible.
-
Welcome! There are dozens of us
Didn’t I see you at the convention in Munich last year?
Cadby, from the consulate right? This is so weird!
Dozens now, hundreds tomorrow, thousands next week.
52K / 12 = 4.3K dozens to be exact
Welcome reddit refugee!! Best time to ditch reddit was in july 2023 second best time is now
What happened in July 2023? Was that the APIpocalypse? That didn’t really affect me cause I barely use mobile.
Yup, API changes were around that time
welcome home!
Every long term reddit bans and/or alienates and comes to lemmy, benefits us all. Welcome!
Reddit is doing that Microsoft strategy for Linux
Permabanned for “glorifying or inciting violence” by replying to a post about Elon Musk under a dinosaur poop meme, where someone asked “what should the would richest man do?” with “he should eat shit and die”.
Here for good.
Come on, they’re just protecting the most vulnerable people in society. If they don’t fight for the richest man on the planet, who will? /s
Much wow, such violence. Ban deserved, imo, yep. Fuck Reddit.
I’ve basically abandoned Reddit as well. I’ve been on for so long, but this bullshit makes me feel unsafe. If the platform is going to so blatantly side with those who would happily let me die for a few dollars (health insurance companies), then I don’t need to give them my attention or data anymore.
Welcome to Lemmy. Outside of niche subjects and local content I think this place has everything reddit does but with less bullshit. If people keep making the switch in large numbers we’ll build all those communities too and be better off for it.
I used the tool where I could import my Reddit subs to find similar communities here, and it surprised me how many communities I was a part of that the Reddit algorithm never let me see posts from. Also, it highlighted how much more infrastructure there is to build here. It’s exciting! Like the creative energy of expanding the Wild West but without the decimation of entire indigenous communities and the murder of innocent people and animal species.
