I’m looking at other people’s reasons for reddit bans and i kinda understand why they were. I dont agree with them, and most of them are stupid and heavy handed and are mean-spirited applications of the letter of a rule while blatantly ignoring the meaning, but they are technically justifiable.
I got banned for saying Genji mains suck.
Reddit ban for a R1 violation.
Apparently if you say punching a nazi is a form of self-defense they’ll say you’re inciting violence.
Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn’t willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.
because centralized social media eventually leads to ads/monetization etc. your content becomes for profit
Because after 12 years on Reddit, and nearly a million Karma, I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration bloodbath.
My feeling toward Lemmy are mixed. I really miss certain non-political subs, like guitar subs, and animal subs. OTOH, the political forums are much livelier on Lemmy, and you don’t have to worry nearly as much about suspensions and bans.
And Reddit was getting flooded with stupid bots, puns, novelty accounts, spam, and Russian Karma Farmers. It would get particularly bad during election years. I bet it’s a mess over there right now, and it’s only going to get worse.
I got really sick of rational thought being swept aside to maintain a status quo on Reddit, and looked for alternatives. All of the non-political subs weren’t worth staying.
Because reddit shut its api access off and “rif is fun for reddit” stopped working, duh.
I just want to see less bots and find real community and conversations. I also love the concept of decentralized platforms. I feel like the Internet mostly isn’t even real. I miss what it was like 15+ years ago.
Because fuck spez™ and reddit is so large it’s hard to find community
I finally got banned from Reddit and by now they have rather effective methods to detect ban evasion.
I’ve tried to make a couple of anonymous throwaways (for privacy reasons - I’ve never been banned) and they vanish pretty quickly, seemingly as soon as I share a link. Yes, even when not using a VPN.
That is sooooo annoying! Like, ok ban my account. But ban ME for ever? Ridiculous. Sincerely hope Reddit dies
Not associating with as many bots.
Corporative social media pushed me out, ActivityPub seems a great solution to those problems.
Then Reddit and Communism
Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid or will get their sign on bonus. And that after 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind the Wendy’s. Apparently that is violation of rule 1 inciting violence. Which is total BS. Other people post much, much worse and actually death threats. Reddit definitely also bend the knee to the US authoritarian regime and any view other than nazisme is banned.
Anyway lemmy feels a much more positive place here except the formula 1 lemmy. That sub is so incredibly toxic.
Because I got perma banned from Reddit after making a comment that all these ICE losers will never get paid
Did you get banned from a subreddit or from the entire Reddit?
Entire Reddit because it’s run by right-wing cry bitches. I almost wanted to say Fuck u/Spez.
Same, broke R1 and the last breaking of it was rather vague link. I just upvoted a comment that made fun of R1 under a post showing child abuse. Turns out that goes under it as well.
You got banned from Reddit for making an upvote? No freaking way
I was on my last warning, maybe they ramp up scrutiny then or they have just ramped it up recently.
But yeah that was the post that was linked when they gave the reason for a ban and It was rather fast as well. Less than few minutes after upvoting. I was still in that thread trying to explain other person what R1 was.
Banned from Reddit for writing lyrics to my favourite Christmas song because it had a homophobic slur in it and mods don’t understand when it was written, who it was written by/about/sung by whom, it’s vulgarity in other countries culture and/or context - heaven forbid any of them get meatballs from a chip shop or buy cigarettes in the UK.
And then ban evasion during that time. I prefer the lack of bots and reposts (except the Reddit repost bots) here though.
Because Reddit is a haven for power tripping white supremacists who ban any opinion they don’t like.
