List of things I was banned for:

Video of a quadcopter that a human could fly in:

• can't wait for the first influencer to die in one of these

Some moronic question regarding bicycle repair:

• just hop on the bike and gather up some speed then place a stick through your spokes.

Saying that 'anyone who features prominently in the Epstein files deserves the rope'.

they ban your digital fingerprint, not just your ip. the only way to go back is make a new account on a different device/browser and never log into that new account from your old device

but do you really want to go back?

i also had multiple accounts (main acct was 14 yrs old) banned for hurting conservative fee fees. don't miss it one bit

TBF you're just AI training material to them.

Fuck u/spez Enjoy your free time

This was the best thing that ever happened to you. Don’t look back.

I will always love the fact that the comment that finally got me permabanned was for telling a MAGA knuckledragger that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. Meanwhile, r/conservative, an actual fucking Russian psyop operation, is allowed to continue to exist. Reddit in a nutshell, especially after Trump was reelected.

Good fucking riddance to Reddit. You might have been the last real person (not bot/AI) commenting on anything over there.

Why would you have a "work account" for Reddit?

This happened to me. Best thing that could have happened. Welcome to Lemmy.

The flaws here are minor;

1. Skip around the computer talk and try to avoid Linux discussions.
2. Avoid/block anyone that uses the word "Zionist" ... they are weird and will just escalate into name calling.
3. Dont ask what a "Tankie" is, try and avoid them (same as 2).

• Guy gets his 19yo account perma'd

• Tons of Wordword#### accounts with hidden post/comment history flooding reddit and render common subs unusable

Reddit: Fuck you and your two accounts, man. We hate multi-account users here.

Count your self lucky the local authorities haven't come to your door to question you about such a comment...

It's actually quite a horrible feeling, initially. I was there from near the beginning, through the glory days to the enshitification. Got banned from a sub by an overzealous mod on AskUK. Then perma-banned for 'ban-evasion', simply for using another "throwaway" account, which was common practice for years.

Now I'm on Lemmy I'm never going back, even if I could (which is harder than you might think).

Yes, this place is way smaller, but I've met almost no dickheads or bots in the year or so I've been here. It's nice. I had a gander at Reddit the other day and it reinforced my affection for this platform and utter disdain for Reddit in general. They've absolutely wrecked it.

"Anyone managed to get around this?"

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Same here. 2 weeks ago out of nowhere I got perma banned after 10 years because of an ICE comment. I said since they didn't get paid, nor will get their sign on bonus, that in 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind a Wendy's for money. Apparently that is inciting violence. Suck a cock until you choke spez. Anyway it's better here except missing some niche subs that don't exist here.

The lesson is we need platforms like lemmy. Don't ever support any corporate platforms they may seem nice now but it always ends badly.

they did you a solid, bud

Anyone managed to get around this?

Didn't even try. It was the impetus I needed to finally leave reddit. I'd also been on there for a long time, and i was putting in an hour or so each day. It wasn't really doing me any good, and when I adjusted I felt better to be away from it. Lemmy scratches the itch but is small enough that it doesn't consume much time. I do more reading and gaming now when I'm free. Years spent on reddit and big karma numbers are a sunk cost that makes it hard to leave.

How to get around this:

Why the fuck are you on an enemy's weapons system? Yes, you will have to make peace with permanently being excluded from what is essentialy 1/3 of the internet, but they are REALLY evil. It's like an abussive partner leaving you.

Good riddance.

Reddit has become a corporate protector of the Epstein Pedophiles. Say too much negative about them and they ban permanently. I know that's not why you were banned, but the mods there have gotten really annoying with permanent bans for thin reasons. Erase Reddit. Join Lemmy and enjoy freedom.

Huh. I've never got pinched for ban-evasion before despite very regularly using alts to comment in subs where I had previously been banned. I don't honor perma-bans on principle because I think they're ridiculous, but I do self-impose a 30-day ban to let things cool down a bit and avoid attracting suspicion.

Not sure what my secret sauce was, but it was never an issue for me over the 15 or so years I used Reddit.

That said, I'd take this as an opportunity to just stop using Reddit altogether.

Before you delete your 20 year old reddit account, take the time to carefully delete everything on that account -posts, comments, chats, everything- they are relying on you leaving that data so they feed their AI with it after you are gone. Simply deleting your account is not enough

I still use my banned account. I can sub/unsub, save posts and RES still works in my browser. I just can't comment, message or report people. Given I was mostly a helpful user with people's questions, it's really their loss.

Why do you want to get around it? Reddit is last decade. Time to move on.

I got permabanned for encouraging political violence: suggesting people draw pentagrams in chalk on a public street. As a joke, not like "show up at this time so we can do this."

They are eroding the definition of "political violence" and they know it, they don't care. Thought is political violence now.

Anyone managed to get around this?

Considering how some people run hundreds of bots it must be possible.

Yup, banned after 17 years here for speaking out against ICE. Guess Reddit is just taking a turn right into the shitter now.

No, I just stopped using it a couple of years ago when we learned about the AI bullshit. 251k+ Karma account.

Reddit sucks now & it's simply not worth supporting with my time or energy.

You can't get around the bans. They move heaven and earth to fingerprint you.

Don't worry about it. Many of us are in the same boat. I actually think reddit doesn't want human users anymore. They want to be a bot-only outfit.

Yea, I lost my 15 year old account last year. Started a new one and it just wasn't the same. Left a few months ago for here, still not the same, but better then reddit.

I was a mod on r/trashy when some dick face mod on r/pics managed to get me perma banned after 15 years.

It’s not worth going back to. Welcome to Lemmy.

Reddit really needs a great alternative. Lets see how Lemmy does in this regard.

Welcome 🤗, to your new online community

12 years for me. Tons of Karma, made it to top page once. I made a stupid joke on Roast me, and someone considered it Hate speech. Tried to create other profiles, all are permanently banned now. Appeals are denied. Glad I found this site. I hope it scratches the itch.

i can't remember what i got banned for, but my memory has it as "posted Luigis in defiance of Luigis ban" and that sounds like me.

I met Steve, Alexis, and Aaron when the site was housed in Steve's Somerville apartment. They used to throw meetups in Davis Square. This was in 2007-08, before the Digg migration.

Reddit is nothing like it was then, nor are the founders recognizable compared to what I saw all those years ago. I'm not banned, but then I rarely go there any more. Lemmy isn't very good, but Reddit is a dumpster fire.