I got into this situation because something was marked as harassment on my Reddit account, which banned me for 3 days. I had no intention to cause harm, I was just correcting someone over a movie detail that involved transgender but did not criticize trans people at all, but that’s not the issue. For some reason, I panicked, wasn’t thinking straight, and proceeded to delete that account and make a new one, which is ban evasion. I’m stupid, and for some reason I thought I could make a new account and it’d be fine. I didn’t even need Reddit at that time or used it very often at all, so I don’t know why I did that. My account got shadow banned a few hours later, which is permanent. What I did was stupid, and I regret my decisions. I’ll stay away from anything remotely controversial next time, and I won’t create accounts to circumvent the ban again. I never had a malicious intent though, I just want to use Reddit to ask specific questions, socialize about interests, and help others. I contacted Reddit through a support ticket a few times (once a week) and it has been almost a month, yet there is no response, though I’ve heard it can take several months for a response, if they respond at all, and I could possibly be filing too many tickets. I think it disabled me from logging into the banned account to appeal, so I can’t appeal another way. Since I broke the ToS, I am wondering if there is any hope for me. I consider Reddit to be useful in some aspects so it is a bit of a bummer, but it is the consequences of my actions I guess. A permanent life ban is a lot though :/ but it’s just a website. It’d be nice to get my account back which is why I am asking, but I totally understand if I can’t use Reddit again. Reddit sucks overall but it can be useful sometimes. I’ll move on though
Posted this somewhere else but found out this was a better community
Permabans are just that. Wait 100 days for your IP info to be cleared from their system and set up a new account… OR… do the better thing, and stay here and help build up a friendliwer, less censored, more decentralized group of forums.
I was 2 weeks shy of 15 years on Reddit, got sniped by a 'bot for a metaphorical statement and was banned… Found old lemmy.zip, signed up and started expanding to other servers and picking up subscri[ptions on different instances - t’s amazing! - its like Reddit was when I first found it in 2009, and I haven’t skipped a beat or missed Reddit one bit.
Dig in your heels and stick around and build / find a nicer community here. When the penny drops on how the comms work and the instances are federated, you will find there is more variety than you know.
Lemmy is WAAY better.
I am new here (just got the dreaded permaban after 8 years on Reddit and 660K karma). Do I have to create separate Lemmy identities on the different servers or can I use my original Lemmy.world identity to participate in all groups everywhere? I love the fediverse model, conceptually, and it seems like the logical next step (I abandoned google in favour of proton about a year ago, now it looks like Reddit has pushed me out the door so I’m joining the Lemmyngs :-))
Hola former Redditor!
You can subscribe to any community that shows in your feed.
It may take a few hours to get accepted, since it does depend on the instance that community is hosted on. They are actually run by folks that may be off doing things at time so if no one is around to approve you right away, don’t panic. They’ll get there. I made the mistake of signing in on a ton of different instances, but am on old.lemmy.zip. Because of course it’s got the old reddit layout, which allowed me to move in w/o missing a beat!
The only instance I haven’t bothered with is the lemmy.ml since it can be a bit fractious (the rumor is they’re “tankies” that is, pro Putin folks… thanks, no… that’s okay, I’ll pass…) and has a bit much drama - which I am SO over since I got permabanned on Reddit last October… two weeks shy of 15 years.
The main thing I like is there is no running karma tally outside of what’s directly on your comments or posts!
It’s WAY more laid back and so few bots to passive-aggressively wind one up.
Well if .ml refers to Marxist-Leninists then I wouldn’t be too surprised if there are tankies present. It continues to puzzle me how soi-distant commies can be rooting for oligarchy as implemented by Putin, but “there’s nowt so queer as folk…”
Treat it as a blessing instead of a curse. I had like half a mil karma and was pretty pissed for a bit. But this place is better. Less traffic, but the higher quality is denser, once you nail down the curation of your feed.
I had 660K karma when I was excommunicated (apparently by robots) from Reddit last week. It happened shortly after I said something (I can’t even remember what) critical and angry about the US bombing Iran. I don’t think it was anything particularly fiery or profane, even. I had no sense of “this is risky to post” when I wrote the comment.
The ban explanation made no sense, it claimed that it was because of “repeated rule violations by your other account(s)” — I have no other accounts, I’ve had only the one Reddit account for 8 years. So the ban justification was bogus.
I’m beginning to wonder if Spez has got a directive to deplatform all the anti-war, anti-Bibi, anti-Trump voices from Reddit. That’s seems paranoid, but it would make sense to kick out the higher-karma accounts with followers first. It’s hard for me to come up with any other explanation… I’m seriously puzzled and of course, I can’t go back to Reddit to discuss it!
Spez for sure has got a pro-business agenda he’s laying down. I noticed a distinct shift after the IPO dropped. Lots more “sanitized for your protection” squeeky clean, let’s-not-offend-the-sponsors steps being taken. I miss ONE sub and that is for my hometown, but honestly the drama at times could be suffocating there, so it’s a good thing.