I have had multiple accounts through 15 years on reddit but reddit has become hardcore ban happy and I’ve stopped even trying to get around it at this point and have stopped using the site completely.

So what was the dumbest reason you were banned?

Mine was going into a far right sub that was discussing lord of the rings, for some reason lotr is huge with the far right including the current vp. Anyway all I did was post lotr sucks and a video link to clerks 2 where Randall tells Elias and the customer that the movie is nothing but walking and that the true ending should be frodo bricking into Sam’s mouth.

I got reported and site wide permabanned from a far right sub for gay bashing when the intent was anything but that. That’s when I noticed the glory days of reddit were starting to fade.

  • HuskerNation@lemmy.zipOP
    41·
    5 days ago

    Ya I was a long time digg user, even after the changes and everyone left for reddit I still hung around for a year or two. I’m excited to see what digg becomes and hopefully keep it far right free.

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      41·
      5 days ago

      I never used any social until a few years ago

      I watched reddit slip from right-wing to “genuinely quite concerning”

      From outside the US, it was always right-wing, despite the cries of the bots, incels and trolls, but it deteriorated really quickly

      There’s already a few obvious agitators on the new Digg platform, so hopefully when it goes live for real they don’t get a foothold

      I have low expectations though…

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        you can expect right wing trolls to be on new forums, because they already been banned on reddit, and others a while ago, they need a place to fester.

        • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Jesus,

          I got banned from Reddit for saying “bad bot” to one of them, which was apparently “violent speech”

          Reddit has always been right-wing, but now it’s fucked

          Banned across my SFW and NSFW account too

          It’s a pain, but hopefully Lemmy grows and Digg becomes a success

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            im glad there is a forum out there that specializes in evading bans from social media platforms, serves them(corporate) right.

            • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              1·
              5 hours ago

              They use device fingerprinting, so the bans are permanent

              I don’t want to be a part of reddit any more

              I don’t want them to make any money out of me

              • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                5 hours ago

                besides that they also look for other things beyond that. because the most sophisticated evaders(the of fans and link farmers) are using paid methods to hide from that detections.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          the only reason they allow left leaning content, is so they can astroturf it with right wingers. r/politics, worldnews, and any affilitated subs was like that. then it spread to the whole site as soon as trump became president AGAIN.

          and then theres now like AI posting spam too.

        • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          11·
          5 days ago

          Only by 'Murican standards, I assure you

          It was always very American, and right wing

          But it definitely took a turn to the absolutely shitty

          Of course, most of the users are yanks, so they really won’t notice