Hey, at least you get a reply. I've been appealing to remove shadowban for over two weeks with no response.
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Because CEO u/spez Huffman plainly intends Reddit to be another fascist snowflake safe space. Maybe brownshirt-wannabes are a more responsive advertising target audience; maybe the regime has leverage over former r/Jailbait mod spez.
c/fuckreddit, you guys can vent if y'all want, and hopefully one of reddit's power tripping egoist admins sees that sub
Guess I'm not the only one who randomly got banned for something stupid (cussing at a guy who threatened to grape and m**der women and men from our country respectively), my almost 4 year old account with 55K karma is permabanned and it's so hard to get a new account going lol
I tried to make a new account just to ask academic questions but nope, banned again.
There is something that works right now, but I'd rather not make it public knowledge or else the childish stupid fucking reddit admins will close that too somehow. Fuck reddit, I hope they get what they deserve (fun fact: I got a permaban once for literally saying these exact words: "I hope they get what they deserve" on a post about people abusing an innocent pedestrian, managed to overturn that permaban but not this one :/)
Jesus that's insane that you even got one permaban overturned. That's stuff of legends right there
Get a vpn and talk differently.
Actually, better yet don't use Reddit. That site loves Nazis.
With how ridiculous the reasoning for my ban was, I'd just get banned again.
I got banned after 12 years for advocating for the punching of Nazis, and calling Elon Musk a giant cunt.
Good riddance.
You aren't supposed to use it again. That's the point they're making
It's kinda bullshit though that I was banned out of nowhere, not given a reason whatsoever, and now they seriously just expect me to throw my hands up and never step foot on the platform again
Reddit doesn't want your business, stop trying to give it to them
I mean, yeah. Reddit is so big that they don’t give a shit whether you use the platform or not. They can continue falsely banning thousands of people each day because their user base is so big that those lost users wouldn’t even be a rounding error.
Stop patronizing places that don’t give a shit about you beyond how much they can sell your data for.
I don't know why you were banned, but they've been throwing bans around left and right, and damn near all of them have been bullshit. No real reasons given, no appeal responses, etc.
So, yeah, they seriously expect people to fuck off and never post or comment again. That's their goal, and they're leveraging every tool at their disposal to do so.
They want numbers, but numbers they can control. Anyone that's the tiniest bit off of the kind of user they want posting and commenting is a detriment to their actual goals. But, since there's plenty of them that will keep coming back anyway, they still get their ad revenue from whatever percentage of those that aren't using methods that bypass ads entirely.
You can keep trying, and maybe you'll find the right combination of things to bypass their fingerprinting methods. But you'll eventually get banned again and have to start over, while having refined their fingerprinting of you. Each time, it gets harder and harder to bypass.
Now, if that's how you roll, have at it! Fuck reddit. Anyone willing to jump through those hoops does cost them a teeny tiny amount of resources to maintain their bans. Added up over enough users, maybe they'd give up. But, it's all automated now, so the amount it costs doesn't go up far per user trying. So I don't believe they'll ever give up; I just don't want to say never ever.
Me? I use stealth for the very few things I can't find elsewhere. It's supposedly archived now, so there's no telling how long it'll keep working, but it is currently working. I have no need to post or comment there though.
But they want people trying. Because every new account artificially inflates user numbers. Oh, look at how many people are signing up! We're doing great!.
I swear, I wish the room that was disclosed in had been archived.
Anyway, my advise is to not log in at all, just use the revanced reddit app, stealth, oldreddit or whatever passively, and use lemmy/piefed/mbin for any discussions. A lot less hassle.
Yeah it really is an awful cycle. The issue is though that there really are no alternatives. I mean I made an account on here because it's the closest thing, but let's be real, it doesn't even come close.
Especially in the world of gaming and technical questions, literally no site can even remotely compete with Reddit, so I feel like I have zero other options, and instead need to spend hours upon hours making dozens of accounts and finding new ways to bypass their bans because obviously they have various methods in place to ensure that like entire devices, wifi networks, and IPs are banned
Reddit brainwashed you into thinking it's the only place. The reality is damn near everything on reddit is from somewhere better. You can replace it simply by going to the sources and browsing there. Tiktok, steam news, gaming sites, YouTube. The only thing you can't replace are the comments, but that shit is 50% bots, 49% shill, and getting worse everyday. Just keep posting on lemmy and you'll find you never really needed reddit.
I think you're locked into the idea that a single place should be an alternative. That's part of what allowed reddit to go full asshole the way it did. A one stop shop is convenient, but only so long as it doesn't become malignant.
Switching over to a multi platform media model is just better. You've got multiple threaded options that duplicate the mid length discussion format. There's two or three options for shorter form/microblogging level discussions. Your supplement that with some corporate options for broader options, and you're both having the same degree of information, and having it impossible for any single source to shut you out entirely.
Hell, once you get used to the lower user base, the fact that lemmy has advantages just by itself becomes a very nice thing. When you mix in mastodon, piefed and mbin being crosstalk compatible, you don't even have to have accounts on those platforms to gain extended reach.
I mean, it is what it is, if you need to be able to post and comment on reddit, jumping through ever narrowed hoops is your only option. I'm just not of the opinion that there's really much of value in gaming at all that can't be gained passively. Tech wise, yeah, you'll get a wider range of answers faster on reddit. Not necessarily better answers, depending on the exact tech branch, though.
I'd also argue that people in the fediverse are more likely to put in effort into advice they give than on reddit. Shit, on reddit, you type more than three paragraphs, somebody is going to whine about a wall of text and tl;dr. So there's no point in putting effort in. Here, you get thanked for going the extra mile, so people are more willing to do it.
But reddit is dying for human users. It just is, because they don't want people using it the way people need a service like reddit. I'm not personally willing to bang my head against the wall when I can end up with the same information in roughly the same amount of time by chilling and waiting.
They might be using browser fingerprinting to tie you back to your banned account. Also, if you haven't cleared all cookies and data (local storage, cache, etc.), then they might be using that. Try waiting until you get a new IP from your ISP and then use a different browser. Don't use a VPN.
They save money by using shitty AI to decide who to ban and then they save money again not having any customer service to correct the mistakes of the shitty AI. I'd take the W and move on from Reddit, it's a fucking cesspool.
I had a 15 year old account banned, with no explanation, and now i can't use any of my alts or make new accounts.
That's so sad man, I found a way that seems to be working rn but idk how long it'll continue to do so lol, those fuckers just patch everything up