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
Fuck reddit
Exactly my first thought too.
Lemmy is already better. Digg…isn’t any good yet. Maybe never will be again. Reddit though. Hot trash.
Most of the people here left Reddit on purpose, so you may be asking the wrong crowd. What I think you should do is never give Reddit another thought and share content here instead
Username checks out.
How do you connect to the internet? If it’s cable internet or something similar and you don’t have a static IP address, reboot your router until you have a new IP address and then try making a new throwaway email and using that to make a new reddit account.
But really you should just ditch reddit and if you want to view it without logging in or interacting that is always still possible.
You’re better off without it tbh. This is coming from someone who had an account on there for 13 years, it used to be okay, but big corps, bots, and especially the owner Spez absolutely ratfucked it into a shadow of its former self. It’s no longer reliable as a source of information or entertainment since it’s roughly 60% bots by volume. You never know if you’re actually talking to a real person on the other end.
If you really want to get back, you’re going to have to be careful about it. You can use a VPN on a device you’ve never accessed reddit on before, and you will likely not be detected. But again you have to be really careful. Even so much as opening a reddit link with your new account logged in on a device/IP your banned account was on almost guarantees your new account will get permbanned within a couple of days. They are unreasonably heavy-handed with ban evasions.
I got banned for opposing the genocide in Gaza before it was a mainstream part of the liberal narrative shelf… Been about a year, I truly don’t care. Listen, besides small communities with older folk, it’s mostly a cesspool. You can still use it as an aggregate, but the less you interact there, the better. It has also become a complete American MAGA site besides small oases of sanity, so it’s just a very annoying experience to talk over there unless you’re part of their team and find what they say normal/funny.
I miss when Reddit allowed more free speech.
Me too, friend, me too.
I got shadowbanned from Reddit a few months before I left. I didn’t even know that shadowbanning was a thing. As soon as I learned why my posts weren’t getting any replies at all ever, I emailed in to ask why, and got a canned reply saying that they aren’t going to go into detail. I still have absolutely no idea why it happened. So I just deleted my account and moved over here.
A somewhat similar thing happened to me. Made an admittedly spicy comment on r/FauxMoi on my main account. Got banned from that sub (which was fair). Made a second account months later and inadvertently commented on r/FauxMoi (literally just about a movie premiere date—the story was on my main page) without thinking about my prior account’s ban.
Got immediately perma-banned for ban evasion. I appealed and was ignored. Oh well.
And fwiw, you can still view all the content. Just can’t vote/comment. 🤷
I think everyone here has been banned from there. I joined like a month ago, I think? I had three accounts taken down because of ridiculous reasons just like most people. Kind of like people in jail keep saying “I’m innocent, i didn’t do nothing”. Anyway, i like it here, it’s low-key, not too overwhelming and cluttered like the other one. People are friendlier. So stick around. Also, why are you so freaking out and feeling ashamed or guilty of what happened?
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I know it’s not everyone it’s just for dramatic effect. Are you talking about the lemmy project? Can you tell me more if you don’t mind?
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I appreciate your answer, but to be honest I can’t claim I understood everything that you mentioned. I did a quick search but I need some time to delve into that to understand how it works and connects. At first glance it seems interesting and evolutionary, hopefully I can understand it. Thanks again.
I got my 15yo account banned for saying Palestinians have a right to defend themselves, they claimed I was inciting violence. Never had any account strikes or warnings.
I refreshed my IP and created a new account and never had any problems with ban evasion
I got a ban for harassment because I messaged someone on Vinted about a basket they were selling
You are banned from reddit for life for asking if you are banned outside of reddit.
The sunglasses and suits guys will be around shortly to beat up your computer and teach it a lesson about where it gets its shitty memes from.
You are permabanned, IP banned, and device banned. Ask me how I know.
How do you know?
I’m permabanned!
Yeah I was guessing. Most people here are permabanned from Reddit :/
I am sorry, but this is simply not true. The most people on Lemmy I met, I believe, do consider their privacy, federation/decentralized features and open-source state of the platform, fairly ad-free environment, and not to mention purely customizable clients to participate over the standard and open protocols involved. Meanwhile, they have functional accounts on Reddit, too.
Please do consider the undefined infinitely unique environments of infinitely magnificent people around the world…
I meant people in this comment section








