Q1: Yes.
Q2: It’s possible but doubtful that you’ll get an account unbanned. No idea how they do it (haven’t bothered to look) but bans seem to track across IP and device. Making a new account on the same device after moving across states, my new accounts would still be banned for evasion within a few days. Couple that with the fact that most subs have karma and age minimum requirements and I just gave up after a while
They even tracked you across genders?
Where did you get that from?
They’re the shitpost artist formerly known as PP_BOY
Ahh that makes sense, thanks!
Yes, 3-4 times temporary or permanent bans. Posted an opinion, some mod did not like it, and that was that…
Solved it by creating new accounts. I am quite used to pseudonyms. I never show real names etc. On reddit I did not use the website, only third party apps. And when switching accounts I also switched to another app. After the first ban, I prepared my next accounts long before I needed them.
Never banned, never going back. Stay with us, it’s better anyway
Not if you use any af the same email accounts or accounts linked to accounts. I don’t suggest evading an overzealous temp bad by creating the user all_aita_mods_are_incels they took it hard.
I got banned for saying I’d be fine with it if Joe Biden executed Nazis. IDK about getting unbanned, I realized I don’t want to help far-right psychopaths collect AI training corpus material and ad revenue.
Banned for making jokes about a dead russian invader in a Ukraine war video.
Yup, told a zionist to DIAF.
Best post I ever made on that hell hole
I was banned after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse. There’s no easy way to get unbanned, but consider it for the better because it’s the easiest way to disconnect from that cess pit.
I keep seeing here people say “Its better here, because reddit has power hungry mods”.
But…what checks are in place here besides “create a new instance, and run your own duplicate community”?
To me, thats like the nuclear option. It’s something that ultimately hurts the fediverse. 1 community with 50 users is a lot stronger than 5 communities that all post essentially the same content with 10 users each.
And ok, maybe the time comes where you DO need to create the alternative duplicate community. Maybe the Lemmy mod has gotten power hungry. So a second community is created. Whats to say the second community won’t have power hungry mods as THAT community grows? Now you need a third community…and, you see where this is going.
I haven’t seen any power hungry mods on here YET, but everytime I ask the question how would it be handled, the answer is always “you could always create another instance/community.”
But in my opinion, that hurts Lemmy. So the thing you’re solving better be 10x more harmful than the harm you’re creating by fractioning the userbase.
I got permabanned. They IP ban you so there isn’t really a way to get back. One way was if you got banned on your computer, you could make a new account on your phone and be fine. A vpn is also possible but the free vpns suck and paying to get back to Reddit is dumb.
I got permabanned for some eat the rich comment. I made a new account with my same google account and they didn’t care. But who cares, walled gardens suck.
Yes and not any way I’ve seen.
Yes, I was shadow banned. Zero communication from the standard ways of reporting it. Good riddance. The place is a cesspool.
Me. Also no. I made r/Artisanvideos, turned it into a thriving community, and got sacked for a tongue in cheek comment. I get the impression that Reddit’s admins specifically pound the pavement to remove people from their successful work and take it for themselves.
Tbh, it’s really nice to not have to obsess over that anymore.
Sorry to hear, must have felt bad after growing that community.
If you ever want to grow communities again, feel free to have a look at !fedigrow@lemm.ee
It was kind of spur of the moment to make it. I saw a need and made it happen! I don’t generally try to do that, but after it started actually growing I got obsessed and defensive about it. I can’t tell you how crazy agitated I got about spammers, advertisers, pluggers, and bots. I regularly told people off. It was always “quit your bullshit, don’t even try to act like you’re not here for the giant audience visibility on our relatively low post count” and people would call me a tyrant because I shut the door on them trying to abuse it. I’m literally the reason r/subredditdrama was born. I don’t want any of that anymore and I lucked out having found a good guy to leave in charge a good few months before I was banned. It’s so hard to find the right guy who’s not just clamoring for power.
