Reddit’s been pretty hostile to IP and devices associated with me. I haven’t interacted a lot with reddit, but when I did, I chose so because of how big the communities are (mostly TOMT and one 2000s laptop brand community).
I don’t know when it all started, I probably had to wait a week after account creation, probably had to not use reddit’s default username, probably didn’t have to update my post as often as I did. But the matter is, I can’t get shadow unbanned despite all my appeals and I don’t see it as a worthwhile activity just for a one/couple of TOMT post(s) that I’m ok with not being credited for.
…p.s. and this backstory probably explains my arrival to this platform.
If the platform doesn’t want you, I wouldn’t think it’s healthy to still chase after it. If it’s something you want to post in other platforms, maybe see if there’s a section of your liking in other forums or microblogs? I remember coming across a few those past few years, like AtariAge, Retropie, Fuwanovel, Twitter if you must, Bluesky or any of its forks, etc.
Plus, in the possibility you don’t want to stick around and just came here to ask for help, I would insist otherwise: the protocol’s proposal makes for the environment as a whole to be hard to be taken down or to be taken over. And even if a given community, user base or instance is not of your liking, alternatives are already starting to pop up while still in the overall environment.