Thank you for doing the job for me Spez!

Seriously, shareholders kill what they invest in it's surreal.

It's always been like that. They're parasite - they ruin the thing they latch on to, then they jump ship with fat stacks of cash and move on to the next product to kill.
- except that not all parasites harm their host. in nature, "parasites" range from a mutually beneficial relationship to the destruction of their host.
  
  these are the bad type of parasites, also called diseases
It’s truly astounding, isn’t it? Like, is there any investment that hasn’t totally killed the product? You can feel when a company switches over too to the investors. It doesn’t matter what the product is.

Like, take the website ModCloth. Started as a vintage fashion reseller. It was like a little community that was attached to a e-commerce store.

Walmart subsidiary bought them out. Changed over the website. Deleted everyone’s usernames, information, and profiles. And with it over a decade of user posts and photos. Website stopped selling any good quality vintage style clothes. The entire reason anyone shipped there. It’s just like drop shopped tshirts with stolen art now. What the fuck.

I can think of a hundred more examples. Investors buying any company should sound like a banshee scream.
- Soon we will see it happen to Discord. It will be pretty awful.
ever since huffman publicly endorsed elon/trump, it was only a matter of time.
Because they don’t care about the long term health of the company. They just need the next quarter to be profitable, and then they can move on.

What opinion got you banned?

OP conveniently omitting that detail suggests that popcorn may be in order.
- I said billionaires and oligarchs should be luigi'd.
- Probably just practical observations for how to improve things
- I don’t want to doubt OP too hard, but yea, at least tell us what you said so we are not blindly siding with you
Perhaps a comment about Louie G.
- Funny thing, I've been calling him Manny G
I got banned for saying if nazis came for me, I'd go down without a fight and take a few with me 🤷🏻‍♂️ doesn't take much

Okay I’ll bite - who is this?
- The Elon meat rider that's trying to replace reddits user base with loyalists and bots.
- u/spez, CEO of Reddit
  
  AKA the greediest little pigboy who ever lived

Honestly, I shouldn't still be pissed about my ban but I can't help it.

I was on reddit for over 10 years with millions of fake internet points

Sitewide banned me for no discernable reason

It's been a couple of months and they still haven't even bothered to respond to my appeal

Now that I see how reddit's going down the tube, I don't even care if they respond at this point

I'm done with it

Same here. No reason. No response. Fuck those guys. And fuck Spez.

Man... I wen't through so many permas on reddit. I am so happy that the alternative is forming

We’ve been here for a few years, but we’re grateful to have new people!
- Ready for the explosion of users! I hope Lemmy is ready as well.
- It was either you or Tildes.
  
  I went with Tildes originally, but their admirable effort to only encourage long-form discussion works against growing a user base to be anything more than a Petri dish; people need those fast dopamine hits!
  
  …that and they’re invite only.
as did i, first it was politics, then news and aww, and my later accts caught those and more. simply for misconstured statements. and then reddit look back at your "deleted accts which had sub bans" and retroactively banned all your active accounts.

I got banned from half the subs on reddit for trying to explain the scunthorpe problem on programming related sub, because all that is what happens when everyone uses the same automod that has the exact problem I was trying to explain and they also ban you from subs you've never even been to because they share a naughtylist of ppl who use the c word.

for anyone that's never heard of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

reddit admins and mods are just using idiotic automation to shoot first and ask questions never

and also to help the billionaires not have to look at things they don't like so elongated muskrats don't get thier feewings hurt

I learned about it as the buttbuttination problem before I new it had a proper name, heh.
Ngl, that's kinda hilarious (and sad at the same time)
F in chat for all the "k***hts" of the world.
- Ok, I'm having a brain fart here, but I can't imagine anything but 'knights' for 'k***hts'. :P
I can see why these people change the name or their village: https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to-change-its-name/a-55740967

Nice permanent ban!

I left for much less; A 24-hour suspension. Though to be honest, that was literally just the straw that broke the camel's back.

I got suspended for using the word "removed" in a scientifically and non-offensive context (ex: put bread in the fridge to removed the growth of mold). No way to appeal that obviously retar-- ridiculous decision.

LMFAO this is what happens when ai is used for moderation
- Possibly, but this happened long ago enough that AI probably wasn't a factor. Just good ole fashioned human stupidity and/or ignorance.
I just stick with rarted instead. It sounds funnier (at least to me) and you can literally say it whenever

I recently lost my 13 year old account for telling a Nazi troll that their actions have consequences.

Still trying appeals but not optimistic.

Literally thousands of unpaid work done as a moderator of 4 subs during that time.

.... Im so bitter.

Now I'm bitter for you too.

Who is going to create content or mod subs if they kick out all of us veterans?

I’ve been reporting people that hint at violence after I got banned for something that was 1000% not even close to a hint at political violence.. like not even being sarcastic. Anyway, the more banned the more people leave. Silver linings. Reddit era deserves to be over.
- i got banned for reporting people for the same thing+ obvious misinformation that was slipping through the cracks. the Mods are part of the problem, because many of them are ok if the filters gets a random person wether the filter flags the acct as possible (ban evaders or not). Reddit additionally doesnt even give the mods why a user is getting flagged or banned, its completely arbitrary.
AI... And they'll be the users too!
- Like how twitter and YouTube comments are just bots talking to bots?
  
  Yeah. ...I could see it going that way.
Turns out, good actions have consequences too.

My account was 17 years old when I was banned without explanation.

Kinda nice to get banned though. I was banned from xitter for liking a comment critical of the muskman, it really helped reinforce that I needed to be done with that place though. Maybe I'll move on from Reddit before that happens...

Reddit has turned into a complete shithole the past two years. The sooner it gets taken out back and bludgeoned to death, the better.

Personally, I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been banned at least once from that place.

I went 13 years without being banned, even though I spent most of my time on there debating politics and religion which frequently got heated and had never even been temp-banned from a subreddit. Now I've been banned 4 times in the last year for total bullshit, 2 of which happened yesterday, so things have definitely gone downhill.

this is so reminiscent if the digg Exodus around the aacs key. bans pushed us to reddit, and at a higher rate than those being banned. Lemmy mau is up over 10%. idk if the bleeding can be stopped.

uninvolved users will stay with it. digg had 2 or 3 major redesigns before I stopped hearing about it completely. it became little more than yahoo! news.

I'm sure that is the fate of reddit now.

I left Digg during that exodus and went to Reddit, and now here I am. Enshittification happens everywhere that capitalism finds an opportunity to put its dick in someone's ass, it'll probably happen here too if it gets popular.

Yup, they banned me for 7 days because saying Luigi didn't deserve to go to jail for what he did is apparently 'encouraging violence'. I appealed and it was lifted, but not before I got another message identical to yours. In my 14 years of reddit I have never had more than a single account, so I appealed that too. I'm not banned anymore but I got a message saying the second appeal was denied and the ban would stay in place. I think reddit is just falling over itself in its eagerness to frog-march to ~~Der Fuhrer~~ spez's new fashy bullshit.

Deleted my 15 yr account yesterday. Hola!

Deleted my 14 year old account on Saturday. Fuck em.

It's actually nice to open a comments section and see the same goddamn 10 comments every time.

All these Reddit bans I’m seeing are insane. At this rate, soon most of that site is actually going to be bots lol

and they keep it vague so you never know the actual reason why its ban, they are definitely cleaning house to make it look facebook2.0, facebook now uses AI to control dead accts to engage in activities. reddit is heading this way, of course with right wing content too. its also becoming increasingl hard to make your own subreddit, or take it over. they want a small managable group where they can distribute propaganda.
- If I ever see my old fb posting I'm calling a lawyer. I got locked out before I could delete and they have NO support staff.
Going back to their roots. This time they'll buy the from OpenAI.

Still on Reddit? Use a comment and post wiper now, before you get banned.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
- I use this it doesn't work. In the sense that, to you your post may seem gone. But Reddit can and will restore them.
  
  I use this exact tool when I left Reddit. They restored my posts.

Considering deleting my account as a statement but I’m kind of attached to the history which is why it’s kind of scary touching it at all at this point. All I’m using it for now is for a few crafting subreddits and some clothing based subreddits that don’t have equivalents on Lemmy yet. One I might be able to create myself. But we’re talking 5-10 of my most frequent hangouts. That seems like a bit much.

I had a 15 yr old account with thousands of comments. After a 3 day ban for a dumb joke about Boeing Starliner (that became partially true BTW) I deleted my top comments and closed my account. It's better not constantly doing scrolling, but I haven't left social media completely obviously.
That's the reason I haven't deleted my reddit aswell, I have some niche subreddits that mean the world to me and made me expand my hobby. I am however going to use lemmy more and who knows, reddit might become worse and we fully go to lemmy anyway!

I mean y'all should've left a long time ago but better late than never ig

My account was 11 years old when I left. Destroyed all my data, thank you very much

the data is not destroyed, it is only you that doesn't have access anymore... i am sure you can still buy the data from reddit

Once you're banned, do your previous posts and comments get deleted? Or do you just lose access to them?

You can still browse and your comments still remain up. But you can no longer post or comment further. I'll still get upvotes / replies to old comments. I just can't respond
- Don't be distressed about it, dad. You're here now. You're safe.
- Thanks for clarifying!
You just lose access

If it's like my permanent ban, they lift it once they need to pump up their subscriber numbers. 😂

then they reban people after thier increased number show healthy activity to thier investors, i just delete my accounts if they recieved to many sub bans, or a sitewide ban.

I wonder what would happen if we all took to their other socials to speak our minds. If we flooded their posts and app reviews with negative feedback, maybe something would be done about it.

When the account is banned is still possible to edit or delete own comments or posts?

Consider running that script that goes over each post or comment and replace it with random words, just to poison their ai training

When I tried that script in 2023 it didn't work. Just go back and delete your best. If you can. Good luck.

Hey at least you got banned! I just keep getting network errors on mine which is clearly shadow banned since logging in on any other account on the same device does work normally.

Do not pass Go.
Do not collect $200.

Nice! All of my Reddit accounts got banned this week too! Including one that hadn’t even made a post in over 6 months!

mines got banned early last month because of a suspension, 5+ accts gone.

Now create another account and repeat the same steps until they ban your IP

You get an achievement for that? Cuz I'm eligible.

I have said some wild stuff and never been permabanned. What did you post?

It was what I upvoted not what I posted.

And just think, you guys were the ones who didn't leave back when it was going down the shitter because you disagreed with the opinions of the people they were banning.

This isn't even exactly a haven for wrongthink either. /r/fatpeoplehate couldn't exist on Lemmy, so most people coming over aren't even really concerned with political opinions being silenced, so much as they care about their particular political opinion being silenced.

It absolutely could exist. It's just likely that a lot of servers would defederate them. That's kind of the beauty of federation.
- You just gave me bingo on my fediverse bingo card!
- Well there ya go. Turns out the fediverse isn't about freedom from corporations - and it's just about creating your own brand of filter bubble.