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
Wait a year and make a new account. Or don’t. I recommend the latter.
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
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.
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.
A permanent life ban is a lot though, and I feel bit ashamed :/
What??
You should be proud of it. Print it on a T-Shirt!
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
If I were you, I would wait like 4 weeks. Then I would install a fingerprint resistant web browser on your PC, and double check that you aren’t getting fingerprinted.
Then use your phone’s internet connection via mobile hotspot or USB tethering to create a new account. NEVER use this new account from your regular internet connection or regular browser.
Maybe it will work.
I got a life ban for saying idiots riding their motorbikes on pavements deserved a slap.
Reddit is shit.
Got a week long ban for saying Religion is like a penis… It should stay out of children’s mouth because I was posting a paedophile comment. Luckily at the time the appeal process was still working.
Nowaday, you’re better us. If you want to be back on reddit, wait for a few month, there is some chances that by then you don’t get flagged as ban evasion anymore
I’m not bothered about trying to get back now I’ve discovered Lemmy. I did try and evade the ban but they must have flagged hardware info. Despite registering with a VPN and fake email I got shadow banned immediately
My wife uses reddit so don’t want her getting caught up in the ban
I think using a VPN at all on Reddit gets you instantly banned now.
Explains a lot i guess
What should you do?
MOVE ON
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Let’s choose another word.
He sounds kinda Trumpy
Don’t waste your time and move on. I was banned because the algorithm doesn’t understand sarcasm and nobody care if you try to appeal. In fact, the appeal system itself is broken.
It’s broken? That sucks.
I’m polite saying it’s broken, I rather than think it’s intentionally broken. The users base is so large they don’t care about appeal anymore. It’s too time consuming.
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 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.
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?
Not everyone. I’ve never caught any kind of Reddit discipline. There are a few of us around who indie web/fediverse enthusiasts who deeply believe in the project.
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?
I am not — I think that were I to stand up a threadiverse instance today, it’d be a piefed instance. I think it’s already a better product and that it has a better governance structure that means it’s going to continue to improve faster than Lemmy.
Which is not to get down on Lemmy! To the best of my knowledge, it was the first of its kind in the fediverse, and the Lemmy devs solved a lot of thorny problems. And the lemmy.world admins have been incredible hosts — I’ve modded a half dozen communities for 2.5 years and still never had to take a mod action (knock on wood).
No, I meant the larger project. I came to the fediverse back when ActivityStreams was published in 2017. I didn’t quite see the vision until ActivityPub was published in 2018, but you could see the promise of social media interoperability even in those first few steps. I don’t know if you remember, but there was a time when the World Wide Web was a very small part of an internet that was divided into tiny silos, but for me, I saw the release of activitypub the same way — the w3c has come in and put together a reasonable way for everyone to play in the same sandbox together.
And I think ActivityPub has done it. I can boost my bookwyrm posts from mastodon to tell people about what I’m reading. I can cross-post to piefed from my pixelfed by @ mentioning a community. I hardly even notice when I interact across instances and services.
For me, the thing that is exciting about Lemmy is that it is a small backwater on a weird, wide beautiful world of people who are all talking to each other in the way that makes them the most comfortable, in small groups and enclaves that have the frontend and moderation policies that best match their needs, but that they can still talk to everyone else. It’s more like email than reddit, and to me that’s what’s most exciting.
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.
That’s so ridiculous. I bet the warning didn’t even tell you that you couldn’t use another account in the interim.
They don’t seem interested in unbanning these kinds of bans. You can get around it, but they need to have no idea it’s you. There are posts and videos about it. It’s checking your devices and your internet service. You’ll need a new device and internet service. You can never connect your old accounts to them, and you can never log the new device/account into an internet service you used (eg. at your moms). It’s also recommended to take care to not make it obvious you’re the same person. Eg. spend a few weeks just upvoting posts, only go to a few subreddits you didn’t go to before, and slowly add the stuff you liked before.
I’m not bothering, personally. Welcome to Lemmy. Checkout Bluesky and Threads.
Mastodon is an order of magnitude better than Bluesky. Threads is just Facebook.
