I’ve had 5 Reddit accounts banned over the past couple of months. I wasn’t spamming. I wasn’t self-promoting. I didn’t post links. I just… talked to people.

My posts were things like: – Photos of my cat – A conversation about burnout in r/CasualConversation – Responding to comments politely

Each time, the account got suspended out of nowhere. No warning, no explanation. I filed appeals — no answer. I tagged @RedditSupport on Twitter — silence.

I’m an indie game developer. I wasn’t even promoting my game. I was trying to be a part of the community. Reddit punished me for using the site as intended.

I know I’m not the only one who’s been through this.

If Reddit is hostile to new users, what future does it have?

So Louisiana has been all kinds of crazy and fucked up lately. Even before Trump was actually inaugurated, my own city was all over national news following a terrorist attack during the early hours of New Years day. A guy used a huge electric truck to quietly turn on to a busy and noisy street full of pedestrians and did what cowardly terrorists do. It was fucking horrific. In hindsight, it foreshadowed a dark and terrible start to what has been a very dark year that has made my home feel like a different and almost unfamiliar place.

In late April, somebody from out of state posted on a local subreddit, saying they were thinking of coming to stage a protest at the Jena detention center, where people are being swept off the street from all over the country, transported to Louisiana, and held indefinitely.

It's kind of surprising more protests don't happen there, but there's a reason they don't. There's also a reason the Trump administration picked that location. It's desolate and literally in the middle of nowhere. The Governor is a close friend and Trump loyalist. I have talked to lawyers and other groups who are afraid to go there because it's such a desolate place.

If you're in the U.S., you hopefully are already aware that several people were "disappeared" while simply trying to aid the civil rights movement. My mom grew up in the thick of it, and I grew up hearing her recount her own horrific childhood memories, including one of the most notorious cases from that time.

I feel like most people should just inherently understand why established protections for civil rights and liberties are so important, but a lot of people seem to think that (similar to workers rights and labor law) they may have been needed at one time, but they're no longer necessary/don't really do anything anymore, so, losing them isn't really a big deal. Hearing about what my mom witnessed, I've never been able to pretend or convince myself things are somehow just magically better now, or that progress gained can't easily be lost, and it wouldn't just happen again.

With all that in mind, I tried to offer the people planning this protest advice about what to expect and told them they should try to take some steps to ensure their own safety. Most local people on Reddit were supportive/agreed, but it's Reddit... Other people just pushed the whole you're being reactionary/ridiculous, "things are different, that was then, this is now." argument, nobody even cares, what are they even protesting anyway?

A few days later, I woke up to this comment. It would have been an appalling things to say regardless, but given what happened in my state on Jan 1st., it absolutely seemed like a threat, so I immediately reported it as threatening violence, and took a screenshot.

Might also be worth mentioning something from an article about a small protest at the detention center back in early April](https://www.nola.com/news/ice-jena-louisiana-deportation-center/article_5f54efce-3f64-4dec-9571-b49eb06320ac.html)

JENA — A group of protesters stood outside the federal immigration center in this central Louisiana town a few weeks ago, calling for it to be emptied, when a truck rolled past and belched a plume of exhaust at them.

The driver circled around as the group faced a bank of TV news cameras set up in the brush across the road, then repeated the act — a greeting of sorts to a hamlet in the pines that once again has drawn a national media glare.

Like I said in the title, not sure why now, but finally got a response from Reddit this morning thanking me for the report. They determined it violated rules and they took action. They then said to block the user if I would like to avoid seeing content from them.

Here is the action they took.

Problem solved. Things certainly are different now...

while https://old.reddit.com/r/broooo/ does not exist

https://old.reddit.com/r/brooo, https://old.reddit.com/r/broo, https://old.reddit.com/r/brooooo, and https://old.reddit.com/r/broooooo are banned.

https://old.reddit.com/r/bro and https://old.reddit.com/r/brooooooo are private.

https://old.reddit.com/r/broooooooo is also banned.

and https://old.reddit.com/r/Brooooooooo/ is still active

I think maybe because they had a command with su but I have no way of knowing. Seems extremely stupid that you can be banned for posting Linux commands to a Linux subreddit.

Basically, a while back my Reddit account was banned out of the blue. Since then, every single new account I make gets banned instantly every single time I make a post. Not once, for the record, have they ever provided me an iota of a reason as to why I was banned in the first place. As far as I know, my account was just wiped off the face of the internet because someone felt like it. Since then, I’ve used VPNs, different computers, changed my IP to my internet, but every single time, the moment I post or comment the same exact thing happens. All of a sudden, my profile in the top right disappears and when I go to check in an incognito tab, it says that it’s been suspended.

Then, a few hours later, it will become permabanned. Then I’ll submit an appeal, and every single time they get back to me, they deny it, and the only reason they give is because “I broke the rules”. How on fucking earth am I ever supposed to use this platform again?

Plebbit is a fully peer-to-peer, decentralized alternative to Reddit Built on IPFS that doesn’t rely on centralized servers or federated instances like Lemmy or Mastodon. Instead of traditional infrastructure, .No single point of failure, no global mods with ultimate control, no admin backdoors.

In theory, this should mean true censorship resistance and user ownership of content. Communities (subplebbs) are moderated locally with cryptographic keys, and moderation actions are transparent and accountable. It’s a different model than just “federated social media” this is more like BitTorrent for discussion forums.

Do you think a system like this can scale in practice?

Can it maintain quality discussions without centralized moderation?

Will regular users adopt something this technical?

Is it really more decentralized than alternatives, or just differently centralized?

https://github.com/plebbit/seedit

I know this is not an official reddit community, I just need an opinion and advice from someone who managed to get unbanned after violating TOS, or an admin who might be active here. Also, everything written here is true. My account had 55K+ karma and was 4 years old. Not planning to circumvent the ban in any way, so this is my last resort. I have many genuine friends on reddit

Dear Reddit Moderators/Admins,

I’m writing to sincerely apologize for my irrational behavior that led to my ban. I fully acknowledge that my use of abusive and hateful language was unacceptable, against Reddit’s rules, and harmful to the community. I deeply regret my actions and the negative impact they may have had on others.

I would like to express my regrets over my burst of emotions, sending abusive dms to multiple people who were abusing our country and some who posted comments threatening to grape and harm my family but removed them before I could report. Due to having lost two loved ones in the war in Jammu a few days ago, I was in a very toxic mental space and abused several people from the other country. I would like to express my sincerest apologies and regrets over such stupid and unacceptable behaviour.

Since then, I have seeked help for my mental health and stability (contacted a working professional, starting therapy today) and am willing to work towards making reddit safer and eliminate negativity spread by me by blocking every political/war-affected region's subreddit from my reddit feed, restricting my interactions on reddit to only the teenager subs and fandoms as well as sports and cats, that's it. 

This incident taught me a lesson about violent mental outbursts and I feel extremely sorry for the rage I spewed, no matter the context saying those things is wrong. I am sincerely requesting an unban and am willing to co-operate with the mods by requesting a shadow-ban of atleast 1 month on my account, but requesting it's restoration as well. 

I have been a part of reddit for over 3 years now and I now understand the gravity of the hateful words I said. I'm hopeful that therapy will lead me towards being a better person, both online and offline. 

I can assure you with utmost respect and sincerity that I shall never repeat and incident such as this ever again and will only work towards spreading positivity and light-hearted, SFW humour. 

Expressing my sincerest apologies and requesting a final unban as well as a shadow-ban for a few weeks. Please consider this request, I shall forever regret my actions. Due to the war-torn situation, my only friends are on reddit at this moment. Reddit used to be my escape from the scary reality and break from my studies and issues after getting diagnosed with sleep apnea and anxiety syndrome. Please, I am requesting this unban with my sincerest regrets.🙏 Expecting a response and again expressing my deepest regrets. I am willing to do anything asked of me to get my account restored.

[Please excuse my terrible English, it is not my first language.]

Dear Reddit Moderators/Admins,

I’m writing to sincerely apologize for my irrational behavior that led to my ban. I fully acknowledge that my use of abusive and hateful language was unacceptable, against Reddit’s rules, and harmful to the community. I deeply regret my actions and the negative impact they may have had on others.

I would like to express my regrets over my burst of emotions, sending abusive dms to multiple people who were abusing our country and some who posted comments threatening to grape and harm my family but removed them before I could report. Due to having lost two loved ones in the war in Jammu a few days ago, I was in a very toxic mental space and abused several people from the other country. I would like to express my sincerest apologies and regrets over such stupid and unacceptable behaviour.

Since then, I have seeked help for my mental health and stability (contacted a working professional, starting therapy today) and am willing to work towards making reddit safer and eliminate negativity spread by me by blocking every political/war-affected region’s subreddit from my reddit feed, restricting my interactions on reddit to only the teenager subs and fandoms as well as sports and cats, that’s it.

This incident taught me a lesson about violent mental outbursts and I feel extremely sorry for the rage I spewed, no matter the context saying those things is wrong. I am sincerely requesting an unban and am willing to co-operate with the mods by requesting a shadow-ban of atleast 1 month on my account, but requesting it’s restoration as well.

I have been a part of reddit for over 3 years now and I now understand the gravity of the hateful words I said. I’m hopeful that therapy will lead me towards being a better person, both online and offline.

I can assure you with utmost respect and sincerity that I shall never repeat and incident such as this ever again and will only work towards spreading positivity and light-hearted, SFW humour.

Expressing my sincerest apologies and requesting a final unban as well as a shadow-ban for a few weeks. Please consider this request, I shall forever regret my actions. Due to the war-torn situation, my only friends are on reddit at this moment. Reddit used to be my escape from the scary reality and break from my studies and issues after getting diagnosed with sleep apnea and anxiety syndrome. Please, I am requesting this unban with my sincerest regrets.🙏 Expecting a response and again expressing my deepest regrets. I am willing to do anything asked of me to get my account restored.

[Please excuse my terrible English, it is not my first language.]

I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED KEYWORDS IN THE REQUEST TICKET

Reddit admins have been censoring talk of ICE raids in kitchens. No better time than the present to convince them to bring their community to Lemmy.

Has anyone thought about changing all their previous posts and comments to something like, "This has been deleted in protest of Reddit's privacy policy. Please use lemmy.world instead"? Will I get banned from Reddit (not by mods) if I gradually change my previous posts?

Just curious

I have tried a few times Creating an reddit account with VPN on but always get shadowbanned. Is there anything I can do to protect my privacy from reddit?

Or is there any public reddit account shared online that could be used publicly?

Are there any open-source Reddit frontends available for Windows? I’ve seen some options for Linux and Android, but so far I haven’t had any luck finding one that works on Windows.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43732137

When I took my little sub private during the API protest I got this message, still waiting on those next steps that "will take place" lmao

https://archive.is/ztk4R

Original post by SoRedditHasAnAppNow:

Last night and video was posted on terrifyingasfuck about a woman who was sedated for a c-section and the physician put his penis in her mouth while she was under. He was recorded because the nursing staff put hidden cameras in as they were concerned about what he might be doing.

I tried to report it to reddit, but there wasn't a category that 100% matched. Regardless, I reported it as "non-consentual intimate content."

This morning I woke up to learn that reddit had reviewed the post and determined that it did not break reddit's site wide rules.

So that's it. Reddit condones rape videos. I knew this site had problems, but I never expected this.

Hello ! I want to share my experience, I was banned from a subreddit with an account and accidentally ,I comme.ted on that sub using my main account and deleted the comment right after , and still got banned . I tried to make another account , one got banned for no reason and the other o e shadowbanned . I'm so sad ,I love reddit a loot hhh What can I do to get back to reddit ?

1783 cases, 137 of which with a changed view after interaction.

reddit admin also answering at 15:00