Fuck reddit

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!

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.

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

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.

A somewhat similar thing happened to me. Made an admittedly spicy comment on r/FauxMoi on my main account. Got banned from that sub (which was fair). Made a second account months later and inadvertently commented on r/FauxMoi (literally just about a movie premiere date—the story was on my main page) without thinking about my prior account’s ban.

Got immediately perma-banned for ban evasion. I appealed and was ignored. Oh well.

And fwiw, you can still view all the content. Just can’t vote/comment. 🤷

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?

What should you do?

MOVE ON

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.

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 banned for opposing the genocide in Gaza before it was a mainstream part of the liberal narrative shelf... Been about a year, I truly don't care. Listen, besides small communities with older folk, it's mostly a cesspool. You can still use it as an aggregate, but the less you interact there, the better. It has also become a complete American MAGA site besides small oases of sanity, so it's just a very annoying experience to talk over there unless you're part of their team and find what they say normal/funny.

Wait a year and make a new account. Or don't. I recommend the latter.