You know I was a multi time a day user, I had lot of favorite subreddits, I accidentally posted in a sub that I had been “banned” in from my other account (for making a comment that was not particularly political and they said it was), it was not malicious, was not intentional, was not trying to “get around their ban” just accidently posted from the wrong account. Didn’t notice what sub I was in. Then 4 months later I did the same thing not, I was just not paying attention to what sub I made a casual offhanded comment in. I ALSO happened to be using a VPN. And BAM! IP banned, all 8 of my accounts banned even my business account. I was so so so upset. But now a month later, I still get kinda upset that I can’t use it to ask questions. but man what a fucking time suck it was. My brain was just rotting away there. That whole IP banning thing is total bullshit.
I don’t even really know why I had that many accounts, one I had for my business posting pottery stuff which that’s the one I’m most upset about losing. But the rest were just random ones that I made on random emails. Still sad, they shouldn’t have the ability to nuke all of your accounts like that.
Ditto. Had multiple accounts for anonymity and different algorithms lol. I was talking about a “murder suicide” true case and that got flagged as “threatening violence” and I got permanently banned 😅 jumped on a different account and…perma banned. And yep, instantly took out all 5 accounts 🤷♀️ hence why I’m here lol.
And I get the whole it’s their business and they can do what they want but when it’s a monopoly basically, they should not be allowed to IP ban people.
Yeah I’ve been surprised to see how many people have spoken about being banned recently for such minor stuff so I suspect that it might be pushing people on here. I wonder if they lose enough users they’ll figure out their monopoly is under threat lol. But I think we’re a very long way off that!
Tbh, I’m disabled and as sad it is, I’m quite isolated and a lot of my connection to others was through reddit discussions so I was actually pretty upset at the ban. So yeah the extreme IP ban is shit!
If you really wanted to get back on, it’s possible, you could buy a used phone and get a sim that you add gb data on and use that . But honestly I don’t want to give Reddit my eyes for any advertising they push on people. I do miss it though
You know I was a multi time a day user, I had lot of favorite subreddits, I accidentally posted in a sub that I had been “banned” in from my other account (for making a comment that was not particularly political and they said it was), it was not malicious, was not intentional, was not trying to “get around their ban” just accidently posted from the wrong account. Didn’t notice what sub I was in. Then 4 months later I did the same thing not, I was just not paying attention to what sub I made a casual offhanded comment in. I ALSO happened to be using a VPN. And BAM! IP banned, all 8 of my accounts banned even my business account. I was so so so upset. But now a month later, I still get kinda upset that I can’t use it to ask questions. but man what a fucking time suck it was. My brain was just rotting away there. That whole IP banning thing is total bullshit.
Got my entire office banned that way. People have to work now.
They can still read Reddit though
Aaron Swartz is probably rolling in his grave for what Reddit has become.
Having 8 Reddit accounts is so goddamn funny and normal.
I don’t even really know why I had that many accounts, one I had for my business posting pottery stuff which that’s the one I’m most upset about losing. But the rest were just random ones that I made on random emails. Still sad, they shouldn’t have the ability to nuke all of your accounts like that.
yep. not to mention the laughable appeals process. Their entire help section is essentially just two people and an automod.
Ditto. Had multiple accounts for anonymity and different algorithms lol. I was talking about a “murder suicide” true case and that got flagged as “threatening violence” and I got permanently banned 😅 jumped on a different account and…perma banned. And yep, instantly took out all 5 accounts 🤷♀️ hence why I’m here lol.
And I get the whole it’s their business and they can do what they want but when it’s a monopoly basically, they should not be allowed to IP ban people.
Yeah I’ve been surprised to see how many people have spoken about being banned recently for such minor stuff so I suspect that it might be pushing people on here. I wonder if they lose enough users they’ll figure out their monopoly is under threat lol. But I think we’re a very long way off that!
Tbh, I’m disabled and as sad it is, I’m quite isolated and a lot of my connection to others was through reddit discussions so I was actually pretty upset at the ban. So yeah the extreme IP ban is shit!
If you really wanted to get back on, it’s possible, you could buy a used phone and get a sim that you add gb data on and use that . But honestly I don’t want to give Reddit my eyes for any advertising they push on people. I do miss it though
The problem is Lemmy is still really small in comparison
not a problem, a feature.
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