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[–] DeskReference@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm here because I was perma-banned for no reason 🤔 then the whole ban evasion policy. Forget that site

[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did they actually tell you you were banned, or did they just give you cryptic error messages and wait for you to figure it out?

[–] DeskReference@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

It looked like an auto mod message that I was permanently banned for no reason and to go to the help page to find out more. Of course that was useless. I tried to appeal. They said no. I said f#@k spez and left.

To be honest I've had more meaningful engagement in this thread then in 8 years with that site.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

digg is gonna relaunch soon and kill it. it'll become like facebook. pure poetic justice. i was on reddit back in 2008. it isn't even fair now to say it's just a shell of what it used to be. btw old.lemmy.world is a thing i like. and it (kinda) works with RES, too!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are they seriously relaunching digg??? lol that’s funny. They relaunched my space and a bunch of zoomers showed up iirc. Maybe what’s old is new again. Next they should do geocities.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

it won't be any better - i just hope it kills this "news amagomaltherahjhagal" bullshit (edit+) when everyone figures out it's all ad-bait bullshit that's ruining out lives.

[–] joeganism@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Neocities.org is basically geocities lol

[–] DeskReference@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just signed up to the mailing list. Reddit has become a cesspool of idiots and power tripping mods.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i think they want to be 9gag. remember that site? me neither.

[–] DeskReference@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah they just want to get those sweet sweet clicks from Cheezberger.... How does a site survive by just cutting and pasting another site???

Oh that's just all of the internet now.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

reddit will die when digg comes back as worse than reddit. all ill rejoice. all will suffer.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funnyjunk still going? i used to be a funnyjunker and 9gag hater

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

doesn't it feel weird to pine for THOSE old days?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

i live in a small developing country and if i comment or post anything at all my account will be banned instantly.

appealing does nothing. it's just an empty hole you can send messages into.

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow that’s crazy. So is your entire country region IP blocked?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

we basically have one state-owned service provider which leases out infrastructure to the smaller service providers. I think if you started to blacklist problematic traffic by ASN you would include huge swaths of residential IPs, cellphones, everything. I don't know what the pattern is that they are using to blacklist.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had the same thing. I received a temp ban then I got several emails saying multiple accounts were permabanned

[–] DeskReference@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah it's a ridiculous auto ban system. I had a couple of accounts that were ~8 years old? All banned. Made a new account with burner email and VPN. Banned.

I'm glad I've been using ReVanced and patched Reddit app for free premium. Otherwise it's absolutely garbage the app and the site.

It did pop me back on to Lemmy.

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There seems to be no consistency with perm bans. Burner email and VPN banned - maybe the browser you used had a reddit kill cookie in it.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I'm going to mainly use lemmy now, but a reddit account is still useful. I like my local city subreddit.

My plan is to go to a public library to make an account and then slowly use it every time I go to the library.

Then use a browser that blocks fingerprinting and use a VPN. If that fails I'll give up.