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After a year away from Reddit, curiosity got the better of me (lemmy.world)
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I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.

I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.

Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.

I didn't want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn't comment or post for the first month.

Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn't take long before it inevitably became political.

I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.

But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.

I'm not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.

I appealed, I do not expect a reply.

Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.

This time I lasted only 2 months

Edit:

They manually reviewed it and kept the ban!

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I got permabanned on Reddit I took the opportunity to step away from scrolling. I got a lot accomplished and my mental heath improved. Since Lemmy is slow, it works well, I can't spend hours here. Unfortunately my baser instincts took over and I find myself scrolling the news app for hours instead..

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah the API changes were a good excuse for me to re-evaluate my Reddit and internet habits. I've found Lemmy and Mastadon refreshing, and honestly I love the vibes of folks on Mastadon since folks are way less doom and gloom than some of the folks here on Lemmy.

Since abandoning Reddit, I've picked up running and biking, gotten back into model railroading and started reading books again. I tried getting back into drawing but that petered out with some disruptions in routine due to travel before I'd fully got drawing integrated into my daily life again. Basically I think I've become a better version of myself since leaving Reddit (and honestly a bunch of that was more to do with me than Reddit)

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah I definitely feel better now that I'm not looking at reddit.

Still doom scrolling on Lemmy but like you said it's slow and imo it's a bit less hyperbolic.

I feel like you can have actual conversation and exchange ideas here as opposed to the reddit dunk off.