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It's probably time to leave reddit; even if you do manage to get your accounts back.

As a former mod of /r/Genderqueer I can say they've been terminally enshittifying for a while now; and have gone full AI rampage to eliminate human mods because they get accused of bias constantly. It doesn't help that some mods are legitimately bad too; some of the stories I could tell you from when I was in private mod-only meta-reddit communities would curl your toes. Even I wasn't without my biases; but I had the interest of my community at heart...which, as you know, nonbinary and genderqueer people are very vulnerable to abuse and harrassment.

It's time to step off the reddit mothership, and don't bother looking back unless you must. Tools like redlib can at least help you view reddit posts still, anonymously even if you can't comment.

I've been running my own personal Redlib instance locally using WSL2, Docker and Podman. It's been invaluable in ensuring I can still read things I need to read.

Yeah, forget it, it is a bots place anyway... my account is maybe 15 or 16 years old, I emptied everything with a tool, I still have the account and lurk from time to time for some sub, but never upvote/post/comment since the API fiasco

It's a sign to layoff Reddit and be active on Lemmy.

My guess: bot mods. Reddit employed some LLM-based bot "moderation" across the site, and those bans are false positives.

Reddit's moderation bots have been extremely trigger happy for many years.

I got my main account, 10+ years club, suspended... appealed it, and got banned. Then every account I had ever logged into with the same IP, app, or browser as the banned one, at any moment in the past, got banned in cascade.

Once you get on Reddit's bad side, there's no going back. Suspensions add flags to Reddit's internal "shadow profile" of every account ever linked in any way. They all become more likely to get flagged and suspended, which gets them flagged even more in turn, until Reddit's ban-evasion system kicks in. Then, they're all toast.

To add insult to injury... once triggered, the bots go back checking your history, applying the most recent moderation guidelines retroactively. Over the following months, the account kept getting notifications about old comments being removed, followed by subreddit bans.

It's a broken shithole of a website, didn't you get the memo?

I asked for a recommendation for raw denim repair in my city subreddit. Removed and suspended. 15 year old account.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reddits been turning to shit for years. Surprised people here still use it.

There was recently a project I was looking into. The only way to contact them was Reddit and Discord. Made a post on Reddit with a several years old account. It was instantly removed by Reddit admin with no explanation. It was not spicy in any way. Literally just asking a question about the project. Fuck me, I guess. Moved on to another project.

Reddit is corporate-controlled and moderators/administrators can run amok so easily. I was banned from /r/news years ago with no explanation...I appealed several times with no responses.

I founded /r/AskBibleScholars and have no issues there.

I believe that you already know the answers to your own questions.

They ban you for all kinds of nonsense. I had a couple turned over on appeal. My latest ban was for 7 days for threatening violence because I said I hoped those guys who got caught fomenting unrest in Greenland were charged with something serious made an example. The comment was on topic, within the confines of the justice system and made no threat against anyone. Reddit has some really weird moderation. I just deleted the account. Fediverse is better for actual engagement anyway.