Ask Lemmy

I wasn't banned, but I rolled over after 3rd party apps were taken away on the day they stopped working. I only use the app for it so taking that away made it pretty easy to stop and no i wasnt going to use their own because they forced my hand. Apps were limited on lemmy at that time and had to wait like 4 months before the one i used to use was released, but it was worth it.

Reddit didn't ban me, I banned them.

After Reddit cut off api access to third-party apps, I left. Well, not right away, I did give RedReader a try for a month or so.

Banned? No. Other way around. I banned reddit from my devices after the API fiasco.

Banned for using a VPN for “ban evasion” but never had been banned before.

Appealed. No response.

I took that as a fuck off message.

I came here after the Reddit API mess but still posted on Reddit.

Got a temporary Reddit ban for a short statement saying Biden was caught genociding, then recently a permanent ban for saying the only way Trump is leaving office is if 100,000 people drag him out. "Inciting violence."

303,000 comment karma, 8,388 post karma, 14+ years.

Going corporate is never good.

Left reddit in the api blockage

Now I spend my days shit chatting with MLs

Nah I was part of the app/api exodus.

I got 'soft banned'.

I had stopped commenting on Reddit back in 2022 after receiving warnings on similar topics. Continued to lurk and scroll. Now reddit has an uncloseable popup on web telling me to use the app. So I don't use reddit.

I didn't get banned. I left after the API change. I was already reducing use naturally, and what time I did still spend there was mostly to mod a very small niche hobby sub.

Without the mod tools I used before the API changes, plus the influx of MAGA-bots on reddit as a whole, I could longer mod the sub in a way the community asked for and that I was comfortable with. So I resigned, wished the remaining mods well, and went about my way.

There were other subs trying to go dark and impact reddit's advertising opportunities, and reddit was banning some of the mods doing that sort of thing. I decided even if reddit changed course, I was past the point I could ever come back to it.

I just stopped using it. No ban necessary.

I did get one or two temporary bans some years ago. First time was for criticizing their censorship. The second time was for sending the middle finger emoji to Spez.

I'm not going to go out of my way to delete my dead user or posts or anything. It's not my problem. Quite frankly, I just don't give a shit about their site.

I didn't get banned, I left Reddit voluntarily when they announced that they were going to be increasing censorship on their site a year or so ago.

My reasoning was, 'It's only a matter of time before I *do* get banned for something stupid, so I might as well leave this site on my own while I'm still ahead.'

Not banned but forced to use their shit app. They shut down Reddit is Fun, fuck them

I was "harassing" a climate change denier by @ing them on climate change related news. The dude refused to block me and just kept getting annoyed once or twice a day instead. 10/10 would get banned for antagonizing someone too stupid to use the block button again.

Banned just over a year ago due to rump and anti nazi comments with a few fuck Ford’s in there as well.

No ban, it just reached a threshold of enshittification where I said "enough is enough" and left.

I got perma banned because I said Nazis deserve to die.

I had a 16 year old account (from the digg migration) permabanned sitewide by a bot for using the letters "GME" together in a post in r/wallstreetbets. That's when i found this place.

Me. I got shadow banned, without ever hearing why

Not banned, just fed up.

I got banned for making a comment about some hockey player needed attempted murder charges for using his skate blade to slash a rival players throat during a game. Blood spirting out all over the ice. I was banned for inciting violence. When I asked how what I said was inciting violence they perma banned me. I then came here.

Getting banned on reddit was how I first learned about lemmy, but tbh I see the same kind of shit-flinging here, and I go back and forth. There's a kind of smugness here about not being like reddit, but I think it just feels different because people who would be targets on reddit get to be flingers here.

I got a 7 day ban for criticizing the current administration. Then I responded with go fucj yourself to the mod team and got my ban.

Not sorry.

Reddit admins, go fuck yourselves

10 years in. Banned for suggesting that Trump’s immigration policy should keep the white trash South Africans out of America and not employed as ICE agents.

16 years, voluntarily killed my account.

Got banned twice recently. First time was for using kirk as a verb and the second time for pointing out the irony of israel working with nazi sympathizers to genocide muslims.

This is not a banned users refuge.

I was sitewide banned for criticizing war thunder owner Gaijin on their own subreddit by saying they are biased to make russian vehicles always perform better than other nations at the same battle rating.

As far as I understood from others it's because subreddit mods have the power to sitewide ban... For some ridiculous reason. And in this case nobody at Reddit gave a damn or dared confront someone as big as Gaijin for someone as little as me.

Not banned, left voluntarily. The experience was so shitty I finally just said fuck it and left

No, I was targeted. I would say anything eventually and it would trigger a 24 hour ban near immediately. Then I’d appeal, win the appeal, come back to say one thing and BAM suspended within the hour.

I’m pretty sure I was on some list. My comments would get thousands of upvotes. I ran economy for a fucking minute (by way of being the first to respond to propaganda posts). Every time maga would attempt their bullshit I was there in a minute to respond to it. Then these suspensions kept happening, and eventually I started getting suspensions for months old posts immediately after an appeal went through.

I know it sounds crazy but I’m telling you, this was a targeted thing and I’m not the only one.

Not banned, I just like Communism, FOSS, and decentralization.

This is why I'm wary of the lemmy user base, a combination of individuals who have been banned from reddit and/or think they're too good for reddit.

Today is my 3 year Lemmyversary, so I'm not exactly a new user. I mostly left Reddit after the API change, but did continue to use it lightly. Got banned about three months ago for commenting on a story about the IDF torturing a one year old baby in order to get information from the boys father. My comment said basically I can kinda see the terrorists' [against Isreal] point.

Honestly being banned for anti-Israel/anti-Zionism rhetoric is kinda a badge of honor.

Never got banned but have been on threadiverse since the Apollo killing a few years ago. That was plenty for me to leave that site.