I’m a lurker. I don’t post on facebook or reddit or anywhere. Today I randomly got a message from reddit that my account was permanently banned for apparent repeated violations of their site wide rules. I have the ReVanced app on my phone that blocks ads on reddit just so those scumbags can’t profit off me lurking, but it’s the only reason I could fathom that is why I’ve been banned. Anyway I just wanted to vent so thanks for reading this if you did. Reddit fucking sucks.
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So?
very different social media but I recently got banned from Instagram and the reason they provided was me evading a ban, meanwhile I had ONE account 6 years ago that lurked and followed family members and AFAIK hasn’t been banned
I haven’t been banned from Reddit till now though if we are talking of different social media, does LinkedIn count? They wanted me to prove that I am a real person one day and upload some verification document/proof for that. I was running LinkedIn without any profile image and hardly ever opened it. One day I suddenly made couple of comments for first time and next day, came the hammer.
I got permabanned from Instagram during signup. As a small business owner you should have some social media presence, right? Good luck even finding a contact for support to start with, the hard to find email address is “no longer in use “.
Google does the same thing with its business users.
Good fucking luck getting customer support from tech companies.
Today I randomly got a message from reddit that my account was permanently banned for apparent repeated violations of their site wide rules.
I feel like this is basically Reddit’s ban message when you didn’t actually violate any rule, but it still wants you to believe that you did (good old kafkatrapping). I got the same ban message years ago, but under different circumstances.
These kind of whatever-powered risk management is getting out of hand. Recently I made my first twitter account cause now you need one for lurking and I got insta-perma-banned for “attempting to evade banning”.
Happened to me recently as well. i use Sync. Even creating a new account results in it being banned within a couple of days.
You’re a man now (even if you identify differently)
You can lurk using RDX if you want to browse still. I just use it for fantasy football since Lemmy isn’t at a critical mass yet for the more niche interests.
Getting banned on Reddit is literally easier than waking across the room. They’re insane crybabies.
At least a banned account can still lurk without any of the restrictions you face when you aren’t logged in. It’s what I’ve been doing.
And yeah the hacked app was probably what got you banned. Heard it quite a few times. Might not be because of the app itself but because your modified version messed with Reddit’s device fingerprinting and you got flagged as being somehow related to a large number of other banned accounts. They’ve cranked the ban evasion filter up to 11 in the last few years and it’s insanely easy to get flagged now.
You ain’t missing a damned thing. Reddit is an AI content collection agency. It’s swarming with bots, unhappy users, and those too dumb to find alternarives.
Do you have an email address associated with your account? I created my reddit account before email addresses were required. A couple weeks ago I received a site wide ban for unspecified reasons. On the main web site it just said that I had a permanent ban. But on old.reddit.com, it says “provide an email address to reactivate your account”. So in my case the purpose of the ban was simply to force me to give them my email address, which I declined to do.
When a site makes me do that I use one of my domains with a certain four letter word in it beginning with F. I also have a very snarky hotmail account that every year or so I have to take over someones reddit account because they decided to use it. I guess if they force verification that will stop.
When a site makes me do that I use one of my domains with a certain four letter word in it beginning with F.
I also have a very snarky hotmail account that every year or so I have to take over someones reddit account because they decided to use it.
That’s very funny.
Whenever I get prompted for an unverified email address, for example to use wifi in a hotel, I always put x@x.com. Actually, come to think of it, x.com is the new twitter. I have been doing that for many years and never made the connection until now.
I perma banned myself a little over a year ago.
I was likewise banned for the crime of using a VPN and Reddit randomly deciding that was a breach of their ToS I guess. I appealed, but nobody answered.
A few years back I got permabanned on reddit by an automated message, for no reason I could figure out. A couple of days later I was unbanned (apparently it was part of a mass banning, most of which were erroneous and reversed). So it’s possible this is something similar and you might be reinstated soon.
