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Reddit is so very confused..

So yesterday I received a 7-day ban for 'encouraging violence', for saying that Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit, somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and the 'offending' comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit's rules with my 'other account(s)'. Well that's also bullshit because I've had exactly one (1) account in the 14 years I've been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think I'm gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

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  • Welcome to the Fediverse! If you've been on Reddit for 14 years, you were attracted to what it once was. Lemmy is that, but a whole lot better, and your skills as a moderator will be highly valued here. In fact, if you are looking to start up any new communities hmu and I'll see about giving you a hand.

    Also, here's your obligatory Saint Luigi blessing for the banned:

    remember kids:

    A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power

    • I have no skills as a moderator, sadly, I avoid responsibility as a lifestyle. Thanks for the warm welcome tho. :)

  • Welcome reddit refugee!! Best time to ditch reddit was in july 2023 second best time is now

    • What happened in July 2023? Was that the APIpocalypse? That didn't really affect me cause I barely use mobile.

  • When Reddit bans or even just temporarily suspends me, I just create a new account right away and jump back in.

    1. I only use Reddit in a Brave private window. If I want to use Reddit on my phone I just use RedReader and never bother logging in. I don't really feel the need to post when I'm mobile anyway.
    2. Once I'm banned/suspended I open a Firefox window and create a new Outlook account.
    3. Open a new Brave private window and create a new Reddit account with the new email. Log in. But hey, all your subreddits aren't there from your old account and man, it's going to be annoying to re-add all those subs, right? Nah. There's a browser script for that.
    4. In your old Reddit account go to old.reddit.com/subreddits or whatever button you click on in Reddit that shows a list of all your subreddits. At the top of your list of subs is a link titled "multireddit of your subscriptions". Right click on that link and copy it.
    5. Now go to your new Reddit account and paste that link in the URL field and hit enter and you'll have a list of all your subs from your old account with the join button next to all of them. You could go down the list clicking join on all of them. I have hundreds, so screw that. I use the script. I won't paste my script, just go to Google and search for "Reddit sub auto-add script Github". There's a few different ones you can try. Essentially, in the window with your new account and all the subs with the join buttons, you are hitting F12 to open the developer console, clicking on the "Console" tab, and then pasting the script and hitting "Enter" to run it. The script is essentially just searching the page for all the "Join" buttons and auto-clicking them.

    NOTE: If the script is clicking those join buttons too fast, or if you've decided to manually go down the page clicking the join buttons and you're doing it too fast, Reddit detects that and will block you from Reddit for like 10-15 minutes before you can continue. In any of these scripts you'll see a number, usually 500. That's the milliseconds the script waits before clicking on the next join button. 500 used to work. Now you'll want to change that to like 3000 or 5000 to increase the wait time. 5000 has been working for me.

    That's it though. You can just leave that window with the script open and it'll go down your list of subs auto-joining them. Before I found that script it was REALLY annoying manually clicking on hundreds of join buttons. Now, steps 1-4 take me less than 5 minutes and then step 5 is automated so I just go do something else. My new accounts aren't shadowbanned and I'm back on their shitty site nice and quick. Because honestly, I wouldn't still bother with their site at all if I had to wait for my suspension to end or had to manually rejoin all my subs every time.

  • The adjustment can be a little awkward at first but there's plenty to do on Lemmy if you take some time to learn how things work and how to get the most out of it.

    If you're the type of person that enjoys posting and guiding topics there's no shortage of people hungry for content on Lemmy. There are lots of active communities but even more that are still trying to get off the ground or need someone interested to adopt them.

    Whatever your interests, https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great way to find communities for the topics you care about if you aren't finding them on lemmy.world.

    I hope your time here is more enjoyable than where you're coming from.

    • Thanks! Honestly it's been less of an adjustment than I expected. Took a couple hours to read about it and figure out how it works, picked a server, and jumped right in. The big thing is that I'm losing that whole curated sub list that I'm going to have to replicate, but I'm sure it'll take care of itself.

  • Welcome to Lemmy! If you find it's not quite you your liking, there is also Mbin which is sort of similar but has some significant differences too.

    Personally, I like them both and they're both federated.

    If you wanted to check it out, https://fedia.io/ is the more popular instance.

  • Now that you're unbanned, consider using a tool to edit all of your comments to gibberish to remove your value from reddit. I've seen it a lot, it's easy to do, and it works.

    • Reddit has access to your edit history, it only works for as long as they don't see a need to restore it. And it probably doesn't work at all in regards to preventing ai training.

      • I personally have found search results that would have been useful or able to solve my problem if they hadn't had this done to them. It has pushed me to search site:reddit.com far less, so I know it works. The fewer people visiting reddit the better.

    • I definitely don't want to provide reddit with any more value, but many of my posts and comments were informative or had a good way to explain something or the like, and I still get random replies and mail years later on some of them. This (in general, not on reddit in specific) i feel is my contribution to society, so shitting on that just to very slightly inconvenience reddit feels counterproductive. I don't receive any direct benefit from it (and upon leaving reddit I won't even get the indirect benefit of people telling me how helpful I was), but I am content to know that maybe I've helped a few people.

      • I still get random replies and mail years later on some of them.

        I still get random replies on the stuff I turned to gibberish. Though looking at my old u/, a lot of the most upvoted ones were straight up nuked. Which wasn't the case last time I checked.

        Neat.

    • Doesn't really work, Reddit has your posts and comments archived and if they're selling access they'll likely be including that. All it does is inconvenience everyday human users.

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