I’ve been on Reddit since 2015 and I actually had a blast on it, about a year before the inevitable one of many Reddit Meltdowns happened the following year because of the general elections.
And I really loved the communities of Nostalgia, TrueUnpopularOpinions (before it got radicalized), UnpopularOpinions (before that got very samey), Games (before they got ban happy), Gamers (before they got even more ban-happy), AskReddit, YSK, TrueOffMyChest, Rant and a dozen others.
So I was a real talker in those sub-reddits. But I think one of my first of many bans happened was because, it was now 2016 and we started seeing a flourish of bad actors and trolls run around. And they were proficient in gaslighting people, so I became one of them, said a few things, mods got pissy and banned me yet not the person who did the gaslighting.
This would be a trend for the next 8 years. Where I would try to stop engaging trolls, shit would hit the fan, some oversensitive user got uppity on me, trolls came around again and so on. I estimate that I got banned probably about 30 some odd times by now in a near 10 year span.
I would go through so many e-mails and user names that it started to seem like a profile was being made on me because of how many times I tried coming back just to partake in the old communities I could. Reddit was getting worse and worse every attempt.
I think the last true time I was able to talk freely on Reddit was probably some year and a half ago. I tried the whole workaround where you make a new account, build some cheap karma on AskReddit and you’ll be good. But that wasn’t enough anymore.
Now anytime I would join, I get shadow-banned. I would appeal, but I know better because mods/admins don’t give a fuck about appeals. They’re righteous in their own way. So while I do have an account on there now that’s active, good luck saying anything with it because it’s shadow-banned.
I was shadowbanned only once, and in an alt account I was using under the Tor network. A wave of bot banning got me too, but I was able to appeal it just fine.
Zero times, never been banned off reddit. I think this is a bit of a self report on you though.
Sure, get banned a handful of times it might be over zealous mods but 30 times over ten years? Buddy you might be the problem. You even say in your post here that you became the troll, you gaslit people, you were the problem.
Maybe you should consider not engaging in the communities you get frequently banned from. Take it as a sign to reconfigure your online presence or something.
I wasn’t the troll. Maybe don’t twist contexts around?
And they were proficient in gaslighting people, so I became one of them, said a few things, mods got pissy and banned me yet not the person who did the gaslighting.
Where I would try to stop engaging trolls, shit would hit the fan, some oversensitive user got uppity on me, trolls came around again and so on.
Idk pal, you said so yourself you “became one of them”, the gaslighting people.
Wait a few months: their cache or something is expiring and you can make a new account without any problems.
I would but I don’t see the value of interacting there at any capacity anymore. Spez has gotten out of control with censorship and overreaching moderation, the moderators themselves have seemingly gotten twice as ban happy than ever before, the content on reddit is regurgitated repetitiveness amplified by bots on a level never seen before.
There’s almost just no point and I’ve been off the track from partaking in anything there to where interest has dwindled.
Yes, moderation is a complete disaster on Reddit, but there is no alternative to it. Look at Lemmy: crowded like a forgotten cemetery on winter night.
I was hooked on Reddit, opening the app 100+ times a day.
I don’t miss it one bit. Lemmy is just fine.
Yeah the comics/blender community is super active on blender, dead here
I’m here for the long haul.
People mistake numbers with being heard. Yes, Reddit has many more users - but that doesn’t mean if you interact there, you’ll be more likely to get engagement. You’re just one voice out of thousands lost in /new/ in many cases. Moreover, it has a huge impulsive/bot downvoting problem due to private votes - meaning most new posts simply get buried.
And here on Lemmy, there isn’t just anyone to interact with. What’s better, to shout in the busy square where nobody cares or to whisper under the blanket in the empty room?
There are though. We’re interacting now. Obviously this depends on the topic (some things are non-existent on Lemmy) but for what is represented, there is engagement. People make the mistake of trying to build smaller, niche communities before the general community has been set up.
We’re interacting now.
If that is enough for you, why bother with Lemmy? The Bible would be enough: open it on a random page and read the random shit from there. InTeRAcTiOn!
some things are non-existent on Lemmy
Yes, we have news and memes here. Not much, but enough. All other themes are dead.
If that is enough for you, why bother with Lemmy? The Bible would be enough: open it on a random page and read the random shit from there. InTeRAcTiOn!
What? What do /you/ want then from these types of sites?
Yes, we have news and memes here. Not much, but enough. All other themes are dead.
I kick started the TV community. Movies is going. There’s video games and tech communities.
