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.
When Reddit bans or even just temporarily suspends me, I just create a new account right away and jump back in.
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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.
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Once I’m banned/suspended I open a Firefox window and create a new Outlook account.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Simple solution: don’t go on that shithole unless it’s to repost content here
I got a 3 day sitewide suspension, and (very surprisingly) a permaban from /r/fuckthealtright for calling a story about an Infowars employee getting murdered “uplifting.”
Luigi is a hero
I got banned for asking why someone’s comment was banned. Crazy shit over there.
When anything is free but money’s being made, you’re the product (as we know) and Reddit seems increasingly worried about the quality of their product
More like there’s a concerted right wing effort to get everyone banned. That’s why the appeals are lifted. Then they report you again over and over until you leave. That’s what they are actually doing.
Makes sense. Bastards, fuck em anyway
They’re finniky bastards.
I got permabanned for saying “trans women are women”, which they said was encouraging violence. So who even knows what’s happening there at this point.
Because that’s auto bans from right wingers reporting you en masse. Appeal it.
Welcome reddit refugee!! Best time to ditch reddit was in july 2023 second best time is now
I got shadow banned for making a popular post about dyi Luigi prayer candles on witches vs patriarchy. No warning no notification just a site wide permanent shadow ban on an old account with high karma. I feel like this is a better community though so win win I guess. Funny because I feel like they’re banning most real people and just leaving the bots lol. Tons of people post on shadow banned everyday this can’t be a healthy business model.
These companies are revealing their true colors now that they think it’s acceptable to do so.
Permabanned for “glorifying or inciting violence” by replying to a post about Elon Musk under a dinosaur poop meme, where someone asked “what should the would richest man do?” with “he should eat shit and die”.
Here for good.
Much wow, such violence. Ban deserved, imo, yep. Fuck Reddit.
Yeah, I was on Reddit for over a decade. And the changes especially in these past couple years have been so dramatic. I received a seven day band today for like the third time and finally deleted the app and here I am . No looking back.
Once the era of easy money ended a bunch of tech companies who are never profitable and never needed to be because of the 0% interest rates are close to it all of a sudden had to get really profitable really fast so they all enshittified very rapidly
In a Yogscast TTT video some years back, Rythian used ‘Green Mario’ as a joking name for Bouphe, who was using the Luigi player model at the time.
For those who want to undermine reddit’s power trip, I propose Green Mario as the first stick in their knee-bending attitude.
Got my badge of honor today. Reddit are bootlickers.
I got my badge of honor during the API purge, when I mass edited all of my old comments before deleting them. It’s a little more quiet here, but it honestly reminds me of the early Reddit days. If you tag users, you’ll start to see just how small of a community it actually is; I see my tags all over the place in nearly every comment section.
If you haven’t done so, consider looking into the various apps. Voyager (sometimes called Wefwef by the older users) is a sort of spiritual successor to Apollo. So if you’re an old Apollo user, you’ll likely feel right at home.
wait, how do i tag users? that could be supremely useful
It’s not something Lemmy natively supports, but (a lot like Reddit Enhancement Suite) the various apps should allow you to do so. For instance, on Voyager, you can do it via the options menu on the user’s profile.
gotcha, Im on PC only. Ill keep an eye out for something, I’d love this, and an inline image viewer too. thanks!
I’m on voyager and yes, I miss this!
same here. fucking bootlickers.
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. :)
