Okay, posting this here because it is literally called No Stupid Questions, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this.

I got a message today on Reddit saying I was permabanned . . . I had really good karma there, never received any notification that I had done anything wrong, and never had a post deleted. The message said to check my inbox for more details . . . but there were no details in my inbox. I tried to appeal, and it was just denied in a couple of hours. No explanation.

Anyone else experience this or know what other avenues I can take? I’m going to be honest here, I had made a lot of friends there. I suppose I could make a throwaway account to let them know where else they can find me, but I’m pretty bummed out.

For context: I kind of prided myself as being a “Ted Lasso of Reddit.” I mostly just got on to give people pep talks in the beginner fitness and /toastme subreddits. I’m going to miss that a lot, and I kind of needed a community right now, even if it was an online one. But, hey, maybe that’s just my sign to check out this place instead. I’ll try to look at the bright side.

  • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
    35·
    3 天前

    Reddit has been actively hostile for a while.

    Here?
    On one hand, it’s a smaller place, so there’s less content to browse…
    On the other hand, it’s a smaller place so you can reply to an older thread and still have interaction with people.

    On reddit, if I replied to a thread that was 1h old, it was like sending a message in a bottle, floating in an endless sea where none would find it or shouting in the void.

    Anyway, welcome home / make it your home.
    Peace

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      3 天前

      Other things I like:

      • The decentralized nature means you will never truly be banned from everywhere unless your behaviour is universally considered unacceptable, in which case good riddance
      • There are fewer of us, so some people care about keeping individual users around. I’ve still received bans from communities for reasons I find questionable, but that’s in the nature of having people manage communities themselves.
      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 天前

        Also the federated nature of it means that no one has enough power such that they can abuse it in a way that hides their abuse on the entire platform. With the modlog, you can see what the original message was that prompted a moderator response. And with other instances, you can make an account elsewhere and talk about it even if an admin banned you.

      • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 天前

        There’s plenty of bans to go around, but mostly spam and the odd pathetic bigot.

        When I discovered lemmy… I thought it was nice just being able to browse and not be immediately assaulted by several popups to login, cookies, or the classic “download our app” bullshit.
        I know people love their apps, but the web UI works. Browsers have great features already like tabs, bookmarks, adblockers, etc.

        • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 天前

          One of the things I hated about reddit was how they would slip sponsored ads in made to look like user posts as closely as possible. Of course they made it impossible to block them.

          • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 天前

            That and loading children comments… but only from a single thread, load more, lpad more, show all comments or context or whatever.
            The UI became garbage along the way.