I posted on like r/changemyview, and then took more than an hour to respond to the comments (because I actually have work/school) and they permabanned me for breaking the rules. That’s just one instance though

Because Lemmy is just a microcosm of Reddit, and if you dare say anything negative about the platform, you’ll get downvoted into oblivion

I mean I was born in 2006, and have only been on Reddit for a few months. The only reason I came here is because Reddit banned me, which is the same reason I suspect 99% of Lemmy users are here for. At the end of the day, I’ve just found that if I’m posting to vent or to ask a question, I’d rather get 100 responses in an hour than 1 response two days from now

Not like that. I’m talking about breaking some obscure, minor rule that the mods will insta ban you for

I totally get that, honestly it’s humiliating too. Any time I get permabanned from a subreddit for breaking some obscure, minor rule in one of my posts, I basically have to get on me knees and weep and suck the dick of the mods, because if I even lightly insinuate any sort of mistake or anything on their part, I’m told to fuck off and they keep my ban in place.

I’ve tried Tor and unfortunately I’ve found that out of all the methods, it unfortunately gets me banned instantaneously the most frequently. I’ll definitely have to try Azire though, it has a free trial too

I mean I’m no VPN expert, I just know that it costs money so I assumed it was better than free ones

Why is this getting downvoted? Literally like half of the posts on here are about dodging permabans

I don’t think Reddit is either super left or right, it’s just radical. Every opinion stated on the platform is always taken to the absolute extreme, but I would say only a select few popular subs like r/unpopularopinion tend to lean left, but then again I would even argue that they are more libertarian or anarchist if anything

comment removal from a sub, can trigger a filter and flag your account to be banned down the line or immediately

I’ve noticed that as well. Sometimes I’ll have a solid 3-day streak of making a new account and using it without any issues, and then the instant I get a post removed from a sub for breaking some obscure rule, the AI will seek me out like sharks in water and suspend me instantly

No suspensions are also permanent as well. They just wipe everything on top of it, unlike a permaban

Why the fuck is this getting downvoted?

They are going back to Reddit. They either A- make a ton of new accounts that all get instabanned (increasing the number of people “signing up” or B- just don’t post anymore and simply consume

It’s perfect, Reddit gets to ban you and doom you to infinitely scrolling the site, while simultaneously milking engagement from your old posts!

They haven’t responded because their support team doesn’t exist. Real humans don’t look at theappeals, bots do, so every single time you send one in, you may as well be sending a letter into the abyss of space

So here’s the thing, it very much still could be ban evasion. Reddit’s ban systems are able to detect things as minute as writing style and political views, so if you basically wrote in the same way you did before and held the same beliefs, they very likely were able to trace it back to you. It’s utterly insane

Yes, you summed it up perfectly!

If they want to populate the site with ads then honestly they should just make you watch an ad before posting or commenting something. Sure it would be a PR nightmare, but it would be far better then the shady user purging they are doing now, and at the end of the day, at least everyone would be able to post

Yeah that’s the issue, Reddit is the only platform to actually have that infrastructure built up. Quora is not nearly as good, and Discord is Discord, so once Reddit purges you off the site there is basically nowhere to go because places like Digg and Lemmy just simply do not have enough people.

You may be right, but at least you can post in general. Maybe you have a post here and there taken down, but unlike Reddit, it’s actually possible to post, and you won’t be Thanos snapped from the website so they can artificially reduce human engagement