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

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

They don’t want a user base. If people are posting and commenting then it means they aren’t scrolling and watching ads

Yeah it’s crazy how there is absolutely zero nuance in how they dish out bans. There are no warnings, no second chances, if you break any rule, no matter how big or small, they all carry the same exact punishment and that is an immediate and permanent ban for the rest of your life

So I get what you’re saying, but unfortunately Reddit hasn’t reached Myspace levels of dead yet. It’s still the 9th most visited website in the whole world, and I unfortunately don’t think that’s gonna change anytime soon

Jesus Christ I was not aware of how much data they could gather on me just through internet connection. Even my fucking battery level?

This website is super impressive though, is there a function on here to be able to tell if I’ve been blacklisted or IP banned on websites like Reddit? How can I actually utilize this to dodge a ban effectively?

This is something I’ve noticed too. Reddit seems to have quickly moved from an incel haven and into a femcel anarchist’s wet dream.

That’s what I find so bewildering. Like I am on a college campus, and I sign into a new device while using a user agent switcher and get banned instantly. There is absolutely no way they should be able to connect that account to me, so my only assumption is just that if someone signed onto Reddit while being on campus, they are gone and there’s nothing they can do about it. Such a ridiculously wide net to cast while trying to catch and punish the most minor of offenses