When they IP banned me, I just turned off wifi on my phone and created a new account with a separate browser. But looking back reddit was never worth it. We’re all very addicted to this toxic form of crowd sourced moderated information. I’m not really convinced Lemmy is better on a design level, the upvote system is identical and doesn’t prevent echo chambers. I guess there’s autonomy with instances, so that’s nice…
Once you understand how reddit admins are basically mods themselves it kind of makes sense. The company has hired lots of power mods over the years that don’t “respect the human”. And the forces that be want to continue profiting from volunteer mods’ free labor. It says a lot more about the individual reddit admins that they make the lazy decisions they do.
That’s part of the enshittification rug pull, they take over as the hub of forums for most of the internet and then gatekeep as a power play.
Could be related to them going public - people are scrutinizing their operations a bit more. Same reason the view count for subreddits suddenly went down by a factor of 10 post-IPO. They always have been, and always will be corrupt.
But really, they’ve banned me in very insulting ways. I only keep an account around in case I really need to engage with a niche hobby subreddit, and it’s barely ever used. This company should understand what the consequences of burning bridges with a user base is.
I have one, but I typically only get IP banned when I message moderators in any way. Not worth entertaining these dictator simulator enthusiasts.
I don’t see in this post where we learn how you interacted with the thread…? Reddit doesn’t ban for multiple accounts, they actually tolerate it but so little you have to make sure each account never even views anything the other account engaged with in any way. Reddit runs the site with zero-trust and is mostly getting the user base they deserve.
“Sorry, you fell into our labyrinth of regex filters arbitrarily imposed by an unvetted volunteer on a billion dollar publicly traded platform. Your opinion doesn’t matter.”