I only go on there nowadays for my city’s sub and r/nba. I logged on yesterday while I was on a vpn and found out today that my account as suspended due to “unusual activity”. I didn’t register an email when I created that account. Welp, bye bye to that account then.
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…
I prefer the Lemmy way of upvotes but no karma totals. reddit mods and admins spend a lot time keeping it an echo chamber. With Lemmy you may get many downvotes but who cares. As long as you don’t break the basic rules Lemmy doesn’t ban you for “wrong thinking”
Lol when appealing a suspension made my one day goto 7 day, I knew I was gonna be permanently banned soon, happened right as I got unbanned lol.
I think they’re purging users, unsure what criteria they’re using
About a month ago I was also banned under unusual circumstances
Don’t even bother trying to make another account without appealing the first, the new account will get banned as well.
All of mine were just unilaterally banned at the same time. “Repeated, multiple violations of the content policy. Refer to messages in your other accounts as to why.” No account had details as to why. I suspect it has/had something to do with my work VPN.