I used Reddit for years as a reader without ever posting or commenting. When alternative front ends were ditched, I switched to Lemmy which I really like. Was never banned.

I have been a Reddit user for 15yrs and got banned 48hrs ago for for suggesting that some dog owners should die because of their deliberate inbreeding to create dogs with traits that are ultimately bad for their health.

For context I am in the UK and we have a deeply ingrained love for dogs over here so seeing a picture of some Americans that are gushing over their inbred dogs made me angry and emotional.

Shadow banned, never knew why, not even moderators, and never got an answer, so I figured it was better to just leave the place to somewhere with more humans at the helm

I’ve had so many handles banned from reddit that I lost count after 30 or so.

fuck 'em.

Im not currently banned, but they banned me for a bit for using the word revolution when referencing what America needs.

They also gave away user data to DHS cause they asked.

So. Yeah.

I left 3 years ago, when they killed RiF

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I had 4 accounts and they banned all of them for inciting violence. I said Donald Trump is a pedophile and deserves to be in prison.

They don’t like anti trump people.

For anyone who still wants to access Reddit just to browse favorite (niche) subs which won’t ever get traction here, some third-party apps still work.

My favorite is cygnusx’s Slide for Reddit fork (they picked it up after it was abandoned). You can use it logger in or anonymously - without an account logged in:

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide

^ you can see my Slide app with the frontpage showing regular subs, and it doesn’t use the dumb new reddit algorithm which shows you posts from like a week ago.

The other option is Morphe who patch the official Reddit app. It will require an account but you can change a heap of things, block everything you dislike too. The patching app does YouTube and YouTube Music or whatever they call it, but it also patches Reddit:

https://morphe.software/

^ here’s an example of some of the things you can change in a Morphe patched Reddit’s settings

Also sorry for the pictures, I wrote and uploaded this while steaming milk for my coffee!

I got permabanned for wishing death on billionaires too many times.

I hadn’t been. I just wanted an open-source alternative; as with all aspects of my life.

I actually made my first account here before I was site banned by reddit.

I feel like the way the question is phrased is going to select for people who were banned. Personally I wasn’t but saw the upcoming IPO and wanted to dip before the platform was totally enshittified.

Not today, spez

Ii was banned for saying old people call people who go to therapy “f_____”, i am not homophobic, matter of fact it wasn’t even in english, i used a word with much lighter connotation in my own language.

Some weeks before the fact i said that certain presidents of a certain country would end like Saddam Hussein if UN was serious.