Considering the sub in question is /r/redditalternatives, you posted this in a thread about alternative communities on lemmy, and there's a reply to your comment which promotes more lemmy (and mbin) instances that isn't removed... I really really doubt the reason for the ban was you mentioning Lemmy. That would be very inconsistent of the mods, and actually suggest a vendetta against you personally rather than lemmy.
Did you reply to the message asking what rule you broke? Like the ban message instructs you to? Might have also been an accidential ban.
It did not violate any community rules. Reddit doesn't make any sense.
Sadly, sidebar rules on Old Reddit aren't real and so can't be relied upon. There are in fact more than just four rules. There's nine of them.
That said, even with the expanded list of rules I can't find any that might apply. Unless their automoderator is so heavily sensitive to non-civility that the very word "cuss" is seen as bad language. Which I very much doubt. It does mention that linking to websites containing malware leads to an immediate permaban, but I doubt that's the case here?
I got permanently banned on both my accounts from the entire site for "violating reddit TOS".
When I submitted my appeal asking what I was banned for they immediately responded saying that my appeal was denied, but still never told me what rule I apparently broke.
10+ year old account with hundreds of thousands of post and comment karma. I was top commenter on several large subs. I had helped tons of people with things over the years in DMs. All gone in an instant because one admin decided to go on a little power trip. And there is of course zero recourse as the user. You're just gone.
Certainly has the vibes of something like when they finally caught the pirate bay guy and then the FBI or whoever it was kept the site up just to track users who didn't get the memo that it was compromised.
Well... people keeps mentioning alternative with like less than 100 users, and also spreading what I call the "Tankie Dev FUD" (as if the devs have any control of any instance besides lemmygrad and lemmy.ml). So its probably a good way to seem neutral, while causing confusion on where to migrate and splinter the migration.
(Plus, with all the dissent gone, they could just go ahead and do anything with zero resistance)
Has anyone tried promoting alternatives via images? Obviously mods can still see them and hand out bans, but bots can't automatically detect them if they're deep fried enough.
Huh, pretty sure the mods do this on purpose. I mass edited every single comment of my account (roughly 6 years of shitposting) into a promotion for Lemmy.
Just checked it out. Nothing happened. Accept one mod from 40kLore who saw it, banned me and asked me to dm him if I’m not a bot.