How and why did you get banned?

I’ve actually never been banned on Reddit for anything, anywhere. I’ve always been careful of where I went and what I interacted with there. I only just recently deleted my Reddit account, because I stopped using it long before I got myself setup on Lemmy. I’ve been on a roll of abandoning the “big” platforms (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X) and replacing them with decentralized services. Reddit is just my most recent example.

I just nuked my account and fecked off to Lemmy after the API kill.

I just... left.

They didn’t ban me; I banned them…

I didn't. I left when they killed RiF

They killed Apollo in cold blood!
Same, sad they killed rif but at least it pushed me to lemmy
Amen

I got banned for "attempting to circumvent a ban" despite not being banned at the time.

Wait, can you tell more?
- No. I don't know anything else. I tried to appeal the ban but never heard anything else. Fuck 'em

I didn't. I left of my own accord.

I said billionaires should be put to the guillotine.

I asked why the CIA hadn't killed Trump yet. That, and upvoting a comment of a user who later got banned, got me banned.
- I was added to a moderation list on Bluesky for following someone on Twitter and subsequently muting them, and then forgetting I had followed them when I used a tool to migrate all of my follows to Bluesky. Which is just a stupid mistake, but what about people who are following notable bigots because they're journalists and have to keep tabs on what they say?
  Being banned for upvoting someone's comment seems similarly tunnel-visioned. If you're upvoting their pun about the moon or their helpful cooking suggestion or their computer build tip, getting banned because you didn't check their entire post history before upvoting is absolutely insane to me.
  Guilt by association is only a thing if it's actually association.
Honesty can be deadly. :3
Same

I told homophobes they were pieces of shit and got permabanned for it

Well, that was pretty insulting to pieces of shit…
Hey! Me too!

I got banned for repeatedly tagging a global warming denier in posts about climate change

I said Italy knows how to deal with fascists in a post about Mussolini.

Well, they let them into government again, so ...
- Meloni likes screwing over her own country folk.
To fight the fascists, you need to be independent from them, even to have your own food, and if there are many such independent people, then the fascists will have a hard time forcing people to return to them.

Someone asked if a prisoner being resuscitated has finished serving their life sentence, I said you have to be irrevocably dead, admins said that promotes violence.

Remember when Elon Musk had that black eye and said his son punched him? I said "can't blame him". Which is, of course, glorifying violence.

I got blocked from the subreddit I created because I made it private due to the API debacle and refused to make it public until they undid the decision.

king behavior 👑

Banned for going after Israel and IDF shills promoting hate speech and calling for violence. Clear violations of the TOS, even back in 2023, but reporting it got me perma-banned after 13 years.

Heroes, as always, are not respected, but eliminated.

I got banned from /r/WorldNews and /r/ukpolitics for saying that "from the river to the sea" isn't antisemitic. It was in the early days post Oct 7th when reddit was virulently pro-Israel; I don't think they'd do the same nowadays.

I didn't leave immediately but thinking about it again really pissed me off as I'd been a regular commenter without much issue for years. It genuinely left me feeling quite depressed thinking about how little I mattered to them. When you get banned there's always some shit about how you should ask if you don't understand the ban, but one sub never replied, the other went further and told me to stop messaging their mods (I did so once a week when I wasn't receiving replies, to not spam them) so that was meaningless.

The irony is that here I'm usually getting downvoted for being insufficiently anti-Israel.

I got permabanned for saying billionaires deserve death one too many times.

They got very strict on "person a can die in a fire" that seemed to be a new rule. Once you are on the radar with this, it's a matter of time.
- Oh yeah. I got a temp ban for saying the above and then got 2 more strikes for just saying the word "violence" which resulted in my permaban.
Me because i said the german train system needs to be symbolicly burned down and rebuild a new

Calling for Elon Musk to get burned by the Canadian government for subsidy fraud. They took me literally, instead of recognizing the term for when a government disavows, or cuts all ties with a person or business, is called getting "burned".

Banned from r/worldnews for "racism" (said that the Russian elites have been committing social and moral degradation for centuries, by killing, imprisoning or exiling anyone with independent thoughts). Banned from numerous subreddits for "participating in a hate subreddit" (correcting someone once in r/KotakuInAction).

The Russians have killed off the Polish elite for example, so I would agree this is very true. But fuck reddit

I got "VPN banned" despite not using a VPN lmao

Granted I haden't used the service since the API changes anyway, so no loss there, but I did get a pretty big chuckle when i finally found that out.

"Report button abuse" for reporting too many blatant ads as spam.

It happened right around the same time as the API fiasco, so I didn't give two flying fucks. I was leaving anyway.

A posted a meme in r/conservative that featured the home addresses of prominent conservative talking heads in a thread about how the left can't meme.

As if Lemmy was any better.

Great thing about Lemmy is you can't get banned from the whole thing because you pissed off a single touchy admin.
- Also ban evasion is easier if it does happen.
- That's true, but you easily get ostracized for trivialities.
- I got a 30 comm multiban for saying "Winnie the Pooh" 😀 that's gotta be like, a kill-streak or something right?
Well, at least for now Lemmy hasn't reached the level of Reddit, that's good, that's already a divine miracle.
- Well, just because it has 0.000000001% of reddit's audience. People is equally shitty here as on reddit.
It's extra funny because you got downvoted. People don't realize you can get banned here just for voting in a way they don't like, and not even on a post in that particular community that banned you.
- The donwotes you mention (and that I can't see, because I disabled them in settings) perfectly demonstrate my point.

Told some tankie Russian apologist to 'go suck your brother's dick again'. Boom. All accounts banned. I guess I hit too close to the mark.

I got banned for telling conservatives to go fuck themselves too intensely.

For this photo:

how do I report this
You deserved it. I read 20 people here who said person xyz should be killed but this picture is much worse.
My gay uncle took that photo.

Permanently Banned for inciting violence.

I said the Trump government was going to put LGBT people in camps and this was a bad thing.

I left when they killed Apollo and third party apps altogether. The only way I viewed Reddit was through that app, so Reddit was dead to me at that point. I used a tool that edited all of my old comments, deleted my 10-year-old+ account and left forever.

1st time: no idea - got shadowbanned 2nd time: laughing at charlie kirk

Damn, I have almost the same story.

On a video of an ICE agent, jumping out of his civilian vehicle and pointing an automatic weapon At some people, I simply suggested that it would be hilarious if someone jumped in his car and drove it away. He left the driver door wide open, and I seriously doubt he took his keys with him. I just thought it would be funny to see him react to that. It wasn’t a permaban, but it was enough to get me to jump ship.

R/interestingasfuck mod power tripped and banned me for "ban evasion" (I only had one account) then later I remade my account with a different username because the old one was cringe and accidentally left a comment there from r/all
instantly banned sitewide permanently and the appeal got denied.

just moved over to Lemmy. Fun fact, around now 1 year ago is when I moved (though I changed accounts since then) so around now is my cake day :)

Similar to CommieKender, it left my phone when RiF died. I have it on my desktop but I never comment ot post, and obviously I and all my coworkers browse at work during desk rotations.

Linked that Bill Hicks standup routine where he encourages marketers to kill themselves. Must have hit too close to home for some loser admin who nuked my account for inciting violence.

I blocked all the tattler bots and a bunch of the witch hunters on AHS. Then I spoke my right leaning mind. Shortly after made a bunch of pro-Luigi jokes.

Said some Taliban in a video deserved death. About that dispassionately too.

Lol I recently had a comment removed from the bogleheads subreddit because some guy was talking about buying a bit more of their usual index fund purchases if the market were to dump 20% in a day. Someone asked how they'd do it and I said "probably just shift a bit from emergency fund and build it back over the next month or two."

Cue the True Bogleheads ripping me for suggesting "timing the market." I said "this is, of course, fine." And they went nuclear. That comment got removed and I replied to the mod with "You got your head pretty far up your bogle there, bud." That got me a 3 day full reddit ban. Worth it.

For the uninitiated, bogleheads are basically just adherents to a popular passive investing philosophy. I agree completely with it, but it was hilarious to me how dogmatic - borderline religious - they were about "timing the market" with zero nuance or recognition that it's just not that serious.

I honestly don't know. It was a relatively clean account. Then my friend, who is a redditor by heart, got banned. It looks like he was banned just because he was associated with me. And now, if we make new accounts, they get instantly deleted. I don't care because I moved to Lemmy a "long" time ago. But my friend is heartbroken.

I got banned from a bunch of subreddits by making one comment in Asmingold...and it was a comment against. Then got sent this pm saying if you delete your comment and apologize we will reconsider you. I told em to fuck off I'll speak how I like. Censorship is censorship. Wasn't long before I deleted all my posts and comments on by one manually and killed off my 14 year old account.

Warned after upvoting "violent" comments apparently. What they were? I haven't a clue.

Every time I think it was a long vague stretch to fit whatever rule they told me I broke.

For posting a video that I didn't post.

My account got suspended and I had no posts on the account. Stuff like this is why I use alternative sites instead of big tech sites.

I drifted away when they banned Opie and Anthony and cumtown subs.

My lil shitposter heart died a bit but it was for the best. 196 and Lemmy shitpost have their moments

I got banned from a subreddit because the mod had this "not with us, you are against us"argument. It was years ago, but IIRC I was posting against a comment calling for assaulting men to balance out the abuse of women.

To be honest, I think I may have seen more banning on Lemmy though. I've noticed a few cases where the admins have banned people with objectionable opinions. In all fairness, these were the type people you would avoid at parties, but it does give me pause. In reddit if you get banned from a particular subreddit you still keep your identity and participate in other subreddits. In Lemmy, you are at the mercy of your server, and if a large server bans you, it would essentially remove you from all of their communities that otherwise might accept you. I worry that this is creating an echo chamber.

Yeah... We're waaaaaay better over here on Lemmy...

Better. Not way better.
There's a certain degree of toxicity and messiness that simply comes with interacting with the general public. I'm not sure how one can build a system open to people, yet simultaneously not open to flawed people.
- I dunno, if this meme (all be it humorously) is accusing the Reddit user base of having a thoughtpolice that does insinuate quite a large sense of superiority which is just absolute pack mentality. Lemmy is almost exactly and fundamentally synonymous to Reddit, hence a lot of people moved over to Lemmy after the end of third party app support.
  So the only real argument one could make in pointing out the positive difference between the two. Is that the users of Lemmy may have a bigger hatred towards capitalism or think user support is more important than habitual comforts.

I posted a picture of the non existent genitals of a Ken doll with the caption, "Elon's Penis," In political humor.

Someone said the brazen bull probably wasn't a real thing and I suggested trying it out on child molesters if they wanted to see if it would actually work or not. Reddit mods hate when you suggest that child molesters deserve to suffer for some reason....

Multiple reasons really, one of which was telling a guy who wanted to put low IQ people in concentration camps "you first".