Tried joining Reddit again because of lack of activity in very niche communities, got banned again ,

Ugh. So much to unpack here.

First off, you have to act like a massive shit-loaf to get perma'ed from Reddit in the first place. Now you're declaring your love for this community because you can't get back into Reddit.

Welcome, I guess.

Right. More often than not when these posts pop up you can check their comment history and see exactly why they keep getting banned.
- Just reading some of the post is often enough.
First off, you have to act like a massive shit-loaf to get perma’ed from Reddit in the first place.
In a lot of cases, yes. Not in all of them, due to bot-based bans.
- It'd be a real shame if fascists were abusing the harassment report on anyone that disagrees with them.
I got permabanned arguing with right wing trolls. I don't think I was too bad, but maybe?
- Who can say, right? The gears of Reddit are inscrutable.
  That said, when you engage with an extremist, there's always 20 other extremists looking at your replies and just waiting to report you if you say the slightest mean thing. They are mucilaginous troglodytes and one mustn't extend to them the credence that they're dealing in good faith.
you have to act like a massive shit-loaf to get perma’ed from Reddit in the first place
Untrue
- Yep I got permabanned for saying I'd lick the sweat out of a fat chick's folds for €20
  Maybe the price was too high, I dunno
It’s actually not too hard to get perma’d due to a handful of bullshit/nonsensical bans that just stack up over time. Also, they were VERY liberal with the permaban hammer around when they announced the API lockdown.
I got permabanned on Reddit (it got turned around because even the mods of the subreddit and of other subreddits said it was bullshit) for making a joke about wishing Indiana's attorney general got punched in the face because he said something about something being a punch in the face. Like they banned me for jokingly wishing what he said happened to him metaphorically would just happen to him. Not saying someone should do it, certainly not saying I would do it, just wishing that it would happen. Permaban from all of Reddit for a joke that didn't actually call for violence and was clearly just referencing the post's headline.
My partner doesn't use reddit and hasn't used lemmy. She was permabanned despite not commenting or posting for about 6 months. The comments that were there were just asking questions about video games.
No reason or explanation was given. The only recent behaviour was subscribing to a trans-supportive community. We figure that might have pissed off an admin somehow. That's the only activity that she did during those 6 months. If either of us should have been banned, it should have been me, to be honest. We have different IPs, so there shouldn't have been any confusion on who was who. My account stayed active, even though I admittedly wasn't always friendly with people. Every account she made was also banned without reasoning.
I initially stopped using it because I thought that was dumb, then a few months later the whole API thing happened.
Best of luck to you, I hope you continue to have a better experience than we did lol.
I still don't know why Reddit permabanned me. They never gave me a reason, and when I submitted an appeal asking why I got banned I got what looked like an auto-reply saying "upon careful consideration....etc etc" Did I act like a shit-loaf? Idk, maybe? But if so I'd think they'd be able to tell me specifically why I deserved it.
Ugh. So much to unpack here.
I can't imagine a greeting more Lemmy than that
Ugh. So much to unpack here.
Yikes
you have to act like a massive shit-loaf to get perma’ed from Reddit in the first place
I had an account perma'd there for saying "the only good nazi is a dead nazi" which I accept was against TOS but would argue does not make me a "massive shit-loaf"
- I got perma banned for saying the mods ban people too easy and they need to rethink their criteria for ban Guess I'm a "massive shit-loaf" with you too
- Let me guess:
  It's always morally correct to punch a Nazi
I wonder why I see it as cunty when people say "so much to unpack"?
You're all here rather than reddit. Nothing new.

which niche porn communities are you looking for

Many niche subs, have been forcibly removed during the protest era.
lmao, nothing, just some more obscure games
- Right but which porn games
- The obscure videogame subreddits are what I miss the most. Made one here on lemmy for a game I love and only one other person has commented since July.
LOL I love how oddly specific the porn subreddits are.
BusinessBabes
It was banned for not being moderated. Fucking RIP

Please don't bring that attitude to lemmy. I just want peace. I honestly don't know what you did but chances are its not going to be welcome here

Am I the only one who wants it to stay exactly like it is?
Maybe a weird take coming from a recent redditfugee butnbint feels perfect as is. Like reddit read before all the enshittifcation like 8 years ago.

I finally overwrote all my comments and deleted my account. 16 years there, but as soon as I checked the front page this week before deleting, every comment and post was the same old "this" and "take my upvote" and vitriolic hate toward different or uncommon opinions, zero dialogue, such a mess

Thanks lemmings

You forgot "and my axe", "to shreds you say" and "I wish they didn't remove awards so I could give you one", or maybe even the 'rare' "take my angry upvote and leave"?
Yeah I like that we can actually hold real conversations here, as far as 'real' goes of course.
- You forgot "this is the way"
- Yup. It feels like I am usually talking to individuals here, which is much more enjoyable than flailing in an overwhelming monoculture.
- I also choose to beat this mans dead horse
- "I wish they didn’t remove awards so I could give you one"
  That's a new one to me! Because they still had awards the last time I used it.
- Hold my updoot, I'm going in
- Plenty of that shit on here mate
- And pun chains, and a guy quoting a Simpsons episode followed by 12 more idiots quoting the rest of the episode. Painful. I see that shit in lemmy but not nearly as much.
Just make sure to check again in a day or two. At the height of the purge, reddit was shown to be restoring deleted or over-written comments to what they were before.
- I know that they were restoring deleted accounts, but I don't think there's any way for them to restore over written comments to previous versions, so overwritten comments are probably more important than actually deleting the account, although you can delete it after you overwrite everything.
I had stopped using Reddit but hadn't deleted my account, your comment reminded me to do that. Just deleted it. :)
- Nice. The increase in content is not worth the headache and tedium.

I evaded my lifetime ban for more than 5 years on my new main.
The hell are you posting there?!

Yeah these posts by people who consistently get banned always have me feeling a little skeptical (no shade on OP if legit).
- Like what did they do tho
Nothing ;-; I am chill, I swear, I was just a bit toxic in my first account
- A bit?
  Feels like there is more to the story.

What'd you get banned for?

I got banned for telling some right wing troll to go fuck themselves and can’t get around their ban evasion now either. Reddit got really soft and bans for any “personal attack”
- Reddit got really soft and bans for any “personal attack”
  Can you get around it if you suffix every comment with "Nothing personal."
  Fuck you. Nothing personal.
- You can definitely get around it, but is it really worth the effort?
- reddit if they cared as much about actually toxic comments:
- And this place isn't? I was banned for the following comment the other day:
  Can't find a single link to methodology or what the population was. Unless my Google is horrific I would take this with a grain of salt. Men are definitely overrepresented. However in my 15 years of experience working in the field I've seen maybe one overt case of sexism. I can count on one hand times where I've heard a "under the radar" type problematic statement that I've needed to address. I do not believe this data is representative of anything in the US or EU from my personal experiences.
  And
  Good. This is a simple fucking trademark case and the union is going to lose hard. A first year JV could win this.
  I even got one calling me genocidal but can't see it. I would love to see what I said that was genocidal lol.
  Modlog is a disaster with tons of " I don't agree with you so I'm going to call you a troll and remove your comment". Go look for yourself.
- Same, but it was a kys to some guy I had a beef for some time, I really wonder what a reddit admin was doing looking at a NSFW AI subreddit because that ban was way too fast and no one claimed the deed in the comments even the guy who I was discussing with lol
- I got banned for telling left wing trolls to go fuck themselves.
  I guess we equaled out lol
  Reddit got me for harassment, agreed on Reddit got really soft
  bans should be for illegal activity, overt harassment, targeting someone or something to that nature, getting a little heated shouldn't resort to a ban
  open discussion without the threat of getting banned is the American way
I once posted a theory that Deckard HAD to be a replicant because of the way genetics actually works (him having a child in 2049 proves it, I mean).
A mod called my comment a "Luke warm take for piss brains" and removed it, so I told him to go fuck himself. Banned, not just from the sub, but from all of reddit.

Reddit is a lost cause.

Sadly yeah

I'm in the process of deleting my posts in a few accounts in preparation to delete them.

Reddit isn't the same place it was when I first signed up. On so many levels it proceeded to get worse year after year. Shitty mods, paid political bot brigading to drown out discussion, general discourse devolution, innovation decline of generally loved features are some of my biggest complaints of that platform.

Don't get me wrong reddit was always a bit of anarchy, but the best comments somehow managed to rise up. Not so much anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old and some of the comment contents don't interest me in the same way it used to.

I don't mind being part of this community even though some of the sub's have less activity. The activity seems to be of a better quality for the most part imho.

For me I don't miss reddit at all.

Start your niche community on lemmy then advertise it in some other groups. You might be surprised how much better it is here.

They literally banned me for "abusing the report feature" like I'm sorry are you asking me NOT to report heinous bigotry?? Fuck reddit and fuck spez

Really damn

Maybe they wouldn't have problem with ban evasion if they weren't giving out bans the drop of a hat

Everything is being automated. The Admins are automated. The mods are increasingly automated. The subs are filled with botspam. The comments (have always been, but are now overwhelmingly) filled with bot-chatter.
The end goal of Reddit is to automate away anything that might cut into the company's bottom line. I'm convinced they're going to functionally do away with the comments section sooner or later. Just set up a byzantine set of bureaucratic hurdles that no human can actually clear. Then all that's left is the bots, and all you are allowed to do is look through the glass at the simulation.
That's not exclusive to Reddit.
Looks at 196 here on Lemmy and their massive pissy baby ban list.
Edit: If you disagree, go look at the bans and their reasoning in the mod log. It's insane, and I mean that word in the literal sense. Some fun things: they ban people for not agreeing with them vocally enough. They've banned people for arguing that the world isn't beyond saving if we try. They've banned because (and I quote) "Get out of here with that my children matter shit". It's a lunatic brigade run by a clown.
- 196?

Just ask Spez's best bud u/drewiepoodle about how to evade bans, they're an expert.

Who is that? 🤔

Can't you simply register an account on old.reddit without using email (they ask but you leave it empty) and after changing your IP with your VPN?

Doubt they've fixed that yet.

Not that there's any point. If you're not interacting with bots or copy-pasted comments, you're interacting with morons and people who think internet points matter.

You described reddit really well, it's a question of niche communities like I said

r/fuckyouinparticular did their ban some random person for 3 days to me even though I don't even use my reddit account anymore and just let it sit there taking space on reddots servers

r/oddlyspecific

Got banned for harassing mods because I was asking why I got banned automatically for participating in a different subreddit. As soon as I sent my second request asking why I was banned, I got permabanned.

Absolutely killing me right now to watch what's going on in /r/worldnews re: the Gaza Strip. Absolute echo chamber of reposted IDF propaganda, genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians - all calls for peace, any contextualization or describing the history of the conflict get permabanned and muted, appeals to admins are denied as usual. Meanwhile, international observers describing the situation as an ongoing genocide. What do you call censoring a community to support that, besides "incitement to genocide"?
Site should be forever abandoned, they have lost every last shred of credibility.
Me too, they are far too quick to bring out the perma ban. My 10 year old account went from a minor subreddit ban (for asking why a mod banned someone else) to global perma ban within 12 hours. In fairness I reported the mod and said he's a neckbeard but that shit isn't worth of global perma lol.
Overall, I think this is good news for lemmys future tbh

Sounds like you need to join the _LeMLM. Pick your favorite niche community and pledge to post something to it daily (if possible, or at least as often as you can).

Then recruit 2 other people to go adopt their own niche communities. Then each of them recruits 2 more, each of them will recruit, and so on and so on. Pretty soon your downline is pumping out so much OC you'll forget all about Spez and his sad little fiefdom.

Why don't you do this?
- It sounds like that's exactly what they're literally doing right now. Ya dingus.
- Would you like to join my downline?

I got banned for ban evasion when I logged in at a public library. I have never been banned before. I appealed and got denied.

It was a 10 year old account 50k karma, just like that. A little upset but what can you do?

Quit reddit lol

Reddit sucks

True

We decided that user input needs to be for advertisers, no one else. By promoting toxicity, we could have people buy stuff only from those toxic communities.

user input needs to be for advertisers, no one else
Of course. Companies listen to their customers, not their product.

Ridiculous, and there’s no appealing it either. Now if I want to check out my niche communities I need to load Reddit in a private tab with a VPN to scroll around my “inactive” account, but I never comment.