! and ofc they are blocking it

Lemmy is active enough as is and the apps are great but I still have that unfortunate ingrained habit where I keep coming back to abusive Reddit.

I should instead focus my attention to contributing to the conversation here, sharing articles and creating original content.

This is giving me the same vibes as the sick Duolingo App Icon people were not so crazy about.

don’t know if this is the best community to post in but interesting.

This bug is pretty jarring at times because I have to double check.

About a year ago I created my one and only reddit account. Never had one before. I work at a place that is semi virtual. We are required to come into the office 2 days a week. No one has their own dedicated PC. You just pick whatever is available and sign in. Obviously everyone is using the same internet access.

When at the office and I need a break I would visit a few groups of interest on Reddit. Groups that have ZERO to do with politics or anything controversial. I have never made a post or comment about anything political or controversial. I'm in groups like NFL and Dogs.

A week ago I get a message that my account is suspended for 7 days because of a violation of a "linked" account. I have NO linked account. I only use reddit while at work and no where else. I didn't appeal when I saw the message, I just said whatever. But yesterday I log in and now I am permanently banned.

Anyone have an explanation of what is going on and how to actually get unbanned.

l used Reddit only for a few days. Why?

Answer is simple: Got banned from r/technology for BS reason!

And what was the ban reason? For NOT using same title from article

And these soulless pathetic mods decided gave me perma ban. l then modmailed them for appeal but they didn't repond me back. l deleted my account and created new one. l modmailed the mods of r/technology again, wrote long and polite letter. After 5 minutes they said you got banned.

r/technology is really BS subreddit having pretty stript rules only allowing you psot articles with same title. Whereas on !technology@lemmy.world let's you post YT videos and other sources and they don't care about post title. l also saw some people on r/technology literally making posts that is not related to technology but they get tens of thousands of upvoted

FUCK r/technology. FUCK Reddit. FUCK u/spez!

I wish we could tell whether it was the admins or subreddit moderators using these silencing tactics.

I suppose Discord, GitHub, Steam Forums and YouTube would be better places to bring up the topic.

Lemmy has 462k users and 45k MAU, we could use a bit more content and support for our developers and instance maintainers.

Well now this is trashy. I got permabanned from r/interstingasfuck for posting a comment in r/MensRights that was an attempt to correct some misinformation. I've never made a post in either subreddit and that was the only comment I've ever made in the MensRights subreddit. But r/interstingasfuck's bot decided to permaban me even though I've not broken any rules.

The ban

The single comment I've ever made on r/MensRights

Man Reddit is trash.

How long will it take for Reddit to die? 5 or more years? Maybe less? What do you guys think?

The Reddit default app is so bad these days, they really want you to buy their useless internet badges.