Reddit

My main concern is that Luigi isn’t even confirmed to be the one to have pulled the trigger, right?

This same thing happened to me twice in one week. I haven't had a ban on my account in 14 years. I've given up on Reddit and just deleted my account. Fuck them if they want to treat us like we're children. I won't use their platform again.

14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).

Considering the time you were at reddit (not too different from mine), I think you'll find Lemmy like reddit was in your earlier times there.

What I mean by that is generally more thoughtful and reasonable discussion (generally), smaller communities, more generalized (but specific stuff is accepted, so "all ttrpg is good here" vs "thats pathfinder, this is for 5e only!", as an example.

Welcome and I hope you enjoy it here!

Also, if you come across a server you think fits better as a home base - make an account, see if it fits. You dont have to stay in one spot just because its where you made your first.

They’re finniky bastards.

Same man, I've been on Reddit pretty much since 2005.

It seems like such a waste of 20 years of doom scrolling, imagine if I'd put that time into learning a trade, or another language...

Curating subs? I see it as more of "creating my own bubble". Lemmy is a good way to kinda expose myself to other stuff for a change and not just the reddit hive mind.

I mean, how many times have you opened a post and knew what the top 3 comments would be??

It's been almost two years since my exodus. I've popped in Reddit a few times for specific information, but I noticed I just feel like crap when I do. It's just so toxic. I didn't notice it until I spent time in Lemmy.

I got permabanned during the women's March for cheering on the March posters and such. I started and admined the /keitruck sub reddit. I also had some other subreddits that weren't as big. Keitruck is pretty small though. All that work for nothing. So I didn't fight the ban, just moved here. Good move! Now I only go to reddit from accidentally clicking on web searches. Who knows WTF is going on.

It seems like ever since the DOGE kids were posted on Reddit and Elon got mad the ban hammer has been out en force.

Every long term reddit bans and/or alienates and comes to lemmy, benefits us all. Welcome!

When Reddit bans or even just temporarily suspends me, I just create a new account right away and jump back in.

1. I only use Reddit in a Brave private window. If I want to use Reddit on my phone I just use RedReader and never bother logging in. I don't really feel the need to post when I'm mobile anyway.

2. Once I'm banned/suspended I open a Firefox window and create a new Outlook account.

3. Open a new Brave private window and create a new Reddit account with the new email. Log in. But hey, all your subreddits aren't there from your old account and man, it's going to be annoying to re-add all those subs, right? Nah. There's a browser script for that.

4. In your old Reddit account go to old.reddit.com/subreddits or whatever button you click on in Reddit that shows a list of all your subreddits. At the top of your list of subs is a link titled "multireddit of your subscriptions". Right click on that link and copy it.

5. Now go to your new Reddit account and paste that link in the URL field and hit enter and you'll have a list of all your subs from your old account with the join button next to all of them. You could go down the list clicking join on all of them. I have hundreds, so screw that. I use the script. I won't paste my script, just go to Google and search for "Reddit sub auto-add script Github". There's a few different ones you can try. Essentially, in the window with your new account and all the subs with the join buttons, you are hitting F12 to open the developer console, clicking on the "Console" tab, and then pasting the script and hitting "Enter" to run it. The script is essentially just searching the page for all the "Join" buttons and auto-clicking them.

NOTE: If the script is clicking those join buttons too fast, or if you've decided to manually go down the page clicking the join buttons and you're doing it too fast, Reddit detects that and will block you from Reddit for like 10-15 minutes before you can continue. In any of these scripts you'll see a number, usually 500. That's the milliseconds the script waits before clicking on the next join button. 500 used to work. Now you'll want to change that to like 3000 or 5000 to increase the wait time. 5000 has been working for me.

That's it though. You can just leave that window with the script open and it'll go down your list of subs auto-joining them. Before I found that script it was REALLY annoying manually clicking on hundreds of join buttons. Now, steps 1-4 take me less than 5 minutes and then step 5 is automated so I just go do something else. My new accounts aren't shadowbanned and I'm back on their shitty site nice and quick. Because honestly, I wouldn't still bother with their site at all if I had to wait for my suspension to end or had to manually rejoin all my subs every time.

The adjustment can be a little awkward at first but there's plenty to do on Lemmy if you take some time to learn how things work and how to get the most out of it.

If you're the type of person that enjoys posting and guiding topics there's no shortage of people hungry for content on Lemmy. There are lots of active communities but even more that are still trying to get off the ground or need someone interested to adopt them.

Whatever your interests, https://lemmyverse.net/ is a great way to find communities for the topics you care about if you aren't finding them on lemmy.world.

I hope your time here is more enjoyable than where you're coming from.