I have mentioned in this group before that I had a 10 year old account with high karma totals that was permanently banned site wide 2 years ago. I had posted an article that conflicted with the reddit world view from a “source” that reddit allowed for linked posts. Anyway not to go into all that again here’s what happened.
I had read the discussions in this group regarding the changes at X and Meta. The shift is that all opinions are allowed except calling for violence or things obviously not true like the Sun rises in the West.
So I made another “appeal” to reddit with the perfunctory pledge not to violate their rules, which I won’t.
Next day I was reinstated. Are they shifting like X and Meta? Don’t know but if not it was a strange coincidence.
Though I prefer Lemmy I still enjoy the NON political reddit groups like for books, golf, etc. About a month ago I messaged the Lemmy Admins to appoint me a mod to the Lemmy “golf” group since it had been dormant for over a year. I was appointed a mod there. I started posting golf related things but with almost zero interaction from anyone on Lemmy. I realize that Lemmy has few active users. I read something a few weeks ago that actually estimated that there were only 1K of us.
I wish we could turn that around here and revive some of these groups.
Could be related to them going public - people are scrutinizing their operations a bit more. Same reason the view count for subreddits suddenly went down by a factor of 10 post-IPO. They always have been, and always will be corrupt.
But really, they’ve banned me in very insulting ways. I only keep an account around in case I really need to engage with a niche hobby subreddit, and it’s barely ever used. This company should understand what the consequences of burning bridges with a user base is.
Agreed. I specifically made the post for those who are permanently banned and miss some of their hobby groups. I’m not so special that they reinstated me without having changed their policy, so others should try it.