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[–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I'm one of those people! A victim of the zionist trolls that prowl there.

I was in the 1% top commenters on r/palestine, and out of the blue I am informed I had a lifetime ban for an old comment that I"m still not sure I made...they wouldn't respond to my messages or even allow me to see the comment, so I eventually gave up, deleted my account, and here I am, lol! (Although I'm mostly on mastodon 🙂).

Edit: I don't think my example really accounts for the lost accounts - just a guess, but I think you'll find that a lot of active redditors left reddit, (about 3-4 years back...maybe more, maybe less....there's probably a lot of them on here 🤔), in protest about their 'updating' of the format, with much more 'in your face' advertising, in an attempt to convert it into a social media platform.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I am sorry...
    To support the case, I moved when got shadow-banned and never received any response:
    - https://lemmy.world/post/41927576/21676673

    Yet, Lemmy is sure a place, too... where you may get inhumanly banned just like a biomass, too... For example, relatively recently, I was banned on some Community for literally odd reason, and never got any response from their moderators in 2 private messages I sent regarding it:
    - https://lemmy.world/modlog...


    Image previewsThe ban record (I did absolutely nothing suspicious, I believe, and the account is months old):

    The private messages preview:

    The ban of my single message:

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Last year Reddit became super aggressive with bans. My first ever ban was for talking about how to kill fish humanely after catching them. I was banned for 3 days for inciting violence and my appeal was ignored.

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    [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    They may not have chosen to leave, over the years I've occasionally encountered people who had a strategy of deleting their account and starting a new one every once in a while to get rid of old baggage and trackability. There's no way to determine the percentage doing that without internal Reddit data, I assume.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, I was a top commenter on many subs and even moderated a few. It was a daily part of my life. After getting 2 (unfounded) complete bans for 3 days then 7 days inside a two week period, I was out. I deleted a decade and a half of thoughts and opinions and exchanges that meant something to me because FUCK NAZIS.

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Even on the lower end, 17,5% is still a lot. And I can't help but wonder how many people that never comment but are always there decided to drop as well.

    If anything, considering Reddit seemingly at damage control mode and their opaque numbers, I wouldn't doubt they lost far more people than they'd be willing to show.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Reddit just permabanned me for anti-ice/Nazi/Pedo/Trump comments not directed at anyone in specific and no worse than I see often on there.

    Reddit is complicit in all this bullshit going on.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (6 children)

    When you delete your reddit account I thought the posts and comments stayed. Are they removed?

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