Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"?
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 week agoIt depends. I got perma-banned from one particular sub for modifying all my old posts with an info blurb about the fediverse back when reddit nuked all 3rd-party APIs. Mods accused me to trying to “steal users” – as if people can’t have logins to reddit and other websites… sheesh.
None of the other subs I cleaned my post/comment history in this way banned me however. But I am certain Spez and his minions/investors (fuck /u/spez) doesn’t want people to start using alternatives.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Dude, that is the absolute truth. After I got banned in October, I spent days using logins on several different devices I had and deleted ALL my posts (back to 2010) and got the last years worth of comments (the prior 14 years were of course made unavailable when Reddit locked down the database to prevent AI from scraping the site…) and then tried to delete the account.
Tried to.
Reddit won’t even let users delete their accounts.
If that’s not ginning the numbers of users to look good for the investors, I don’t know what is. Point of fact, I’m probably not the only person to notice this behavior and methinks it’s part of why Reddit stock is lower than the market says it should be and they’re reassessing “user metrics.”
I’ve certainly not been silent online about the fact that I was permabannned yet cannot delete my account.
Reddit fuckiness, for sure.