You got permabanned eight times AND got unbanned seven times - how the hell did you manage that? I’ve been permabanned exactly once, and havent managed to get unbanned despite several appeals. How did you work out who had you banned? I cant see it in my case
Yeah, after several appeals to rationality regarding a permaban for posting a Google Streetview link of a public layby I’m done with it too, and I dont see reddit having a long term future anyway the way it is going. The fediverse is great so far and growing strongly, so I’ll stick around here
Kbin is federated with Lemmy though, so it is sort of indirectly included…ish. I can see and interact with communities on kbin instances from Lemmy, like this one
It is strange that they mention beehaw which is now largely defederated but not kbin which isnt. I suspect whoever wrote that article is less knowledgeable than I am on the subject, which is to say they know nothing at all about it - I’ve only been using Lemmy less than a month
Hardly ever used it, but got a notification from it on my phone the other day which reminded me I still had it on my phone. It was still linked to my old reddit username which got suspended permanently a month or two back, so I finally got around to taking it off....
If you recall reddits growth many of their communities evolved as offshoots of a single generic community. This made it easier for people to see discussions they normally would not get involved in, and once the posts in a similar category reached critical mass it moved to a sub Reddit....
You could be right, there’s a few here that are still pretty dead, I have tried to inject a bit of life into a few of my favourites but the patients are still unresponsive. That said, its good to have readymade replacements already up and running if/when the clowns running reddit make another catastrophically bad decision that pisses off even more of their userbase.
What does need to happen is a cleaning up of all the duplicates - there are two Swimming comunities and two Idiotsincars for instance. The Android community mods did the right and honourable thing by merging with another Android community on a tech focused instance, others should be encourage to do the same
I think part of it is about retention … retaining all those users, especially those with high karma levels (or at least users who believe they have high karma) from abandoning the site and ending their accounts.>
If they were actually serious about retention of high karma users they could at least consider not suspending/ banning such users without a very good reason. My previous account on there was nuked for reasons I dont understand to this day, I would have happily stayed on otherwise. I have a temporary account there now which I had no intention of putting any money into - well now the one reason i might have been tempted to do so is going away anyway.
The award/ coin system was great, and I spent a bit of money on it, it was also a very good way to pay for or be paid for small international transactions - I assisted a few people with minor things and they paid my costs such as they were with reddit coin, saving them and me international bank transaction fees. I also liked rewarding intelligent and incisive comments that needed recognition as such.
Posted a Google Streetview link of a public layby - Permabanned, but I dont know why! Wasnt protesting, participating in a blackout, just trying to show another redditor where an event took place
No, it was that, the reason I know is that I appealed it - twice. The grounds were harrassment of all things - which is bizzarre because it was nothing to do with any other reddit user
12+yr redditor DELETED
Just deleted my 12+ year account on Reddit and I’m still feeling weird....
Yet another article about Reddit vs. Lemmy vs. others: "Discussing Three Reddit Alternatives After Reddit's API Decisions" ( kbin.social )
https://hackernoon.com/discussing-three-reddit-alternatives-after-reddits-api-decisions
Well thats that for the reddit app - just uninstalled it off my phone
Hardly ever used it, but got a notification from it on my phone the other day which reminded me I still had it on my phone. It was still linked to my old reddit username which got suspended permanently a month or two back, so I finally got around to taking it off....
I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea. ( kbin.social )
If you recall reddits growth many of their communities evolved as offshoots of a single generic community. This made it easier for people to see discussions they normally would not get involved in, and once the posts in a similar category reached critical mass it moved to a sub Reddit....
Reddit kills awards and coins ( old.reddit.com )
Permaban roll call ( kbin.social )
Shout-out to my sisters and brothers-in-arms!...