A year later I got a new phone so I decided to try it again. I tried my login and it said the account didn't exist. So I tried to make a new account with my username and said the username existed. So I tried to make a brand new account and it said my email was in use and I couldn't use it. So I tried the forgot password/recovery thing. Said account didn't exist. So I gave up. Sometimes companies just do weird stuff that is hostile to users.
Edit: I want to add that as a big linux user I've found that I can't get into many games because of blanket anti-cheat bans. I know my cases are niche, but there are weird blanket bans.
On a side-note, running a modded client (like Better Discord) at any time is a risk to your account. Some people have reported getting banned for year-old messages that used a plugin which allowed creating embeds inside the discord client (you otherwise can't create custom embeds on a non-bot account)[1].
0: https://discord.com/company#app-mount:~:text=Our%20metrics
1: https://github.com/Fraserbc/BetterDiscord-Embeds#user-conten...
And platforms that have no censorship also have downsides. There’s no perfect solution.
I got banned in PUBG due to their broken anticheat and it tagged my Steam account with all the games as having bans on record. Fortunately I wasn't the only one and they fixed their software and reversed accidental bans.
I wonder what I could realistically do if something like that happens again and the developer doesn't notice?
I had to deal with abusive users at a past job. Some of them simply disappeared after we locked their accounts (temporarily, with explanations), but many of them would launch aggressive harassment campaigns at the company. They'd start with support, then attempt to escalate support tickets, then move on to trying to contact management via LinkedIn or guessing e-mail addresses. A surprising number of people would find creative ways to contact our CEO with carefully honed stories claiming innocence. We started removing employee's last names from customer communications after someone started doxxing support employees and arguing with their family members on Facebook.
Those who had social media clout were virtually guaranteed to use it against us. The stories they published were always distortions of the truth with convenient omissions.
The worst part was that after watching this play out 50 times, everyone starts to grow unsympathetic to any complaints. It's a challenge to maintain some empathy and perform diligence on complaints, otherwise you get legitimate errors slipping through the cracks.