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Re:Account bans on Reddit by superkuh on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:54PM (#49987942)
Account bans on Reddit. I signed up in 2009. I posted heavily for almost a decade. Then in 2018 the reddit admins banned the community r/gundeals. I messaged the admin account asking why politely. My account was banned. Later, r/gundeals was reinstated and the admins said they were wrong to have banned it. My account remains banned. I did not try to sign up again. Instead I started collecting RSS/Atom/etc feeds, I have over 1800 in my RSS reader now. I started posting on usenet again too. It's no reddit, but even if they were to un-ban me I wouldn't go back now.

Reddit was never the same after they started taking huge amounts of VC money, fired all the old staff that interacted with the community, and changed the interface and system so posting to your profile was normal in order to better fit the social structure of the users from the 2015->2020 facebook exodus they were depending upon to monetize. It's pretty much just facebook now.

Re:Account bans on Reddit by Caldwellone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:07AM (#49991620)
“RSS/Atom/etc feeds” this is currently under attack too. Have you noticed any of your feeds going dark over the last few months/years?
Re:Account bans on Reddit by superkuh on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:23AM (#49992477)
Yes, mostly because site owners don't understand that when they put their website behind cloudflare (free) defaults it ends up blocking feed readers. Cloudflare is the greatest enemy to the open internet that current exists.
Re:Account bans on Reddit by HairyKraken on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:26AM (#49994168)
>It's pretty much just facebook now.

as long as reddit has a downvote system it will be better than facebook. obvious ragebait and inflamtory comment goes to the bottom of the comment chain even if they are the most interacted with because the majority of users downvote and move on, which is a better outcome that whatever happen on facebook when a user is making obvious bait (and is probably a bot)