• Mickey7@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I got IP banned some time ago

    Was a regular for almost 10 years. Was given “awards” galore. (As if I cared). Had a huge karma total. Permenately banned by an Admin - never a banned from a group. My offense was linking to a factual news article. Created a new account using a VPN and a different browser. Then one day when I wasn’t thinking used another browser that had their “kill” cookie in it. So banned again. So fuck them …swore them off. It’s been almost a year and I don’t miss it at all. How can you enjoy a social media platform if you must suck the ass of Admins and simply repeat only what they “like” regardless of the group you are in.

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      1 month ago

      The Reddit I was a member of was the Reddit of 2005 - 2014, warts and all

      Once VC / major shareholders came in the writing was on the wall. It was a shell of its former self by the time I was actually banned. Death by a thousand cuts. Certain topics sidelined, discussions less nuanced and more reactionary, the front page increasingly santised and “ad friendly”. No more unpredictable truth, just bland banality, puns, bots and the hyper-offended. I fought it for a while then realised, Reddit had already died long before and this was a clear chance to move on