I got into this situation because something was marked as harassment on my Reddit account, which banned me for 3 days. I had no intention to cause harm, I was just correcting someone over a movie detail that involved transgender but did not criticize trans people at all, but that’s not the issue. For some reason, I panicked, wasn’t thinking straight, and proceeded to delete that account and make a new one, which is ban evasion. I’m stupid, and for some reason I thought I could make a new account and it’d be fine. I didn’t even need Reddit at that time or used it very often at all, so I don’t know why I did that. My account got shadow banned a few hours later, which is permanent. What I did was stupid, and I regret my decisions. I’ll stay away from anything remotely controversial next time, and I won’t create accounts to circumvent the ban again. I never had a malicious intent though, I just want to use Reddit to ask specific questions, socialize about interests, and help others. I contacted Reddit through a support ticket a few times (once a week) and it has been almost a month, yet there is no response, though I’ve heard it can take several months for a response, if they respond at all, and I could possibly be filing too many tickets. I think it disabled me from logging into the banned account to appeal, so I can’t appeal another way. Since I broke the ToS, I am wondering if there is any hope for me. I consider Reddit to be useful in some aspects so it is a bit of a bummer, but it is the consequences of my actions I guess. A permanent life ban is a lot though :/ but it’s just a website. It’d be nice to get my account back which is why I am asking, but I totally understand if I can’t use Reddit again. Reddit sucks overall but it can be useful sometimes. I’ll move on though
I am not — I think that were I to stand up a threadiverse instance today, it’d be a piefed instance. I think it’s already a better product and that it has a better governance structure that means it’s going to continue to improve faster than Lemmy.
Which is not to get down on Lemmy! To the best of my knowledge, it was the first of its kind in the fediverse, and the Lemmy devs solved a lot of thorny problems. And the lemmy.world admins have been incredible hosts — I’ve modded a half dozen communities for 2.5 years and still never had to take a mod action (knock on wood).
No, I meant the larger project. I came to the fediverse back when ActivityStreams was published in 2017. I didn’t quite see the vision until ActivityPub was published in 2018, but you could see the promise of social media interoperability even in those first few steps. I don’t know if you remember, but there was a time when the World Wide Web was a very small part of an internet that was divided into tiny silos, but for me, I saw the release of activitypub the same way — the w3c has come in and put together a reasonable way for everyone to play in the same sandbox together.
And I think ActivityPub has done it. I can boost my bookwyrm posts from mastodon to tell people about what I’m reading. I can cross-post to piefed from my pixelfed by @ mentioning a community. I hardly even notice when I interact across instances and services.
For me, the thing that is exciting about Lemmy is that it is a small backwater on a weird, wide beautiful world of people who are all talking to each other in the way that makes them the most comfortable, in small groups and enclaves that have the frontend and moderation policies that best match their needs, but that they can still talk to everyone else. It’s more like email than reddit, and to me that’s what’s most exciting.
I appreciate your answer, but to be honest I can’t claim I understood everything that you mentioned. I did a quick search but I need some time to delve into that to understand how it works and connects. At first glance it seems interesting and evolutionary, hopefully I can understand it. Thanks again.