Basically, a while back my Reddit account was banned out of the blue. Since then, every single new account I make gets banned instantly every single time I make a post. Not once, for the record, have they ever provided me an iota of a reason as to why I was banned in the first place. As far as I know, my account was just wiped off the face of the internet because someone felt like it. Since then, I’ve used VPNs, different computers, changed my IP to my internet, but every single time, the moment I post or comment the same exact thing happens. All of a sudden, my profile in the top right disappears and when I go to check in an incognito tab, it says that it’s been suspended.
Then, a few hours later, it will become permabanned. Then I’ll submit an appeal, and every single time they get back to me, they deny it, and the only reason they give is because “I broke the rules”. How on fucking earth am I ever supposed to use this platform again?
Yeah it really is an awful cycle. The issue is though that there really are no alternatives. I mean I made an account on here because it’s the closest thing, but let’s be real, it doesn’t even come close.
Especially in the world of gaming and technical questions, literally no site can even remotely compete with Reddit, so I feel like I have zero other options, and instead need to spend hours upon hours making dozens of accounts and finding new ways to bypass their bans because obviously they have various methods in place to ensure that like entire devices, wifi networks, and IPs are banned
Reddit brainwashed you into thinking it’s the only place. The reality is damn near everything on reddit is from somewhere better. You can replace it simply by going to the sources and browsing there. Tiktok, steam news, gaming sites, YouTube. The only thing you can’t replace are the comments, but that shit is 50% bots, 49% shill, and getting worse everyday. Just keep posting on lemmy and you’ll find you never really needed reddit.
I think you’re locked into the idea that a single place should be an alternative. That’s part of what allowed reddit to go full asshole the way it did. A one stop shop is convenient, but only so long as it doesn’t become malignant.
Switching over to a multi platform media model is just better. You’ve got multiple threaded options that duplicate the mid length discussion format. There’s two or three options for shorter form/microblogging level discussions. Your supplement that with some corporate options for broader options, and you’re both having the same degree of information, and having it impossible for any single source to shut you out entirely.
Hell, once you get used to the lower user base, the fact that lemmy has advantages just by itself becomes a very nice thing. When you mix in mastodon, piefed and mbin being crosstalk compatible, you don’t even have to have accounts on those platforms to gain extended reach.
I mean, it is what it is, if you need to be able to post and comment on reddit, jumping through ever narrowed hoops is your only option. I’m just not of the opinion that there’s really much of value in gaming at all that can’t be gained passively. Tech wise, yeah, you’ll get a wider range of answers faster on reddit. Not necessarily better answers, depending on the exact tech branch, though.
I’d also argue that people in the fediverse are more likely to put in effort into advice they give than on reddit. Shit, on reddit, you type more than three paragraphs, somebody is going to whine about a wall of text and tl;dr. So there’s no point in putting effort in. Here, you get thanked for going the extra mile, so people are more willing to do it.
But reddit is dying for human users. It just is, because they don’t want people using it the way people need a service like reddit. I’m not personally willing to bang my head against the wall when I can end up with the same information in roughly the same amount of time by chilling and waiting.