I was permabanned a while ago due to support of my boy Luigi for “inciting violence”.
Whatever. I tried getting around it the traditional ways (making new accounts with temporary emails, using VPNs) but was having no luck. They had beefed up the way they do permabans.
My question is: has anyone found a way to get around a permaban on reddit that works in 2025 without being silently banned? I’d need specific details. I’m hoping to access on iOS also but if it needs to be on PC that’s fine too.
I’m not going to appeal my ban since I don’t believe I did anything wrong but I do want to stick it to them by getting around their ban. Besides there are some communities I need to be able to ask questions in.
Why? Reddit is a cancer, let it die.
There is also no way when they go out of their way more than any other company to catch people who were banned. I don’t understand the sheer level of pettiness to do that.
Remember Reddit’s business model. On Reddit, users aren’t the customers. Ad buyers are the customers. Users (and mods) are unpaid labor - volunteer employees who create content. Reddit uses that content to sell ads and attract eyeballs to ads.
If Reddit permabans someone, it’s because the content they produce doesn’t meet Reddit’s standards for content. And since they assume that user will keep producing inferior content, they want that user to stay permabanned so he doesn’t produce more bad content and hurt Reddit’s brand. I mean, if you fired an employee for doing poor work, you wouldn’t want to rehire the same employee under another name, right?
It’s not pettiness. It’s quality control.
Business will end us all…
…unless open source devours it first.
Also, do you have any idea how many people I gave support to?
I may not have been entertaining, but I loved listening to and supporting people on Reddit, and I laughed alongside some people.