On reddit, it was frowned upon to create a new acc after getting banned - and still it was frequently needed to do so, because of some mod gone wild.

The same jerks who have been mods on reddit are now becoming the mods on lemmy. And they still get unlimited power, and still nobody is reviewing their actions.

Now, please explain: why would anybody share such stories of getting banned?

I’ve gotten banned from subs I had never even heard of, much less participated in.

Nice try mods

I wish I did that, with all the “”“respect”“” I had in some of them. I decided to be boring and just deleted everything (first editing it to “fuck u/spez” or something like that) and closed the account

you aren’t getting a screenshot, but tldr in politics 2.5 years ago I told a famous transperson who would never read that subreddit running for an elected office to go fuck themselves using their birth name and got permabanned for deadnaming. since that was my most active sub I just didn’t go back to the site in general since there was a good chance something would happen in the us political world and I couldn’t comment. I felt it best to just not be on the site so I wouldn’t be tempted.

and then in the subsequent time the site imploded.