Reddit

starting in late March 2026, there will be a new limit of 5 high-traffic communities per moderator. Only communities with greater than 100k weekly visitors count toward this limit, and there are no limits on communities under that amount.

For those who are impacted (less than 0.1% of active mods), we’re rolling out in several phases over 6 months to ensure mods have sufficient time to prepare. We notified all impacted moderators last month, and you can also check your status anytime here.

More details in the thread.

We could also consider policies around this on an instance level. I don't think it's that big of a problem yet, and "X communities with >Y users" might not be the best metric for us, but it's worth discussing

Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

This was the weirdest thing I've seen today. These are only the ones I've spotted.

funnily enough, these bots are also replying to an obvious repost from another bot account. It's at the top right now! Beautiful

https://www.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1p8dt2a/_/

tipping points:

1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns
2. They're all saying "exactly" and saying the same thing"
3. their usernames are similar, flower/nature related, two words, no profile pictures
4. All of their profiles have the exact same format of comments with the agreement, summary
5. and they all have porn on their profile. oh

edit: tf?

All moderators resigned

Meme Source.

Meme Source.

Article post in the Technology subreddit.

Anarchy Chess Meme.

My account has been banned by reddit for a most absurd reason.

First, I recieved warnings text of which said they were auto generated. Since auto generated content is least reliable, I ignored them.

Second, the warnings were themself irrational. Social media always has a share button. If a post is supposed to remain private, either it should be mentioned on top of it or shall be posted in a private community. Posts I shared were on public pages and I did not claim copy right. In fact, details of model and photo studio were explicitly visible.

Now I'm very very disappointed by Reddit. What sort of naive policy is it. I had an account with 10K karma. Had made some original posts with 100s if likes n shares. I want my reddit account back. I don't want to make a new one. I want my original account un-banned. Kindly guide me how may I proceed??

Happened a couple of weeks ago, but all API access has to go through a manual review process and seems like they're rejecting personal 3rd party use. The only way you can use the API now is if you create a game or mod tool that "lives on reddit".

The people that create access tokens to use third party apps won't be considered a "responsible use" for the API, right?

Correct and this hasn't changed since we made our updates back in 2023. The goal is to enable developers to build great products for users and mods, powered by Reddit on Reddit.

tl;dr: r/AmITheAsshole?

So I'm a Reddit refugee late by two years. Before all, I'm from somewhere you'll need VPNs to access the real Internet, and people aren't familiar with how Reddit works.

I got permabanned in an anime subreddit for calling out someone straightly said "the manga is f***ing disgusting" bc fanservices. My language is at worse "I hope you're satisfied rubbing your uncivilizedness into [manga author]'s face" and my ban reason was "mean language & hate".

Well it was just a ban in one singular sub and smaller subs for same anime exists. But my deadass didn't think through and rage-deleted my 3y-old Reddit account, planning to "start again" before learning how Reddit treats newcomers, alt accounts and VPN users the hard way.

Now I have created some alts and all got either banned or shadowbanned for "ban evasion ", or may had smth to do with me using VPNs. Ofc I had to use an alt account now since I can't retreat to my old one. I can't even browse Reddit without logging in bc "blocked by network security".

I admit it's my fault rage-deleting my account recklessly; I admit it's not Reddit's fault they had to prevent spam and ban-evasion; but do I really deserved this?

Having turned my sub-wide ban into a Reddit-wide ban and learnt my lesson, I'm now here in Lemmy.

It all started on Tuesday, when a moderator for r/JoeRogan wrote that “all political posts are now banned on r/JoeRogan.”

“Today we are making the decision to ban all political posts indefinitely,” the explanation read. “After careful consideration, internal discussion and tons of external feedback we have collectively decided that r/joerogan is not the place for politics anymore.”

That post was not received well. One contributor wrote, “Every reddit mod is a hall monitor dork, change my mind. Youre banning the topic he talks about the most. You guys are hypocrites and anti free speech. If you cant mod effectively then go paint your warhammer figurines and let someone else do it.”

They deleted their account, so maybe they're here?

Last update: https://old.reddit.com/r/epoxyhotdog/comments/y3p3ix/2_year_update/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj0XC2aHxrM

Rogan's conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Rogan's guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.

Did anyone else here noticed?

No matter the subject or your opinion, there's always people down voting you.

I don't care about up/down votes but we can't deny that's a way to know the acceptance of your thoughts by the community.

I tried to make some posts absolute neutral, just asking simple things to see if people discuss and interact which each other and me, I just got down voted out of nowhere.

Right now I'm seeing the karma count fighting going up and down, some people just down vote out of nowhere without any possible logic explanation.

Did anyone figure out what's up with those people?

Discussing on Reddit feels like a fight to know who has the best opinion of all, you just aren't allowed to think different or they'll down vote you to hell.

😬

Made a snarky, obviously sarcastic comment basically word for word: "Yeah, women didn't even exist until the 1920s and Asians are a myth" In response to a racist jerk complaining that a depiction of 1880s Chicago was "too diverse".

So 4 days later Reddit slaps me with a permanent ban for violating rule 1 "hate".

The really effed up part is the offending comment was summarily removed and therefore not even quoted in the ban notice. Meaning that after 4 days I didnt immediately recall the now missing comment and could only appeal based the general fact that I mock racists.

This is some absolute bullshit. And now that I recall the basic wording I cant even add to the appeal.

Is Reddit trying extra hard to suck now or what.

Any alternatives to force a response and ecpme action of this nonsense?

Has anybody here experienced this? I got banned from Reddit for as far as I'm concerned unfair or no rational reasons. I was just warning people of things and talking political things.

My account is several years old. I am not sure what I did wrong. I was posting political content and certain warnings which included I guess Reddit that was the main part.

I explained how I didn't respect vets doing Trump's betting and lost respect for them. I posted about how the Venezuela war is likely over oil.

All resources, I used to back up with sources. I then warned this one user and it seems the ban was immediate. It was regarding privacy.

I responded to one person talking about content, if it truly hides it. I responded no, and if Reddit's DB is ever exposed. It could be leaked like ATT was. This wasn't illegal or violation of ToS. I was explaining he should talk on there like he does in real life, as if it's his real identity. I got into how Google paid Reddit money to surf their content.

It immediately told me to reset my password. I did. I then noticed none of my posts got any views. I then thought I was shadow banned. So I looked, and then looked in incognito mode. It said my account was suspended.

I appealed it once, no response within 24hrs, I did it again in another 24hrs. I did it under help. I was going through all of my posts deleting them.

I heard on another website, if you find the infringing post, it can possibly lift your ban. So I did. Removed over 100 (took forever). I then woke up, and couldn't even log into my account.

Wrong user/pass, even reset I can't. I removed my 2auth factor earlier. I tried everything since I wasn't getting a single response from Reddit.

Is it gone forever? I thought they would at least give me some kind of explanation of what I did wrong. Nothing, crickets.

I wasn't making a threat to Reddit about their database being hacked. I've had my information leaked multiple times from other forums. I know what it is like. I don't even know how to hack.

I'm not OP, but that post resonated with me a lot.

Sorry for the rant, I don't know if it belongs here, I'm new. But I am just super disappointed and want to maybe help people in the future experiencing something similar so we can cope together.

So, a few days ago, one of my random alt accounts on Reddit gets sitewide banned for harassment because I called someone dumb in the comments (literally no more than that) as a joke on a shitpost a few years ago. I laugh the random account ban off and delete the account and return to my normal Redditing.

Now, I've been a daily commenter and poster on Reddit for several years at this point. You could call it addiction. But I also use it for updates and questions at my local university, so it's also made its way into my personal life, too.

So, after the ban, I figured I was fine and I could continue to use one of my many other accounts. I was wrong.

Nope. A few hours later, ALL of my accounts over the last decade or so get permanently banned for ban evasion. I did not know Reddit bans were global like that. So, obviously I try to appeal the bullshit original ban, but I DELETED the account so I couldn't.

I try to appeal on the alts, but I get the same generic "your request has been denied" message. Over and over again across all of them, same message.

So, I figure that they banned me for having my other accounts on the same device. Really shitty all my accounts were gone but I was reluctantly fine to start over by removing them all and deleting the app.

Those accounts got banned too.

Okay, looks like it's by IP and device. Cool. I'll... use the browser version on Brave and use a VPN when I want to post on Reddit. Super inconvenient but I'll do what I have to do.

All accounts created or largely used on a VPN get shadow banned and appeals are ignored.

Okay, VPNs don't work. I'll delete all my account info on all my devices, reset my router to change my IP, use a new device, and not sign into any accounts other than Reddit and that should be good!

It works for a few hours. Perfectly fine. But, as I scroll more and more, I start to see communities that I recognize from my old accounts. No big deal, they probably recommend those communities to a lot of new users.

But, as I scrolled more and more, even smaller communities showed up that I used. Smaller, smaller, and even smaller, until eventually these were subs under 5k members even though I didn't interact with he vast majority. They caught me, again, on a brand new device with a different IP.

Well fuck. Reddit is going to be the biggest inconvenience ever to use again. But I had one last trick up my sleeve.

A special VPN that uses the network of its users to reroute internet so websites are extremely unlikely to ban each individual server. A fucking virtual linux machine. Brave browser with the most secure settings.

It went well for longer this time, a few days, but the same Orwellian shit happened. More and more tiny subs until I saw ones with mere single digit upvotes on all the posts on subs with just a few thousand members. And then, just a day or two after my account creation, boom. Permanent ban there, too.

There is literally nothing you can do to get back on Reddit if you're banned and want to use it in even a slightly normal way. I have submitted an appeal on the reddithelp form, but this is also extremely unlikely to be accepted even though the ban was bullshit; they haven't responded yet. I don't think I can ever use Reddit again because their system uses the most advanced AI to detect evaders I have ever seen. They're definitely spending tens of millions monthly on computer costs and research SOLELY to catch evaders and it fucking works.

So, I guess I'm a Lemming from now on. Super upset, Lemmy doesn't have subs for my favourite games and even the more popular games are super inactive. But, there is nothing I can do. Sorry for the rant but I know I started reading ban posts like these for hours when I first got banned, so I hope I can help people in the future realize they're completely done for unless their appeal gets accepted.

TL;DR: Even with a completely unrelated device, IP, and a virtual machine, Reddit's AI will detect what types of posts you like until they are slightly confident it's you. Then, permanent ban. You cannot avoid this. I'm super bummed out.

Edit: For peoples who have had site-wide bans doomscrolling about it in the future like I was, I'm not saying evading a ban is impossible. If you really want to get back on don't give up hope, I'm just saying it's going to be very difficult. But definitely consider contributing to the awesome Lemmy community. I know it's missing a lot, but it does help scratch the itch. I recommend the Blorp app as it's the most similar to Reddit's UI.

so apparently you can't chat/dm in reddit if it contains URLs to chinese companies. i am aware xi and the don arent best friends and scumbag hoffmann is inhumane, but geez, banning legit company urls? how small are US dicks?

"Message failed to send because it contains a banned URL."

maybe someone else want to give a try? i asked someone for the difference between https://jlcpcb.com/ and https://www.pcbway.com/

A pretty good reminder not to take important advice from reddit