Title is pretty much it. Woke up this morning to an email in the inbox with a reddit message notification from u/reddit
Your account has been permanently suspended for breaking the rules.
The thing is not only have I not been on reddit since the protest (barring google searches while not signed in on a private browser, for specific questions unfortunately), but it’s a lurker account. I have one post from a year ago asking a question, then a few sporadic comments with the last being in April.
I suppose the breakup with Reddit is a mutual thing now lol. Just a very strange scenario.
My account was suspended without any notification at all. I was pretty close to giving up on Reddit anyway, so that was just the final straw. Bit sad, though, I spent a lot of time on Reddit. But now it’s time say “fuck you, spez”.
Welcome to the club! https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call
Side question: Why do Reddit and Twitter and all of these other social media shitshows use idiotic terminology like ‘permanently suspended’? Surely the correct term is ‘banned’. The word suspended in this context usually implies a temporary nature.
For the same reason employers and unemployment insurance is moving from termination, to separation. Less of an inherent negative connotation.
Unfortunately, they fail to realize that the system itself is what created the negative connotation in the first place. So it too will be replaced with yet another synonym in the future.
Hey, feel free to join us over on https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/85486/Permaban-roll-call !
Also, let me know if you see this kind of weirdness after you have deleted your account proper, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/91322/Post-ban-and-deletion-weirdness (remember that your account still exists even if permabanned, until you delete it outright).
It is likely that Reddit helpfully “connected” your account to a strangers account and then that stranger got banned with or without valid cause.
I have high hopes for the fediverse… All fediverse software/servers is still in its infancy. But I believe the fediverse will have a very bright future…