So, I have a main account, where I’m the asshole editor with lots of opinions, and then two others for things a bit more spicy.
Both of those have been suspended for “suspicious activity” roughly 30 hours apart. For, you know, posting what I usually do.
The thing is, one of these – I’m in the eight-year club there – is associated with an email address that was terminated for lack of use, so I can’t reset my password as prescribed.
The other was suspended yesterday every single time I posted anything, resulting in multiple password resets. I’ve not posted anything there today, but … hey, look, it’s suspended again.
Is Reddit just making a hard turn toward banning adult content? r/help seems to have a few other people in my boat wondering what the fuck is going on, but I can’t find any sources suggesting a shift in policy. And I can’t post in r/help on my main … the submit button does nothing.
It’s probably time to leave reddit; even if you do manage to get your accounts back.
As a former mod of /r/Genderqueer I can say they’ve been terminally enshittifying for a while now; and have gone full AI rampage to eliminate human mods because they get accused of bias constantly. It doesn’t help that some mods are legitimately bad too; some of the stories I could tell you from when I was in private mod-only meta-reddit communities would curl your toes. Even I wasn’t without my biases; but I had the interest of my community at heart…which, as you know, nonbinary and genderqueer people are very vulnerable to abuse and harrassment.
It’s time to step off the reddit mothership, and don’t bother looking back unless you must. Tools like redlib can at least help you view reddit posts still, anonymously even if you can’t comment.
I’ve been running my own personal Redlib instance locally using WSL2, Docker and Podman. It’s been invaluable in ensuring I can still read things I need to read.