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writing practice can be gotten anywhere hahah, there are tonnes of discourse communities on other social media and even message boards.
I just lament being able to pop into something like r/homeappliances to ask for device troubleshooting advice, but its water under the bridge at this point
It's basically a matter of time before the algo pushes banned subs to your feed again and you get perma'ed so it's probably better to cut your losses early and get your information elsewhere
Well if you mean I'm a shameful person for all of my personal life failures, you're probably right.. I think I disappointed you though, because even thinking of going on reddit these days makes me feel torn and miserable so I actively avoid it..
Thanks for the sentiment regardless, maybe one day I wil be able to fulfil your expectations by creating an alt to ask about troubleshooting home electricity questions... but in the meantime I don't feel being on reddit (where I should belong..)
You're lucky that isn't Australia/SEA and you don't have to deal with Ezypay
How are you finding it now? I have been deciding between 20 dollar subscriptions for GPT, Claude, and Cursor (Grok 4.5) respectively
This is a great frame. Can I ask (and I mean this with good faith, because I've had this problem for the longest time now) how do you deal with employers or corporations who demand the absolute maximum output every second of every day, forcing you to use the proverbial loud, vibrating power saw to the point that you feel terrified to even look at the handsaw?
Hey, I've been on Twitter before. I've seen the @RedditLies account and I think there's really too much gunk to sift through, never had the time to check how much of it was true. I appreciate the sentiment though.
Yeah, I actually stopped everything in the morning and thought about it for a while.
The rigid resistance to preventing users from protecting themselves from a _sitewide permanent ban_ feels ridiculous in retrospect.
I don't know if this is a reach, but it honestly feels like Reddit is trying to do two things:
- monetize attrition (manufacture traffic by forcing users to create new accounts)
- intermittent reinforcement/love bombing. I used to have an ex who performed the exact same pattern; start out loving and affectionate, then rapidly deteriorate into a wrongful accusations (in reddit's case, wrongful bans) which would just become a massive time-sink. Then she would "repeal" or reinstate me to keep me captive/grateful... then repeat the whole cycle again and again.
I was thinking about the panic I felt earlier, and the pattern was pretty much identical- harm, apology, relief, re-engagement, harm again, without ever committing to a low-cost and obvious fix.
I am really really starting to think that Reddit's "ban evasion" system is by design at this point
Thanks, I kind of feel like I got unplugged from the matrix. A ton of existential anxiety just flooded back in but I also realize that Reddit probably wasn't the most efficient place for me to spend most of my time in.
I really miss r/homelabs though, that place is a treasure amidst the swamp of gender wars that the rest of the subreddits are