I was never banned but a few things led up to it

• I received a warning from their AI moderation because I wrote I wanted to shoot annoying children (who were playing reddead redemption online). I was in the red dead subreddit too when I wrote this. Any level of context literacy would not have let that go through. This also happened after I made a very contentious post about being sexually harassed in a video game which made the nerds very mad and I guess mass reported my history
• the punishment of mods protesting the API shit. I’ve moderated a community for 12 years, for those years it was implied it’s my community and I make the rules so I’m invested in it, but then suddenly you can have it taken from you if you set it to private? I now just sit on my subreddits and ignore them. I will remake them here.
• a beloved subreddit of mine (I didn’t own it just visited it daily) was attacked by a spam network for 2 weeks. Mod was inactive. I spent hours mass reporting every account but reddit did absolutely nothing and just shut the subreddit down instead of blocking suspicious accounts trying to post the same keywords there, like 3 seconds in automod would have saved it. I could have taken it over, but I’m done doing free labor for Spez after the API fiasco showed we have no control over our own subreddits
• people getting banned just for upvoting comments reddit doesn’t like
• everyone on reddit has become a lot more hostile and toxic, only wanting to shoot ‘hot takes’ and insults instead of having a discussion. It feels a lot more like Facebook now than Reddit
• final straw was the hiding of post history. There is no point in interacting with anyone on reddit if I don’t know they’re a real person or not

Pre 2021 I had none if these issues and it was a great place that I learned a lot from, but corporate enshittification is going to enshittify everything it touches so I’m only going to donate my passion to open source things now.