What the fuck.
My Reddit account would be 4 years old next week, but for some unknown reason I got permanently banned.
I genuinely don’t understand why, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is part of the enshittification of Reddit Inc. I’ve never posted anything hateful or doxxed someone. Just mainly discussed Dutch football matches. That’s it. I don’t think discussing football breaks Reddit rules, right?
I guess I’m disappointed, because a lot of great, niche communities exist on Reddit which don’t exist on Lemmy yet, so I now have nowhere to discuss some of my hobbies with random strangers on the internet.
Fuck Reddit and their shitty policy.
Okay, so if there’s nowhere to discuss your niche interests, why don’t you start a community and discuss your niche interests and tell other people about them so that you can start the community here.
Not OP, but just chiming in to say that I think most people are tired of hearing this. The “just make a new community” thing is repeated often in threads like this, and I feel like it’s a bit tone-deaf to people’s true complaints, which is that they just want an easy place to chat that doesn’t require being an unpaid janitor. Yes, it’s easy to create a community on Lemmy. But not everybody wants to run a community. There’s a lot of responsibility involved beyond just registering the page on your instance of choice, and that’s a daunting task for most people who just want a place to talk about their interests without having to be responsible for keeping the peace on top of it.
Building a community of users is the biggest hurdle at the start - there are communities on Lemmy for most of my interests. But they’re almost all totally empty! I don’t have the time to gather people from other sites, or any content of my own to share. I have a job already lol