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by dom96 1099 days ago
> Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated

All have definitely not been reinstated. They banned my 13 year old account without warning because I dared to make an alternative API for Reddit[1]. Even after agreeing to suspend the service they are still yet to unban my account.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are others in the same boat.

1 - https://api.reddiw.com
1 comments
mdrzn 1098 days ago
"The goal of this project is to offer a fallback in case Reddit does continue with its plan to charge app developers fees"

So you created an API to bypass the official APIs, promoted it on Reddit itself, and wonder why you got banned? Color me surprised.

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tvink 1098 days ago
Yeah, honestly, this is not in the same basked as discussing reddit alternatives. This is just oblivious.
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