Lol, sorry to sound desperate, but I've just realized a few days ago that my Reddit account has been locked for weeks and I can't seem to unlock it, despite following the posted instructions.
I was starting to notice that no one was responding to my comments, and none of my posts were getting comments and upvotes, so I went digging into my inbox and found the notice that the account had been locked because of "suspicious activity". (I've been moving away from Gmail, so I think I changed the email address on the account, probably more than once in the same week. That's my best guess as to what they considered "suspicious".)
And of course support is non-existent and unresponsive. I guess this is a "shadow ban"? I feel like a spirit haunting Reddit, watching everything from the outside and trying my best to break through and be heard, but to no avail. :lolsob:
I can't decide if I want to just delete the account, ditch 6 years of history, and start over? (My cake day was coming up in April too!) Or just hang on a little longer and hope more people make their way over here?
Agreed this place is real cozy! I can’t wait for a women-oriented instance to be launched by a smart technical witch.
Lol, that smart technical witch might be me - I'm a systems engineer by trade, I just haven't had any free time to look into standing up an instance. (I'm spending all my time protesting on the weekends!) 😂
I'd be super interested in such an instance :D. Hosting a open registration lemmy server is definitely a brave choice from a moderation standpoint though 0_0.
Please considering doing so. It would make the threadverse much more welcoming to women. It's always good when groups can speak for themselves.
The easiest way would be to use the services Elestio and K&T Host as those providers handle the technical overhead then once you get more comfortable with the innerworkings you may transition to managing the server yourself.
I'm sure @[email protected] would love to help!