It's not advice, I'm just barfing thoughts out in the void like everyone else.
After more than a decade talking online, I finally realized that it's all pointless. It's not a fact, it's just my opinion.
I loved it since it was full of people who shared the same interests. I like that I helped people and they were happy. But ultimately, for me, it was a waste of time.
I now have a blog that I won't share anywhere, it's full of rants and posts on niche technical stuff and the few people who find it seem to like it. Comments are disabled and the only way to contact me is via email. A couple of people actually contacted me lol
I'll tell you how I got permabanned. First account was banned because I shared my experience with the German healthcare system on r/germany and r/europe. I absolutely despise it to this day. I'm forced to pay insurance just to get discriminated against and get zero help. I concluded that mandatory insurance means a stable stream of income for people who have zero desire to help anyone. So I ranted about it online, since I could not do anything real. Two comments triggered a lot of people because it got the account suspended, then banned. That was rather weird.
Second account was banned because I ranted about suicide, particularly how I hate myself for failing a couple of attempts and being a coward because of that. It did not sit well with the depression subreddits, and probably Reddit itself since it's a heavy topic and a turn off for advertisers.
So, uh, yeah, third account. I posted about suicide again... in retrospect it's pretty cringe and I know complaining that much is pointless, but at the time I was pretty fucked up. Luckily, the account was suspended fast and then I received the permanent ban message.
So, that's what it takes, getting 2-3 accounts banned. I mean, yeah, what sane person has multiple accounts in the first place? :D
I made several new accounts just to have them banned almost instantly (Jesus, it's an actual addiction). So I gave up on it, thankfully.
I'm not saying the ban was unjustified, and I'm not mad at Reddit. Just my opinion, what I wrote wasn't worthy of a permaban, but yeah for those reading it I seemed like an asshole who loves to complain.
I used to write a lot of well thought out comments and posts, it's just that after years of it I got tired and jaded, my writing went to shit and I started shitposting and then complaining too much. No one wants that kind of customer. Yet I still participated. It's an addiction, there's no other explanation.