Reddit is just killing itself in general. I’ve been permanently banned from the place on multiple occasions for having I guess what the moderators and admins considered offensive/alternative opinions. I’m not conservative or anything, I’m definitely a liberal, but sometimes I have an opinion that goes a little against the status quo of the ultra liberal / progressive and that is when admins and mods throw a shit fit and don’t know how to handle it other than permanently banning users. I don’t think that Aaron Swartz ever intended Reddit to be a place where critical discussion would just be blanket banned.

Careful, I’m sure you’ll also get banned around here for going against the grain just slightly. Different infrastructure, same mods and dominant politics.

Well that is super disappointing.

At least you can join different instances! And then you can still follow and participate in the same communities even if you were to get banned, there's at least some variety in the personal beliefs of people running them!