--- title: Banned on X and Reddit: An Indie Hacker Rant | daily.dev description: An indie hacker shares the experience of being permanently banned from both X (via mass false reporting) and Reddit in the same period, losing years of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/banned-on-x-and-reddit-an-indie-hacker-rant-vqddddbwf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Banned on X and Reddit: An Indie Hacker Rant | daily.dev og:description: An indie hacker shares the experience of being permanently banned from both X (via mass false reporting) and Reddit in the same period, losing years of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/banned-on-x-and-reddit-an-indie-hacker-rant-vqddddbwf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VqDdDDBwf.png og:image:alt: Banned on X and Reddit: An Indie Hacker Rant og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Banned on X and Reddit: An Indie Hacker Rant **[Alex CloudStar](https://daily.dev/sources/alexcloudstar)** · [@alexcloudstar](https://daily.dev/alexcloudstar) · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An indie hacker shares the experience of being permanently banned from both X (via mass false reporting) and Reddit in the same period, losing years of audience-building work. The post argues that weaponized reporting is the new shadow ban, quantifies the real cost of platform risk (estimated at $35K in lost work), and outlines a concrete strategy shift: prioritizing owned channels like email newsletters and a personal blog over rented social platforms. Key takeaways include treating social accounts as borrowed infrastructure, capturing emails from every important relationship, republishing content on your own domain, and building a self-owned community. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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