I’ve had multiple alts there (I am paranoid and switch accounts every now and again) that have actually never ever been permanently banned, even once after some boot licking mod found out that I had alts because I stupidly admitted it after getting shadow banned for using a specific word.

Seriously fuck that dysfunctional place, where the management are scum and trying to profit off MY posts, and the mods are bootlickers with so little going on their live they think volunteering free labor to a scum-grade mega-corp is some sort of achievement.

Really easy. I assume when you say “social media” website you mean Reddit. Reddit was a website I’d browse to kill time when I was bored to find amusing content. Thanks to their recent policy change and their crappy treatment of their users, I torched my 10+ year old accounts and moved over basically overnight. Plenty of like minded individuals have done the same in the past couple months it seems. The fediverse has reached critical mass.

The core of Reddit were their users and the mods who volunteer their free time to look after the site, and they shat all over them. Killed the golden goose as it were. I’m a little surprised as to how many people (especially mods) are still hanging around over there.

You are awesome - well done on kicking it.

I added graph.facebook.com to my pi-hole’s black list as a regex entry

Yes, but did you clear the DNS cache on your device after doing this? Once the DNS lookup is done it doesn’t matter what you’ve done on your pihole. The IP is cached and pihole will not even see the query.