I initially looked up a few servers, then I chose one with decent size and no prohibitive policies. Less than 24 hours after creating the account I got banned without reason. I appealed. No answer.

I guessed I was just unlucky, so I found another decent looking server. After creating an account, it took around 2-3 hours and I was banned. I appealed. No answer.

I guess the username was a bit too random andmaybe looked like it was created by a bot. It had a lot of random letters, but it was my usual username. I would assume an appeal would sort it out. Or atleast lead me to an answer.

So my third attempt, I chose another server which looked fine and created a user with a simpler username. A few months later, the server shut down.

So now I'm on my 4th account.

It's not like it was a huge hassle to create the accounts, but it's also not like the system is without issues.

[–] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

That's odd (but believable), I think every server I ever used required a sign up to be manually approved so if you use one with open registration they may have stricter moderation for new users.