I know Reddit now has a stupid rule or policy about new accounts posting or commenting. They punish new users for just trying to have a conversation. Why does Reddit hate privacy? Is it just in the system trying to filter out bots? Well, it is doing a shitty job since bots are still a high percentage there. Reddit banned me, even when I was on the new user friendly subs. I tried with multiple locations with a VPN too. This has to make people go to other platforms. Like I did, I moved here.
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- 10 days
Who gives a shit about reddit, everything owned by a corporate is a propaganda machine with one goal only, dictating the narrative. Thats called dictature. #selfhosting #privacy #fuckdictature #fuckreddit
Yeah, I literally got locked out for “suspicious behavior” (me changing from gmail to protonmail and being more active on the platform) and then it said for me to change the password and reddit wouldn’t allow me to. I fucking hate reddit.
It told me to change password, then made me make a whole new username and account!
10 dayswell NOW they are probably just straight up banning you for ban evasion so that’s more motive to ban someone than they even usually care to have.
same vibe as arresting someone for resisting arrest
- 10 days
The IP and email are totally different on each account set up. I tested it. All cookies are removed before. There would be no way they could tell, I say. But, they can tell that I am using a VPN.
Of course, you say this and don’t explain why I would be wrong. That is a very Reddit like response. Say I am wrong and then don’t explain why. I even tried different browsers. It is because of the VPN. That’s why all the banning.
Also I use temp emails. That could also be why. Wow, can people actually be private online now? I am scared for the future. Have you ever seen that movie “The Enemy Of The State” (1998)?
Nah, their fingerprinting goes deeper.
Luckily, I don’t hate to type it out!
https://chameleonmode.com/reddit-fingerprinting-detection-9-device-signals-that-burn-accounts/
It’s possible to get around, but then you hate to be completely passive and not change anything in how you got it done, because even just switching to a different but new device triggers a check by their automation, and it usually just bans.
So, there is no use in even trying Reddit anymore. Imagine how Edward Snowden feels. Always scared of getting his exact location found out. Thanks for the info.
- 9 days
It’s pretty much my first time creating a Reddit account. I posted a question about a camera, and it immediately ran into issues—deleted, probably. The subreddit moderators privately messaged me saying it was likely auto-removed by Reddit’s system, and they mentioned they could manually approve and restore it. In the end, my post finally went live, but after that incident, my account was shadowbanned, and now it’s permanent. I have absolutely no idea why.
I created my second account about a few months later. I commented normally, but as soon as I made a post, I got shadowbanned. About half a year later, I created a third account, and the exact same thing happened: commenting was fine, but the moment I posted something, I was instantly shadowbanned.
A few months after that, I made a fourth account. I managed to keep it going for 5 days, built up my interaction to around 14x karma, and decided to try commenting in a SaaS subreddit. Boom. I couldn’t see my comment anywhere, and I knew what that meant. At that point, I hadn’t seen the red server error message yet, so I tried posting in another casual, friendly subreddit. Right then and there, I got hit with a shadowban. The next morning, I created a brand new account; the very first comment I sent out resulted in a shadowban in less than 60 seconds.
I once read a post where someone mentioned:
Old account left inactive for a long time, reactivated just to comment => ban. New account created on a banned device => ban. Randomly commenting out of context => ban. Buying an old account, logging in, and trying to comment => ban.
As for me, I’ve probably been device-banned.
It’s a vicious cycle. They really should just say it bluntly: “New account? Go get 200 karma and make sure it’s at least 30 days old, otherwise your account will be banned, which will lead to a device ban!”
Since I started using the internet, I have never seen a system designed in such a bizarre way. It’s truly brutal.
As a tech guy, I love discussing AI topics and introducing my own side projects, but dealing with Reddit like this is just tragic. I feel like I have no right to speak just because I don’t have enough karma or my account isn’t old enough. Then, sitting around waiting for an appeal feels like gambling, with no idea when the results will come. Meanwhile, the chances for a new account are as fragile as sea foam.
I even tried building an app to break Reddit’s dominance, but in the end, it went nowhere.
And that’s why I’m here, on Lemmy. I’m trying to figure out a way forward, because honestly, things can’t go on like this, LOL.
What’s worse is the number of actual bots that get through easily and unpunished while they shadow ban anyone with a VPN
The majority of traffic on reddit is bots. Its scary that its getting harder to tell. They’re probably sticking AI chat bots in there too.
- 10 days
I received notice of replies to some posts of mine of FOUR years ago. I assume bots scraping the barrel.
I had a guy reply to my 8 year old post once, seemed legit
Sometimes people revive ghost threads from google searches.
