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[–] 85 points 6 months ago (38 children)

Reddit used to get flooded with bots before elections. By 2024, they were just around all the time. I got permabanned after that, but it's probably even worse by now.

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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    You're not missing anything. Reddit is the embodiment of Empty Internet Theory. If you're a human posting on that site, you're a statistical anomaly. And not for long, because everyone's getting booted.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    I got booted because:

    1. I said Peter Thiel should be turned to soup

    2. I said Th-iel should be turned to soup

    3. I said that I had previously been given a suspension for saying Peter Thiel should be turned to soup.

    So now I'm redditless.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Care to post a recipe for that soup?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (10 children)
    • Boiling Hydrofluoric Acid
    • Peter Thiel

    I don't recommend eating the rich, due to Prions. It'd be better to render them and process them into fertiliser.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    That rendering process better be thorough - prions survive in the soil.
    Edit: hydrofluric acid probably isn't very good for the soil either.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    My hungry pigs disagree with that advice

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Your hungry pigs and professor acid soup can wait till I'm done. I only get one life to eat a human.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    Its gotten really bad now that hidden profiles are a thing.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    Basically all comment history is hidden. Very popular with totally organic pro Maga accounts.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Basically all comment history is hidden.

    Oh, actually I was forced to do that myself due to the slight possibility of doxxing, etc. Ten-year account over there that I still use, and traditionally I practice complete transparency. But the times, they is be changing...

    Oh, actually there is a workaround (or at least there used to be). Add the acct in question as a "friend," then click on the Friend stream. You'll be able to see their content.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Just delete your account and start a new one. There is literally nothing that you gain from using an old account apart from increased risk.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

    One can get banned for that, as well as the fact that you're once again uploading info that might possibly be used against you in future. Even the Fediverse tracks its accounts as I understand it and makes one's history semi-permanent.

    The only true alternative I know is to take part in an accountless system or one which is heavily anonymized, like the 'Chan' stuff or whatever. For me it's just far easier to tread lightly, and avoid certain topics.

    EDIT: Downvote away, but give me a rebuttal if you can.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The only true alternative is to just have more alts, one for specific interests where each each individual one is not enough to ban you. Platforms that clearly have thrived off of them should facilitate people using them instead of using it as an excuse to ban people when they want to.

    It also doesn't help when those platforms are deliberately trying to harvest as much personal data they can off of their users and often have engagement bait posts to get their users to get them to identify increasingly personal data about themselves that is otherwise nothing anyone would care about.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure how they do it exactly, but Reddit is evidently really good at detecting alts. Not necessarily by IP# or common information across accounts, but by... well I don't know, some deep algorithms or something?

    Reddit still has use to me, and there are one or two communities in which I have roots and a relationship with the mods, etc. I'd really rather not mess around with that or risk getting in to an 'account war' with Reddit over alts. At least at this time...

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They also use browser fingerprinting, session information, and geolocation, powered by generative AI. IP can easily be cycled in most ISPs, so they'd end up hurting themselves if they just used that.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Fedi, tracking accounts? What do you mean by "tracking"?

    Semi-permanent, yeah, I'll give you that one. That said, if you delete something, generally it's actually deleted. Any servers which turn out to be ignoring delete requests tend to get cut off from everyone else pretty quickly. I guess there's always the possibility your "hey this post was deleted" notification might not bubble through to a given server, but it should work.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yes, I think you explained it well. I'd not stated it very precisely, and I do feel like this is a low-risk platform at the moment.

    Still, there's always the potential risk that whatever is posted & commented here can be tracked and recorded in to a permanent record of sorts. And that AI / other tools could possibly be used to collect such info and profile people. Things are changing fast, so I deem it best to be cautious, with an eye on the future.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    As someone who has gotten banned by the admins for stupid reasons that should have been overturned but weren't.......... Having a new account is a pain in the ass for a couple of months and/or until you build up karma.

    It's stupidly painful.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I've seen several accounts here on Lemmy that go to an error page when you click on the name on their post. I always report them to the admins and never see them again. Never heard back from anyone what's going on. I've developed a habit of checking the profiles of posts that just seem off.

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