I know I've been kind of going crazy with my posts, but I've just been thinking about this a lot. I think I've come to the conclusion that Reddit is probably trying to no longer be a forum board.

As people have pointed out, Reddit is making it increasingly difficult to actually post or comment on their platform. Firstly, half of the subreddits have stupid karma or account age requirements which makes it so you can barely post anywhere. On top of that, even if you do meet these obscure requirements, half the time the automod will flag you as a spammer or something and take it down instantly.

I won't go too long on this, but obviously banning is a big thing too. Reddit just indiscriminately bans everyone nowadays. They don't even need to give you a reason, they'll just permaban you for nothing and that's that. And they enforce their rules with absolutely zero mercy. No warnings, no second chances, all infractions regardless of how tiny or massive they are carry the same exact punishment and that is a lifelong ban from the entire platform. Not to mention their AI is so advanced that not even going into witness protection could hide you from their ban evasion detection systems, so good luck trying to dodge that.

You know what's super easy though? Scrolling through posts. There are absolutely zero hiccups or roadblocks when you scroll through the front page. It is only when you try to actually contribute to the site that Reddit basically makes it a full-time job for you to work out their systems.

I can only assume that Reddit is seriously just trying to eliminate actual human engagement from their platform. Why? Because if someone is posting on a sub or commenting on a post, then they aren't scrolling, and if they aren't scrolling, then they aren't getting ads. Reddit is just taking the Dead Internet Theory to the extreme basically. No human engagement, just scroll scroll scroll. It has literally become the exact opposite of what a discussion board is supposed to be, and basically is becoming some amorphous Instagram wannabe where you just scroll endlessly and never actually engage with any content on the website. Who knows though who's gonna actually be making posts once all of the actual users are gone, probably just AI?

Anyway, there's my rant. It'll probably be my last post for a while on this topic, I am just so sick and tired of Reddit. It has put the internet is this stupid stranglehold where there is no forum board that is even remotely as populated as it, but simultaneously eliminating all aspects of it that give me a reason to use it, so there is just this black hole right now that Reddit refuses to fill seemingly. I'll keep an eye on Lemmy and other platforms for now and see how they grow, but for now I probably just won't be using any discussion forums anymore because they basically don't exist for what I want.

Thank you everyone for commenting on my posts and teaching me about this side of Reddit, and sorry for this insanely long post!

When I say dead users, I mean ones who have been banned, suspended, or deleted (probably after they got banned). I see this so often when browsing posts, and it is so reflective of the problems I have been faced with as well. I'll be scrolling through a post, and sometimes unironically like 50% of all comments have the stupid little profile picture with its back turned, and when I hover over it it has either been suspended or deleted.

I have been having major issues where I've basically been permanently wiped off the platform over some bullshit permaban and can't get it appealed, and it is just shocking that so many other people are obviously just getting completely swept away by these same bullshit bans. How is Reddit going to survive like this? It's to the point where any sort of long-term engagement on the site just seems impossible because soon enough the CIA-level, all seeing AI will catch you in its net and then you're done.

Even if they miraculously change their system to not have the world's most oppressive ban system, what happens to everyone who's already been banned? Will a decent percentage of the entire platform just be fucked for life because they were on the platform at the wrong place and the wrong time?

So why the hell does reddit ban people so easily? I got banned from one games sub for something i did not do and could not contact the mods since they also banned me from doing that.

So only option left is to make a new account so i get access to the sub so i can ask for help there since i had problems with the game. Well it worked and i got my problem with the game solved but after that i got permanently banned for ban evasion :/

There was no ill intent with any of my posts and was wrongfully banned the first time. Sure ban evasion is forbidden but it should not be so strictly moderated, concidering that a person can be banned by a mod just because they misunderstand one of ur comments or just generally want to cause harm to some users. There needs to be a way to avoid mods abusing their power and only way to do so is making a new account.

Now there is no way for me to get help with the game if i ever have more problems, or anyway i can help someone else who has problem i know how to solve. That's unreasonable.

Nuclear reactors I had to edit the title bc it autocorrected it to nuclear tractors at first lmao

Here is the post

On Friday, May 23rd, Trump signed an executive order to loosen federal regulations nuclear safety, and a Louisiana state news source posted the article.

To speed up the development of nuclear power, the orders grant the U.S. energy secretary authority to approve some advanced reactor designs and projects, taking authority away from the independent safety agency that has regulated the U.S. nuclear industry for five decades.

The order comes as demand for electricity surges amid a boom in energy-hungry data centers and artificial intelligence. Tech companies, venture capitalists, states and others are competing for electricity and straining the nation’s electric grid.

Sunday, there were sudden blackouts across several parts of Louisiana.

The outages on Sunday hit homes served by Entergy and Cleco in parts of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. The popular Greek Festival along Bayou St. John was also affected, forcing it to take cash only for a period of time and extend its hours with free entry.

The outage raises questions about why the spike in electricity usage caught MISO, the grid operator that ordered the outage, off guard, local officials said. Some also alleged that MISO granted only a short notice for the outage directive.

Two nuclear power plants, both operated by Entergy, were out of commission as of May 23 and remained so on Sunday, according to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s website and local officials. One was down for planned maintenance. The other went offline last week, and “tripped” as Entergy tried to bring it back online, Lewis said.

The grid operator is blaming higher than average temperatures, but it wasn't even that hot. I actually spent most of the day outside because it was pretty pleasant on Sunday.

Currently, Louisiana is trying to to fast-track environmental permitting for advanced nuclear projects under a bill that aligns the state with a national effort to accelerate next-gen reactor development and in April, Louisiana joined a lawsuit with several other states to challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s “utilization facility rule,” a licensing requirement that applies uniformly to all nuclear reactors, regardless of size or risk profile.

Landry said the state is amenable to the development of small modular reactors, or SMRs, with a capacity to produce up to 300 megawatts of electricity. By comparison, Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, Mississippi, which provides part of the utility’s power, has more than 1,400 MW of generation capability

“Joining this lawsuit is about defending our ability to pursue advanced energy solutions like SMRs — solutions that are reliable, clean and essential for economic development in the State,” Landry said in a LDEQ news release. A 2022 research study from Stanford University that found small modular reactors may actually exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste, which makes the governor's statement seen a big misleading.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta data center is still under construction in Louisiana, but as of May 16th, had caught the attention of House Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse for seeming to ignoring previous climate commitments, as well as the New Orleans based alliance for Affordable Energy, and the Union of Concerned Scientists for a lack of transparency and concerns regarding community pollution.](https://www.theverge.com/news/668934/meta-ai-data-center-gas-energy-climate-sustainability)

I feel like people of Louisiana should know that SNRs are not as a perfectly reliable and clean as the Governor might believe they are, so I posted an article about the bill on Reddit. There seemed to be a big influx of people in Louisiana that felt very strongly that this was the correct path for Louisiana, and that SNRs wouldn't pose the same risk as other nuclear reactors. Instead of arguing back and forth with them, I just decided to make a new post and include some information provided by the Union of Concerned Scientists in their article Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

Even casual followers of energy and climate issues have probably heard about the alleged wonders of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). This is due in no small part to the “nuclear bros”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis.

Here are five facts about SMRs that the nuclear industry and the “nuclear bros” who push its message don’t want you, the public, to know.

1. SMRs are not more economical than large reactors.

2. SMRs are not generally safer or more secure than large light-water reactors.

3. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

4. SMRs cannot be counted on to provide reliable and resilient off-the-grid power for facilities, such as data centers, bitcoin mining, hydrogen or petrochemical production.

5. SMRs do not use fuel more efficiently than large reactors.

Now I'm permabanned from my state's subreddit.

How does Reddit store IP addresses? I couldn't find a clear nor recent answer.

I recently saw a local community where commenters were getting subpoenas based on IP addresses. The post was >1 y/o by time of subpoena. Reddit of course complied and released IP addresses to the court.

But that makes me wonder: what if you moved house since making the comment? What if you moved INTO a place where the IP address was used by someone else to make the comment?? Is it based on your IP at time of commenting? Is it based on IP at time of logging in to that session? Or does the IP address of all my previous comments continuously update itself based on where I log in each time? What would appropriate VPN use look like when making potentially sensitive comments?

Thanks tech buds, LLL, bye

Someone posted in r/waymo a video of someone covering all the cameras with tape, which apparently immobilizes the self driving car. I interpreted that as non dangerous to actual people since it keep the car from moving at all.

Anyway, everyone in the comments was a circle jerk saying Waymo should come after the person legally. I suggested that big tech like Google and Uber may do more unethical things than this person putting some tape on a self driving car. Never did I once threaten violence lol.

I can enter and see comments on every other reddit post appart from that one , so it isnt anything on my side ... all bow down to wish. com hitler and his cronies

I'm sure some people have seen some of my prior posts. It seems it has become entirely impossible for me to ever use the platform again, regardless of whatever steps I take. I've recently resorted to emailing Reddit's support team and submitting appeals.

Unfortunately, in the past month, I've only ever gotten a response from them once, saying that my ban will be staying in place without giving any reason. Is there any way at all I can get into contact with someone? They have no phone number and no email, and when you submit tickets on their website they very very rarely respond.

Despite the fact it's a wrongful ban, there seems to be zero accountability on Reddit's side, and they provide no means for the consumers to reach out to anyone and vouch for themselves. Is there any way I can maybe even get close to getting my ban overturned? Hell at this point I'm not even looking for them to unban me, at the bare minimum I'd just even like to know why I even got banned in the first place.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1kqowve/custom_emojis_in_comments_is_being_sundowned_on/

Thats right, reddit is removing its horrible implementation of custom emojis, in its ever ongoing journey to lose all feature advantages it has over lemmy. Now we only need them to remove post tags and user flairs, and lemmy will be superior in every single way.

They are really deadset on removing every single community customisation out there!

You get perm banned. You delete your account. You wait 6 months with zero interaction with the reddit site. You clean out all the reddit cookies in your browser. You delete any reddit extensions that you may have in your browser. You use a different email for verification. But you still use your original IP. Anyone ever try this?

I have had multiple accounts through 15 years on reddit but reddit has become hardcore ban happy and I've stopped even trying to get around it at this point and have stopped using the site completely.

So what was the dumbest reason you were banned?

Mine was going into a far right sub that was discussing lord of the rings, for some reason lotr is huge with the far right including the current vp. Anyway all I did was post lotr sucks and a video link to clerks 2 where Randall tells Elias and the customer that the movie is nothing but walking and that the true ending should be frodo bricking into Sam's mouth.

I got reported and site wide permabanned from a far right sub for gay bashing when the intent was anything but that. That's when I noticed the glory days of reddit were starting to fade.

I was permabanned from reddit for cussing at someone who was giving rpe and mrder threats on a local sub (the guy actually giving the threats is unbanned, of course).

I'm going to be moving cities soon, how do I get a new account going without getting flagged for ban evasion again. Can I use the email I was previously using?

Right now I'm using an account I made with a third email id I had lying around, made the account on my current ip, but only use it with a VPN. Seems to be working alright for now, no flags. But, would it be possible to shift it to my old email (with a permabanned account which I deleted)?

I don't like the site anymore but I need to use it to interact and ask doubts to people from my university (basically, unavoidable).

I can interact on different subs for a few months but idk please gimme some advice

I made a post previously about this issue but I wanted to do an update of sorts and see if there is anything new I can do.

Basically about a month ago I got banned off the platform. I do not know why, and they never gave me a reason, no matter how many times I contacted Reddit support, and all appeals were rejected. I can only assume that someone in my apartment got banned and it picked me up too since we share an IP or something. I have since made a few dozen accounts in attempt to dodge this ban and nothing works.

I have gone as far as booting up an old laptop which I haven't used in 3 years, downloading a virtual machine and running Xubuntu through it, connecting to a VPN on both the laptop and the virtual machine, opening up Reddit in Firefox's incognito mode, making a new account through a Tempmail email, and waiting 2 days before commenting on a post to make sure I didn't get flagged as a bot.

Lo and behold, the second I posted that comment, my avatar in the top right disappeared, the page kept telling me I had a server error, and when I looked at my account in another browser, at had told me it had been suspended.

Quite honestly I can't think of a single other thing I could do. Even after all of those steps taken, Reddit was instantaneously able to track me right back to my other accounts. Is there literally anything I can possibly do to ever post on this platform again?

My Reddit account was banned today for “ban evasion”. The account they think I was evading a ban for was an account belonging to a user that I recently reported for harassing me. So they banned me for being harassed, basically. Appeal is going ignored. Has this happened to anyone else?

I recently found the app Sink It for Reddit. It’s a Safari extension for iOS Safari that removes the popups that ask you to download and use the app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635

Fucking finally, I had enough of their app that doesn’t respect my privacy. Now I can use private browsing as much as I want to.

I don’t know if it unlocks VPN block messages though

I was on Reddit for 10 years, and I have absolutely no clue why I was banned. I just moved, so maybe it was because my new ISP dealt me a bad IP?

Anyway, Reddit:

1. Has no email, and doesn't respond to e-mails.
2. Doesn't respond to mod mail, doesn't tell you why you were banned.
3. Doesn't respond to appeal.
4. Autobans any user I create.
5. Seemingly doesn't give a shit about it's long-term users.

I guess from here on out I'm a... Lemming? Lemmyzen? Lemmy user?

Anyway thanks for having me! Reddit was shit anyway. I've been without it for a week now, and my life has definitely improved lol

A couple months ago my account was permabanned (was not provided a reason) from the site and I have since been trying to make a new one. The problem is though that every single time I make a new account, it is either instantly suspended or suspended a couple hours later. So far I have tried: -Unplugging my router for a few minutes to change my IP -Clearing all of my cookies -Making the account on a very old device (which has never logged into Reddit before) -Using a brand new email -Making the account on Duckduckgo which has encrypted connections

Mind you, I did all of these together, at the same time, and Reddit still was able to instantly link my account to it. Is there a single thing I can possibly do to avoid this ban and make a new account? It seems like Reddit has like CIA-level technology that is somehow able to track me regardless of how many ludicrous holes I try to jump through.

I know it's been getting worse but today I feel like Reddit refuses to show me my subscribed subreddits. I'm a member of close to 100 subreddits but my Home page is majority recommended posts and ads and almost no content from my actual communities even though they are very active and have content. I've been doubling down on hiding and "don't show me this again" guy I feel like it's making the problem worse.

Anyone else?

I’ve had 5 Reddit accounts banned over the past couple of months. I wasn’t spamming. I wasn’t self-promoting. I didn’t post links. I just… talked to people.

My posts were things like: – Photos of my cat – A conversation about burnout in r/CasualConversation – Responding to comments politely

Each time, the account got suspended out of nowhere. No warning, no explanation. I filed appeals — no answer. I tagged @RedditSupport on Twitter — silence.

I’m an indie game developer. I wasn’t even promoting my game. I was trying to be a part of the community. Reddit punished me for using the site as intended.

I know I’m not the only one who’s been through this.

If Reddit is hostile to new users, what future does it have?

So Louisiana has been all kinds of crazy and fucked up lately. Even before Trump was actually inaugurated, my own city was all over national news following a terrorist attack during the early hours of New Years day. A guy used a huge electric truck to quietly turn on to a busy and noisy street full of pedestrians and did what cowardly terrorists do. It was fucking horrific. In hindsight, it foreshadowed a dark and terrible start to what has been a very dark year that has made my home feel like a different and almost unfamiliar place.

In late April, somebody from out of state posted on a local subreddit, saying they were thinking of coming to stage a protest at the Jena detention center, where people are being swept off the street from all over the country, transported to Louisiana, and held indefinitely.

It's kind of surprising more protests don't happen there, but there's a reason they don't. There's also a reason the Trump administration picked that location. It's desolate and literally in the middle of nowhere. The Governor is a close friend and Trump loyalist. I have talked to lawyers and other groups who are afraid to go there because it's such a desolate place.

If you're in the U.S., you hopefully are already aware that several people were "disappeared" while simply trying to aid the civil rights movement. My mom grew up in the thick of it, and I grew up hearing her recount her own horrific childhood memories, including one of the most notorious cases from that time.

I feel like most people should just inherently understand why established protections for civil rights and liberties are so important, but a lot of people seem to think that (similar to workers rights and labor law) they may have been needed at one time, but they're no longer necessary/don't really do anything anymore, so, losing them isn't really a big deal. Hearing about what my mom witnessed, I've never been able to pretend or convince myself things are somehow just magically better now, or that progress gained can't easily be lost, and it wouldn't just happen again.

With all that in mind, I tried to offer the people planning this protest advice about what to expect and told them they should try to take some steps to ensure their own safety. Most local people on Reddit were supportive/agreed, but it's Reddit... Other people just pushed the whole you're being reactionary/ridiculous, "things are different, that was then, this is now." argument, nobody even cares, what are they even protesting anyway?

A few days later, I woke up to this comment. It would have been an appalling things to say regardless, but given what happened in my state on Jan 1st., it absolutely seemed like a threat, so I immediately reported it as threatening violence, and took a screenshot.

Might also be worth mentioning something from an article about a small protest at the detention center back in early April

JENA — A group of protesters stood outside the federal immigration center in this central Louisiana town a few weeks ago, calling for it to be emptied, when a truck rolled past and belched a plume of exhaust at them.

The driver circled around as the group faced a bank of TV news cameras set up in the brush across the road, then repeated the act — a greeting of sorts to a hamlet in the pines that once again has drawn a national media glare.

Like I said in the title, not sure why now, but finally got a response from Reddit this morning thanking me for the report. They determined it violated rules and they took action. They then said to block the user if I would like to avoid seeing content from them.

Here is the action they took.

Problem solved. Things certainly are different now...

while https://old.reddit.com/r/broooo/ does not exist

https://old.reddit.com/r/brooo, https://old.reddit.com/r/broo, https://old.reddit.com/r/brooooo, and https://old.reddit.com/r/broooooo are banned.

https://old.reddit.com/r/bro and https://old.reddit.com/r/brooooooo are private.

https://old.reddit.com/r/broooooooo is also banned.

and https://old.reddit.com/r/Brooooooooo/ is still active

I think maybe because they had a command with su but I have no way of knowing. Seems extremely stupid that you can be banned for posting Linux commands to a Linux subreddit.

Basically, a while back my Reddit account was banned out of the blue. Since then, every single new account I make gets banned instantly every single time I make a post. Not once, for the record, have they ever provided me an iota of a reason as to why I was banned in the first place. As far as I know, my account was just wiped off the face of the internet because someone felt like it. Since then, I’ve used VPNs, different computers, changed my IP to my internet, but every single time, the moment I post or comment the same exact thing happens. All of a sudden, my profile in the top right disappears and when I go to check in an incognito tab, it says that it’s been suspended.

Then, a few hours later, it will become permabanned. Then I’ll submit an appeal, and every single time they get back to me, they deny it, and the only reason they give is because “I broke the rules”. How on fucking earth am I ever supposed to use this platform again?