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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    8 hours ago

    Reddit is fucking stupid as shit. You’d do best to not waste any more of your life thinking about it.

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    13 hours ago

    Why does Reddit hate privacy?

    Been that way for a long long time. They used to be open source, and the they closed the source, and it’s been all downhill from then.

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    11 hours ago

    Banning is Reddit’s default behaviour now. Unless you’re a bot. If you’re a bot, you’ll have no problem, since you can be counted as an advertising click, thus increasing revenue. The more bots, the more money. Reddit’s gaming its own system. Humans only fuck it up for them.

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    About what’s Reddit’s intention, I can only conjecture, but I get the impression they are intentionally self-sabotaging. And trying to think who or how someone would benefit from this, the only thing that comes to mind is that they’re destroying the legacy of the biggest public forum.

    This, extrapolating, would potentially force people to go to platforms that require accounts, which sounds even more suspicious when considering the verification laws and policies that are increasingly being pushed since around October last year.

    About VPN, Reddit apparently does IP bans and automatically considers a new account made in a same IP of a banned account as an evasion attempt, which given VPNs, spreads like a disease, like they’re setting up a digital pandemic - or should I say “a plandemic”.