I live in New York and new yorkers swear like drunken sailors. F-bombs every other word and the n-word gets slung around in every sentence, especially by black people. It’s baffling to me that this should be a problem in a country that supposedly respects free speech. People act like they have the right to not be offended and they don’t. There is no safe space in the Constitution, and yes our free speech applies online.

I’ve seen some people claim that free speech doesn’t apply on servers like reddit because they are privately owned. So Constitutional rights don’t extend to private property? Does that mean I can own slaves as long as I shackle them inside my house and can never escape? Because the 13th amendment wouldn’t apply inside my house? The bill of rights applies everywhere, including privately owned servers. No one has the right to be protected from offensive speech.

at least it was a temp ban. I don’t think a 3 day ban is too heavy handed.

I got a site-wide permaban almost 2 years ago for a joke in r/losercity that was taken the wrong way and I got dogpiled by virtue-signalling furries. I’ve appealed my ban almost 10 times now and they reject it every time.

I don’t get it. They could have just given me a ban from the r/losercity subreddit instead. They didn’t need to ban me from the entire site. I haven’t caused any problems on other subs. I had over 30,000 karma on my account and it took me years to build it all up. I got along great with people in r/vtubers and r/votv and had a lot of fun there.

It’s so bizarre that one f-up gets a sudden permaban from the entire site. All I can think of is that one of the left-wingers in losercity is in with the admins and they called in a favor. It has to be a nepotism thing.

It’s the same on Lemmy

They use a combination of things to perma-ban people. They can do an IP ban, meaning any account you log into from your IP will get banned. They will use meta-data to ban people, so if you log into an account at reddit and are also logged into say, a google account that is associated with a banned reddit account, they will ban your reddit account because they can see it’s being used by a banned user by looking at your cookies and browser history. Now I don’t know how much access they have to meta-data or exactly how it works, but you leave fingerprints everywhere you go on the net and a lot of what you do is shared with third parties. So they are able to tell who you are if you’re logged into something else on another tab.

They also use AI to scan messages and detect similarities in how users post. So even if you do everything right and create a new account at reddit from a new IP, and use a clean browser with no cookies or meta-data from other sites, but you still join all the same subs and post the same way you did before, they will still be able to tell it’s you. “Oh it’s that guy who is part of the same 5 subreddits and posts about the same things that we banned ten times before”

It’s a rotten website and they don’t want free speech they want a crowd of lemmings posting echoes in their echo chamber. My advice is to leave it.

Nope. my browser can use a VPN, but it’s off unless I turn it on.

Basically true. Intel can’t compete. Intel is developing a 2nm manufacturing process but AMD is already below that. Intel sells worse technology at a higher price, and basically only exists because of government subsidies. AMD has cornered virtually every market. They have the leading chips for desktop, server, and even game consoles.

But I’m sure Intel can turn it around. They just need to hire a well-known fortune 500 CEO who has the right powerpoint highlighting their commitment to DEI.

This. Lemmy is even more left-wing than reddit, and reddit is crazy left wing. I watched multiple conservative subs get purged over at reddit over the years. Conservatives were basically hiding and under constant fear of being banned, but at least there were a few subs there for them to post in.

On Lemmy? There’s no place for them here. At least I haven’t found one. I dared to post something conservative in a politics thread and now I think my lemmy account has more downvotes than upvotes. Thank god there aren’t any karma requirements here.

God no. Bots are already better at solving Captchas than humans are. The only use case for captchas is to do what 4chan did and make every post require a captcha and then charge a fee to bypass them.

Also Canada will have to pay Trump $3.50 for a golden shower

One thing they do is track what subs you subscribe to. So if a new account is created and subscribes to all the same communities as a banned account, they can fingerprint you that way.

They can also fingerprint you based on what browser and OS you use. Not just cookies. When you connect to websites there is info shared about you that goes beyond cookies.

Just because you got a new IP from your ISP doesn’t mean that they don’t share data about you with reddit, especially if reddit asks for info from your ISP. You don’t know what info your ISP shares about you. Maybe your ISP has some kind of an EULA but I don’t know.

If you really wanted to focus on bypassing IP ban and are willing to go to any effort, install something like Oracle Virtualbox, create a VM with a fresh install of windows, install a decentralized VPN in that virtual machine (Mysterium VPN is an example) because most VPN’s have fixed exit nodes that will be banned by reddit. A decentralized VPN allows any user on the VPN to act as an exit node, so Mysterium has literally thousands of exit nodes that change every day. It’s impossible to ban them all.

Then after connecting your VM to a decentralized VPN, you would want to use a different browser every time you sign up for reddit, and use a different email address every time. Then never subscribe to the same communities every time you sign up a new account.

And even then, they can use AI to scan comments and detect similarities between you and other accounts based on how you type.

At some point you have to ask, is it really worth it? They’re going to an absurd length to ban people. I want a community where I can be me. I believe in free speech. I want to be free to shitpost. Saying something rude shouldn’t result in automatic permaban.

reddit is left wing extremist. I don’t know what you’re on about. The few conservative subreddit that exist there are constantly being purged and reddit right-wingers basically live in fear of being banned at any time.

I’ve heard that certain well-connected people have been banned, like wall street people and politicians, but they know who to call at reddit HQ and get themselves unbanned. That’s not the case for the rest of us, and I don’t know about the rest of you but I can’t afford a lawyer.

I was thinking about this today. They even have a thread over at reddit about it. The admins tried to tell people they only permaban after issueing several temp bans.

No they don’t. I’ve only ever gotten permabans. I also don’t think anything I did (some angry shitposts. No threats, harassment, or anything like that) deserved a permaban. Like they could have given me a temp ban or a subreddit ban, and I would have been fine with that. They for some reason went nuclear on me and went straight to site-wide permaban. I don’t know why, I filed appeals, I sent messages. I tried to reason with them. Nothing. They go nuclear as standard practice and are completely inflexible about it.

Maybe not, but there are plenty of small niche communities that only exist at reddit. I’m a fan of some games like Voices of the Void, which has a dedicated reddit community that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Also Isekai Demon Waifu, which recently shut down also has a community at reddit.

Lemmy has some generalized gaming communities but nothing like the thousands and thousands of small niche communities that exist over at reddit.

My main was vtuber-love. I also posted under isekai-hero and DemonLordDoom.

https://www.reddit.com/user/vtuber-love/ https://www.reddit.com/user/isekai-hero/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DemonLordDoom/

I have filed multiple appeals and contacted the mods using several alts. The last message I got suggested I’ve been banned for “multiple repeated content violation under my alternate accounts” or something like that, which I think means they’re keeping my ban in place because I posted under alts while my main was banned.

But the ban on my main account was bogus. Which puts them in a catch-22. If my main account didn’t deserved to be banned, then I wasn’t breaking any rules by posting on alts.

It seems like they just have a stick up their butt. I have apologized multiple times. I’ve informed them I never plan to post on that subreddit ever again. I’ve suggested a temporary ban instead, like 1 week would be fine. But nothing seems to get through to them. How can they be so completely inflexible?

I have to completely disagree. I spent a long time building up karma on my account, thousands of posts, contributing to my favorite communities, and one snarky comment on a ragebait post got my account banned by a reddit admin on a power trip. Multiple appeals later, it’s still banned. There’s no sensible reason to justify a site-wide permaban on an account with such a long history of constructive posts for one snarky post that caused someone to be insulted.

Their admins are absolutely deranged and yes it completely ruins the entire website. It’s basically insufferable to continue using reddit. The power-tripping admins have flushed the entire site down the toilet. Lemmy is the best alternative at the moment, and supposedly it should be basically impossible to get banned from all of lemmy. I think the worst you can get here is an instance ban? 513 instances so far. You would have your work cut out for you.

Are you kidding?

A few days ago there was a thread on reddit about a kid wandering onto a track and an athlete sprinted into him. I think it was in r/kidsarefuckingstupid and I made the comment that in roman times, they likely would have fed the kid to the lions (which is something they did to people in the colliseum)

Got slapped with a site-wide ban. I appealed, and explained that I wasn’t wishing harm upon the kid, just making an observation that his behavior wouldn’t have been considered acceptable in the old days. I apologized.

Nothing. No response. I suspect the appeal page doesn’t even work. I don’t think they read it or care about it.

I’ve tried creating alt accounts but they all get banned almost immediately. I think I basically have an IP ban.

The fact that they ban me, for making a snide comment that is twisted into a “threat” but then don’t actually ban people for making real, legitimate threats? That’s fucking wild.

Same thing happened to me. I admit I’ll rage post sometimes and sure I might deserve a subreddit ban here or there. But I’ve never done anything worthy of a site-wide ban. But the reddit admins act like dictators on a power trip. They LOVE to slap people with site-wide bans. For no good reason, and I don’t understand it. The admins have turned the whole site toxic, and places like Lemmy are a direct response to their insane powertripping.

Right now it sucks. Reddit is still the most popular forum on the internet. I pray that someday it won’t be.

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