Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being… goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.

What’s your story?

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
    4·
    18 days ago

    I was on another device a day or so later and went back and I must have said something similar enough to get reported for evasion.

    IP tracking too. It really annoys me that reddit insinuates it can “just tell” it’s you based on similar language usage, because:

    • if they can, that’s still a fucking stupid and evil thing to do (invasion of privacy, drives userbase down, means punitive justice of bans isn’t worthwhile because people don’t get an opportunity to learn from, their mistake and thus not better culture is enforced following the event - the people left using reddit are cruel people who “get away with it” in some way.)
    • if they can’t, they’re using nasty tracking tools and misleading the public about them.

    I suppose they match the communities followed, so maybe you just followed the same set, in the same order - perhaps to make up for losing one account, you added all of its subreddits in the same order as “most-visited” among them.

    • NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      I’m just not buying across millions of users, there exists a combination of ethical pattern matching (e.g. subs, comment patterns, online timing, etc). to reliably identify a single human behind multiple accounts. We’re not that unique.

      It’s 100% IP and cookie based. Each of which can be circumvented without too much issue.

        • NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
          4·
          18 days ago

          You can generally fool them by just changing one or two variables like GPU acceleration.

          Or, change browsers.

          • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
            1·
            17 days ago

            i used librewolf now for reddit purposes, maybe thats why my new account dint get hit yet. i also avoid any political subs. for a month brave hid my old account before it was shadowbanned last year, i stopped using that. how do you change the GPU acc? im interested.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      2·
      17 days ago

      they have fingerprinting methods too, like your looking at your browser version, your time zone, and other things. they know people evade by changing thier IP alot, so they upgraded.