No warning, not even a “Don’t do it again email” - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That’s it, gone, banned.
I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that’s banned too. FFS!
No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?
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i learned to not mess with r/pics in criticizing politically, i got banned a while ago, i just report the heavily biased pics that are super-political. during election year, i was reporting gaza pics that were target specifically at one party of the other, the OP always have to give thier opinions.
r/pics was the first sub I’ve noticed that went full political ass berserk mode during 2024. Nothing wrong in having a few political pics there. But when 95% of posts are political and gathering 30k+ upvotes while a really nice and peculiar photo of literally anything else gets like 200 upvotes max, this shit gets annoying in an instant. Political pics was never the main purpose of the sub. But mods shit on the “purpose” in favor of the agenda and popularity.
From the top of my head: clevercomebacks, whitepeopletwitter, blackpeopletwitter, adviceanimals, videos, therewasanattempt, facepalm and probably even more - all turned to be full on political berserk subs. The only way to use reddit today is to participate in tiny small micro subs that haven’t got stained by politics yet.
That’s how I got permabanned but I did it intentionally because I was sick of their shit and didn’t want to have the option to come back.
Your first mistake was criticising Netanyahu. You do not criticise the supreme leader Your second mistake was using Reddit I think this ban has fixed the second one for you. Welcome to thelemmyclub 🤗
Reddit has become a corporate protector of the Epstein Pedophiles. Say too much negative about them and they ban permanently. I know that’s not why you were banned, but the mods there have gotten really annoying with permanent bans for thin reasons. Erase Reddit. Join Lemmy and enjoy freedom.
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Tenure doesn’t matter; just think about how many people removed all their content in response to their API pricing, and they still didn’t care. Reddit is gone, so is Twitter.
Good fucking riddance to Reddit. You might have been the last real person (not bot/AI) commenting on anything over there.
Why would you have a “work account” for Reddit?
i assumed work account , as advertising on the site. some non-propaganda spammer will do this, but they use other ways evasion.
Work account for recruitment, we used reddit to recruit people, seems odd I know, but you can get some decent nerds from those programming subs 😂
Years ago, I had a work account that answered troubleshooting questions in the company subreddit. It was actually pretty great for that, because active users could get their answers quickly, but also the answers were preserved for future users. Our corpirate site had a community page, but it didn’t have 0.01% of the daily views the subreddit had.
I left that job years ago, though, and I don’t think the sub is as active as it was.
OSHA compliance with nsfw materials.
TBF you’re just AI training material to them.
Not very diverse (read “useful”) training material if they ban everybody expressing a POV that the asshole troll mods don’t like.
Training material doesn’t need to be diverse when the AI models are intended to promote very specific ideologies. It’s probably better to limit the sample size to “approved” discourse in those circumstances.
This is where the smart money is. They’re clearly massaging the input with this, every time.
they ban your digital fingerprint, not just your ip. the only way to go back is make a new account on a different device/browser and never log into that new account from your old device
but do you really want to go back?
i also had multiple accounts (main acct was 14 yrs old) banned for hurting conservative fee fees. don’t miss it one bit
they ban your digital fingerprint, not just your ip.
I only use Reddit at work on my work desktop. Over the last handful of years I’ve gone through a shit ton of Reddit accounts, but they last weeks/months until I say one of the many, many things you can get bot banned for on Reddit, which I inevitably do, because I am not nice to fascists and I don’t care if I get banned for being mean to fascists.
So I’m not sure about the IP thing.
I’m statically assigned an internal IP, so that never changes. And my public IP should also remain the same for weeks/months as far as I know.
It would be interesting to have a network admin’s thoughts on this. Am I somehow being assigned a new public IP on a daily basis? That’s handled on the ISP’s side. Does my workplace have an agreement with the ISP to change public IP’s every day? Cuz sometimes I only make it a day or two before telling a fascist the only good fascist is a dead one and getting banned.
I use the Brave browser and only use private windows. When I’m banned I clear the browser, making sure everything, including cookies, are wiped. I re-open the browser in a private window, create a new throwaway email account, use it to create a new Reddit account, and I’m back in until, like you, I hurt conservative fee fees.
I always thought an IP ban would be bad for their business cuz then one person could get a multi-user computer banned and Reddit would lose users that way. Not that I would put it past Reddit to make bad decisions. I’ve been watching them do it for almost two decades now.
Network admin here, your internal IPv4 address doesn’t matter, external people don’t see it. Your work likely has a static block of external IPv4 addresses and it’s possible that they are rotated through over time so your effective external IP changes slowly. This depends on how big your work organization is and how your network admin set things up
But could it be rotating external addresses literally every day or two?
Like I said, I only make it a day or two with some of these accounts before I say something I typically know will get me banned and I just don’t care. Then I’m back in with my new account. It’s fully functional. I check to make sure I’m not shadowbanned. I get activity on my posts. And those accounts can be good for months.
I just don’t see how Reddit can be IP banning if I’m able to do this.
Yes. It’s Port Address Translation with a pool of external IPv4 addresses
Interesting. It’s an extension of NAT.
So you would have to purchase a pool of external IP addresses from your ISP?
So, technically, if you had PAT on your home router, which I’m not even sure is a thing, and purchased external IPs from your ISP, you could cheat Reddit’s IP ban, assuming they actually have an IP ban in place?
But regular external IPs get cycled every few weeks/months, right? So wouldn’t anyone with a Reddit IP ban be able to get back in with a new account once their external IP naturally cycles?
I mean if Reddit banned based on more than IP, like my computer’s MAC address, then any new account I created would be insta-banned for having the same MAC. I’ve been using this same computer for a few years now.
MACs are not seen by Reddit - that’s layer 2 info that only your ISP sees. All they see is your external IP. Most home users don’t have a static IP or static pool and can likely get a new IP - that’s called a dynamic IP. As to your point about IP ban evasion, they are used to home users having dynamic IPs so they probably don’t depend on IP bans at all - likely client fingerprinting (cookies, user-agent string, other browser identifiers) and usage, like what subreddits you go to
Yes and no, I guess, I don’t know… I used it every day for almost 20 yrs, It became part of my daily routine. I’m really liking it here though, it feels way less ‘shouting into the void’ and more inclusive, kinda like early reddit.
the fingerprinting is pretty extensive, your browser size, screen resolution, computer components,etc. it would have to be a new device, IP,a nd different browser, and or long term success requires you to use paid methods.
Welcome to the fediverse! I too have had my IP permabanned from reddit for hurting conservative feefees.
it feels way less ‘shouting into the void’
Very much so.
Two things killed Reddit for me.
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Bot bans for basically everything.
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Over-saturated to the point that your comments almost never get interacted with. So…what’s the point?
Same here! I used to leave comments in the early days of Reddit, but then it became clear that many posts I was replying to were just karma farming or bots.
Seeing that made me just stopped using it as anything other than a content aggregator, and only through the 3rd party apps.
When they basically killed API access I moved here. It doesn’t have the niche communities that are on Reddit, but when I need information from those I just search it up.
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I really hope you deleted every activity on your 14 year old account because reddit will hold on to your data (even if you delete your account), sell it, and use it to train their AI. Something which they got from you for free while denying you access to their services after you committed time (14 fucking years), paid internet and all that. I wish every single user they permabanned did this. Reddit would collapse in less than one week
i used an auto app that went in and edited the comments to be random word gibberish
it took like a week
Poison the data. Love it
some mods hate those auto gibberators, so i got notifications from some subs that they deleted those comments and banned me from the sub–on my site-wide banned account lol
“some” not all. Use it for the ones that work. For the ones that do not allow, you may manually delete your comments or replace them with random single words so it overwrites whatever backups they have.
In a war of man vs machine, Man always wins
Do you need a new IP/ISP too?
How do I handle it? I just moved on from that shithole. Honestly they did me a favor.
Leave reddit. If the message is not clear already, I don’t know what is. More than half of the content there are bot-generated, AI slop… I can assure you, there is nothing of value on your reddit account that you want to hold on to. Let it go
Same here. 2 weeks ago out of nowhere I got perma banned after 10 years because of an ICE comment. I said since they didn’t get paid, nor will get their sign on bonus, that in 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind a Wendy’s for money. Apparently that is inciting violence. Suck a cock until you choke spez. Anyway it’s better here except missing some niche subs that don’t exist here.
I said snitches get stitches in regards to someone burning a Tesla dealership and the news asking for tips.
Inciting violence.
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Guy gets his 19yo account perma’d
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Tons of Wordword#### accounts with hidden post/comment history flooding reddit and render common subs unusable
Reddit: Fuck you and your two accounts, man. We hate multi-account users here.
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I got perma banned, but then they lifted it once they started losing users. 😂
Fuck em with a rusty shovel. I only keep it to read posts about solving certain problems.
The lesson is we need platforms like lemmy. Don’t ever support any corporate platforms they may seem nice now but it always ends badly.
19 years hell I delete and recreate accounts all the time.
