Who gives a shit about reddit, everything owned by a corporate is a propaganda machine with one goal only, dictating the narrative. Thats called dictature. #selfhosting #privacy #fuckdictature #fuckreddit

What's worse is the number of actual bots that get through easily and unpunished while they shadow ban anyone with a VPN

well NOW they are probably just straight up banning you for ban evasion so that's more motive to ban someone than they even usually care to have.

same vibe as arresting someone for resisting arrest

Maybe take a hint and stop using that platform. It'll be a lot better for your health.

this is called 'preaching to the choir'. though cathartic, its not really productive for discussion.

no on here cares, because reddit

Using a VPN makes it difficult to categorise the user. You're obfuscating the data they want to mine and on sell. As such, your account is deemed "suspicious" (aka same profile as "bad actors") and gets banned.

It's all algorithmic theatre. The rules are intentionally opaque. Pay it no mind; it's not about you, it's about them. Their algo is coarse and binary.

Tldr: you made it too hard to sell your data (you're the product). Fuck reddit. Speed its death by taking the good stuff elsewhere.

Privacy is too hard to monetize so they actively avoid privacy.

It’s pretty much my first time creating a Reddit account. I posted a question about a camera, and it immediately ran into issues—deleted, probably. The subreddit moderators privately messaged me saying it was likely auto-removed by Reddit's system, and they mentioned they could manually approve and restore it. In the end, my post finally went live, but after that incident, my account was shadowbanned, and now it's permanent. I have absolutely no idea why.

I created my second account about a few months later. I commented normally, but as soon as I made a post, I got shadowbanned. About half a year later, I created a third account, and the exact same thing happened: commenting was fine, but the moment I posted something, I was instantly shadowbanned.

A few months after that, I made a fourth account. I managed to keep it going for 5 days, built up my interaction to around 14x karma, and decided to try commenting in a SaaS subreddit. Boom. I couldn't see my comment anywhere, and I knew what that meant. At that point, I hadn't seen the red server error message yet, so I tried posting in another casual, friendly subreddit. Right then and there, I got hit with a shadowban. The next morning, I created a brand new account; the very first comment I sent out resulted in a shadowban in less than 60 seconds.

I once read a post where someone mentioned:

Old account left inactive for a long time, reactivated just to comment => ban. New account created on a banned device => ban. Randomly commenting out of context => ban. Buying an old account, logging in, and trying to comment => ban.

As for me, I've probably been device-banned.

It's a vicious cycle. They really should just say it bluntly: "New account? Go get 200 karma and make sure it's at least 30 days old, otherwise your account will be banned, which will lead to a device ban!"

Since I started using the internet, I have never seen a system designed in such a bizarre way. It's truly brutal.

As a tech guy, I love discussing AI topics and introducing my own side projects, but dealing with Reddit like this is just tragic. I feel like I have no right to speak just because I don't have enough karma or my account isn't old enough. Then, sitting around waiting for an appeal feels like gambling, with no idea when the results will come. Meanwhile, the chances for a new account are as fragile as sea foam.

I even tried building an app to break Reddit's dominance, but in the end, it went nowhere.

And that's why I'm here, on Lemmy. I'm trying to figure out a way forward, because honestly, things can't go on like this, LOL.

Personally use redlib if i need to open reddit, works like a charm + no account needed.

Why does reddit hate privacy?

Because their business model is to sell the data you give them and generate on their site.

You are the product.

They do not want bad product.

Same... Banned my account of nearly 20 years. Still to this day no reason or email why. Then every account I made was banned presumably because I used alias emails on a VPN.

So I find myself here.

Yeah dude reddit sucks, we know.

So stop going to reddit.

it's been a hot minute since ive been on reddit, but iirc shadowbanned means "it appears I can interact, but in fact my posts and comments are silently being hidden from other users"

it looks like you're just straight up being banned.

It’s a complete shitshow. Been permanently banned three times for commenting on pro Israel subs and calling out the mods for not banning racist comments

Is it a new action from them? I've been reading a lot complaints about it lately.

If they're banning people for using VPN, they've reached a new low. Not that I care though... Reddit is just a shadow of what it once was.

I got banned for replying every automod threat with a three letter message. They got so mad, they even track every IP I log in and block me again.

I can log in, save posts, read comments but I cannot post comments, thus sparing myself thousands of hours working for them

Same here. That's why I came here and never looked back. :) There is no point in trying to reason with or figure out a profit driven, bot riddled platform like Reddit.

Should we cry? f**k off reddit. Like I said many months ago, I thought we left reddit to rot, die, but hey, we make posts on lemmy, fediverse about reddit. Feel free to downvote me, like they did on my comment many months ago.

Yeah, I literally got locked out for "suspicious behavior" (me changing from gmail to protonmail and being more active on the platform) and then it said for me to change the password and reddit wouldn't allow me to. I fucking hate reddit.

It's how I ended up here. My first impression was that this is how old reddit was. Just let reddit die and move on.

My takeaway here is that the VPN's no longer provide you with privacy.