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The longer I'm on lemmy, the more I realize just how dumb reddit user controls are
When I was on reddit, it seemed to matter so much how old your account was on any given subreddit, but now i realize it's extraordinarily bad opsec to have a single account.
All this to say: there being a single point of authority that can issue IP bans and shadowblocks and generally have control over user identity information is just so needlessly stupid.
Last night, I kept getting "Empty response from endpoint" on and off. This morning, it was all I got, replying to any thread anywhere, including forums I never visit. Tried the website, "Failed to create comment."
No indication as to why. No message stating I'd been banned or otherwise had my account restricted. No email either. Just cryptic error messages.
I wasn't going around making trouble, either. Just posting stuff that didn't break any rules. I'm careful about that.
You do something they don't like on Twitter, they specifically tell you you're limited and for how long. I guess Reddit thinks communicating with users about changes to their accounts is totally unimportant?
So I deleted my account and came here.
have you tried from differen devices, turning VPN, or a diff location. it usually tells if you're banned, but unable to create acct could be something on thier side of the issue?
Update: Created a new account (there are two subs I still want to follow... obviously any others are a lost cause) and the account is half-broken. It can apparently comment, but the profile and my avatar won't load.
I'll leave it for a few days and see if it improves, but I'm not hopeful. I don't think I'll bother trying to use Reddit for general purposes unless they get a better CEO. By that time, my guess is that Lemmy and the new Digg will have vacuumed away enough sane users that Reddit will never recover.
I deleted my account, so there's nothing to test.
I'm assuming this is some shit AI moderation experiment, or some mechanical response to being blocked or reported that lets them off the hook for human review.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this.
Are they saying that if someone blocks you, you're essentially shadow-banned in all of Reddit? Or are they saying that you, the person being blocked, can't see the blockers comments? Can individual comments be blocked and that's what this is referring to?
I left during the API diaspora and haven't been back, so I'm perfectly happy not understanding what going on here.
It sounds like that in certain circumstances, if I make a comment and then you block me, I can lose the ability to edit my comment. That's the problem.
actually its a self-shadowban, but people sitll can comment on your thread that you blocked the original commentor on, but you cant see the comments unless someone responded to you, and you cant comment on it either, unless you unblock. its a known thing for a long time. you have to delete your comment in order to prevent peeople from chiming in to your thread.
That's where I'm confused, isn't blocking a user-wide thing? How would Reddit know that you were blocked because of a specific comment?
No wonder I couldn't comment properly, guess I'll go to r/conservative and mass block everyone that will be hilarious
If you do, please let us know how it goes. Brilliant.
Reddit temporarily timed me out from blocking. So it sounds like I'd need a bot for this
Good bot.
Ive faced this the last time I used reddit. (Ive left the app for 4-5 months now, had reduced the use already for more than a year) The local sub of my state has turned into RW propaganda due to this feature alone, and mods dont care.
My west coast area also had the same thing, right wingers and tankies. Always goody two shoes like you should do
This seems like a fantastic use case for a script that cycles through users and blocks them at random and at scale.
It only affects people who replied to you and/or if you have comments high up in conment chains, basically if you have a top voted comment, no one whom you blocked can participate in that comment chain, doesn't matter if they try to reply to someone who replied to you.
The impact of this would be proportional to how successful you are at making comments at the top of comment chains
Just make an LLM bot that comments on anything in new that has a chance of blowing up. Early comments get the top spots. Bonus points for circlular upvoting bot armies.
There’s also the classic bot idea of just copying the top comment from the previous repost of the OP
I'll log in and just block /u/spez on all his posts.
You think admins will be affected by this? Doubtful.
You'll be lucky if it lets you block him in the first place, but it probably won't have the required effect.
Yeah, this might actually make me sign back up just to script kiddie the shit out of things.