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Mildly Infuriating

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Dogshit website anyway.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Me too. I wrote a blog post about it with a similar title and would love some feedback. I'm sure it could be expanded even more to include stuff like this.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

file a ticket.

You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

File a ticket!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Just use a different vpn server...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Using a VPN to log into reddit can get your account shadowbanned instantly. Just an FYI to those browsing.

What's worse is it's infectious. If you log into your main account on a VPN, get shadowbanned and change accounts without clearing your history, changing IP and deleting all your cookies, your next account will also get immediately shadowbanned.

If you argue about politics, shadowban. If you make too many reports, shadowban. If you do anything on reddit that isn't the most milquetoast, bot-like comments on media and celebrities, you will likely get banned or shadowbanned.

The place is overrun with very convincing AI bots that even go as far as criticizing reddit to look convincing, but a large portion of users aren't even real anymore, maybe as high as half in some communities by my reckoning.

They don't want human users anymore. They announced a few years ago they were using reddit as a "test bed" for new AI models, they want a site that millions of people visit every day that looks like a social media site where users can communicate, but they want to be able to control what everyone is saying and discussing with a control panel to influence public sentiment with ease, and it's already working to fantastic effect.


Edit: most normal, commercial internet users can reset their dynamic IP address simply by unplugging your router for a minute. Also, if you try to register a reddit account with a "throwaway" email, or even many major domains like yahoo or msn, it can start you out shadowbanned permanently. They are looking for any excuse to silence users so their bots can control the popular narrative.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just for a tack on to this everybody needs to be aware of contentcyborg.ai

Nothing digital is real. Digital reality is a distraction. They burned the libraries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is just one of the commercial products too, the companies that have their own in-house tech development departments have their own proprietary systems for just creating an entire realm of content at the touch of a button.

Want to reveal some new development to a story that didn't exist before today? Use your content bots to manufacture a bunch of blogs and journalist tweets and news websites that look exactly like they were made 10 years ago, with links that go to supporting sources. (which you also manufactured with a few keystrokes.)

The internet isn't just dead, it's a shambling corpse raised to feed off the living, animated by its undead lich overlords.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The internet is a opium drip now nothing more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Which makes it incredibly dangerous. Opium has destroyed empires.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

In my experience the bans have been very explicit, strangely designed to humiliate. Otherwise the same.

My "threatening violence" comment was "Elon Musk's fumes are fatally toxic". Permabanned from 4 subreddits and 3 day site wide, just that exact string.

Amazingly it appears like a pro left wing website. That is some wonderful camouflage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazingly it appears like a pro left wing website. That is some wonderful camouflage.

This should be making everyone with half a brain freak out right now, even though I know nobody is going to pay attention until it's too late.

But that website, reddit, is probably the last remaining public spaces that reflects the actual attitudes of the majority of people. (Boring lib shit, but hey better than than facebook or twitter.) So when we're learning that this site is being hijacked by bots and corporations trying to subtly take over and replace the users so they can "adjust" the nature of popular sentiment, it's a giant blaring air-horn of alarm that we're about to see a massive manufactured-consent engine come to life.

People as individuals are amazing creatures, as individuals you can talk to people and make them learn and get them curious.

As a population? As a group? Worthless troglodytes, unevolved pond-scum, slime, oozing shit that seeks the lowest level. This is why we need to have a lot of concern over platforms that purportedly depict average people having average conversations, because as a population, people look to their peers for cues and when everyone is taking cues from a single, artificial entity made to look like millions of real people, we need to start pouring water on some servers somewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep got banned for saying a politician had to be taken care of. Sure an undertone of violence. But others say they want to do plastic surgery by running over someone's head and nothing happens. I don't get how they enforce rules or does it just depend on which side of the political spectrum.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

None of Mullvad's have ever worked for Reddit for me in years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ireland works fine here. Dunno about the shadowban, I still get answers on the occasional thread I create whenever I can't get an answer on Lemmy. Still, fuck u/spez.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Fucking vpn blocking cowards.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That is an easy way to make less traffic from people that don't really care. When I see it, I close the page and look for the next result.

If you really need to know what is written there I guess you can Log in or use redlib or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

When that happens I use the summarize with AI feature from Kagi and it does a good job describing the page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is the reason I never had a twitter account. Why would I bother making an account if I don't know why I would want one in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

that's on you for preventing the billion dollar company from tracking your every move ;)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

Well, fine with me. Closing one tab is no big deal, let the website die

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I use archive.is if I really need to read one of their articles. My point is, it is strange that they block read-only access like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

They likely just use a block list.

If a not was using the vpn server you connected to then it ends up on the list for a few days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Interesting that a news site would block a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Interesting that you consider reddit a news site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I loosely consider Reuters a news site. At least partly a comic book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think they mean Reuters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
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