Lol nothing says we are afraid of the working class like banning subreddits on suppressed news they don’t want us to see. I came here bc I got a warning on my account for liking a comment that said “Luigi”. My alt account got banned for sharing the DOGE email list that is public info. Fuck Reddit. I’m done.
Like many, I got kicked out of Reddit. Mainly because Russian, Chonese or religious trolls with a thin skin, but recently I think cause they don’t like too much anti-systemic statements.
Anyway. I would like to keep an account in order to follow the s/BuyFromEU and try to advocate for Lemmy and other decentrilized platforms.
Does someone knows what Reddit gets for info about a user? I mean what exactly they see about my IP address, cookies, devices etc?
What reddit does is it attaches a cookie to your browser that associates your IP/emails with your current IP, then ANY login you make will get flagged and you will either be immediately banned for ban-evasion or you will be shadowbanned and nothing you submit will ever be seen.
To get around this, you have to purge ALL your cookies and browsing history associated with reddit on all your browsers going back to the start of time. Then if you have a regular broadband connection through a normal ISP (cable, DSL, anything that goes through a router/modem in your house) then you likely have a dynamic IP that resets regularly. Unplug your router for a few minutes, then plug it back in. This will reset your IP.
Next, you need to make a new Email, and it can’t be a “disposable” email either, many of the free email services out there will be immediately flagged and shadowbanned by reddit. Gmail seems to work fine, so far Google doesn’t seem to share the phone-number you use to verify your new gmail address so until they do, you can use gmail. I haven’t tested others. Use this new email to register a new account, make a few throwaway comments on some subreddit like /r/memes or one you know that doesn’t block new users. Establish a little bit of normal comment history and then within 24 hours you should have full visibility and access again.
There are a lot of hazards now though. If you ever log into reddit while using a VPN, you will get your ass shadowbanned permanently and you will have to do all the above steps over again. You can also get shadowbanned for almost any kind of political contention depending on what community or combination of communities you visit. They do have bots that monitor users and will try to assume what your agenda is by where you post.
If you or anyone is reading down this far and saying “why the FUCK would I want to go through this much hassle to chat on reddit” then you’ve figured out what their plan is. They don’t want human users. As it is, about 1/4 to as high as half the users on many subreddits are already simulated, having simulated conversations and chatting in ways that seem completely human, even using timely cultural references and populist talking points.
If they can replace all the users with bots, they can simulate what “normal reality” is for any particular group, fed specific communities and content as determined by the algorithm, and then someone just needs to adjust the dials a little to turn that simulated conversation into a sales pitch, a political endorsement, a call to action or a call to inaction. Once you look at reddit chat through this lense it becomes a lot more sinister and you realize just how vulnerable we are to this kind of social manipulation.
Reddit fingerprints your browser and logs your IP address. Using a different browser/User Agent switcher and a VPN will get around it though.