I understand that it's frustrating, but I'd like to suggest that we be the bigger people about it.
For every user in the vocal minority saying those things, there are plenty of users who will see kbin and lemmy mentioned more and more, and get curious.
If we start getting a "leavers vs stayers" mentality over here, we might drive away those people who could grow our communities.
Be relentlessly positive about our new home, and we will thrive in the end.
I went all out and deleted my account out right. didn't care if my comments or what not cameback they where just to reddit. I hit the frontpage 5x in 6 years but that was crossposted content I found on reddit sorting by rising :P Anyway at least you got everything!
I don't believe so. They'd have to remove identifying information, but my imperfect understanding is outside of that they are allowed to keep the content.
Spez is a fuckwad who has convinced himself that his table is what makes the food taste good, and these shortsighted users that stuck around are pissed that the potluck is over.
Some subreddits require a certain level of karma to be able to post or reply to comments. I don't know if that was to help against bots or people who would make an account to avoid a ban or something. Other than that karma was just an ego boost for those who cared about such things.
Yes, it was great protection against spam accounts, b/c on day 1 they would start with nothing, and have to actively earn karma before they could switch to selling t-shirts or promote OF sites or whatever. Every little bit helps in the efforts to combat simply spinning up a thousand of those and be able to instantly spam whatever sub(s) you wanted.
Karma (especially comment karma) is useful to indicate someone makes positive contributions, but once you’re above a few hundred it doesn’t really make a difference. I do wonder if it makes Reddit worse though, because it incentivises low effort comments and content to get easy karma.
The drawbacks outweigh any advantages. 'Karma' becomes the status symbol, leading to wisecracks, puns, and irrelevancies instead of intelligent dialogue.
Proof would be good but honestly this seems pretty likely. Power users like mods are going to want the account recoverability so they're mostly going to be using authenticated accounts tied to real emails. And reddit sure isn't going to want them coming back to stir up their users. If I were reddit trying to double down this is absolutely a step I'd take.
Proof would be good but honestly this seems pretty likely.
Not proof of anything related to the blackout and retaliation...
But Reddit absolutely does have an account linking backend they rely on. When my main account was permanently suspended (for quoting what a cop said to me in a private subreddit in a cop thread, was banned for "hateful content.")... they went back through my linked accounts and banned them for whatever reason they could find. Included was one account that used a different email address. Had multiple accounts only because I was using it them to segregate my topics before multireddits existed. One for politics, one for tech news, one for popular subs, etc... The one with the different email address was my politics account and they banned it for visiting a sub I was timed out from by moderators. Over a year prior.
Reddit is completely capable of being thorough (though capricious) in their attempts of policing users.
There are probably companies who specialize into fingerprinting and who will provide a module for reddit admins. Even the resolution of your screen or the firefox extensions you use can betray you.
Honestly the best move now is to overwrite all your comments with replies from chatgpt, since AI's hate feeding from other AI answers. It's like poisoning the well.
Of course reddit runs his own ones! It is their business to keep people scrolling. The real question is why would there be anyone else running the bots. To sell an account? You can get this with 3 posts in /awww... no need for spam bots.
I suppose someone may want to identify where they made a post from, but it is rather an odd choice. You should be able to turn that off in Android, right? Or is this one of those things GrapheneOS added...
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