Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.
The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”
The Reddit employee wrote:
Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.
I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.
Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.
My VPN use probably didn’t help either
FYI lemmy.world is hostile to VPNs too; I just had to switch servers because it wouldn’t let me post a comment due to VPN use.
This happens to me a lot. I have a user ID and password, what does it matter that I’m using a vpn to post a comment?
I did an AskLemmy post about it a few months ago: https://lemmy.world/post/43898917?scrollToComments=true
As you can see, there’s not even consensus on whether or not VPNs are in fact being treated differently, let alone why. There are some in that thread that insist it’s a great idea, too.
Thanks that was informative.
seems like dbzero is also very hostile, wierdly havnt been on most of those communities, but im banned there for some reason. did tankies take over that instance.
There’s a way to View Moderation History on yourself and others on Lemmy. Sometimes the people that ban you leave an explanation. Sometimes they think it’s obvious or you’re beneath them so they don’t.
Reddit is Ground Zero for Empty Internet Theory.
seems like its been dead internet for a few years, spez just stupidly made it more obvious by banning so many people, i think this is why he switch to shadowbans, less people notice, and not too many will complain. since people, bot owners wont notice until its much later.
they ban you even if go too hard on trump. people arnt just seeing the astroturfing for trump on reddit. after the election, it was very chaotic on reddit, they were banning people left and right spez was definitely cleaning house for IPO, and to appease the gop once he fully came to power last year. spez acted everytime musk ask him to ban people.
Uhh… no. I shit on him routinely on Reddit and I have yet to be banned.
Do you mean actively call for violence against him? Then yeah, they’ll ban you for that.
they allow criticism of trump, but not too much. it can be implication, or inneundo that can get you ban.
Right, I covered that in my last paragraph.
Calls for violence are against their ToS. Shocker!
What’s your special interests?
Specific games I like
Local (and I do mean local) discussion
Brewing
Caravanning
Car stuff (communities around the specific make/model of car I own)
Etc…
My city’s subreddit is very active (though the moderators recently went mad with power). I’m actively stealing their content to grow the Lemmy community for it.
People talk about legal stuff a lot on Reddit, including asking (ex-)cops questions about them (because lots of (ex-)cops use Reddit).
city tankies are pretty bad. my citys sub has been taken over by “tankies of the city”, and conservatives too. like people asking for specific questions: fare tickets, jury duty, you get a holier than thou response.
Not all authoritarians or assholes are tankies.
The mod guiltiest for the abuses of /r/tampa is probably a card-carrying Liberal, given he’s a(n alleged) former Marine that allows racist dogwhistles to be posted in /r/tampa but also invites people to /r/liberalgunowners. He goes by /u/md28usmc.