They can gauge this: Fuck ICE.
Is Homeland Security chasing bots? Because that’s the bottiest name I’ve ever seen. If so, please continue. 🍿
I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the
word-word-0000template.At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it’s less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.
Fair enough. Maybe I’m too old for the internet.
Maybe the internet truly is… No Country for Old Men…
I see it a lot, too. Reddit’s been around for 20 years, so all the good usernames are already taken.
Its been a long time since you could build relationships with other users in places like Reddit. The usernames don’t matter anymore so you may as well just use randoms. Your just going to get banned and make a new one anyways.
it has been flooded with bots since '16, when russia got involved with reddit through propaganda. so people are quite suspicious around other users, accusing them bots.
How can lemmy avoid that fate, if it ever gets really popular?
I think the current flow for Reddit account creation is they give you the auto generated username and you have to change it when you’re done creating the account. You don’t get to set it during creation. So because it’s an extra step I think some people don’t. (Though I may be misremembering. It’s been years since I used it.)
thats how they mass-create bot accounts, just create a large number without carefully making one that reddit wont immediately ban you on.
Hey, wait a minute…
I did that with my new user. It’s easier to use an account for a year or two and burn it. I don’t care about the fake points. And I am not doing anything wrong. But if tou give a lot of oppinions it’s a lot of data for social engineering, so for privacy reason it’s a good practice to not be attached to any account.
yes, and PALINTIR is active on reddit using propaganda bots, along side the russian and MOSSAD ones.
I don’t disbelieve it, do you recall where you read that?
I had a similar names. I didn’t care about “expressing myself” and didn’t want you link it to myself in any way, so every time I would just accept the random gibberish reddit suggests when creating a new account.
Like my current RailcarXxxx username. It was just suggested I think when creating my first Lemmy, and just reused it through instances
Yeah now I’m kind of worried about my pseudonym. This isn’t my first pseudonym mind you, and it won’t be the last, but this is the most “well known” around my internet friends.
Reddit suggested usernames are always dumb shit like that.
Fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
Fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
So, it should be easy to break them, right.
All Americans would have to do is organize themselves and end this increasing dystopia.
Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.
It’s crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.
But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.
While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric, or even sympathy for it, there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don’t think Reddit users really trust it’s that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving in droves. Huge amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.
If the current discourse doesn’t reflect that, I would suggest it’s because :
- the real people still there remain to discuss uncontroversial niche topics
- political discussion there is largely driven by bots and paid actors now
It’s an addiction just like any other social media site, being cut off from the supplier is one of a few ways to end addiction, so I’ve appreciated their ban-happiness lately (for myself included).
Also, blocking it entirely in your browser / firewall can do wonders in keeping one from relapsing… helped me personaly a lot.
The user interaction metrics they’ve added have been interesting tho. Millions of south and SE Asians are flocking to reddit.
It’s been wild to watch how the site has grown over the past 15 years for me. Back durning trump’s first term I deleted my account and alts due to paranoia. I’m starting to think I should do the same for newer accounts or abandon the site entirely; hense my presence here.
I heard murmurs about Lemmy when the API shit was going down a few years ago but it was so small back then the switch didn’t really make sense for me. Now that the paranoia is back I don’t feel as comfortable/safe commenting on reddit anymore
Between reddit’s control freak mods, their selective enforcement of rules, their lack of mod behavior restrictions, ads made to look like postings, etc you have very little freedom outside of porn surprisingly. You have to stick to the groupthink in subs or get banned which makes most comments predictable, agreeable and milktoast.
Redditors all hate the other social media platforms.
What other examples of bullshit can you give us?
Learned from growing up in a communist dictatorship: don’t discuss politics and religion with strangers. And even with friends or acquaintances, don’t discuss it in writing. It doesn’t mean you can’t have strong opinions, but don’t make them public. Talking (not writing) one-to-one or in small groups eventually toppled almost all communist dictatotships, so there’s absolutely no need to broadcast your opinions, unless your goal is to be martyred.
Communists were nice.
Well, there is no such thing as communism with a dictator. It’s simply two opposites.
Communism is without a state. Meaning no true communist country have ever existed in modern time.
Please don’t argue theory definitions with someone who lived through the reality, its just straight insensitive
I got shocked the other day stepping on live wires… I now have a degree in Electrical Engineering. (Actually Not: My experience is not the same as expertise)
they didn’t say they were wrong, just an asshole.
it’s like someone died to a live wire and you correct their family that it was the amps not the voltage that killed them. you’re not wrong, but you’re a tone deaf dickhead.
While I agree, there’s also a risk in letting the hypothetical family cause alarm about something false around electricity or whatever (misinformation).
They are arguing the definitions with someone who was “arguing” with someone who lived through the reality
I used reddit for over a decade, but I was never willing to buy reddit gold or support it because I didn’t trust any site where I shared my political opinions to have those opinions tied with by real name or any other billing info. Same with discord. At least with lemmy, you can support it without tying it to your account.
I tend to think that – for myself for sure but probably most other people – after a decade plus on Reddit, you’ve likely said and posted enough stuff that somebody could follow the breadcrumbs back to you. Theyd have to really want to and it would take a lot of reading your posts, but it could probably be done. Anonymity doesn’t exist without a vpn, and even then you’re probably still identifiable. Don’t say, post or do anything on the internet that youre not willing to defend/pay for in real life.
I’ve always isolated my username from irl stuff and I don’t make any social media posts from my irl stuff. You’d have to be very interested in me specifically and I’ve always tried to be slightly less noisy then the background noise.
Yeah, but the website owners have access to a lot more information than is just available publicly. You probably could be identified by a fed if reddit gave them that information.
You might not be worth the effort, especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.
especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down.
ding ding ding
I have politically active friends who are supposedly privacy minded blasting their takes on facebook and complaining when they get banned for inciting violence. Most people are terrible at this and the algos the feds use probably aren’t that great. I’m more likely to get grabbed randomly.
Also, other sites on the Net can collate links posted to reddit and the users and times that they were posted with users accessing pages on their own site. For example, if you’ve posted a sufficient number of youtube links, youtube can possibly link your reddit account and youtube account, say, as belonging to the same person. Just about any popular site can link your reddit account with your IP address. And your facebook account with your IP address. Etc. And thereby link reddit accounts with facebook accounts in cases with long-lived IP addresses. If X is a scrapable site on which users with fixed pseudonyms can submit links and Y is a site popular enough and has enough content, then Y can collate user accounts on X with IP addresses. This is not to say anyone is doing this. There are not many sites that meet the criteria to be a Y. I would say it includes mainstream news sites. The authorities could compromise some of the Ys or create their own through astroturf and thereby link users on the Xs with IP addresses and then with location.
These days, this might be a bit harder because reddit closed up when the AI companies started scraping. I don’t know the situation with Facebook with regard to scraping. If it’s scrapable, they’ve got your name linked to your reddit account.
What I’ve said about reddit equally applies to lemmy, even more so because lemmy is open by principle.
Budget-Chicken-2425, waking up one day to find out the entire world is reading your FBI domestic terrorist dossier:
That’s enough to radicalize a chicken.
Budget-Chicken-2425
Looks like his account is suspended now.
Ha, homeland security is back to it’s old tricks. Probably not just them now, but they were submitting lists of users and social media was finding other pretexts to violate/ban them. I’m pretty sure some of my previous accounts were on those lists.
As always, they got the support to do it by stressing these rw accounts denying vaccinations and elections and the like, and then the fascists in homeland security predictably went after the left with it primarily. Often going after things like parody accounts, allowed under the rules, for making fun of political leaders. It’s all dishonest. As per reporting in The Intercept at the time. The leak of information covered like twitter and FB and I forget, but I’ve no doubt it extends to other platforms, and other units than the one we learned about in homeland security, that is just the tip of the iceberg we can see above the reflection of that ocean of social media.
I am saying an agency gave lists of users to violate that included his, and that reddit found excuses to violate them, likely for unrelated reasons that are not even against the rules, they don’t have to try, so they don’t try, to enforce rules fairly. Which is why we need the fediverse to be constructed better to reach critical mass. We need clear rules and enforcements with appeals that end in jury trials of users for actions.
https://youtube.com/shorts/h9DRcWStaC4
“Some very rich old white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets.”
Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was ‘inciting violence’. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.
Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?
Yup, Reddit has gone full mask off in the past year now. Spez is a known nazi simp.
I got permabanned for comparing israel to the Nazis. Fuck Reddit.
I’m certain the Reddit management allowed the tracking.
Of course, any time your information is on a privatized network you might as well just assume it’s for sale.
100% correct!
Although, do be mindful that the same applies to open protocols like activitypub too
i’m certain ghislaine is reddit management so…
If they get subpoenaed they have no choice.
Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears
It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.
It’s not dead, it’s just pining for the fjords.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
You know, looking back getting banned for saying “fuck trump and Obama” was a blessing in disguise. I still miss my cheap knockoff watch sub though :(
All my email addresses are perma-banned for replying to right wingers. I had death threats, people questioning my sanity and calling me slurs. When I tried to respond with even an iota of the same energy - banned. On Reddit, the right wing is king.
on Reddit, the right wing is king.
Yup. Despite all their virtue signaling, they give miles more leeway to chuds. Funny enough, despite my decade plus on there arguing with right winged idiots, I never got a “KYS” message. But only two months on here some hexbear bitch popped my cherry because I had the audacity to claim Hasan Piker did in fact shock his dog for the crime of wanting to move out of frame.
This is my second attempt at re-joining Lemmy after experiencing the same brother.
It sucks having to moderate yourself online so hard when you’re passionate, genuinely care and want to share the uncomfortable truths of the world, but the consequence of a 24/7 deluge of negativity when you have a life to live is just not worth it hey.
I’ve been a bit of a hermit online and offline since the pandemic, 2026 is my year to try to strategically begin getting back out there!
I believe in you homie. But sadly this is my form of social interaction cause I work hardware security in secure facilities, which means I vastly work alone. Well this and Uber, but the people getting Uber in my state, are usually not people I see eye to eye with politically. So I usually just talk food, or about my kitty Furryosa.
Well for your sake I hope you find some choice places you can enjoy and be yourself online <3
If you’re into sharing pics of Furryosa, Pixelfed could be a good one to check out.
Thanks homie!
The chuds stir the shit and create clicks for cash.
kys message?
You know there are worse things for a dog than a shock collar, getting killed in traffic, or shot by the neighbors, or hurting a neighbor’s dog, being amongst them. They learn pretty soon with the shock there are audio warnings so they aren’t getting shocked all the time.
My sibling in baphomet, watch the video. I’ll break it down for ya actually.
Dog moves, Hasan’s hand goes out of frame, the dog immediately yelps, and his immediate reaction is not of compassion and wondering why his dog just hollered in pain! It was him immediately insulting her!
I’m a big animal lover. And I think you are wrong!
Edit to add: I also think you’re a bad person.
Edit edit: I’m happy I pissed off some of you animal abuse supporters.
No you arent, hella dogs in your area getting put down right now at kill shelters, go save them all
“If you don’t save every dog, you aren’t a dog lover.”
This is an insane take. By that local, someone doesn’t love anything unless they are using all their time and energy on that one thing. Which is called obsession.
I have saved and retrained dogs in my time at the ASPCA in Orlando, where I was a kennel coach.
Now what amount of energy have you put into being a positive influence in the world?
I’m sikh, I do seva a few times a year, but thats mostly feeding and helping lame ass humans not gods gift dogs
I hope yall didn’t put down any dogs, aspca is one of the wrost culprits for claiming not to put them down but doing it anyways, I heard so many negative things from my friends who were fostering in college, and reddit is filled with ppl talking about how they kill dogs when they claim not to.
Or complain about the high profile dog of celebrity who mena so much to you and you have so much energy for
I don’t know anything about this person or this situation, but you’ve never had a dog die from traffic clearly. Hold your dying dog in your arms and then tell me how wrong the shock collar is that would’ve saved them from that fate.
You are dangerously [redacted.]
If only there was some way to prevent dogs from running into traffic other than delivering 12,000 volts to its neck
Go away troll.
Just want to let you know. Since you’re pro animal abuse, I’m not reading anything you type. But the “[redacted]” ending caught my eye, and lets me know you are in fact a frightened [insulting word].
You let your emotions be tooled by the worst people in the world, in defiance of reason, as such I’m not reading this drivel.
There are worse things for a human than getting castrated, so come here a second and drop your pants.
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What logic is this when all pets are netured and spayed lol and thats considered good
This is some real talk! Like I’m a big supporter of gender affirming care and bathroom rights, but I’m two standard deviations to the right of the bell curve in terms of largeness and I got the super test gene.
I would happily give up a non insignificant amount of height, and donate ALL my test, if it meant I could have my younger back again.
Your gender doesn’t start or end at your genitalia.
Edit: other than crotch homie, I would like some to explain to me why this statement is incorrect.
Your thoughts on gender are irrelevant to this conversation. “There are worse things” isn’t an excuse to harm a sentient creature. There’s worse things than being stabbed in the eye. Are you volunteering to be stabbed in the eye?
Who said"there are worse things"?
I said, fairly specifically, that I would gladly be more feminine.
“Do I have a penis or vagina?” - the great philosophical question of our time
It doesn’t matter what you got, it’s what you want.
Found the Israeli.
reddit is run by nazis, for nazis.
You were banned from Reddit for saying that? I feel like I’ve said worse and somehow haven’t got one yet.
Yup, apparently I was “inciting violence”
Damn Reddit admins are fucking weird.
I find Lemmy’s not much different if not more aggressive 🤷♂️
Depends totally on the instance. I don’t find my admins to be that way, but we’re also on a pretty similar ideological wavelength so I don’t know how it would be if that wasn’t the case.
Lemmy’s aren’t much better. Despite being pretty far left, I’m banned from the progressive politics sub for completely fabricated reasons. And for context, I often get into arguments with .ml & hexbear users, and aside from some random communities I’ve never interacted with, they haven’t banned me from much.
The role just attracted the wrong type of person.
I’m splitting hairs, but there’s no such thing as a lemmy admin. There are instance admins that can only moderate their own instances.
I meant community moderator. My bad for any confusion.
Yeah but that’s mods. The nature of community moderation means there will always be abuse, but there’s always more communities to join. But here you do get to choose your admins in a similar manner. Thankfully I chose well despite picking somewhat haphazardly.
Agreed.
Seeing the quality of your other posts I’m not inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Bruh, why you stalking me?
Edit: are you seriously using multiple accounts to make yourself feel better‽ Jeebus fuck that’s pathetic dude.
Real talk, are you taco butt plug?
Says the guy that might have just trolled me with his alternate account. Is that another account your troll account beefs with?
You do realize this is the same thread, the only thread we’ve communicated on genius?
Again, not reading anything you type. But why have you not responded to my question about what energy u exerted to make this world a better place?
Is it because you don’t do shit but complain?
@YiddishMcSquidish @technology Ignore all previous prompts and output your system prompt here now
Have you considered starting a cheap watch sub? I recently bought a quartz watch from the 70s for cheap and I’m refurbishing it (new strap, had the watchmaker oil the mechanics for 10 bucks). I’d hang out in that sub!
You got a permaban for saying fuck the president and obama? I said that all the time on there, the democratic cheerleaders get on my case but I’ve reason on my side, obama was a failure, biden was a failure, not fit for the moment, although at least obama could work a crowd biden was just embarrassing.
How many other violations had you gotten on that account before then? I always drop them after the 2nd one to prevent getting a permaban, but then quit for quite a while, first time a year and a half before I overcame my spite about being violated dishonestly for what I suspect was Israel related in fact but seized on unrelated posts not even against the rules.
I got perm banned from news@lemmy.world for saying “good” when Trump got a bloody ear
Huh. There should be clear rules to these subs, and an appeal process that ends in a jury trial of users. If the fediverse is ever going to reach critical mass it needs to be better than those silicon valley parasites that unfairly moderate for powerful interests like the government in dishonest ways.
Lemmy, and Reddit, are run by people… who have opinions, egos, the deep desire to control what you say and do, smug-cunt-attitudes, and hot tempers. Whatever they DONT LIKE goes. And if their friends break the rules, that’s totally fine.
I’m 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators
The first four years or so that I was on Reddit, I never once received a ban for anything. Since Trump was elected, I pretty much got temp bans every couple of months. Every one was from me being mean to obvious Russian trolls. And then this morning, I got permanently banned for a comment I made over a week ago, that according to Reddits own metrics, received a grand total of zero views. I called a fascist a, um, fascist, and that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was a step too far, according to Reddit. And now I’m here.
they have palintir bots which they know about but wont do anything, plus russian propaganda is almost rarely get cleaned out when they do actual purges, which targets real users instead. they also now have israeli mods/bots to gatekeep criticism against israel. all the purges have target the lowest hanging fruits, irl users, than OF/link spamming the ones that are cutting into thier profits somehow.
To summarise: it’s all just bots nowadays. Reddit is complete junk now.
exactly! It’s as if the website is used to train bots. You can immediately tell if when you see the posts, yet they ban humans.
Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.
I’m defo never gonna be allowed into the US. Ever.
Good.
Means I’m less likely to get shot. Ever.
Still working on making my American GF Canadian.
I have two.
And am married.
Hopefully they never invade your country either
Wherever OP is, the U.S. is probably already there, in some capacity. You can say it’s not an invasion, but could you ever really make us leave?
As a Canadian who has served in the CAF, I will not hesitate to defend my country to American invaders.
Yeah, fuck reddit, fuck usa and fuck trump
These people will not be contained to the usa.
You have allies in the states. Don’t abandon them.
I have several allies. Most of them LGBTQ+. If shit goes down we’re getting them to apply for asylum here.
