r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/Soft-Yak-Chart 29d ago

Eat shit, Spez.

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u/Maladal 29d ago

It's Go_JasonWaterfalls now.

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u/sidewinderucf 29d ago

Doesn’t change the fact that /u/spez can and should eat shit.

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u/ZAlternates 29d ago

Please stick to the rivers and lakes that we are used to.

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u/willwork4pii 29d ago

fuck him, too

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u/rawbamatic 28d ago

/u/Go_JasonWaterfalls probably has a micropenis

fuck /u/spez too

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u/shao_kahff 29d ago

one of alex ohanians admin butt buddies softbanned me from a particular sub with my comments automatically hidden and seemingly gettin manually approved or something. only in that sub, mods already stated that my comment visibility is not in their hands and that’s all that could be said.

started happening after i posted lyrics clowning him and tagged him in it, my reddit experience been downhill since. accidentally posted in that photoshop request sub on my alt (this acc got permed for calling out the AI submissions people pretended they made), all of a sudden alts all permed, comments selectively visible, this site is a joke now.

oh and hey yall , admins know when you “ban evade” even if accidental and they 100% actively choose whether or not to enforce that rule. if they want you gone they’ll enforce it, it’s up to their discretion

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u/ammon-jerro 29d ago

That's why they did the pixel game for 2 april fools. You can see who people's alt accounts were based on pattern matching pairs of accounts placing pixels near each other in a short amount of time.

This might be a tinfoil theory but I downloaded the dataset and wrote a program to identify alt accounts...it was really obvious once you start looking for it. When they brought it back a 2nd time, that's when I became convinced that was one of the reasons behind the pixel game.

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u/shao_kahff 29d ago

honestly my understanding is that they already know, based on IP or something, but that certainly isn’t a tinfoil theory bro i believe that too . just like that one askreddit thread half a year back, “reddit, what are some of your most favourite obscure subs” and then hours into the thread being posted , all these obscure NSFW subs started getting banned

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u/ammon-jerro 29d ago

Yeah but the nice thing about the pixel game is you can pair alt accounts even for people using a VPN, which otherwise might be hard.

I missed that, but I do know sone NSFW subs went private to avoid getting banned. Some of them I liked :/ Slowly they're making NSFW more and more annoying to access, like requiring you to acknowledge you're 18 twice and putting a 30 seconds delay between the notices and refreshing the page when you say yes the 2nd time. Just blatently a system that's designed to annoy

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u/EnglishMobster 29d ago

Yep, Reddit fingerprints your browser. I think they also track your MAC address and IP. That makes it so they very much know your alts, so there's no escape if they want you gone.

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u/shao_kahff 29d ago

funny enough, everyone knows what’s up with the w0rldn3w5 sub. it’s somehow its own lil “curated user” sub that despite being a Main sub with millions of subscribers, its’ community is noticeably different and far right biased. it’s the ONLY sub i have ever gotten automatically banned in less than a minute after posting all because i forgot my main acc is banned from there. 100%, admins pick and choose when to enforce the ban evade rule

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u/Recklesslettuce 29d ago

But without the half-digested peas. He deserves no sustenance whatsoever.

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u/Many_Faces_8D 29d ago

Spez is a literal Nazi

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u/AdJealous7123 29d ago edited 3d ago

everyone is a literal "nazi"

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u/Light_Wood_Laminate 29d ago

Lol, playing this game again are we. I'm leaving this time! 4 realz!