As soon as I make an account and try to post a comment or something. I get “server error” which is basically a ban.
So your IP is banned? Idk I need to stop talking about Christianity or my account is going to get perma’d soon.
I quit using it, problem solved.
[Eddie Murphy tapping head]
… by losing. They won.
what do you mean?
They wanted you out. They got what they wanted. They win.
- ban all the content creators
- …
- Profit!
…wait, something doesn’t feel right.
Reddit thinks that it has so many content creators that it can sacrifice a lot of them to keep others in line. Not sure in a big perspective, but so far Reddit has succeeded in what it is doing.
So Digg used to think as well.
we’re the product, not the customer. reddit doesn’t own anything of value that we can’t have for ourselves or do for ourselves here, or on other, non-reddit communication networks. they didn’t want us to leave, they wanted us to change behavior to match their vision. instead, we’re here, having this conversation away from their influence. we won this small victory in a grander fight against hypercapitalism. the real challenge is that the banks choose winners and losers
reddit doesn’t own anything of value
Wrong. Reddit has a tremendous amount of diverse information. Lemmy is empty. It fills the hole for most basic news and stupid memes, but that’s it. Lemmy doesn’t have technical information. Technical dialogs (the only variant of useful dialogs) are impossible here.
that we can’t have for ourselves or do for ourselves here
Oh yes. We can. But we don’t.
we won this small victory in a grander fight
Running away isn’t a victory.
Technical dialogs (the only variant of useful dialogs) are impossible here.
Staying put and giving Reddit money is the real loss. We fundamentally disagree about what the fight is and what winning looks like. Also I don’t know where you’re reaching your conclusion that there’s no technical information here. We have wikis, we have discussions, we have high quality interactions. But the core essence of how we think we take the power back on the internet is different, and we’re not ever going to overcome this, so I think this is the end of the conversation
Like hell it isn’t a victory. You love Reddit so much, get the fuck outta here
Maybe if I was the only one that left there would be some logic to your statement. Fact is a lot of people are leaving the corporate owned entities. On top of that I am actively advocating to people I know to leave them as well and taking the time to introduce and even provide support to them to make the move.
You’re hugely overestimating the size of that “leaving”.
When I say a lot, I am referring to my 5 imaginary friends.
From what I’ve gathered you get banned if you use a VPN. If not immediately, eventually.
Fuck Reddit. Only time I even care about it anymore is if I google search a tech issue and reddit comes up in the results. It’s a cesspool of AI accounts and trolls for most things these days.
If there are certain niche subreddits which you can’t live without, download an RSS reader. They still work with Reddit, for now. They won’t let you post or otherwise interact, but you shouldn’t do that anyway.
I have a separate account just for reading with api for sync, I sometimes want to post though, but they Keep banning the accounts.
The only way to not get banned is to never, ever post.
A lot of subs gave “minimum karma limit”. It is supposed to stop spam accounts but it just stops new people from commenting/posting.
It doesn’t stop you from posting only, I created an account and tried to post a comment. At first the comment got posted, then it got removed and I got a server error. I checked and it seems the account was banned.
You might be IP banned then.
My current reddit account is my 12th reddit account so far aging around 1 month now. Previous 11 accounts were shadow banned even without me doing any illegal, spamming activity., That’s why I deleted them.
I haven’t made a comment with my current one. Just upvoting 1 post per day to maintain the streak.
Also I’ve joined karma farming subs to first gather comment karma then post karma…
This time, I’m very cautious. I hope I don’t get shadow banned.
At that point why bother?
I need to gather information about some things I’m interested in. You can call it as a self-research.
I see all these youtubers that literally dissecting the whole internet for information, source, knowledge, course and they make things with these from scratch without having no prior and proper knowledge from the start.
Watching these kinds of videos made me to come to 2 conclusions.
Either I really don’t know how to use the internet, or I’m too lazy to explore it.
Then I decided to take matters into my own hands. Like the “F*ck around and find out” method. I began surfing articles, google doxxing, forums, reddit, quora, LLMs to get an overall average understanding. Then I stopped at few points, marking them as permanent and important for using the internet.
Reddit was one of them. The real amount of FAFO people in reddit is very low, but at least their advices, shared experiences are legit. But you know, not everybody has the same question.
If I find a subreddit important for my research, there are very few, close to none amount of questions that match my thirst. And as a new user, I just couldn’t post or comment.
So what did I had to do? I needed to farm karma. I’m no girl so I couldn’t karma-bait using my pu$$y, I started with 1 or 2 comments per day, accumulating 50+ comment karma then I headed to make my first post.
The post usually works well. It gains me some karma. I farm more. Get 100+ post karma. After that, for some reason, I get shadow banned.
I appealed, reddit responded with, “Unfortunately, we cannot…”
This cycle has been happening since the last 11 account for over 3 years.
I remember Google+ in the past, it was a great source of information, now my source of information became reddit. Like /r/stocks, /r/anime_titties, /r/programming, or even niche like nier automata fan subreddit. I wish we have other sources, I miss when internet forums were everywhere and you could find forum for every topic.
…just ditch reddit
Getrid of Reddit.
Do leave a 1 star rating on the app.
