I’ve confirmed this with multiple accounts now. If you promote the 2nd amendment, including training responsibly with others, your account will be autobanned within 60 seconds.
To be clear, my comments contained exactly zero calls to violence. They were simple comments stating every American has the right to arm themselves and that everyone should train responsibly, ideally with others who are more experienced.
I’ve had 4 or 5 accounts autobanned within a minute now. All immediately after posting pro 2nd amendment comments. These accounts were anywhere from 1 week to multiple months old. So they’re not brand new accounts that are being flagged for whatever reason.
Reddit is now complicit in the fascist takeover of our nation.
Reddit has been complicit in the rise of facism for a while.
Far-right nuts have been screaming about that 2nd amendment you guys have for decades.
Now that left-wingers are talking about it… it’s a problem.
Fuck Reddit fuck spez
https://socialistra.org/ for anyone who needs to see this
“We need guns in case of tyranny!”
(Tyranny happens.)
“You are now banned for discussing guns!”
The tyrants needed the guns.
That’s because guns do nothing against tyranny except increase the justification (see my other comment a few days ago abt defending myself against armed corrupt police while unarmed myself)
seems to me its the ONLY solution to tyranny that has been successful this far
My previous comment: Exactly I’ve never needed a gun I think its purely marketing and social expectations causing Americans to default to “muh guns” when someone’s mentioned self defense. Like if ur up against guns js wear body armour at all times rather than trying to be john wick.
Editing to add my other comment which adds why it acc worsens tyranny: I’ve been stabbed too. Ive never felt the need to carry a gun. I face a lot of risk anytime I leave my house esp rn acc due to political unrest essentially I still don’t feel the need for guns yet the government do feel the need for arming trained police (known for corruption and violence where I’m from) who I think are a lot more likely to kill me than someone w a knife. As I mentioned tho I still don’t feel the need to arm myself against those people infact doing so would worsen the situation as I’d be more of a threat and could be further used for the narrative justifying the arming of police in the first place
Edit: if an unarmed person is shot by police even if its attempted to be covered up the people who were there will know what happened. if I try to shoot the police because im threatened and they shoot back that’s going to worsen things. I don’t see how its better to carry a gun in this situation
Funny how it’s been a thing for YEARS without autobanning. When it was “I need my guns to stand against tyranny if it shows up at my door”, there were no autobans. Now that tyranny is actually at the door, they autoban.
This autoban has no fahrvergnugen.
It was just an excuse, they never meant it.
Yeah you’re just lying dude, this place has a weird hard on for lying about Reddit.
The 2nd amendment is brought up constantly there.
Dont let them take your guns
1.) Reddit isn’t going to do that and 2.) OP is a ridiculous liar.
They’re clearly not talking about reddit.
Everyone else is. It’s the subject of this thread.
stupud DID NOT talk about reddit.
Pretty sure you need to make a fash account if you want to post about that kind of stuff.
Lmao, so decades of child’s shooting up schools, 2a is a-ok!
Resistance to ICE gestappo, 2a banned?
Well it’s on brand for this country at least.
It’s Reddit. It’s a cesspool run by trash humans.
So yes, you can talk about guns and the 2nd amendment all you want when children are being murdered in school, but if fascists control the government, you gotta stop that, because you’re now an “agitator”.
Edit: Actually, to be fair, most Reddit users are good enough people to grasp that fascism has come to America and fascism is bad. So calling the site in general a cesspool isn’t necessarily accurate. The shitstains are mostly bots and a small percentage of trash humans. The real issue are the trash humans running the site and dictating the rules that have driven us all to Lemmy.
It’s Reddit. It’s a cesspool run by trash humans.
Yeah, corporate advertisers.
Can’t speak of violence guns or anything else, lest it upset the VERY kinds of people looking for that “Disney” sensibility the Mayor of Minneapolis refered to last night, after he got asked about dropping the F-bomb in response to the shooting yesterday.
It’s squeeky-clean and “sanitized” for your protection, now that it had it’s IPO and went mainstream.
Come on, what do we all expect? Everyone here is old enough to know how this all rolls.
It’s all got to be puppies and daffodils and fairy tales that keep the shoppers feeling safe and spending.
Capitalism 101: Keep the consumers warm and fuzzy.
The real issue are the trash humans running the site and dictating the rules that have driven us all to Lemmy.
Well, I got bad news for you on that front, too.
I know. I’m not saying Lemmy is perfect. But the only censorship I’ve experienced was on .ml (surprise surprise) and I haven’t been banned, not even from an individual sub/instance.
It’s got problems but it isn’t Reddit levels of trash.
Lemmy allows me to support our Constitutional rights. That alone makes it better than Reddit.
The issue here is that there isn’t really a way to ban anyone. No matter how many times they vote or how many AI chat bots they use to keep their accounts active.
Just lurk on reddit. Don’t contribute anything there. Leech like u/spez does & you’ll be happier.
When my accounts were permanently banned I spammed AI gibberish into all of my past comments. Salt the earth and deny them any benefit from your efforts.
Just leave reddit already, it doesn’t have anything of value.
It’s the same thing as bitching about Facebook while still using it.
The smaller niche communities can still have something of value, but I only read, never contribute.
It stopped being helpful years ago, I no longer trust advice on there since It’s usually an ad or someone insulting the poster for not knowing the answer because they have a life outside of being on reddit 24/7
But I need to know if a manager providing feminine hygiene products makes them the asshole
Only things I really miss not being able to post on reddit are the forums for magic the gathering, and Project Diablo 2.
But also do it with SearXNG search engine when possible so you can get a direct Internet Archive link.
Bastard and his bots will always banhammer anyone even remotely talking about committing violence. He doesn’t like progressives contaminating his LLM farming data to sell for.
So fuck you spez.
If you’re still using reddit then you are complicit in the takeover too.
I only continue to use Reddit to combat misinformation, defend our Constitution, and promote Lemmy.
I’ve never given them a dime. I block all ads.
Your traffic is measured by them and used to increase their numbers when making ad sales. Regardless of whether you have given them any money and blocked all their ads, you still count as traffic to the site, and that is what they are selling to advertisers.
So, yes, even though you don’t intentionally give them any money, the majority of the money they make is from the valuation placed on traffic to the site, which you continue contributing to.
I guess that begs the question, is spending the majority of your time on a generally censorship free site like Lemmy, but continuing to spend some time on the most popular site of its kind that does censor, in order to combat misinformation, defend our rights, and promote a better site morally wrong? Is it worth conbributing to their ad revenue? When you know the site is so popular it isn’t going anywhere anyway?
Either way, this is a Lemmy sub about Reddit and you can’t really know everything that’s going on with Reddit unless you’re logged in and contributing in some way.
Personally, I believe correcting misinformation and spreading awareness about our rights is worth continuing to login on a sporadic basis.
Well, something to consider is that engaging on Reddit isn’t even on the level of limited individual action like voting is. You’re having a cascading effect on the viability of the site by engaging with other people. It’s what makes the site function. You’re the product for advertisers in more ways than one.
Besides, clearly you believe in the power of collective action making a difference, given you’re promoting firearms training with others. Same energy applies to withdrawing from the site.
You aren’t changing minds online. Boycott them all already.
It’s not always about the people you’re arguing with. It’s often about people who might be reading the comment chains, and can be influenced
Bingo.
Myself, along with everyone else, have spent our lives being influenced by all sorts of things, both obvious and subliminal. I have absolutely read comments online over the course of my life, especially when I was younger, that helped make me more informed or forced me to challenge something I believed.
I wouldn’t know half the stats I know regarding politics if it wasn’t for comments left by informed individuals online that led me elsewhere to confirm those stats.
Combatting misinfo on corpo sites is a lost cause. They put their thumb on the scale.
I know the scale is massively tipped, but that doesn’t change that the majority of political knowledge I possess, including most of the actual hard data, was posted by informed individuals on Reddit, which I can usually find by organizing comments by “Best”.
People read comments. People get influenced by those comments.
I use it for niche subreddits. Lemmy is lacking on that front. 🤷♂️
same - but be sure to contribute to the niches here when you can, so the people from there have a reason to start coming here :)
Be the change you want to see.
You gotta siphon off the content and users while ad blocking.
I’ve thought a out that. Would people appreciate it if I were to repost a bunch if things from reddit all the time? I don’t want to start spamming
Would people appreciate it if I were to repost a bunch if things from reddit all the time? I don’t want to start spamming
They would if the content hasn’t been posted yet on lemmy.
I don’t feel sufficiently motivated to make a reddit account again, but if I did I’d focus on reposting from communities for which there isn’t an active equivalent on Lemmy yet. The long tail of niche interests is the thing that’s most missing right now
i personally don’t mind, but i think some communities have rules about not reposting from reddit
If you comment, yes. A bunch of copied headlines with no comments? No.
People still use Reddit?
Late reply, but like it or not, Reddit is still invaluable for me, even if it’s essentially a capitalist exploitation of its users.
In short, its got loads more thriving communities and user engagement, altho I hope the FV can steadily make gains, there.
A quick lurk shows there are posts on liberalgunowners referencing current events. What exactly were you trying to post?
If you’re not rotating your IP every time then you’re getting hit for ban evasion triggered by keyword detection or reports
If you’re using the Reddit app then they will ban every account with that app as soon as they log in
Yeah. Phones are another thing altogether. I haven’t used Reddit mobile for years because of this. At least not logging in to an account anyway. Which doesn’t bother me much. I really only use Reddit on PC and I pointed out in another comment that all I do is run Reddit in a private browser window, then once I’m banned, I reset the whole browser, open up a new private window and create a new account. I can go months with a new account like that before being banned based on a comment. So it works. I’m assuming they use cookies to track and the combination of using a private browser window and resetting the browser is enough to bypass their bullshit.
But on phones I think they capture some kind of identifying value for the phone itself, like a MAC address, and then that device is toast on Reddit going forward.
I don’t pretend to have answers for everything, I just know what’s been working for a number of years for me.
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I don’t rotate the IP. Generally speaking, these accounts can go for months, seasons, before being autobanned when I finally say fuck it and post a pro 2A comment or insult the fuck out of a MAGA dipshit. They aren’t bans based on reports because they happen instantly. So I’m assuming they have bots set up looking for keywords or a certain threshold of keywords.
My point is simply that you’re being fingerprinted and re-banned, rather than these accounts triggering some independent “no 2fa comments” rule and getting individually banned. Whatever the trigger is, the system is recognizing you as an already banned user and re-banning you as soon as you cross their radar
Na they are just pretty good at catching ban evasion which you are trying to do. I was also unsuccessful; just take the L and move on chief.
