None of Mullvad’s have ever worked for Reddit for me in years.
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Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Just use a different vpn server…
misteloct@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Fucking vpn blocking cowards.
Dop@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ireland works fine here. Dunno about the shadowban, I still get answers on the occasional thread I create whenever I can’t get an answer on Lemmy. Still, fuck u/spez.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 5 days ago
For what it’s worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can’t track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It’s sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Using a VPN to log into reddit can get you account shadowbanned instantly. Just an FYI.
What’s worse is it’s infectious. If you log into your main account on a VPN, get shadowbanned and change accounts without clearing your history, changing IP and deleting all your cookies, your next account will also get immediately shadowbanned.
If you argue about politics, shadowban. If you make too many reports, shadowban. If you do anything on reddit that isn’t the most milquetoast, bot-like comments on media and celebrities, you will likely get banned or shadowbanned.
The place is overrun with very convincing AI bots that even go as far as criticizing reddit to look convincing, but a large portion of users aren’t even real anymore, maybe as high as half in some communities by my reckoning.
They don’t want human users anymore. They announced a few years ago they were using reddit as a “test bed” for new AI models, they want a site that millions of people visit every day that looks like a social media site where users can communicate, but they want to be able to control what everyone is saying and discussing with a control panel, and it’s working to fantastic effect.
misteloct@lemmy.world 5 days ago
In my experience is the bans have been very explicit, strangely designed to humiliate. Otherwise the same.
My “threatening violence” comment was “Elon Musk’s fumes are fatally toxic”. Permabanned from 4 subreddits and 3 day site wide, just that exact string.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This should be making everyone with half a brain freak out right now, even though I know nobody is going to pay attention until it’s too late.
But that website, reddit, is probably the last remaining public spaces that reflects the actual attitudes of the majority of people. (Boring lib shit, but hey better than than facebook or twitter.) So when we’re learning that this site is being hijacked by bots and corporations trying to subtly take over and replace the users so they can “adjust” the nature of popular sentiment, it’s a giant blaring air-horn of alarm that we’re about to see a massive manufactured-consent engine come to life.
People as individuals are amazing creatures, as individuals you can talk to people and make them learn and get them curious.
As a population? As a group? Worthless troglodytes, unevolved pond-scum, slime, oozing shit that seeks the lowest level. This is why we need to have a lot of concern over platforms that purportedly depict average people having average conversations, because as a population, people look to their peers for cues and when everyone is taking cues from a single, artificial entity made to look like millions of real people, we need to start pouring water on some servers somewhere.
dmention7@lemm.ee 5 days ago
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals.”
Auli@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Yep got banned for saying a politician had to be taken care of. Sure an undertone of violence. But others say they want to do plastic surgery by running over someone’s head and nothing happens. I don’t get how they enforce rules or does it just depend on which side of the political spectrum.
misteloct@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If it’s against our Presidents Musk or Trump, ban. Anyone else is less scrutinized. Pro Luigi: Ban. Pro Jan 6? Probably no ban, idk.
tacobellhop@midwest.social 5 days ago
Just for a tack on to this everybody needs to be aware of contentcyborg.ai
Nothing digital is real. Digital reality is a distraction. They burned the libraries.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is just one of the commercial products too, the companies that have their own in-house tech development departments have their own proprietary systems for just creating an entire realm of content at the touch of a button.
Want to reveal some new development to a story that didn’t exist before today? Use your content bots to manufacture a bunch of blogs and journalist tweets and news websites that look exactly like they were made 10 years ago, with links that go to supporting sources. (which you also manufactured with a few keystrokes.)
The internet isn’t just dead, it’s a shambling corpse raised to feed off the living, animated by its undead lich overlords.
tacobellhop@midwest.social 5 days ago
The internet is a opium drip now nothing more
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I posted stuff about politics and my account suddenly couldn’t comment. Weird error messages, no actual communication from Reddit about what or why or how long. Decisions about functionality are being made in meetings by people who are absolutely not interested in the users as anything but things whose only value is whether they can be monetized.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I experimented a few times with throwaway accounts and yeah, they’re locking or shadowbanning people just for engaging with politics or social issues. They don’t want humans influencing these topics, they want people to read what the bots are saying without distraction.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That’s how cooked reddit is now.