I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the subs. Maybe they are subs with no mods? I’m not sure what’s up with that.
I actually have tried to use reddit multiple times, however they’ve soft-disabled most new accounts. It’s around a 50% chance in my experience if your account is shadowbanned immediately, with a slightly lower chance it’ll be shadowbanned within a week, regardless of what you post. If you use a privacy-focused email provider or use a vpn, or use a browser that is resistant to fingerprinting, you’re basically persona non-grata at reddit. Which is honestly fine with me at this point, half of all content you encounter in almost any major sub is either bot posted or “totally a legitimate user that uses the site 24/7” posted.
Yes, exactly. I was permabanned for insulting spez during the 3p shit. I wanted to see if things had changed and created a throwaway.
Of course, if you use the same browser they use IP, fingerprinting and such so I used VPNs, fingerprint randomizing browsers, protonmail and it would last maybe 4,5,6 days.
Which is fine since it’s a complete waste of time and shit content for the most part. Lots of niche communities are a real loss still tho.
So many comments are clear they are bots it’s just sad all around. I don’t get why anyone stays
I think you’re either overselling their defensive capabilities (like mods there do) or the solutions you used are just leaky and awful. I’ve found Tor to work very well, less complicated than the solutions you presented since it’s basically an all in one. I had an account on there for almost a year only through Tor so it works well, but I lost the password and since I used a throwaway email account is gone for good, but still not shadowbanned.
I have 4 other accounts (I’m not going to say which ones they are, makes the job of admins harder) still been going for over two months.
You can usually appeal shadow-bans and they overturn them I’ve found, you have to send an appeal showing both that you know but also pretend you don’t know why otherwise they’ll think they owned you.