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.
Fuck Reddit fuck spez
https://socialistra.org/ for anyone who needs to see this
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.
Yup. I mentioned it and was warned.
Sure you were
Dumb ass.
r/gunsforsale used to be a thing.
Fucking shouldn’t be. Unregulated private sales are a problem.
Nah, I bought a couple things on there and did a federal background check every time. It’s the law. If I didn’t do that I’d be a criminal.
There is no law requiring background checks for private sales, they’re unregulated.
For law-abiding citizens, yes. Those prohibited from buying guns can’t do private sales. Otherwise it’s a crime.
Pretty sure you need to make a fash account if you want to post about that kind of stuff.
This a stupid fucking lie, idiots will believe ANYTHING.
Anyone who spends any amount of time there knows this false. The fuck is wrong with you, OP?
I got banned for suggesting we criminally prosecute Elon musk as an enemy of the state.
I got banned for suggesting someone in Trump’s administration should get the death penalty for something that you can actually get the death penalty for.
It could seem to be a possibility from the perspective of OP. Once they ban any account, they usually flag the rest of accounts. They’ve been implementing browser fingerprinting to avoid the ease people had switching over to other account by switching IPs and clearing out account information. They are willing and have even encouraged people to have alt accounts, but the moment they piss off the admins, those alts are just “ban evasion”.
When they do ban, they don’t need much of a reason, they just cite blanket community guidelines, and the only recourse is a review process they can just tell you they reviewed themselves and found they did nothing wrong. It just has to catch their eye in some place they care about. A popular one is protesting or making any comment critical against Israel in the worldnews subreddit.
The admins are willing to do a lot of shitty stuff on the backend - sort of happens when you appoint a CEO who edited user comments without consent. Unlike other CEO’s like Elon or Mark, they are much smarter about it and are aware that if they do it en masse they are going to piss people off. That they can be that much more of a calculating psychopath just makes them that much more dangerous in my book.
They’ve recently shifted from promoting large subreddits into the propaganda bubble slop farms the rest of the social networks are doing. If you want to experience it, join up on some new device and subscribe to a sub like conservative. Sites like reveddit no longer work, you are just asking for it if you main reddit. They even have AI profiling users automatically now. Expect to have a voice, as long as it follows the circlejerk they lead you to follow.
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.
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 have 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
i personally don’t mind, but i think some communities have rules about not reposting from reddit
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
If you comment, yes. A bunch of copied headlines with no comments? No.
“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 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.
Why do you keep saying this without quoting what you posted?
Repeat what you said if it’s so normal
Ok.
Figured others had experienced the same thing and wanted to chip in their experiences or, if they cared enough, could test it out on their own.
Either way, the comment was auto-deleted by Reddit so I’m just paraphrasing anyway.
I stated that everyone should exercise their 2A right and arm themselves. And if they are already experienced with firearms they should help others who are interested arm themselves and help them train. I also pointed out that, in this political climate, if they want to chat with friends/family about purchasing firearms, they may want to use an end-to-end encrypted messaging app.
That’s it. That was the content of my comment. None of that is questionable. None of that breaks Reddit site wide rules. None of it is a call to violence. And, not that it matters on a privately owned platform, but all of that is supported by our Constitution.
Quote it. What did the comment say?
Dude.
You’re a moderator.
Learn how to read.
When Reddit bans you for a comment they DELETE THE COMMENT.
I’ve already, in multiple responses to others on this post, tried to detail what was in the comment as closely as I could.
You sound like you want me to verbatim recreate a comment I posted that was deleted when you probably are well aware that Reddit deletes the comment.
Is this a mod power trip?
Screen grabbed.
If it were a mod power trip, your post or comment would be deleted lol
“As closely as I could” yet you seem unable to restate the content any better than “I supported the second amendment”.
If the pro-2A comments are automatically deleted, why are there subreddits full of them?
“As closely as I could” yet you seem unable to restate the content any better than “I supported the second amendment”.
Again, you prove you are a mod who doesn’t read comments.
Read my comments again. I responded to TWO people with a close approximation of the contents of my comment. In one I even stated “that’s actually pretty damn close”.
So do your mod due diligence and expand the comments and hit CTRL+F and do a search for “that’s actually pretty damn close” to view the comment where I tried to recreate the comment as closely as I could. I just didn’t do it in any of my comments to you because I don’t like you and I’m not repeating myself for you.
See, this is how I know in your other comment to me that you tested my theory and found it false that you didn’t actually test my theory. Because you’ve made it clear you haven’t read my other comments where I detail the contents of my Reddit comment that got me auto-banned. So there’s no way you could know the key words that all have to be in the comment to receive the auto-ban.
You keep yelling the same thing over and over again even though I’ve addressed it… which is kinda funny since you’re saying I didn’t read your comments
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.
People still use Reddit?
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.
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.
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.
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 use and re-banning you as soon as you cross their radar
