A couple months ago my account was permabanned (was not provided a reason) from the site and I have since been trying to make a new one. The problem is though that every single time I make a new account, it is either instantly suspended or suspended a couple hours later. So far I have tried: -Unplugging my router for a few minutes to change my IP -Clearing all of my cookies -Making the account on a very old device (which has never logged into Reddit before) -Using a brand new email -Making the account on Duckduckgo which has encrypted connections
Mind you, I did all of these together, at the same time, and Reddit still was able to instantly link my account to it. Is there a single thing I can possibly do to avoid this ban and make a new account? It seems like Reddit has like CIA-level technology that is somehow able to track me regardless of how many ludicrous holes I try to jump through.
I was in the same boat and it wasn’t even my fault. Someone else was banned and I quoted what was banned. I asked people if that’s the reason for the ban . Then, the next day I was banned.
I appealed and there was no answer. I am so tired of it.
I don’t understand why they ban with such insane scrutiny. There are people on major platforms like YouTube that continue to make money even after dodging bans, and yet Reddit seemingly has like the most heavily enforced ban system on the internet for a website that is literally for shitposting and asking for advice.
i believe only some resetting the routers only works with some of the isps, some reuses the same ones so thats why reddit can detect that. also sometimes your ip wont change if you rest it.
this is the basic detection. reddit also looks for similar writing style, posting behaviour, your activity on the site, and using vcaptcha v3 to monitor your movements. browser fingerprintg is another one they use too.
i havnt bother making a new account after i got shadowbanned, it wasnt worth it, since they are likely to ban you instantly.
the only way is using a new device, and a new IP address, and not ever connecting to your home browsers, computer or wifi ever.
then theres the more expensive methods, proxies, anti-detect browsers new devices.
I think many mods on Reddit don’t understand English well and are too lazy to read carefully. They just ban anyone with posts or comments containing some keywords. My comment is only a quote of another person and I asked if it is the reason Op is banned.
many of them are too lazy to verify each report so some will jus let the auto-ban, filter to do thier dirty work,.
A certain CEO took over and clamped down. Before she quit, she changed Reddit, making it never the same.
this ain’t it chief, blaming ellen pao for reddit’s downfall is insanely clueless.
she got glass cliff’d on a confluence of issues on the platform, none of which were because of her. if you want to point the finger at anyone, point it at spez.
Just give it up, she ain’t coming back
It’s just a shuffling zombie now.
You’re already on Lemmy, just help build this to be what you are missing on Reddit.
This is the right answer
Lol second one of these today…
Anyway, welcome to lesson 101 on why privacy is important haha
But reddit won’t permit you to have non KYCed account anymore this has been the case for one or two years now.
Hence why many freedm enjoyers don’t even bother there anymore.
What do you mean by KYC’d?
KYC = know your customer
There laws imposed on businesses esp banks that require them to do basic diligence on who they serve. Ie can’t be banking cartels and terrorists
In this context, reddit won’t let you have an account unless they can tie it to an identity. This is my opinion based on my own experiences along with stories like OP.
Classic tool used for KYC for online services is your phone number but an email will work to if you use a lot.
Unfortunately, like me, you accept that reddit is a mess and you let it go
I’m waiting for Digg to come back to life
Why… Fedi ain’t cutting it?
Not really. It doesn’t have the niche communitiee. And the politics here are way too communist for my taste. So you’re just left with surface level memes
Lemmy.world has all the reddit style politics you would want, DNC slop and all. I don’t see how that’s a good thing but it is there.
they dont have alot of niches i still look at on reddit, and some communities on there is active but there are none here.
Frankly, no
There’s so little engagement here
True this ain’t a social major but it is green.
Do you expect digg to hit critical mass quickly?
I expect it to have more users than here, the type of user idk, they have a marketing budget and are known
Ehh you ain’t wrong, the plebs deserve what they get with their consumption habits 🙁
I have no idea
People are getting very sick of reddit though
Making the account on Duckduckgo which has encrypted connections
if you mean the DuckDuckGo browser, then it doesn’t do anything other browsers don’t do by default to hide your identity. you’re still showing up as using the same IP address as when using other browsers.
when i suddenly switched to a fork of ff they got suspicious and suspended my account immediately, and then they shadowbanned it. they apparently care about sudden browser changes.
Why do you even want to? Reddit is going the way of Yahoo Answers.
Making the account on a very old device (which has never logged into Reddit before)
Did you continue using your account only on that device? If so, did you continue using reddit logged-out on your main device at the same time?
its probably the IP address, resetting might not work, since some isp may just reissue the same IP address even if you reset it, or just rotate to the overused IP of other people in your area. you can change ISP but that could cost money though, or ask your isp providers to change, but they will get extremely suspicious if you ask it.
Accept that they’re just not into you and move on. You make it sound like you’re somehow entitled to using their service and they have made it clear they don’t want you there.
If you do something as egregious on Lemmy and get banned you have the luxury of joining a different instance bingo, bongo.
Roll up a VM. Personally I use virtual box with xubuntu. Use it for nothing but reddit.
So I actually took this advice and did exactly that. Booted up VirtualBox and ran an Ubuntu client and made my Reddit account and it got banned within 5 hours. Now every other account I make on any other virtual machine, regardless of operating system gets banned within an hour
That’s strange. They shouldn’t be able to tell two VMs are related. At best, that they’re coming from the same house hold. Did you manage to get your house IP banned?
Did you say anything on the 9 hour account that might have warranted a permaban? Anything that would have gotten a lot of reports?
I had my very first post falsely flagged for being fake and taken down by mods which probably led to that first permaban. Also, I don’t know if there’s a difference in like IPs or whatnot, because I checked and both virtual machines I made had different IPs that were on different sides of the country. Do they both still belong to the same ‘house IP’?
They shouldn’t. They also check against user agents, browser extensions, and view window size, and probably a bunch of other identifing marks. Maybe it’s picking up on those?
they also look at your IP and time zone, and location too.
Its funny how much redditors care about privacy til its reddit tracking your identity through hella different ways
reddit probably has the most oppressive moderation, and the aggressive one compared to the other social media platforms.
Yeah but I don’t understand why though. Platforms like YouTube and Twitch constantly have people egregiously ban evading and then making money off them on top of it. Quite honestly out of every widespread social media platform on the internet, Reddit should have by far the most lax moderation/enforcement
never had a platform ban all my accounts and then instaban any new account even using a vpn and different devices lol, hope digg does well, idk if lemmy will ever grow to the point it hits every hobby, marketing budgets always win out, just hoping there is proper paid moderation
Mods should be rotating staff with checks and balances not the kingdom reddit has lol
used to think I hate mods, but I just hate when its abused by power hungry mfs, I prefer 9-5 worker mods
I hate it too. I managed to get around it, but apparently they’ve gotten better.
Tbh, if Lemmy wasn’t so small, shitty and had the niche communities, I wouldn’t use reddit. But reddit does have those niche communities, so I’m stuck.
yeah I already rent a vps so I might throw a browser on there and use a browser over the browser if I need it, I kind of prefer not commenting/posting now tho
