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Reddit shadow banned and banned every new account I tried with a VPN. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I know Reddit now has a stupid rule or policy about new accounts posting or commenting. They punish new users for just trying to have a conversation. Why does Reddit hate privacy? Is it just in the system trying to filter out bots? Well, it is doing a shitty job since bots are still a high percentage there. Reddit banned me, even when I was on the new user friendly subs. I tried with multiple locations with a VPN too. This has to make people go to other platforms. Like I did, I moved here.

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[–] Sexy-Animal-Fucker@thebrainbin.org 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's worse is the number of actual bots that get through easily and unpunished while they shadow ban anyone with a VPN

[–] cattywampus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You use a board farm like This. Each has its own IP address and if need be you set up a static IP for them over VPN.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow! That is crazy!

[–] cattywampus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

It's big business. Pretty much every social network got its start with bots, major creators and influencers used artificial engagement to get their start, websites use tons of artificial traffic to rank higher on search results.

The other tactic is using a traditional bot net aka a hacker infects as many machines as possible essentially just to use them as a click farm.

It's a whole grey or black market.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Punishing human users and rewarding the bots. How tragic...

[–] TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The majority of traffic on reddit is bots. Its scary that its getting harder to tell. They're probably sticking AI chat bots in there too.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I assume over 50% of users on there are bots.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

I assume over 50% of users on there are bots.

Me too. And in the political subs, I've read estimates it's more like 80-90%. Tho it's impossible to know for sure what the % is.

I don't know what would stop lemmy from the same fate or worse. Just a matter of time.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I received notice of replies to some posts of mine of FOUR years ago. I assume bots scraping the barrel.

[–] BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I had a guy reply to my 8 year old post once, seemed legit

Sometimes people revive ghost threads from google searches.