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I had my 15yo old reddit account still up which I was only using for outreach for threadiverse in places like /r/redditalternatives etc. Last week I got an email that they found some "suspicious behaviour" (of what? I never use it) and locked it, so I had to reset the password. I visited reddit directly to verify and discovered that it was indeed locked. So I reset my password, so far so good. Set a new password and everything. However when trying to login with the new password, it initially was giving me some rate limiting errors, and afterwards it was claiming "the username or password is wrong". Also looking at my profile shows it has been restricted to 18+ user for some reason (I have nothing NSFW in it).

So looks like this is the anticlimactic end of that journey. Can't say I'm sad, but I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner given the amount of anti-reddit shit I've posted in the past 2.5 years :D

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[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You were active on redditalternatives? I need to go see if you made the thread that convinced me to finally migrate

Also fuck those forum cops. When I quit a year ago it was a big deal to see an account that survived 10 years with no bans or being sold to an onlyfans promoter. They've bastardized that place.

edit:can't find the thread anymore. somebody brought me over though so you can blame them for this

[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

For people interested in promoting the Fediverse there, there is !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 6 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

woah, you guys monitor threads that mention fediverse? very intense recruiting

[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Seems like the only way to get more people on this platform.

I would really like to not have !football@sopuli.xyz reliant on two active posters, one of them being me

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

not knocking it. I used to say you guys don't want to risk bringing more redditors over but yeah I see now some of these communities need fresh faces.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

There is a lot leftists and Linux users there.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

FWIW, I just subscribed to the comm!

[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

"you guys?" Leave me outta this! I try to grow our Lemmy numbers alone like the rogue that I am.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 weeks ago

My account of 19 years got hacked, post history wiped and is now hawking crypto scams. I reported it to support, not that something has been done about it.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

On the NSFW profile: There's a one-off rule set in place, as best I can tell. If you've ever participated in a post or community that's NSFW / quarantined / etc, even if your content itself was not NSFW or if the thread/community was SFW at the time but was later marked NSFW / quarantined, and even if you've since deleted your content or it was removed by mods, your profile will be marked as NSFW. At least, that's how it appeared to work back in the day.

If you are 100% certain that you've never posted in an NSFW / quarantined thread/community and that nothing you've ever participation has since had a status change, then that might actually be evidence that there was some suspicious activity. No guarantee, of course, but for example if someone hacked into your account then posted a bunch of Only Fans shit that was quickly removed, it might lead to the locked account and the NSFW designation.

Granted, I'm not saying that you didn't get banned for the anti-reddit comments and out-reach. I do know that anti-reddit comments aren't necessarily automatically deleted / removed and accounts aren't guaranteed to be banned for it. Usually, it seems like that's reserved for cases where, objectively speaking, the comment was rule-breaking (common themes being abusive lanugage / name calling) or otherwise off-topic. I've seen numerous comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy, linking to Lemmy, as well as to other alternatives, even speaking unfavorably of Reddit and its dear leader, that stay up and are left untouched. But we also all know that all it takes is one prickly admin or ceo to take personal offense. Nature of the internet being what it is.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

I guess I’m next…

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Make sure you're logging into reddit.com, NOT old.reddit.com

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Only for the login. Happened to me recently. I have the old reddit redirect plugin and disabling it to login worked for me.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

restricted to 18+ user for some reason (I have nothing NSFW in it)

So.... Where the nudes at? /j 😅

[–] yoyoyopo5@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Leave and don’t ever look back. Fediverse is growing by the day.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

FYI I run one of the biggest lemmy instances ;)

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thank you for continually putting your account at risk for the benefit of the Fediverse.