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Yea, I lost my 15 year old account last year. Started a new one and it just wasn't the same. Left a few months ago for here, still not the same, but better then reddit.
There is something going on there and I suspect that there is a real effort underway to tie peoples identity to a reddit account. They want a real email or a phone number and if you are denying them this and protective of your data they are getting not a lot from you. They read your private messages and are basically data mining the hell out of everything. Culling long time members seems to be a thing and for specious or no real reason? I would like to think that me blocking all ads and blocking my IP and using an anonymous email annoyed them. I supported Palestine and reminded people about the death of Rachel Corrie so that probably helped. Karma was good 17,000 and 39000 post and comment so I have only two words for Reddit Admins..and they are See Ya!
Maybe they only want people who don't make waves, stick to pun chains, innocuous comments, etc. Things like news subs though are full of angry rants so I'm not sure.
I never saw the point. I was pretty jealous with my data and pretty scrupulous with my vpn and would not use it without my ad blocker or privacy guard engaged. As soon as they wanted access to private messaging and making chat the default it was a signal that they no longer wished to be locked out of any conversation. I just made a new tuta.com account and will be back there aging up and account directly.