This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They can gauge this: Fuck ICE.
Is Homeland Security chasing bots? Because that’s the bottiest name I’ve ever seen. If so, please continue. 🍿
I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the word-word-0000 template.
At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it's less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.
Fair enough. Maybe I’m too old for the internet.
Maybe the internet truly is... No Country for Old Men...
I see it a lot, too. Reddit's been around for 20 years, so all the good usernames are already taken.
Its been a long time since you could build relationships with other users in places like Reddit. The usernames don't matter anymore so you may as well just use randoms. Your just going to get banned and make a new one anyways.
it has been flooded with bots since '16, when russia got involved with reddit through propaganda. so people are quite suspicious around other users, accusing them bots.
yes, and PALINTIR is active on reddit using propaganda bots, along side the russian and MOSSAD ones.
Deleted my account years ago.
Now they let you hide your history, making it harder to find the bot accounts.
Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.
It's crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.
But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.
While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric, or even sympathy for it, there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don't think Reddit users really trust it's that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving in droves. Huge amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.
If the current discourse doesn't reflect that, I would suggest it's because :
I'm defo never gonna be allowed into the US. Ever.
Good.
Means I'm less likely to get shot. Ever.
Hopefully they never invade your country either
Wherever OP is, the U.S. is probably already there, in some capacity. You can say it's not an invasion, but could you ever really make us leave?
Yeah, fuck reddit, fuck usa and fuck trump
Tbh if its a social/discussion based website, it will have federal agents monitoring it. Lemmy isn't free from this either, though in our defense we are probably pretty low on the watchlist (but then again who knows)
Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears
It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.
I used reddit for over a decade, but I was never willing to buy reddit gold or support it because I didn't trust any site where I shared my political opinions to have those opinions tied with by real name or any other billing info. Same with discord. At least with lemmy, you can support it without tying it to your account.
I'm 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators
The first four years or so that I was on Reddit, I never once received a ban for anything. Since Trump was elected, I pretty much got temp bans every couple of months. Every one was from me being mean to obvious Russian trolls. And then this morning, I got permanently banned for a comment I made over a week ago, that according to Reddits own metrics, received a grand total of zero views. I called a fascist a, um, fascist, and that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. That was a step too far, according to Reddit. And now I’m here.
Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was 'inciting violence'. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.
Learned from growing up in a communist dictatorship: don't discuss politics and religion with strangers. And even with friends or acquaintances, don't discuss it in writing. It doesn't mean you can't have strong opinions, but don't make them public. Talking (not writing) one-to-one or in small groups eventually toppled almost all communist dictatotships, so there's absolutely no need to broadcast your opinions, unless your goal is to be martyred.
I'm certain the Reddit management allowed the tracking.
Of course, any time your information is on a privatized network you might as well just assume it's for sale.
Budget-Chicken-2425, waking up one day to find out the entire world is reading your FBI domestic terrorist dossier:
That's enough to radicalize a chicken.
Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.
It's a good thing I got permanently banned from Reddit just for saying "gill o' teen". Like this is America, it's free speech.
I got banned for updooting comments about Luigi...
(Free Luigi!)
They're not anti-ICE, they're anti-abuse. If ICE chooses to abuse, ICE chooses to become a target of everyone who opposes abuse.
Is that why reddit was IP blocking people from seeing content even though they weren't logged in
?
Homeland security if you are reading this shame on you! you are working for a pedophile!
this kinda makes me want to make a new reddit account. flaming-icefqr69
You know, looking back getting banned for saying "fuck trump and Obama" was a blessing in disguise. I still miss my cheap knockoff watch sub though :(
All my email addresses are perma-banned for replying to right wingers. I had death threats, people questioning my sanity and calling me slurs. When I tried to respond with even an iota of the same energy - banned. On Reddit, the right wing is king.
I only lurk on reddit for the porn now.
I'm guessing people soon will accidentally start falling out the windows in US too.
