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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425" (www.kenklippenstein.com)
submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 13 minutes ago

Communists were nice.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 hours ago

Fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

If they really want to negate "reputational risk", they should look closer at themselves. Alas, theyll never do that

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Good thing they don’t even know what Lemmy is.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

Are we safe here on Lemmy?

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Are we safe here on Lemmy?

Every other post here I've seen is low key promoting violent revolution. So I'd imagine there's at least one FBI agent hanging around and writing reports.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 17 points 2 hours ago

Everything on Lemmy is public

[–] whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Lmfao no. Use a vpn, rotate your username, dont use personal emails.and definitely don’t get a .world account.

Use Lemmy.org. No emails needed. Don’t forget your password.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm new to Lemmy. Why does Lemmy.world require an email and Lemmy.org doesn't? I assumed all the Lemmies and Piefeds and whatnots required an email.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Federation and privacy don't really go hand in hand

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

anyone using any public facing website to organize a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.

Why hasn't everyone downloaded signal yet?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 14 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

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 :(

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

on Reddit, the right wing is king.

Yup. Despite all their virtue signaling, they give miles more leeway to chuds. Funny enough, despite my decade plus on there arguing with right winged idiots, I never got a "KYS" message. But only two months on here some hexbear bitch popped my cherry because I had the audacity to claim Hasan Piker did in fact shock his dog for the crime of wanting to move out of frame.

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

This is my second attempt at re-joining Lemmy after experiencing the same brother.

It sucks having to moderate yourself online so hard when you're passionate, genuinely care and want to share the uncomfortable truths of the world, but the consequence of a 24/7 deluge of negativity when you have a life to live is just not worth it hey.

I've been a bit of a hermit online and offline since the pandemic, 2026 is my year to try to strategically begin getting back out there!

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago

I believe in you homie. But sadly this is my form of social interaction cause I work hardware security in secure facilities, which means I vastly work alone. Well this and Uber, but the people getting Uber in my state, are usually not people I see eye to eye with politically. So I usually just talk food, or about my kitty Furryosa.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You were banned from Reddit for saying that? I feel like I've said worse and somehow haven't got one yet.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yup, apparently I was "inciting violence"

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Damn Reddit admins are fucking weird.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy's aren't much better. Despite being pretty far left, I'm banned from the progressive politics sub for completely fabricated reasons. And for context, I often get into arguments with .ml & hexbear users, and aside from some random communities I've never interacted with, they haven't banned me from much.

The role just attracted the wrong type of person.

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I’m splitting hairs, but there’s no such thing as a lemmy admin. There are instance admins that can only moderate their own instances.

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

I find Lemmy's not much different if not more aggressive 🤷‍♂️

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 73 points 7 hours ago

They can gauge this: Fuck ICE.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 68 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Is Homeland Security chasing bots? Because that’s the bottiest name I’ve ever seen. If so, please continue. 🍿

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Reddit suggested usernames are always dumb shit like that.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I had a similar names. I didn't care about "expressing myself" and didn't want you link it to myself in any way, so every time I would just accept the random gibberish reddit suggests when creating a new account.

Like my current RailcarXxxx username. It was just suggested I think when creating my first Lemmy, and just reused it through instances

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah now I'm kind of worried about my pseudonym. This isn't my first pseudonym mind you, and it won't be the last, but this is the most "well known" around my internet friends.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

yes, and PALINTIR is active on reddit using propaganda bots, along side the russian and MOSSAD ones.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

I don't disbelieve it, do you recall where you read that?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 61 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

I think the current flow for Reddit account creation is they give you the auto generated username and you have to change it when you're done creating the account. You don't get to set it during creation. So because it's an extra step I think some people don't. (Though I may be misremembering. It's been years since I used it.)

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Maybe I’m too old for the internet.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 28 points 6 hours ago

Maybe the internet truly is... No Country for Old Men...

[–] dan@upvote.au 12 points 6 hours ago

I see it a lot, too. Reddit's been around for 20 years, so all the good usernames are already taken.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

if you dont have a vpn set up and configured on your router what are you even doing

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

Absolutely. And remember to rotate your endpoint every once in a while

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 hours ago

Gauge deez nuts, ICEatzgruppen

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That username sounds like a bot pretending to be a person that loves knock-off KFC and them being anti-ICE is just the LLM misinterpreting their programmers's desire of this personality to include liking warm sodas

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

It's just one of reddit's autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

1st fucking amendment you fucking nazi scum

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

It should be everyones moral responsibility to grow a dick, if only so that homeland security can suck it.

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