Reddit

They want to pump up the number of new accounts and/or monthly active accounts by any means necessary now that the stock price depends on it.

they automatically shadowban vpn users, i was on another forum that they already had been banning vpn accounts(instant ban) for a while they all switched to using proxies, anti-detection browsers, ISP changes to evade the bans. anyone who have been using it recently will get shadowbanned instantly or eventually, hence the use of different proxies instead. even that is not fool-proof , and people are actually paying to do this(for thier OF accounts)

a way to check if your acc is shadowbanned is logout and incognito and try to look up your user profile(or any other redditors profile, if says missing or suspended, you know), it also can tell if a user has deactivated thier acc.

additionally reddit is currently going through a large purge of accounts as of recently, someone mentioned in another forum that there have been an unusual amount of account bans recently(like 3 in the last 3 months). i lost a couple of accs as a normal users, one of my acc got temp suspeneded, suddenly all my other accounts were immediately permabanned.(apparently some mods are extremely anal about reporting other people). theres other instances of other peoples acc were banned for no reason at all, appealing just gets a rejection notice(reddit admins arnt even bothering to look at it, they know)

in fairness to spaz, even though he doesn't deserve it, that was at a time where you didn't need to approve being added to a sub's mod team. I believe he tried deleting himself from there, but they kept adding him, which prompted them to implement the approval system. I could be wrong, I don't know.

I saw spez at the mall one time when I was Christmas early shopping. I recognized him, but I'm not gonna treat a CEO like a celebrity, so I just mind my own business. a while later, I was waiting to get a ticket for the AMC there, Steve Huffman goes up to a kid who is holding popcorn and starts to eat some out of the bucket. The mom tells him to stop and pulls the kid back, but spez just smacks the popcorn out of the kids hands and screams at the mom in the face really loudly (not actual words, literally a scream). popcorn everywhere. the kid is now crying and the mom is at a loss of words and looks so stressed to be in that situation and is about to cry too. At this point, I need to do something. I go up to the situation and tell spez to back off immediately. as a response, he tries to kick me in the balls (missed and tripped a bit), then makes cringry hissing noises.

Oh man, I forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me of another reason I hate that guy.

This, and the response that demands you use the app to see the content, or of it’s marked NSFW for any reason, you cannot view it unless you login.

Really irritating to use reddit anymore.

Can't you ban the entire domain from the network at the router level? I think it would be very fitting to block them on your network in retaliation to them blocking you on theirs.

This also happened to me, i wondered why i got banned

No, that doesn't always work. They still block that sometimes.

Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.

Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.

Some Proton aren't either.

What is becoming increasing difficult is Youtube. finding a patched client and the right VPN server is no easy task.

As VPN usage becomes more mainstream I believe "premium" offers will start to appear, offering servers with fewer people, regularly renewed IPs, things like that, for a higher price.

I sometimes have to switch servers to comment on Lemmy

I was about to say, old reddit in browser works fine, but I use Mullvad, so I never noticed. I'm increasingly spending more time here too.

For accessing past threads I use LibRedirect and cycle between instances

What do you think I’m doing? My account doesn’t have thousands of lemmy submissions by accident!