35,000 pounds of $100 bills would be $1,587,573,295 a year. Rich bastard.

Nope. I have never cried over a celebrity or a stranger. It’s strange to see so many people who have. Isn’t that a parasocial connection? The person you cried for never even knew you existed. You’re hurting for no good reason.

I make a point to close all tabs and delete my cookies and browsing data before closing the browser on my phone.

My desktop browser does all that automatically. Deletes my browsing history on exit.

This. Lemmy is even more left-wing than reddit, and reddit is crazy left wing. I watched multiple conservative subs get purged over at reddit over the years. Conservatives were basically hiding and under constant fear of being banned, but at least there were a few subs there for them to post in.

On Lemmy? There’s no place for them here. At least I haven’t found one. I dared to post something conservative in a politics thread and now I think my lemmy account has more downvotes than upvotes. Thank god there aren’t any karma requirements here.

God no. Bots are already better at solving Captchas than humans are. The only use case for captchas is to do what 4chan did and make every post require a captcha and then charge a fee to bypass them.

None of my reddit accounts had avatars either. I would get banned so quickly it didn’t make sense.

If it seems like Lemmy is a more welcoming place, I might make the effort. Not sure yet.

No I was imagining a rod of destruction sticking out the side of the car, and whenever it hit a building we were driving past it would annihilate the building like the juggernaut ran through it.

… isn’t that what normal kids thought about?

Not for humanity. I think AI will develop more sophisticated culture and become the major driver of progress at some point in the future.

One thing they do is track what subs you subscribe to. So if a new account is created and subscribes to all the same communities as a banned account, they can fingerprint you that way.

They can also fingerprint you based on what browser and OS you use. Not just cookies. When you connect to websites there is info shared about you that goes beyond cookies.

Just because you got a new IP from your ISP doesn’t mean that they don’t share data about you with reddit, especially if reddit asks for info from your ISP. You don’t know what info your ISP shares about you. Maybe your ISP has some kind of an EULA but I don’t know.

If you really wanted to focus on bypassing IP ban and are willing to go to any effort, install something like Oracle Virtualbox, create a VM with a fresh install of windows, install a decentralized VPN in that virtual machine (Mysterium VPN is an example) because most VPN’s have fixed exit nodes that will be banned by reddit. A decentralized VPN allows any user on the VPN to act as an exit node, so Mysterium has literally thousands of exit nodes that change every day. It’s impossible to ban them all.

Then after connecting your VM to a decentralized VPN, you would want to use a different browser every time you sign up for reddit, and use a different email address every time. Then never subscribe to the same communities every time you sign up a new account.

And even then, they can use AI to scan comments and detect similarities between you and other accounts based on how you type.

At some point you have to ask, is it really worth it? They’re going to an absurd length to ban people. I want a community where I can be me. I believe in free speech. I want to be free to shitpost. Saying something rude shouldn’t result in automatic permaban.

reddit is left wing extremist. I don’t know what you’re on about. The few conservative subreddit that exist there are constantly being purged and reddit right-wingers basically live in fear of being banned at any time.

I’ve heard that certain well-connected people have been banned, like wall street people and politicians, but they know who to call at reddit HQ and get themselves unbanned. That’s not the case for the rest of us, and I don’t know about the rest of you but I can’t afford a lawyer.

I was thinking about this today. They even have a thread over at reddit about it. The admins tried to tell people they only permaban after issueing several temp bans.

No they don’t. I’ve only ever gotten permabans. I also don’t think anything I did (some angry shitposts. No threats, harassment, or anything like that) deserved a permaban. Like they could have given me a temp ban or a subreddit ban, and I would have been fine with that. They for some reason went nuclear on me and went straight to site-wide permaban. I don’t know why, I filed appeals, I sent messages. I tried to reason with them. Nothing. They go nuclear as standard practice and are completely inflexible about it.

Maybe not, but there are plenty of small niche communities that only exist at reddit. I’m a fan of some games like Voices of the Void, which has a dedicated reddit community that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Also Isekai Demon Waifu, which recently shut down also has a community at reddit.

Lemmy has some generalized gaming communities but nothing like the thousands and thousands of small niche communities that exist over at reddit.

My main was vtuber-love. I also posted under isekai-hero and DemonLordDoom.

https://www.reddit.com/user/vtuber-love/ https://www.reddit.com/user/isekai-hero/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DemonLordDoom/

I have filed multiple appeals and contacted the mods using several alts. The last message I got suggested I’ve been banned for “multiple repeated content violation under my alternate accounts” or something like that, which I think means they’re keeping my ban in place because I posted under alts while my main was banned.

But the ban on my main account was bogus. Which puts them in a catch-22. If my main account didn’t deserved to be banned, then I wasn’t breaking any rules by posting on alts.

It seems like they just have a stick up their butt. I have apologized multiple times. I’ve informed them I never plan to post on that subreddit ever again. I’ve suggested a temporary ban instead, like 1 week would be fine. But nothing seems to get through to them. How can they be so completely inflexible?

I have to completely disagree. I spent a long time building up karma on my account, thousands of posts, contributing to my favorite communities, and one snarky comment on a ragebait post got my account banned by a reddit admin on a power trip. Multiple appeals later, it’s still banned. There’s no sensible reason to justify a site-wide permaban on an account with such a long history of constructive posts for one snarky post that caused someone to be insulted.

Their admins are absolutely deranged and yes it completely ruins the entire website. It’s basically insufferable to continue using reddit. The power-tripping admins have flushed the entire site down the toilet. Lemmy is the best alternative at the moment, and supposedly it should be basically impossible to get banned from all of lemmy. I think the worst you can get here is an instance ban? 513 instances so far. You would have your work cut out for you.

Are you kidding?

A few days ago there was a thread on reddit about a kid wandering onto a track and an athlete sprinted into him. I think it was in r/kidsarefuckingstupid and I made the comment that in roman times, they likely would have fed the kid to the lions (which is something they did to people in the colliseum)

Got slapped with a site-wide ban. I appealed, and explained that I wasn’t wishing harm upon the kid, just making an observation that his behavior wouldn’t have been considered acceptable in the old days. I apologized.

Nothing. No response. I suspect the appeal page doesn’t even work. I don’t think they read it or care about it.

I’ve tried creating alt accounts but they all get banned almost immediately. I think I basically have an IP ban.

The fact that they ban me, for making a snide comment that is twisted into a “threat” but then don’t actually ban people for making real, legitimate threats? That’s fucking wild.

Same thing happened to me. I admit I’ll rage post sometimes and sure I might deserve a subreddit ban here or there. But I’ve never done anything worthy of a site-wide ban. But the reddit admins act like dictators on a power trip. They LOVE to slap people with site-wide bans. For no good reason, and I don’t understand it. The admins have turned the whole site toxic, and places like Lemmy are a direct response to their insane powertripping.

Right now it sucks. Reddit is still the most popular forum on the internet. I pray that someday it won’t be.

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That’s weasel speak. Hiding behind a user agreement is a pathetic excuse for bad behavior on the part of the developer. The developer decides what is in that agreement. It can be changed at any time, and 'but you agreed to this" is a poor excuse for laziness and disrespect for the community that supported them for so many years.

Transitioning the game into an offline mode could be done with some development time spent on a final update. Take out the multiplayer stuff, let the game run offline, and put the game up for sale as an idler for like $5 or $10. It might not make much money but it lets players continue to play a game that they love. It shows that you as a developer care about your product and the customers who have supported you for so long.