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Yep; same issue here. Does my absolute nut in. If you use a VPN or a cellular connection on a brand new Reddit account, it’s already doomed.
Reddit stinks.
Reddit is just porn and bots.
Most* porn subreddits besides the most mainstream photos only ones are dying/dead too since the API rug pull too lol.
So just bots and intelligence agencies.
Video content in general is just dead across the board. I assume that's why /r/videos started allowing politics because the subreddit is dead.
I'm there for one funny sub (my fiancée and I troll each other endlessly there) and to post my "content"
There's really not much of an audience here for what I make
I must say, I was deeply disappointed by my scroll through your posting history here, FistingEnthusiast. Not what I was hoping to see at all.
Sigh... Wish there was more alternatives for porn than lemmynsfw.
Haven't really seen hentai artists on board either.
Edit: Ah yes... Lemmy users wishing to keep away anything about porn/hentai... no wonder artists don't feel inclined to attempt the fediverse.
What do mean by porn? You mean random nsfw art and stuff? You can easily get those on pixiv if you sort for nsfw only and filter out AI stuff. If from social media sites like twitter or Instagram or bluskye then probably those booru sites like danbooru or safebooru for curated stuff. For self published works there's always the good old sadpanda.
Dead Internet Theory.
Like you, I tried a making a new account a few times over the past 5 years. (I wanted to do local things like giving away/selling things before moving. I ended up using NextDoor or asking friends & family to post on facebook instead)
Shadowbanned every time, so I could never build up enough karma to post or comment in subreddits with those restrictions. Wonderful catch-22 you got there reddit.
Finally I just gave up and added a filter to my uBlock Origin reddit.com$document to block my habits from checking it when I'm bored. I still visit a handful of subreddits once a day through old.reddit.com/r/..., but otherwise I'm fully here on lemmy for comments and posts. Which is for the best because of all the bot generated posts and comments there, along with the shills and astroturfing. I remind myself of that every time I feel like I'm missing the old place.
I've accepted that at most I'll lurk in the niche communities there, and I'll do my part to build new ones here in the fediverse.
Considering that reddit is being swarmed by AI bots, I really doubt how hard they are pushing against them. Probably more like that they are inconviencing real humans with the excuse that they are doing it to prevent bots.
Be me
Decide to stop using an account to roll over to a new one and abandon any potential doxxing
A regional sub bans me from using a rename -> delete tool while doing this. Maybe one or two others do as well.
Start using other, old account. Start commenting in places... get random bans because 10 years ago I used it to comment in a sub they don't like which eventually became more toxic. Ok, whatever, I don't need mildly interesting anyway. Leave the affected communities and whatever.
Put a lengthy post on the community sub that banned me for removing old comments trying to help someone moving from another country... ban evasion site-wide reddit ban.
So now i'm up to at least 4 sub bans across reddit and I guess i'm never supposed to interact with any of the things that don't like old posts going away... but get this... multiple subs told me to delete old comments in a sub they don't like to remove the ban. Why is a sub dictating what people do in other subs again? shouldn't they not be brigading other subs by forcing people to delete content? Shouldn't I have the right to delete whatever I want anyway?
Next step: GDPR deletion request on all my accounts after going through several rounds of rename -> delete again on all of them. Might as well make them nuke my shit and if they can detect me as 'ban' evading then there's some real illegal shit going on.
They're going the way of Facebook. Facebook has been "1 account per person" for a while and if you somehow get screwed on your account there's nowhere to appeal and no way to start over. They do tons of fingerprinting and even do facial matching across accounts to detect duplicate accounts.
This is just another nail in Reddit's coffin and descent into irrelevance.
Yeah I tried making an account a while ago to post on /r/bushcraft and just got shadowbanned for it.
Meanwhile, they’re banning old, established accounts in massive waves. I’m not sure who they want using the site. New accounts aren’t allowed to post anything, and old accounts get kicked out.
That's why it's filled with bots, I often see many weird comments, I check the profile and all comment history has the same standard, they don't seem like from a normal people, always polite, no typos, which isn't something normal for Reddit standard.
Yeah, nothing as fun as getting well over decade old accounts banned for reasons even though you haven't used it it for 3 months
Well, yes, you correctly described Reddit.
Using the official app (🤮) is the only way I think.
Download a completely new browser on a PC. One you have never used before. Don't import any bookmarks or anything, don't log into anything you have ever logged into before, keep it completely sterile
Use a ten minute mail or similar address and create a reddit profile.
Don't link it to any social media accounts or anything
Then do nothing for a few days. When you first use it, don't interact a sub you've been to before, find something completely new. Build a little karma with bullshit stuff
After a week or so, you can reinstall the app on your phone, but you have to have logged out with all old profiles and uninstalled it first
Don't leap right back to doing what you used to do. Give it time before getting back into the subs you want, and make sure you keep doing the random shit so there's no pattern
Over time you can go back to old habits, but never log in with an old account, never link any other platforms or websites, and watch out for people who may recognise you and snitch to the mods
That's a lot of work to use reddit of all places.
It is, but it's something special to my fiancée and I, so it's worth it to me
Is the special thing about it related to your username here, or is it just a funny name? I mean, it could very well make sense if the NSFW lemmy instances don't have a good community for such a hobby!
Well, we certainly enjoy fisting together
We met on reddit. We troll each other mercilessly on the sub where we "met"
Eventually we met in person, the sparks flew and now we're engaged
This is precisely the reason I left Reddit and joined Lemmy.
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