I think it's useful in conversations like these to distinguish between bans made by Reddit admins, and bans in individual subreddits due to the actions of moderators (even if sometimes, poweruser mods will sometimes mass ban across all subreddits they are a mod for — this is still distinct from the admin bans).

I find the ban of your indie game studio account to be the thing that annoys me most in your post — that ban is bullshit, and such indiscriminate application of policy that it ends up undermining the stated goal of such moderation policies.

Whilst the bans from individual communities do also annoy me, that feels like a less useful thing to get annoyed at — for as long as there have been people, there will have been people who, upon gaining a modicum of power, abuse it in trivial, ego-serving ways. I think this human propensity is especially apparent on the internet. It sucks, but I also think that the most productive thing to do is to acknowledge the tendency and try to think of ways that we can make communities more resilient to the abusive actions of individuals.

The moderator/admin distinction is one such way, and this is especially apparent on federated social media like Lemmy. Whilst heavy handed admin level moderation is probably fine for smaller instances (such as if someone spins up a server for their friend group), it isn't really viable when things get larger. The best approach seems to be for admins to have an extremely light hand in the day-to-day running of things, rather like a King in a constitutional monarchy.

This inevitably means that sometimes, communities can experience a toxic shift in the culture of the space through the petty actions of moderators, but in theory, people have the power to create a new community, whether on the same instance or otherwise. In practice, this doesn't necessarily happen, because inertia is powerful (plus even when there is the need for a mass migration, such as if the original community is literally no longer available, not everyone ends up switching over to the new space). Power tripping moderators make online spaces worse, and it's not viable to expect admins to regularly step in — if we want the admins to be able to act as a safety net for severe problems (such as the moderator team violating the policies of the instance), then it's useful to preserve the separation between admin and moderator.

One of the reasons I like Lemmy is that it makes me think about problems like this, because the problem of "some mods are power tripping bastards — what should we do about that?" isn't going away any time soon.

So do you literally just wait a few days and rejoin some of your favourite smaller subs after a few days no matter how small they are and still remain undetected?

Are you ever connecting to your old IP again after making the account on data or are you being super careful about it?

Also, if the bans aren't for evasion, how are you coming back after 60 fucking times lol?!

Thanks for making Blorp, it's my favourite Lemmy app I've tried! And the lack of post flairs is something I've noticed, so I might try PieFed out.

If you want feedback on some more (very minor) things I would love to be fixed, here's a list of things I've noticed:

I posted on the Blorp community yesterday about wanting a "read all" button for notifications (mostly because this post got a lot) so that would be really nice.

Other than that, it's mostly just tiny things. Apparently Lemmy has a backend way to see user karma, so maybe seeing that would be nice to add as an option?

Maybe a button to copy and paste a post's body text on mobile like on Reddit, or even a "save image/video" button? This is really minor.

And maybe an easier way to see the upvote/downvote ratio? (like 87% upvoted as an example)

Maybe this isn't possible for some reason, but would a way to create a community inside of Blorp be possible? I don't know if Lemmy works like that.

Thanks again for making this app, especially the fact that it's on iOS. I hope it's not too much of a time/financial burden because it's great.

(All of this is from iOS by the way)

It's one of the only places to talk about some topics

And thankfully none of us will have to use that bullshit community.

Isn't that just different front-end? I kinda doubt the detection system itself is different

Yeah, at some point the well was poisoned. Reddit’s systems aren't sophisticated enough to do something particularly complicated.

Something as simple as an IP that they bounced to being banned, because disposable IPs are one of the major uses of user-based vpns, is more likely.

It’s been ages since I’ve used a Reddit account. I wonder if account creation involves subreddit suggestions and OP fell into the exact same ones every single time. Like finding the Buddha, but instead of samsaric destiny, you’re banned

Nothing but usage patterns is sufficient but browser fingerprints and IP location obviously makes it easier for them.

I linger on a post from a smaller sub they randomly recommend for 0.2 seconds longer than other posts? They get a little suspicious.

I click a google search link to a post about a hobby I was into on a previous account? They get more suspicious.

They say, "oh look, a dude that's into Minecraft (joined that sub), 3D printing (from google question) that lives in x city and uses Windows. We only have like 10 of those on the entire platform, and one is banned! Let's start suggesting them communities from their old accounts to see if it's the same person."

Then, after you even remotely interact with those older/smaller communities that they fire at you as a test suggestion, they gain more and more evidence until they're very confident it's you. Then boom, evasion ban again.

There's no way around this unless you don't use Reddit for what you want to and only browse r/all or something.

Edit: Yeah, forgot to answer the actual question. All browser cache data is removed. They're doing it with data on what subs I like alone.