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[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago

They can gauge this: Fuck ICE.

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

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

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

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

[-] dan@upvote.au 12 points 1 month ago

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

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

How can lemmy avoid that fate, if it ever gets really popular? 

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

thats how they mass-create bot accounts, just create a large number without carefully making one that reddit wont immediately ban you on.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

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

Gauge deez nuts, ICEatzgruppen

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

1st fucking amendment you fucking nazi scum

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears

It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

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 :(

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

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 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'm 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators

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[-] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago

yeah Reddit has gone to shit now. That's why I am here

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You don't honestly think that DHS doesn't know Lemmy exists, do you? If they're monitoring Reddit, you'd have to be a fool to not realize that they're probably here, too.

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

DHS! DHS, over here! Oh! Oh! DHS! Look here! DHS! Down here, DHS! Look here! No, not there! Here, look at me! Are you looking?

Fuck you.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lemmy now has its own echo chambers and control freak mods too though.

[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If it gets too bad, just move on to the next thing.

Internet forums have been a thing since for decades, and they will continue long after Reddit and Lemmy are forgotten

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[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These newsletters come out all the damn time and are relatively easy to get signed up for these Fusion Center briefs. You can generally apply if you have at least a remote level of need for them either through physical security, or cyber security.

They're typically based on SAR (suspicious activity reporting), so they're essentially briefs and generally tip guides about things that might be happening in your state or area. All those tips that you send via tips.fbi.com or similar tend to make their way to your local fusion center. They get marked down for relevant current political climate stuff from multiple agencies, typically include thwarted terrorist events or online calls for action, and will usually training available.

While most of the info in these newsletters are For Official Use Only, there's a lot that might straight up be publicly available which can still be shared under the CUI Program. You just can't share the entire document itself since it's typically unclassified, but that doesn't mean you can share it publicly. Parts of it maybe, it'll tell you which parts you can. It's similar to Traffic Light Protocol for any CISA stuff if you get those. TLP Clear is capable of being publicly released. Everything else has some sort of limitation.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

this kinda makes me want to make a new reddit account. flaming-icefqr69

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[-] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Deleted my account years ago. 

  • the new home algorithm is filled with problematic subs, and is an opportunity for algorithmic propaganda
  • After forcing emails it’s been downhill
  • Needing to app for “incognito” is suspicious as hell
  • I do not like their leadership
  • The website runs like crap, and the redesign is not new at all. Every time I see the old design it’s a breath of fresh air and several hundred MB back to my OS. 
  • Lately all is filled with US critical posts that get deleted for no stated reason. 
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[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm defo never gonna be allowed into the US. Ever.

Good.

Means I'm less likely to get shot. Ever.

[-] ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was 'inciting violence'. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?

Yup, Reddit has gone full mask off in the past year now. Spez is a known nazi simp.

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[-] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Homeland security if you are reading this shame on you! you are working for a pedophile!

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

It's a good thing I got permanently banned from Reddit just for saying "gill o' teen". Like this is America, it's free speech.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I got banned for updooting comments about Luigi...

(Free Luigi!)

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Banned as well, but I said we should all be able to punch Nazis. If you're sitting at a table of 9 Nazis, you're the 10th.

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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I got banned for racism ... for making fun of a non-existent race. And the whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself.

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[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.

It's crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.

But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Between reddit's control freak mods, their selective enforcement of rules, their lack of mod behavior restrictions, ads made to look like postings, etc you have very little freedom outside of porn surprisingly. You have to stick to the groupthink in subs or get banned which makes most comments predictable, agreeable and milktoast.

[-] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric, or even sympathy for it, there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don't think Reddit users really trust it's that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving in droves. Huge amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.

If the current discourse doesn't reflect that, I would suggest it's because :

  1. the real people still there remain to discuss uncontroversial niche topics
  2. political discussion there is largely driven by bots and paid actors now
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[-] Liuone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm guessing people soon will accidentally start falling out the windows in US too.

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